Hasta La Creative!

On this morning’s episode of NBC’s reality-TV series “The Today Show,” the journalist character, Matt Lauer, interrogated the sassy Southern cook character, Paula Deen, over accusations that she’s a racist. You can gorge yourself on the full, deep-fried banquet of an interview below, but if you’re watching your media diet — and/or have allergies to grandstanding displays of self-pity — here’s a selection of bite-sited “highlights,” so to speak, from the confrontation:

The interview got meta early on when Matt Lauer said, “One of the headlines I read, Paula, said, ‘Millions of Dollars at Stake for Paula Deen in Today Show Interview.’ Are you here to … stop the financial bleeding?” Well, duh.

Naturally she said, “I am here today because I want people to know who I am….”

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