First, there’s the new Medal of Freedom recipient, Oprah Winfrey, whose courage in the face of liking cake and learning to love herself for the billionnairess that she is has provided feminists everywhere with a playbook for turning public insecurity into its own form of empowerment.
As you know doubt heard, Oprah was wrongly racially profiled by racist Swiss sales clerk in a degrading Pretty Women moment, told she couldn’t afford a particular handbag, most likely because the clerk sized her up by her brown skin, and was hopelessly unfamiliar with the fact that there are many many black millionaires, from business people to, more publicly, entertainers or sports stars. And this OUTRAGE led to media laments about the lingering racism that is often still unconsciously buried in the hearts of white devils everywhere.
An international conversation on race, that’s what we need. Because no one knew, previously, that the Swiss were engaging in a kind of soft cultural apartheid.
Unless of course they aren’t.
The owner of the upscale Swiss boutique where Oprah Winfrey claimed she was barred from buying a $38,000 by a ‘racist’ sales assistant today demanded to speak to the star she branded ‘over-sensitive’ and insisted her employee did ‘everything right’.
The rather fearsome-looking Trudi Goetz said she wanted to speak with the talk show billionairess ‘as soon as possible’ and also revealed her petrified member of staff will not be sacked or punished.
She said: ‘I don’t know why she talked of racism. I am sorry, but perhaps she is being a little over-sensitive here. Maybe she was somewhat offended because she was not immediately recognized in the store.’
It came as Oprah said she was ‘sorry’ a media frenzy emerged after saying she experienced racism during a trip to Switzerland.
‘She is so very sensitive. I repeat once again; my saleslady only meant well because she wanted to show other bags to Oprah. To demonstrate the whole range is, for me, a perfect service. I find it regrettable that Oprah has come to this service from exactly the wrong way.
‘I saw Oprah at Tina’s wedding but I only knew her from TV. We didn`t speak, and now unfortunately since then, this is played out before the entire world.
‘I hope the business will not suffer as a result of this. I hope I can speak with Oprah to resolve the situation personally, as quickly as possible.’
Today, it seemed that Oprah – who earned $77m last year, according to Forbes, was desperately trying to take her foot out of the mess she’d put it in.
Last night, the star gave an interview on the red carpet of The Butler, in which she has a role.
She said: ‘I’m in a store and the person doesn’t obviously know that I carry the black card and so they make an assessment based upon the way I look and who I am,’ said Winfrey, who earned $77 million in the year ending in June, according to Forbes magazine.
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Ironically, Oprah also came under fire today from the Swiss animal rights group Four Paws (Vier Pfoten) which slammed her for wanting to buy a crocodile skin bag and called on Trois Pommes to withdraw the item from sale.
‘We do not know if Ms. Winfrey actually wanted to buy the bag,’ said Chantal Häberling, spokeswoman for the group. ‘But she should know crocodiles suffer for the production of such items.
‘The animals are kept in extremely small enclosures,’ she said. ‘To kill them the animals are beaten with a hammer on the head, and in some farms and it sometimes takes two hours before they are dead.’
Oprah is an avowed animal rights spokeswoman. PETA, the world’s largest animal rights group, named her “person of the year” in 2008 after she spoke out against the wearing of fur.
Imagine: an entitled, race-baiting hypocrite who threw her substantial weight behind Obama? Who could have seen that coming?
Her reward? A Medal of Freedom. Because nothing says “I’m a champion of the little people ” more than mention of your black card.
Now, compare Oprah’s horrific tale of racit woe — I hope she’s able to endure, even under withering attack for being a diva, and having no Swiss Al Sharpton around to foment race riots and demand “justice” be done to the hateful sales clerk with the racist heart, and no Swiss Jesse Jackson around to try to shake down the store in exchange for a smoothing over of the incident and some positive publicity — to the tale of Duck Dynasty star Jase Robertson, who was escorted out of a New York hotel, a victim of what he called “facial profiling”:
Robertson and other members of his family were in New York City promoting the fourth season of their hit A&E reality show. The network put the family up in the swanky hotel across from Central Park.
Apparently one Trump International Hotel staff member was not accustomed to seeing a fully bearded guest wearing camouflage pants.
“I asked them where the bathroom was and he said, ‘Right this way, sir,’” Robertson told the hosts of the television show ‘Live with Kelly and Michael.’ “He said, ‘Right this way, sir.’ He walked me outside, pointed down the road and said, ‘Good luck.’”
The hosts appeared stunned by the story – but Robertson smiled and said he took it in stride.
“I think it was a facial profiling deal,” he said.
Robertson’s brother, Al, told Fox News the family is getting a good laugh out of the case of mistaken identity.
“He assumed Jase was some homeless guy,” he said. “This is not our first rodeo — which is another reason I stay beardless.”
Ironically, it’s not the first time the men of the Louisiana family have been mistaken for homeless people.
“One time, we were in New York City and people put money in Willie’s coffee cup,” he said. “Dad was speaking at a church once and one of the members showed him where the homeless shelter was.”
The Robertsons said they were “absolutely not offended” by the incident and said they love staying at Trump Hotel.
“We were laughing — wait until the Donald hears about this,” he said.
And for what it’s worth, they hope the staff member doesn’t get in trouble.
“He was just as nice as he could be — escorting Jase to the park,” Al said. “And honestly, if I was in his shoes — I’d have done the same thing.”
Wednesday’s season premier of Duck Dynasty drew 14 million viewers. Which is just shy of the number of times Oprah Winfrey has played the racial victim card, mentioned a diet, or eaten a rack of ribs “as an emotional crutch.”
Ironically, it’s the Duck Dynasty crowd that is pushing back against the Oprahfication of America. Which is why they draw 14 million viewers to A&E, and Oprah’s channel is a vanity project riddled with heavy-handed liberal propaganda narratives done as “entertainment”.
I won’t be holding my breath for Erick Holder’s call for an honest national discussion on facial hair. Nor do I expect Diane Sawyer to grow emotional over any lingering hirsute divide that still sits like a silent sin in all our hearts.
If you ask me, which you didn’t, the wrong wronged “celebrity” is getting the Medal of Freedom.
Lame ass no effort spare ribs. Yep, it’s pork. Sorry. I didn’t make the animals and I don’t know how to do beef ribs worth a crap without a smoker. I guess you could slice them into threes and braise them with french onion soup. Or jersey onions soup if that’s what you got. But I’m going to stick with spareribs because this isn’t an experiment.
Get some St. Louis style spareribs. They are cheaper than a full shank. And if you are only feeding three people there are fewer leftovers and it’s easier to cut up.
Put them in a roaster. Cut off the end if you need to to make it fit and put the end off to the side.
Pour a little but of water in the roaster.
Apply any rub you like to the ribs by sprinkling. I usually go with ginger, salt, and pepper. But you can do all kinds of crap like paprika, parmesan cheese, and salt, or some steakhouse seasoning, or barbecue rub. Whatever flats your boat. People will not agree on that sort of thing.
Set oven to 400 degrees F.
Cover roaster and put it in the oven.
Cook for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Open roaster.
Pour barbecue sauce on ribs and rub it around with a soon to get coverage. Pour a little bit more on ribs after they are covered. Put half a cup to a full cup of brown sugar in there. Lower the over to 350 F and put roaster back in oven with no top for 40 minutes.
Remove from oven and let sit in roaster for 15 minutes.
Remove to cutting board and chop into whatever serving size is preferred be it single ribs or shanks of three or four ribs.
Now take the whole mess of ribs out and throw it into the creek to appease the creek gods and scare the frisbee golfers. I use a large improvised panty-hose weave slingshot to do this that I learned how to make from popular science magazine or mythbusters or something. I like the splash it makes. Or alternatively, use the ribs to garnish a healthy juice blend drink. Garnish has no calories.
Avoid putting fresh pineapple on meat to flavor it. It will melt meat into a frightening flavorless paste. Use canned pineapple in syrup instead. If you ever have to get rid of a body or carcass I think fresh pineapples might help out a lot with that. If you see a guy at the store buying forty pineapples he is almost certainly a murderer or trying to conceal a hunting accident.
As far as Oprah it’s hard to take her seriously because anyone who whines about oppression who owns their own helicopter is obviously full of shit in a major way. Also She didn’t exactly step in and say defend Herman Cain against Gloria Alred’s bullshit. Nor did she ever say anything about Filner even though she’s supposed to be some friend to all women. She was probably curled into a ball because some Swiss fuck didn’t want to sell her a handbag for the price of a loaded to the gills Altima.
“Facial profiling” cracks my ass up. But then, the Robertsons can afford to laugh off such events, seeing as how West Monroe is such a hotbed of privilege…
What’s the fun of lame-ass no effort spare ribs?
Spare ribs are supposed to be work. Long. Hot. Smokey. Greasy. Stinking work.
But hey, let’s all have a Serious Discussion About Race In Contemporary America based on some random shit that happened to a billionaire in the Alps.
Ed Driscoll made a pretty good case that Oprah’s Swiss misadventure is probably as truthy as Obama’s white girlfriend.
Sorry Ernst. I just wanted some of that cheap lazy ‘beer can chicken’ glory I guess.
There is a certain chutzpa in Oprah’s claim to be a victim of racism considering her decades of preaching empowerment and her ability to buy the entire boutique then & there.
I love how she backtracked by saying that she shouldn’t have given the specifics. Yeah, because then the clerk & store owner would have been unable to defend themselves, and her slander would have stuck (is this much different than Tawana Brawley claiming she was raped by a police officer who had just committed suicide?).
Don’t you hate it when you got into a store and just happen to be wearing the same color shirt as the store uniform and people keep mistaking you for an employee? Talk about profiling.
14 million viewers of Duck Dynasty and not a single one of them in the Naked City.
he person doesn’t obviously know that I carry the black card
The what now… what?
I’ve watched Duck Dynasty a few times and I’m really not sure what the point of the show is. Then again, I guess that’s true of a lot of reality teevee. Sometimes it seems the point is to laugh at them because of their selective ignorance. Maybe I need to see more episodes.
On the other hand, they come across as pretty good guys and are very family oriented, so on the whole I think they are a net positive. This incident makes them look even better.
Then again, I guess that’s true of a lot of reality teevee.
Agreed. Although I have never watched Duck Dynasty. I have watched Alaska State Troopers (NatGeo channel, I think). Makes me feel freaking brilliant. I can’t decide if the point of the show is to make all those snowbillies look bad, or the smug troopers look like jerks.
When the battle is over someone not knowing whether you can afford a $38,000 hand bag, I think we can safely assume the Civil Rights Struggle is won. Let’s declare victory and go home.
The what now… what?
Amex will serve you up a Black Card for $7500 to sign up and $3500 annually membership fee. I guess you use it for those occasions when your yacht is in dry dock and you need to get to the island.
Just wait until you hear Oprah’s outrage when her white chauffeur wanted to escort her to the back of the limousine.
We are all Bull Connor now. (That is: Democrats.)
BTW, if any of you are so unfortunate as to receive Okra Wimpey’s OWN network on your cable, give it two minutes on any Sunday. You’ll never hear so much noxious, masturbatory, phony therapeutic treacle in 120 seconds for the rest of your life. If we really wanted to break the Gitmo prisoners, we could pipe it into their cells and get any information we wanted.
We need to get Oprah out on a boat hunting gators on “Swamp People” so she can get the raw material for her next hand bag.
choot, choot Oprah! choot
I know, George. Have you ever seen a single person who needs so much validation? Bitch has a magazine called “O” that features a photo of her on the cover of each issue. Her old show blew as bad as her new network does. Didn’t Presbo already give her a medal of something a while back? What has she done to deserve the Medal of Freedom?
Stick her on Shelby’s boat. She’d try to swim to shore as soon as he started randomly blasting things with that pistol of his.
oprah is a piece of shit obamawhore
i don’t like oprah not even a lil bit except for in color purple
I’m thinking that Oprah takes her Black Card to mean all kinds of things it’s not supposed to mean.
they should take her card away and say no card for you you’re too fucking whiny
One good thing about TiVo is you can prevent channels from turning up in your channel guide even if they’re on your lineup. That’s how I got rid of all the analog versions of channels we get on HD. Also OWN.
you can prevent channels from turning up in your channel guide even if they’re on your lineup. That’s how I got rid of all the analog versions of channels we get on HD. Also OWN.
I have to tell you, that programming on OWN blows my mind. It’s astonishing that anything with a notochord or any vertebrate can watch that stuff.
DD video at Youtube.
An oldie but a goodie, the Origami Boulder website. Click on the “Letters from dumb dumbs” link for a good laugh, too.
Origami Boulder? Good Lord, what are they up to in the People’s Republic now?
oprah seems kinda like one of those fat ladies what leaves her aroma behind in the elevator
i bet she smells really fucking fancy
How Franklin Roosevelt Devastated Black Sharecroppers
– Well the Lefty media has moved on, thank you very much, and did so the very day that Ompa FatBitch suddenly discovered she was lying through her teeth to promote her movie. They, along with all the social mediots, are off talking about her “mancrushes” and other assorted bullshit that no one except her black synchophants give a shit about. But you know, if you’re a mellenial white Libtard you have to stay in touch.
I’ve also blocked Lifewhine and Estrogen. My wife only vegges to TWNBC (not even Animal Planet!) so she may not even know those channels exist.
Oprah is an overpaid, RAAACIST! idiot.
Next stupid question?
I wonder if there is a market for a serious and professional conservative oriented news channel. And by that I mean onw that is not 90% single personality “magazine” shows, book hawking, and fake argument panel shows and does not have pop-music transitions between segments. I love to like Fox News but their format drives me crazy and I bet it drives a lot of people away from conservative perspective to see it always tied to blustering and ranting and loud taunting altercations with Bob Beckel or Juan Williams. I’m not saying that those things are in and of themselves bad but they do not make a good backbone for a news oriented network.
I love to like -> I’d love to like
Oprah, because she’s a mendouchous idiot, has doubled down on the Trayvon/Emmett Till comparison.
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I thought Oprah was really awesome.
When I was 19.
Most women, apparently, get stuck at that age forever, which is why “The View” is a show.
I don’t want to hate women, but they make it too easy sometimes.
And Oprah winning the medal of freedom makes me want to go on a 57 state murdering spree.
“Oprah, because she’s a mendouchous idiot, has doubled down on the Trayvon/Emmett Till comparison. ”
Yeah, I’m amazed how many people upon being informed that they have said something dumb say ” I still stand by what I said.” Okay. So you stand by some dumb sit after finding out that it was dumb shit. It’s still dumb shit. You can’t promote it to a deep thought by standing by it. The only people who don’t know it’s dumb shit are the stupid, the gullible, and the disinterested.
Knocking heads for a perceived diss or because someone gives you the creeps is not a civil right. A lot of white folks and white hispanics alike ain’t gonna walk around unarmed, stay in the car ,or let a stranger test the structural integrity of the cement or asphalt with their head. People would rather maximize their chances of surviving an attack from a 160 pound kid than have a chance of bring be pretend-liked or ignored by unreasonable self righteous assholes like Oprah. If you demand too much froms someone then you won’t get it and you’ll likely make an enemy.
Paleeomerus – the issue is that people of her standing don’t have to listen to anyone who says things they don’t like.
And she’s got a black amex card to prove it.
That’s why these idiots become intellectually stilted. The shit they “learn” as they age is nothing but stuff that supports their worldview. Never again do they have to have their ideas confronted. They merely fire, or criticize, or ignore anything/anyone that conflicts, intellectually with their pea-brain ideas.
She, like Obama, has people who do this for her so she doesn’t have to ever know that anything other than her view exists.
That she wandered into a store without having her people first setting everything up for her is what led to her problem with the clerk. And that she would ever do that, be allowed by her staff, posse, hangers-on, to actually wander into that store is what, firstly, makes the story so improbable.
Greetings:
“More mattresses, dammit,” began the Princess, “that pea is still killing me.”
“I’ve watched Duck Dynasty a few times and I’m really not sure what the point of the show is”
That’s odd, since at the end of every episode, while the family is sitting down to dinner and before the food is blessed, the main character comes right out and tells you the point in a voice over.
I’m sure there is. But I would guess that it’s too small to be profitable.
To give OWN its due, I like “Six Little McGhees”. A reality show about normal young married couple, running a normal business, raising normal sextuplet toddlers. What a concept.
Just goes to show, no matter how much a particular human is worth booked in banks, character is what shines and defines. Oprah’s is a 40-watt bug light mounted to an outhouse; Jase’s is a 1000 watt halogen fish attractor. And the fish are hitting.
“I wonder if there is a market for a serious and professional conservative oriented news channel.”
have you tried blaze tv? they have a free trial methinks.
Blaze TV has not shown up on my cable line-up yet.
I have asked for it, repeatedly.
Newest TVs have various apps built in, including YouTube. After pairing to your smartphone, you become program director for whatever network you desire. I’m getting past the n00b stage (Leno’s Garage, 1080p full-length eye candy documentaries and movies &c.) to niche news stories linked hereabouts.
Better streaming quality on the TV app than from the BluRay player, trust me on this.
“I have asked for it, repeatedly.”
eff them do the free online trial
I’m saving myself for the ‘CC’.