Posted on 08/09/2013 8:50:37 AM PDT by traumer
US talk show host Oprah Winfrey says she was the victim of racism during a recent visit to Switzerland.
She said an assistant refused to serve her in an upmarket handbag shop in Zurich.
Winfrey, one of the world's richest women, was apparently told one of the bags was "too expensive" for her.
Her claims, made to a US television programme, come amid a political row over plans by some Swiss towns to ban asylum seekers from some public places.
The BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Berne says human rights groups have likened the plans - which include banning asylum seekers from swimming pools, playing fields and libraries - to apartheid.
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democrats are right, Switzerland is doing something right..
Maybe Oprah could just get over herself?
As have I and my wife though it tends to happen to my wife more. She’s not a size 6.
No white guilt in Switzerland? Pity! Somebody oughta do sumpin ‘bout it!
The Swiss know how to spell the word ‘opera’ and don’t use it to name their offpring!
and we are all victims of having to see Oprah’s ugly mug on TV everyday
You should see them when I show up! I dress to cover my butt, not to impress people.
I could buy a lot of worthwhile stuff and a potato sack to put it in for that kind of money.
I sense a disturbance in the force. This movie will bomb.
Thirty five thousand....
but she cares about the poor!
How many poor could you feed with a $35,000 purse? and I’m sure she has several dozen of them, and probably several dozen pair of shoes worth 50k each.
Oprah is a race hustler. She has made her profits off the backs of the poor (her viewers, low educated), and attempts to be all “folksy” and “down to home”.
I have done work for Harpo studios in the past, and only UNION workers and minority owned companies were allowed in. Sad part is... me and most of the other contractors were NOT union. We were given buttons as we got on site by the union bosses, “just in case someone came asking”.
In other words, she’s a vocal ass about promoting labor unions and all that, but a total b*tch to her lapdogs, who she insists everything be done NOW and PERFECT and UNDER BUDGET! Which is why they always bring in non-union companies (but you have to wear union buttons).
I’ve never met her, I’ve seen her in person several times, never negotiated with her (always with one of her lap dogs), but I have NEVER heard anything good about her from anyone who has had contact with her on a regular basis (none of my employees ever really had any contact with her).
BTW, she was a product of affirmative action in the early 80’s like Geraldo. Networks were starting to get sued for discrimination because they didn’t have enough minority percentage on the payroll. Instead of hiring more minorities, they gave huge pay to the few minorities they had.
Before that time, she was a host on AM Chicago, a dreadful show. Then she switched to the Springer style format. Don’t think for an instant she was all “caring and lovely”, she was an instigator on her show, like that Downey guy. Nothing but an instigator who made her bones off the back of the poor. Once she got wealthy, she changed formats and re branded herself.
She’s re-branded herself as many times as her waist size has changed. I also love all the magazines that tauted her as the “strongest willed woman in the world” and “so courageous” because she lost so much weight... BS, she had herself stapled, has 2 full time executive chefs, and has lipo and cosmetic done more times than Joan Rivers. She’s as much of a fraud as The One.
Ahh, I feel better. That was my rant for the day :)
Lol, I was thrown out of Woolworths once. I sat at the counter with a buddy after we had “one too many”, and my spec 4 pal told the waitress he wanted to marry her or some such goofiness. (she was a big girl, and he had a big thing for big girls).
She promptly told us to leave or she would call the manager!
We left, laughing and giggling all the way out.
Oprah Winfrey was all American, and oozing all over the place, in a place where it just didn’t matter!
She was just one more stupid American!
(We are SWISS!)
Or asking "do you take American Express?" while presenting her Goldpressed Latinum Card.
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