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Oprah Winfrey 'was victim of racism' in Switzerland
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Posted on 08/09/2013 8:50:37 AM PDT by traumer

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To: traumer

Couldn’t have been her attitude. /sarc


41 posted on 08/09/2013 9:10:03 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yeah you might think that but I usually assume that people who value anonymity don’t stay long in the lime light once they have made their cash.


42 posted on 08/09/2013 9:10:30 AM PDT by Maelstorm (If all are treated as suspects it will not be long before we all are treated as prisoners.)
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To: traumer

Oprah is so miffed that her OWN network is doing poorly. She broke away from her talk show audience and went after another type of audience. They aren’t supporting her. As my grandfather used to say, “You need to dance with the one that brung ya.”

She is going to great lengths to be a part of her new audience’s “experience” that she is beginning to look cartoonish. She’s on the wrong side of the revolution.


43 posted on 08/09/2013 9:10:31 AM PDT by MWestMom (Psalms 109:8)
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To: Maelstorm

Unless they are attention whores.


44 posted on 08/09/2013 9:11:50 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: traumer

How does being told “you can’t afford that” translate to “refused to serve”? I’m sure if she simply said “you’re wrong, I can” they would have served her. But the fact that she thought her only choice was to either “blow up” or leave is as much of a negative about her as is the snootiness and the ignorance of the clerk.


45 posted on 08/09/2013 9:13:44 AM PDT by zencycler
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To: traumer
Oprah may be rich but she still looks and acts cheap.

46 posted on 08/09/2013 9:14:34 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Dr. Thorne
Maybe the store...figured she wouldn’t want to spend an unseemly amount on a handbag when that money could go to the under-served and under-privileged of the world.

That would almost be a compliment to money-bags Oprah. In actuality she apparently was interested in the bag.

47 posted on 08/09/2013 9:15:10 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: traumer

You don’t look like a browser...


48 posted on 08/09/2013 9:15:22 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: traumer
It's not racism, it's classism or maybe because they think you are too old and fat. They don't want an ugly old bag carrying one of their “bags”.
49 posted on 08/09/2013 9:16:14 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: KarlInOhio
I get treated that way at a lot of stores, but I really got offended when Family Dollar suggested I go to Everything for a Quarter down the road.

Meh, I used to get kicked out of the Five and Dimes...

50 posted on 08/09/2013 9:16:26 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: traumer

This unfortunate incident does sound like Oprah was the victim of racism. Sadly, even legitimate instances of racism raise suspicion because the boy has cried wolf far too many times with completely illegitimate cries of racism.


51 posted on 08/09/2013 9:17:47 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
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To: ottbmare

Im putting my money on an Oprah Attitude Problem

I can almost hear Orca stating that ...”They CLEARLY didnt know who I was”


52 posted on 08/09/2013 9:17:49 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Chicago Murder Updates..http://homicides.redeyechicago.com/)
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To: traumer

I don’t believe a word out of that fat commie sow’s mouth. My guess is it had nothing to do with race if it happened at all.


53 posted on 08/09/2013 9:18:42 AM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: traumer

Poor poor Oprah


54 posted on 08/09/2013 9:18:46 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: KarlInOhio
I get treated that way at a lot of stores, but I really got offended when Family Dollar suggested I go to Everything for a Quarter down the road.


55 posted on 08/09/2013 9:21:07 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: a fool in paradise

Speaking to US TV show Entertainment Tonight, she said: “I go into a store and I say to the woman, ‘Excuse me, may I see the bag right above your head?’ and she says to me, ‘No. It’s too expensive.’”

well heres the CLUE:

‘Excuse me, may I see the bag right above your head?’

;-} The clerk thought Orca was for some Strange Reason demanding the saleswoman hold the bag over her head


56 posted on 08/09/2013 9:21:21 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Chicago Murder Updates..http://homicides.redeyechicago.com/)
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To: a fool in paradise

Was at the airport in Zurich, January 2012, passing through on my way back the U.S. from Africa. Browsed a few of the shops...unbelievable how expensive everything was. In one shop, there were beautiful handbags, one sitting out on the counter had a $5,000 price tag! I wouldn’t even touch it! Took a picture of it, though. Was nice to browse...to see first-hand what the 1%’ers get for their money!


57 posted on 08/09/2013 9:22:23 AM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: House Atreides
I’ve had sales clerks (and auto dealership salesmen) obviously not want to “waste time” on me when I was interested in looking at something expensive

Exactly. I used to run a meat packing plant and I dressed in clothing appropriate for that kind of work. One year on Christmas Eve I had yet to buy my wife a present and went to a nearby jewelry store to get her something. I couldn't get anyone to even acknowledge me. When I was younger and drove an older, crappy car I wanted to finally get a new one. Drove onto the car lot and 3 salesmen chatted while I looked at cars. None ever came over to see if I wanted to buy a car!

58 posted on 08/09/2013 9:22:58 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
This unfortunate incident does sound like Oprah was the victim of racism. Sadly, even legitimate instances of racism raise suspicion because the boy has cried wolf far too many times with completely illegitimate cries of racism.

Based upon what evidence? Maybe the store has a security video they can upload on YouTube and we all can see if the color of Oprah's skin was the cause of her not getting to buy a bag. Oprah is an attention whore and lately she is needing other avenues of advertising.

I got a snicker out of her bellyaching, guess her 'Force' was not with her that day.

59 posted on 08/09/2013 9:24:21 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Maelstorm

If racism did not exist, it would have to be invented, to conform with the frame of thinking that has overtaken a large part of the “liberal” voting bloc.

This was not racism. It was a judgment by the shop owner based on a perceived hostility on the part of the purported “customer”, come in seeking the confrontation.


60 posted on 08/09/2013 9:27:18 AM PDT by alloysteel (Unattended children will be given a Red Bull and a free Kazoo. Reminds me of Congress...)
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