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PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE OPRAH Gives BS Apology for Switzerland Racist Flap
TMZ ^ | August 13, 2013 | TMZ

Posted on 08/13/2013 11:36:51 AM PDT by Uncle Chip

Oprah Winfrey says she's kinda sorta "sorry" for the fallout that ensued after she told the media about a "racist" encounter at a purse store in Switzerland ... saying, "I'm really sorry that it got blown up."

Yeah, right.

Oprah addressed the media at the premiere of "The Butler" in L.A. last night -- backpedaling after the shop in question started to refute O's allegations of racism during an incident last month.

Last night, Oprah said ... "I think that incident in Switzerland was just an incident in Switzerland. I'm really sorry that it got blown up. I purposefully did not mention the name of the store. I'm sorry that I said it was Switzerland."

Problem is ... O's full of it.

What did she think was going to happen when she went on national TV and cried racism? The media was just going to ignore that??

Oprah once ragged on hamburgers and single-handedly CRIPPLED the beef industry.

She knew damn well how the media was going to handle the Switzerland situation ... which is why she went to the media in the first place. Her mission was to destroy the shop.

There are some people who are saying Oprah's Swiss encounter wasn't really about race -- Oprah was just mad she wasn't treated like Her Royal O-ness because the shop employee didn't recognize her ... but now, after the employee told the media she's being unfairly attacked, O's feeling a little guilty.

But pretending not to know about the impact of her race allegations?? That's like Obama pretending not to know what's gonna happen if he pushes that big red button in the White House.

C'mon O ... you're smarter than that. And so are we.

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To: Uncle Chip
'I think that incident in Switzerland was just an incident in Switzerland. I'm really sorry that it got blown up.

'I purposefully did not mention the name of the store,' Winfrey said. 'I was just referencing it as an example of being in a place where people don't expect that you would be able to be there.’

How kind of "HER FATNESS" not to mention the clerk's name and "George Zimmerman" her.

21 posted on 08/13/2013 12:00:54 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
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To: Uncle Chip; a fool in paradise

The audience viewership of her show in Switzerland has gone down to zero! Oh wait, it’s always been zero.


22 posted on 08/13/2013 12:02:32 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: JoeProBono

One of the most evil women in America today!


23 posted on 08/13/2013 12:06:45 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: nascarnation

True dat. She a hefty heifer.


24 posted on 08/13/2013 12:07:49 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Uncle Chip
'It's not an indictment against the country or even that store,' she continued. 'It was just one person who didn't want to offer me the opportunity to see the bag.

'So no apologies necessary from the country of Switzerland. If somebody makes a mistake in the United States do we apologize in front of the whole country? No!'

So no apology to the poor clerk.

25 posted on 08/13/2013 12:10:22 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
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To: Revolting cat!

26 posted on 08/13/2013 12:10:29 PM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: Uncle Chip; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono
Okrah's burnt!


27 posted on 08/13/2013 12:10:44 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Smokeyblue
'I was just referencing it as an example of being in a place where people don't expect that you would be able to be there.’

I missed this but you are right:

This was a contrived reference to Sanford. She was trying to claim Trayvon Martin victim status by equating the shop clerk to George Zimmerman.

What a disgusting witch she is.

28 posted on 08/13/2013 12:12:39 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono

Bad Opera!


29 posted on 08/13/2013 12:15:17 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Smokeyblue

Why should Oprah blame the store clerk?

Let’s ask them how much theft was committed as a percentage by race, shall we?

I have a family member who owned a store- she said it was easily 80% Holder’s people, who only represented about 10% of the customers.


30 posted on 08/13/2013 12:15:43 PM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: Uncle Chip
I love it. Her non-apology is about really about WHO OWES HER an apology. HER FATNESS has absolved Switzerland but not the clerk.

'It's not an indictment against the country or even that store,' she continued. 'It was just one person who didn't want to offer me the opportunity to see the bag.

'So no apologies necessary from the country of Switzerland. If somebody makes a mistake in the United States do we apologize in front of the whole country? No!'

31 posted on 08/13/2013 12:15:49 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
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To: Smokeyblue
So no apology to the poor clerk.

Apology??? Her royal hiney accused her, therefore she must be guilty.

Expect her to get the George Zimmerman treatment, afterall it's the seriousness of the accusation that matters -- not the existence of any evidence.

32 posted on 08/13/2013 12:16:43 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

didn’t the Swiss business (whose owner she apparently met at a wedding there) already apologize?


33 posted on 08/13/2013 12:17:37 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Sherman Logan

If they don’t open for Obama it’d be a national scandal, a real one unlike Benghazi, IRS, NSA etc


34 posted on 08/13/2013 12:18:43 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Smokeyblue

She’s a pro-abortion, liberal winch who made two billion dollars off gullible white women. Now she plays the race card every chance she gets.


35 posted on 08/13/2013 12:18:53 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: Uncle Chip

Oprah’s self-invented egocentric new-age religion obviously does not contain the Commandment: “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor”.


36 posted on 08/13/2013 12:23:36 PM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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To: GeronL

The shopowner said it was a misunderstanding.

I wonder if the wedding took place before or after this event and if Oprah met her there and Oprah felt dissed by her in some way and thus going to the press about this nonevent is/ was just Oprah’s way at getting back at her.


37 posted on 08/13/2013 12:23:53 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

Very good question


38 posted on 08/13/2013 12:27:10 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Uncle Chip

Her Chi-Town wide-load-ness wanted the purse for Tina Turner’s wedding. Turns out, the owner of the store was also one of Tina’s wedding guests. That’s reason she’s backpedaling as fast as she can.

She could have addressed it to the store owner privately but, hey “media circus” and “racism” is only way she knows how to go.


39 posted on 08/13/2013 12:29:15 PM PDT by Southern Magnolia
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To: Uncle Chip
The store owner only knows ORCA from TV. She did not speak to her at the wedding.

EXCLUSIVE: Now Swiss store owner at center of Oprah's 'racist' handbag storm demands to speak to star she brands 'over-sensitive'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2391880/Oprahs-racist-handbag-Swiss-store-owner-brands-star-sensitive.html

‘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.’

40 posted on 08/13/2013 12:30:10 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
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