Bad Opera!
'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!'
didn’t the Swiss business (whose owner she apparently met at a wedding there) already apologize?
Oprah’s self-invented egocentric new-age religion obviously does not contain the Commandment: “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor”.
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.
The most important part of our contract was the part that set closing at 30 days past due diligence, with the seller having the option to extend another 30 days. We wanted this because we needed a hard buyer to go find and buy a home contingent on this sale.
2 hours before the expiration of the 30 day due diligence period, her lawyer sends our broker an email saying "my client needs 2 more weeks, make it happen". We had to cancel/postpone our home-hunting trip, cat-sitter, etc. to accommodate, but we did after 3 days of negotiating and getting her to release $10K of her deposit non-refundable to cover the cost of our having to change plans. Our signed amendment stated that all other provisions of the contract remain in force... meaning we still had 30-60 days after their due diligence ends to go find/buy a new home.
2 weeks pass, and they "go hard" on the sale... so we jet off and go find a new home, and notify buyer's attorney that as expected, we're going to need the extra 30 days to take possession of the new home.... he responds by saying buyer not only won't give us the extension, but she wants to close in 2 weeks.
Buyer stops talking to our broker, and threatens (through her nasty lawyer) to sue us if we insist on going by the timeline set out by the contract... we get our attorney involved, and after 2 weeks of back and forth (and $8900 in legal bills) we get permission to move all our stuff to a small out building on the property and stay there the extra month.
We finally close the deal, and pay movers to put all our stuff into the back building (and our poor 4 cats).... we've been enduring her now for the past 3 weeks... showing up at all hours (as late as 12:30 AM) wanting to come in and take measurements, etc.... she's done nothing with the main property that she kicked us out of.... yesterday she sends an email telling us that workers will begin replacing siding on the building we're in Thursday.
One week to go... sheesh...
Oprah Winfrey has never once experienced an act of racism directed towards in her life. No one ever denied her service in a place of public accommodation, never told her to sit in the back of a bus, told her she couldn’t live in a particular neighborhood or ever denied her the right to vote. Not once in her life. The fact she is a mega-millionaire is proof of that. No African-American under the age of fifty has EVER experienced an overt act or demonstration of racism at all. They only wish that they had, going so far as to make up claims that they did(Tawana Brawley, Oprah and this latest nonsense) because they want so badly to be seen as ‘’victims of racism’’ so they can be some kind of hero or martyr. Next to Her Hugeness here one of the worst offenders of the phony racist victim class is the dreadful Melissa Harris-Perry. A woman with a white mother and who quite frankly appears to be whiter then I am and folks I’m talking Caspar The Ghost here. This illogical and desperate woman salivates at even the slightest pretense of ‘’racism’’ so as to pull her victim routine in front of her pathetic viewership on MSNBC.
I disagree. Her mission was to promote her new movie, coming out this week. The fact that she had to step on a few "little people" to do it, is inconsequential (to her).
The fact that this incident occurred a few weeks ago and was sat upon until now is pretty much proof positive, IMO.
I believe Oprah is seeking publicity for her new movie while trying to pretend that even she, with her fame and fortune, is open to be discriminated against due to her race, just like other black people, making Oprah a 'victim', even though the label is absurd and the ridiculous incident, centering on a insanely overpriced purse. Now, the 20-year-old Swiss shop girl is speaking out and asking why the mega-powerful Winfrey is making her a target of alleged 'racism' so Oprah is wisely backing away from the story, as she should. To be frank, its hard to feel sorry for billionaire show business mega-star Oprah Winfrey when she complains about a young female clerk in Switzerland who didn't treat her exactly the way Her Highness thought she deserved and now it looks as if the mighty Oprah lied about it, to boot. Shame on her.
I think she made a mistake when she said she was treated as bad as “Emmit Till” by the store clerk ... may have overplayed her hand.
Her apology and explanation has so many holes in it, like swiss cheese.
The Oprah’s caught in an UGLY ASS LIE, and she exposed herself for trying to buy a $38,000 ALLIGATOR BAG!!!!!! OMG!! Hello, PETA???? Hello, WHITE TRAILER PARK WOMEN???