Oprah should be Sorry for her Insensitivity! In Switzerland, no less!

From the NSP News Room:  You better bet that the clerk in the Zurich, Switzerland boutique has nothing to apologize for. Nobody on the "Swiss side" does. Winfrey, however, is full of crap! First, she alleges that in America, apologies don't have to be given to, or in front of, a whole nation. That's patent nonsense. Just look at all of the apologizing the chef Paula Deen has done, publicly, in the last few weeks. There are many more American examples, from radio personalities Don Imus, Howard Stern, and Rush Limbaugh to screen actors including Mel Gibson, just to mention a few.

As for Winfrey wishing to look at a bag which cost the equivalent of $38,000 -- well, there are many people in America who don't see that kind of money in an entire year for a family of four! To champion the rights of the "little guy" as Winfrey has often done, and then even think of purchasing a bag costing the average annual wage of many workers, is simply obscene, no matter how much money Winfrey makes. Why not donate the cost of that bag to a cause more worthy than herself!?

 

 

Aug. 13, 2013, 7:27 AM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Oprah Winfrey says she's "sorry" a media frenzy emerged after saying she experienced racism during a trip to Switzerland.
"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," Winfrey said Monday night at the Los Angeles premiere of Lee Daniels' "The Butler."
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"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," she continued.
In recent interview with "Entertainment Tonight," Winfrey recalled a clerk at an upscale Zurich boutique refusing to show her a handbag. Winfrey said she was told she could not afford the $38,000 purse.
"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.
"I didn't have anything that said 'I have money': I wasn't wearing a diamond stud. I didn't have a pocketbook. I didn't wear Louboutin shoes. I didn't have anything," said Winfrey on the red carpet. "You should be able to go in a store looking like whatever you look like and say 'I'd like to see this.' That didn't happen."
Swiss tourism officials and the boutique owner apologized for the incident last week, but Winfrey insists there's no need.
"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!"
"The Butler," which opens Friday, documents the civil rights movement through the story of a butler who served in the White House for seven presidents.

-- Dr. Jacques Pluss, Commander, NSP.  1488!