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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 09:17 AM Mar 2018

Colbert Refuses to Let Omarosa Laugh Off Trump Support


Stephen Colbert Grills Omarosa Over Her Trump White House ‘Plantation’ Claims

The ‘Late Show’ host took Omarosa Manigault-Newman to task for turning her time in Trump’s White House into reality-show drama.

MATT WILSTEIN
03.01.18 12:54 AM ET

Stephen Colbert couldn’t quite believe he got Omarosa Manigault-Newman to appear on his CBS show Wednesday night. But there she was, fresh off her surprisingly revealing stint on that same network’s Celebrity Big Brother.

“My next guest went from the White House to the Big Brother house, and managed to make it out of both of them alive,” Colbert said, giving his guest a warm welcome.

Despite her dire warnings about the fate of the republic, Omarosa appeared to be in good spirits when she walked onto the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater. And if she saw any of the clips of Colbert brutally mocking her on The Late Show while she was trapped inside the Big Brother house, she didn’t let on.

Right off the bat, Omarosa admitted that working for Trump’s White House was “a little crazier” than living in an enclosed space with a group of mostly D-list celebrity strangers for 30 days.




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Colbert Refuses to Let Omarosa Laugh Off Trump Support (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2018 OP
She is nothing more than an (effective) used car salesperson. hlthe2b Mar 2018 #1
She is laughably bad at it. Orsino Mar 2018 #3
Stop laughing, Omarosa Lulu KC Mar 2018 #2
she heaven05 Mar 2018 #4
Omarosa your 15 minutes are up GWC58 Mar 2018 #5
Not only is Amarosa stunningly beautiful, she is highly educated, wth over RestoreAmerica2020 Mar 2018 #9
I don't heaven05 Mar 2018 #10
You think so? EffieBlack Mar 2018 #11
++++ heaven05 Mar 2018 #12
as my mom would say, "she's a conniver" Javaman Mar 2018 #6
And for her next gig... JHB Mar 2018 #7
She is obviously not only concerned with work in her husband's ministry. madaboutharry Mar 2018 #8

hlthe2b

(102,283 posts)
1. She is nothing more than an (effective) used car salesperson.
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 09:21 AM
Mar 2018

Same techniques to push her BS.

Unfortunately, she is likewise able to sucker a lot of people with that BS and sell them a (lemon) car.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
3. She is laughably bad at it.
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 09:35 AM
Mar 2018

But as you note, laughably bad is the new somewhat effective.

Thanks, TV!

Lulu KC

(2,566 posts)
2. Stop laughing, Omarosa
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 09:27 AM
Mar 2018

He's not kidding.
I buckled down and listened to the whole thing. If she would have stopped laughing, she seemed much more sensible than I thought she was. Also very naive to think she could have been the change. What did she see in him?
Off to another day of checking for indictments.

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,435 posts)
9. Not only is Amarosa stunningly beautiful, she is highly educated, wth over
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 02:04 PM
Mar 2018

15yrs experience and a successful career in media communcations, a graduate degree from prestigious Howard University...she is more qualified than hicks, miller, huckabee-sanders
.spicer ....but then again she has to be. Why is that? Yet, if you've noticed hicks is given a pass for being a nitwit, pants presser stupida, naive, only 28(?going on 18) ...and the Black woman...well what the hell was she doing all day, lazy... you know, the usual racist dog whistles.

When you listen to her [Amarosa] speak, she is an articulate, poised confident woman. She'll be fine, she built her career from the ground up, on her own unlike hicks and the others who just counted on trumpf brand to advance their careers; she knows how to survive in a racist competitive climate. I've never followed reality tv, tabloids and the like but what the hell we got a president out of it, yet somehow the expectations for the Black woman are higher, why is that?

Undoubtedly, anyone still attached to racist, sexual predator, kkknazi supporter trumpf and complicit racist gop IS deplorable and disgusting, and on the wrong side of history.




 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
10. I don't
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 09:04 AM
Mar 2018

care if she will be fine. And in considering her qualification(s) as a professional in her area (s) of expertise, so damn what. I consider her as a person with no integrity, moral compass and who groomed herself for the highest bidder, in this case the the POS posing as potus. Please forgive me if her 'survival' techniques don't impress me one iota. ANY AA working for this administration is either a bonified 'uncle tom', or otherwise ignoring the pain and suffering of the AA in this racist society for generations. If they were so dedicated to erasing the racist culture of this administration leaders, Sessions, Bannon, Gorka!!!!Alec Jones stealth advisor to the idiot in chief, they would publicly call out these types after their many open calls to hate all brown people. After Charlottesville not a word of condemnation from her, Carson period.


Stay enthralled with her 'achievements, tis your right. In my book she laid down with racistly rabid dogs and has more problems than fleas. I will NEVER respect her in any manner, whether she clawed her way up 3 mountains to work for a racist in any capacity. To hell with Omarosa

 

EffieBlack

(14,249 posts)
11. You think so?
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 09:31 AM
Mar 2018

This is a woman who was so incompetent and disruptive, she was fired from several jobs in the Clinton Administration. She found her way onto a reality television show where she made a name for herself by making a complete ass of herself. She managed to parlay that into a job in the most senior levels of the White House. She was no more qualified for her job than anyone else there - actually she was less qualified than many and that’s REALLY saying something, given the crowd we’re talking about. She has a graduate degree, but she has absolutely no experience in policy or communications (at least not in communicating about anything but herself). Yes - boo hoo for her - she was surrounded by racists and racist dog-whistles - all of which she ignored, defended and enabled until they kicked her ass out of there.

If she were so smart and savvy, she would have thanked her stars for that opportunity and used it to recast herself as a serious person with depth, knowledge and specific expertiose so that when she was cut lose - as everyone eventually is - she could write her own ticket in the real world. But that takes work, so ... Instead, she paraded around the White House, planning her wedding, flipping her hair, calling herself “the Honorable” and accomplishing absolutely nothing other than pissing off and/or cracking up everyone she came in contact with.

And when she was dragged out of the building like an obnoxious patron getting put out of the club, what did she do? She didn’t go off somewhere, keep her mouth shut for awhile, do some reflecting and consider her options. No. Within a couple of months, she scrambled back down the ladder to the serious and respectable world of reality tv - landing right where she was 15 years ago as if she’d never been anywhere or done anything meantime.

Omarosa is little more than a pathetic joke whose entire career has been built on convincing people who don’t know any real black women that she’s something special. But the only thing special about her is her willingness to make a fool of herself. Most black women in America have built successful careers from the ground up, we’ve gotten degrees from presitigious schools, we’re articulate and beautiful and brilliant and awesome.

Omarosa, on the other hand is, well, Omarosa.

You may think she’s all that and a bag of chips. But. We. Are. Not. Impressed.

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
8. She is obviously not only concerned with work in her husband's ministry.
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 11:25 AM
Mar 2018

She is obviously writing a book and is not going to give the juicy parts away.

Coming soon to a bookstore near you: "Oh, No!.....by Omarosa."

I wonder if she is on Mueller's list of people he still wants to interview. Weren't there reports that Trump would call Omarosa up late at night to talk?


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