# OMIGOD! I feel bad for Omarosa...help!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555 "2004-04-23T02:40:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555/1 "2004-04-23T02:40:15Z")
I just finished reading the thread about Omarosa from The Apprentice being on Larry King Live, (no link…haven’t figured out how to do that) and the strangest feeling came over me. I think I actually feel sorrry for her. Me, who has delighted in her downfall, who has sent an email to Clairol urging them not to hire her, who has shaken her head at the sheer stupidity of the woman. Now don’t get me wrong, I still think she’s an unemployable whiner. But I feel bad (and the first person who criticizes that grammar will get a PMS-fueled bitch-slap from me) that she has trapped herself into a role of denial and double-talk in a vain effort to salvage some of her true self-esteem. Here’s a woman who simply cannot bring herself to be honest because then she would be vulnerable, and she has staked her whole persona on being the cool, sleek, elegant, in-charge successful woman, and she can never, never, never admit that maybe she was wrong and did something stupid. And now she finds herself the butt of every joke on every channel and reviled throughout the land. Imagine how that must feel. Imagine the strain that has to place on a marriage. And she feels she has no option but to bluster and brag and refuse to discuss and fail to understand, when all america wants is for her to say “I lied because …” and move on with her life. Imagine how terrible it must be to be a person (and we all know one) who cannot, will not, accept reality. To be someone who always has to be perfect, even if their idea of perfect is absurd. To be someone who probably can’t even cry herself to sleep at night after a particularly rough time on Larry King Live because that would be admitting defeat. And the sad thing is she probably thinks all the denials and doubletalk make her out to be a Strong Woman who won’t let the bastards get to her, when we all think that a really strong woman would answer honestly and from the heart after some serious introspection. I’m so glad I’m not her tonight. Or her poor family. ---
**Author:** ![Jplacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jplacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jplacer)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555/2 "2004-04-23T02:48:17Z")
She was on a reality show. How many people are actually going to remember her in a year? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555/3 "2004-04-23T03:40:53Z")
> [@Jplacer](#): > > She was on a reality show. How many people are actually going to remember her in a year? One word. One syllable. _Puck_. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555/4 "2004-04-23T03:43:31Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > One word. > > One syllable. > > _Puck_. Who? ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555/5 "2004-04-23T03:58:30Z")
I didn’t watch the series at all, but she keep popping up all over the place. Will someone please tell me who she is and what she did to merit the notoriety? ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555/6 "2004-04-23T04:26:32Z")
Reason the first: she’s a smirking bitch. Any attempts to point this out are explained away as “They’re afraid of me because I’m a powerful black woman.” Reason the second: At one point she was accusing another team member of something, and the other person responded “that’s like the pot calling the kettle black.” Immediately O launched into full race card mode, declaring that this other person was using racial epithets. Reason the third (from the show): During one task in a building under construction, she was hit on the head with a small piece of plaster. Throughout the next weeks this gave her the ability to avoid work with complaints that her head hurt and go “rest.” At one point this “rest” involved sitting down for a few minutes and then playing basketball with a boy on the street while the others on her team renovated an apartment. When working, she gained the power to claim being a trouper, because she was working with her grevious injury. She was inspected by a Trump Tower nurse in one of the episodes after the injury was first shown, but with editing who knows when it happened, who told her it was a small bump. Reason the fourth (from the last two episodes): This is the picture editing has presented to us :paranoid smiley: - O was given the task of arranging travel for Jessica Simpson and her band to Trump’s casino. Attempts by the entertainment manager for the casino to contact O were blown off, and Simpson never appeared at the airport. When this manager contacted the team leader directly, O denied ever having any problems. She was then given the task of just keeping tabs on Simpson’s location, so that the team leader could contact her when he needed to. When Trump came to the casino and asked to meet Simpson, the team leader could not get O on her radio; presumably (because of editing) because O was playing dress-up in Simpson’s room and was not listening to her radio. This caused Trump to become quite annoyed with the team leader, for no fault of his own (or indeed anyone’s aside from O’s). Reason the fifth: She’s _still in the spotlight!_ Shoo! You shouldn’t be famous for being a bad person! I’m quite sure others will provide additional and more venomous reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555/7 "2004-04-23T04:39:20Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > Now don’t get me wrong, I still think she’s an unemployable whiner. But I feel bad (and the first person who criticizes that grammar will get a PMS-fueled bitch-slap from me) that she has trapped herself into a role of denial and double-talk in a vain effort to salvage some of her true self-esteem. I see your point, but remember her entire work history (I don’t know about her educational career, and unfortunately, we only have her word to go on, but she’s supposedly one credit shy of her master’s degree, so if that’s true, and once again, who knows, she must have had it together in those days at least well enough to get that far.) has consisted of this type of behavior. She has acted this way for years. > [@kittenblue](#): > > Here’s a woman who simply cannot bring herself to be honest because then she would be vulnerable, and she has staked her whole persona on being the cool, sleek, elegant, in-charge successful woman, and she can never, never, never admit that maybe she was wrong and did something stupid. Unfortunately, everything she does is stupid! > [@kittenblue](#): > > And now she finds herself the butt of every joke on every channel and reviled throughout the land. Imagine how that must feel. Indeed. > [@kittenblue](#): > > Imagine the strain that has to place on a marriage. Maybe. But I’m inclined to think her husband has had more than enough opportunity to see what she’s really like. > [@kittenblue](#): > > And she feels she has no option but to bluster and brag and refuse to discuss and fail to understand, when all america wants is for her to say “I lied because …” and move on with her life. Unfortunately (there’s that word yet again, I know…sorry) there isn’t just one or two lies she has to admit to. Her whole life and way of behaving is a lie. She would actually have to apologize and ask for forgiveness for being _her_! > [@kittenblue](#): > > Imagine how terrible it must be to be a person (and we all know one) who cannot, will not, accept reality. To be someone who always has to be perfect, even if their idea of perfect is absurd. To be someone who probably can’t even cry herself to sleep at night after a particularly rough time on Larry King Live because that would be admitting defeat. And the sad thing is she probably thinks all the denials and doubletalk make her out to be a Strong Woman who won’t let the bastards get to her Exactly! That’s why I don’t think she has any trouble sleeping at night. > [@kittenblue](#): > > I’m so glad I’m not her tonight. Or her poor family. You know, I have to confess some feelings about her I \*really \* don’t like having, but they’re there nonetheless. First, I really fear for her safety if she should ever really let down her guard and in a moment of rare lucidity see herself for the person she really is and how everyone justifiably views her. I’ve honestly been concerned about how she might react, and then, even if she were to try to harm herself, who would know whether it was legitimate or another attempt at manipulation? Anyway, I worry she might try to harm herself. But don’t ask me why! (And this worries me, too! What if there’s something about her that causes people to care about what happens to her and she winds up with an actual career in the public eye? Aaauuuggghhh…I don’t even want to think about it!) Secondly, I haven’t been able to help myself from thinking what a waste it is that she’s the way she is. If it weren’t for her mind, she really would have it all going on. She is very attractive and has a beautiful smile that would be quite winning if she weren’t the way she is. She is clearly a very smart person. And her personality can be quite winning when she’s just being quietly conversational as was when I saw a tape of her being interviewed on Dateline. In other words – and to mix a metaphore here: if it wasn’t for her mind shooting her in the foot she could and probably would be an amazing woman. What a waste! ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555/8 "2004-04-23T04:42:48Z")
She is a lying, lazy, heartless bitch. She is self-absorbed, delusional and narcissistic. Nope, sorry, can’t find a shred of sympathy for a person who is purposefully and selfishly evil. I’ll save my sympathy for people who are needlessly suffering from no fault of their own. She is reaping what she has sown. ---
**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555/9 "2004-04-23T04:51:52Z")
God. I thought the thread title was “I feel bad for _Osama_!” ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555/10 "2004-04-23T05:05:36Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > She is a lying, lazy, heartless bitch. She is self-absorbed, delusional and narcissistic. Nope, sorry, can’t find a shred of sympathy for a person who is purposefully and selfishly evil. I’ll save my sympathy for people who are needlessly suffering from no fault of their own. She is reaping what she has sown. Yeah, I know…I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’ve been thinking about trying to get some help. ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555/11 "2004-04-23T05:28:41Z")
Omarosa was supposed to appear on _Kimmy Kimmel Live_ tonight. She was actually at the studio, but then bailed. According to Jimmy, she’s the show’s first “runner”. 🙂 The reason? They had set up a lie detector to test Jimmy’s uncle Frank. They didn’t believe him when he said he enjoyed _Kill Bill, Volume 2_. (And they were right, according to the detector.) Apparently, Omarosa was afraid _she_ was going to be tested. I’m not sure if she actually voiced those fears to anyone, but that’s what Jimmy seemed to be insinuating. At the very least, she left without giving a reason. Anyhoo… ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555/12 "2004-04-23T05:39:02Z")
You preview, and you preview, and yet… It’s metaphor, not metaphore. I have no idea where that came from. My fingers seem to be taking on a life of their own these days. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Storm\_Chaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Storm\_Chaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Storm_Chaser)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555/13 "2004-04-23T05:42:09Z")
I couldn’t stand the woman the minute I laid eyes on her. Her accusing a fellow ‘apprentice wannabe’ of being prejudice was the icing on the cake for me. Unbelievable! She’s one of the most self-centered know-it-alls I’ve ever seen on a reality TV show. Not only that, but I couldn’t imagine the stress she must have on a daily basis of having to act so “perfect” and of going through life, everything having to be so ‘calculated’. No thanks! Just my two bits. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-i-feel-bad-for-omarosa-help/241555/14 "2004-04-23T06:06:53Z")
Anagram for Omarosa? …or Osama?