Does anyone have a Link to the Condi Rice/Salesclerk Dust Up?

[demgrrrll]

I am reading all over the inter tubes that Condi was in a store and said to a salesclerk. "Lets get this straight, You are behind the counter because you make minimum wage, I am on the other side because I make considerably more."

I think this just says it all about who these entitled sobs think they are. I am furious.

[acmavm]

1. When I first read that article I thought the clerk should have said "at least

I can do my job."

Sorry, no link.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Apparently true...from a book on her called "The Confidante"

The Confidante," a new biography of Rice, by Glenn Kessler, the diplomatic correspondent of The Washington Post.

'In the book, Rice's best friend, Stanford University's Prof. Coit Blacker, relates what happened when she went to buy jewelry and the saleswoman brought her cheap earrings from the display: "Let's get one thing straight," Rice told the sales clerk, "You're behind the counter because you have to work for the minimum wage. I'm on this side because I make considerably more." The store manager quickly brought her the expensive earrings. The lesson of the story is clear: The secretary of state knows how to get what she wants, by force if necessary. '

Well, if you take several letters out of CONFIDANTE and add in a U strategically, you get what C. Rice really is.

[Hepburn]

3. Your last sentence, IMO, is....

...spot on! :applause: Condi Rice is BEYOND BITCH!

[calimary]

5. I saw that one. Deeply offended doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about it.

That was a rude, insensitive, pissant, snot-nosed comment to make to someone who clearly puts in respectable effort to earn a living.

She's a heartless, useless, disgraceful, tin-plated cunt - who probably thinks because she's the "emperor's" consort, she's hot stuff.

[Cha]

7. I don't think it shows how

"she knows how to get what she wants"..at all.

It shows she really is the declasse be-Yatch she always looked like.

Her "best friend" told this story on her? To brag? Maniacal assholes.

[rudeboy666]

4. Race?

The assumption being that she was automatically offered the cheap items because she was black.

Granted, even if this is true, her reaction was not appropriate (although I could see how someone who perceives racial bias might react an extra bit emotional).

[Yael]

6. It was referenced in this HaAretz (the world) article

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/889312.html

[demgrrrll]

11. Thank's for the link. Looks the same as what I have been reading

this morning. I don't get a racial angle, more of an I will show you who I am angle. Maybe I am missing something.

[Yael]

12. I didn't get 'racial' out of that ancedote either. I just saw arrogance.

[peacetalksforall]

8. Here's a link to the thread from yesterday - the race issue was

discussed. My position - lack of class - I already posted and I repeat - she could have addressed the 'you' and 'I' option. She could have just simply said "I can afford more expensive earrings" and avoided her 'you' comments. Her friend could have written about her diplomacy instead.

Anyone can stoop to the level she did. Not all can raise it up.

I hope we're all speculating knowing that we don't know all the details and I hope that any context that is in the book wasn't excluded when "quoting" this paragraph.

[demgrrrll]

9. Nothing I read this morning gave another context or additional

information other that the quote I used. If there is any other information out there I would be glad to read that too, that is why I asked for a link.

[peacetalksforall]

14. I didn't mean you deleting any context. I should have been more clear.

But, this single paragraph came from someplace else - perhaps someone has the book and can provide context if there is more.

[ellacott]

10. This is our Sec. of State

I wonder what she's saying to foreign leaders.

[BrotherBuzz]

13. She is our Sec. of State

I wonder if foreign leaders even bother to even listen. :shrug:

Condoliesa Rice is the poster girl for the reich. She is a powerful icon. In substance her persona is completely impotent, delivering the PR message designed by her corporatist puppet masters.

Having an afro-American Secretary of State for a fascist junta imposed by sequential coups is the ultimate hypocrisy. She is the perfect disguise. How does one address a walking, talking, living, breathing lie? She is an animated programed Potemkin village for a society and foreign policy based upon brutal force, inequity, racism, and class warfare.

[ellacott]

15. Excellent summation n/t

[peacetalksforall]

16. She is Mz. Liar. Doesn't deserve Ms.

How many investigations have we watched where the witnesses sat and attempted to cover-up the purity of their lies.

[BrotherBuzz]

17. I'd have to take off my shoes to count that high

[Meldread]

18. There are some who are trying to give her an excuse.

They are saying, basically, that it was the store clerks fault because she was racist by assuming that Condi couldn't afford the expensive earrings. I called bullshit in one of the threads here.

Here is how I see it. She is the Secretary of State. She moves around with a contingent of secret service. She dresses in the most expensive outfits she can afford. When you see someone moving around swarmed with bodyguards, do you (for any reason) assume that person is either cheap or unimportant? Hell no.

The likely scenario IMO is this. The store clerk was nervous, maybe even scared shitless with having to deal with such an obviously important person (even if they couldn't identify who she was they'd obviously see that she was important). There is a lot of pressure to deal with such customers with respect. Condi shows up to the counter, points at something in a display case and the clerk brings her what she thought she was pointing at. At that point the bitch queen makes her remark, embarrassed the sales woman, who then goes back to get what Condi wanted.

People are just trying to cover for Condi by calling it a race issue.