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Hardly an Apprentice When it Comes to Racism

A contestant from reality tv show The Apprentice has learned that being caught on camera uttering an anti-Semitic remark can be a real bummer.

Apparently, Donald Trump isn’t the only one who doesn’t want the latest Apprentice reject.

 

The New York City real-estate firm that employed reality-show firee Jennifer Crisafulli is distancing itself from the trumped contestant after she was heard remarking about “two old Jewish fat ladies” on Wednesday’s episode.

 

“We do not intend to have an individual in our organization who subscribes to this point of view,” Steven James, an executive at Prudential Douglas Elliman said in Friday’s Albany (New York) Times Union.

 

Added James: “They are not wanted. They are not needed.”

 

The Times Union noted that James stopped short of saying the 32-year-old had been fired, à la Trump. The paper further noted James couldn’t say the word fired, à la Trump, for legal reasons.

 

Speaking to her hometown newspaper, Crisafulli sounded as if she’d gotten James’ gist–if not the hook.

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Crisafulli’s troubles began Wednesday night–in front of 14.7 million TV viewers.

 

In the third installment of The Apprentice 2, Crisafulli was shown the boardroom door by Trump after her team, Apex, botched a restaurant opening.

 

In his usual personable style, Trump told Crisafulli she was hated by everyone on her crew.

 

“Jennifer, this is really easy,” Trump said, per the NBC Website. “You’re fired.”

 

But other words would come to haunt Crisafulli more. In the episode, Crisafulli complained that Apex’s restaurant reviews were sabotaged by a pair of customers: “It was those two old Jewish fat ladies…jaded old bags.”

 

Apprentice player Stacy Rotne, an attorney, took note, if not offense. “I’m Jewish and I’d like to understand Jen C’s motives behind saying this,” Rotne said on the show, per NBC.

What she hasn’t learned is that trying to justify it by invoking the “at least I was upfront” argument or the “But some of my best friends/relatives are Jewish” argument just doesn’t help your cause.

“I’m a New Yorker,” Crisafulli is quoted as telling the Post. “I call an Italian an Italian…a Jew a Jew. The real bigot is the one who has to whisper behind someone’s back.

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Crisafulli said she clarified her Apprentice cracks on camera, mentioning her own family’s Jewish heritage, but acknowledged those soundbites didn’t make the prime-time cut.

 

“It’s all about the editing,” Crisafulli told the Times Union.

No doubt the editors are a couple of “fat, Jewish men”, huh Jennifer?

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David Lange

A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media
Picture of David Lange

David Lange

A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media
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