Annie Duke clearly pulled off what I would want from an employee.  She raised more funds, pulled things off after the rug had been pulled out from under her. She showed far more class than the high maintenance gossip queen.  Yet, despite Duke’s success, Donald Trump awarded the trophy to Joan Rivers who has long ties with NBC.   

Amazingly, Rivers won after the offended design firm said they wanted nothing to do with Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice.  That alone would make me want to fire someone.  But I would have fired Rivers the moment her high drama, temper tantrum, finger ear plugging childish behavior began. And tonight Rivers claimed Duke was beneath her.  Funny, I’d like to hear Judith Martin’s opinion.

Don’t get me wrong, like Duke, Rivers is obviously passionate about her charity but tonight she said it wasn’t about charity anymore.  Well, wasn’t raising money for charity a goal? Either way, I’m not really qualified to say because I don’t watch reality television.  I made a special exception tonight and I’m not exactly motivated to watch again.  This was like playing an A game with an opponent hitting a three outer on the River.

And the best part is the Twitter aftermath…

RealAnnieDuke:  RT @RafeFurst: Grass roots campaign 2 raise $250k for @RealAnnieDuke charity donate at http://refugeesinternational.org… please RT!

Joan Rivers:  I won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big difference in sportsmanship.

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You know you’re living in a recession when Donald Trump tells himself “You’re fired.”  But that’s not worse than telling his daughter, in the previous recession, that the homeless man on the street had millions more than he.  Considering billions are the new millions, it could be worse.  Either way, today’s reports of Trump Entertainment’s bankruptcy filing isn’t exactly economically stimulating.

I assume Trump Entertainment is wishing they had sold to Trump (as in Donald) when he previously offered to buy the company.  Read Trump’s resignation to correct Las Vegas cab drivers.

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