Written by: Beck

Everyone is familiar by now with the saga on reality show The Apprentice wherein fired applicant Omarosa accused fellow contestant Ereka of calling her a nigger (I refuse to euphemize by saying "the N-word." It's so childish. Why are people so afraid of the word?) Tonight, I happened to watch Howard Stern's show on E!. His guests were three of the ex-apprentices, including Ereka. While Ereka naturally seemed to have anticipated that the issue would come up, what she couldn't have anticipated was Howard sending her off into a separate room with a lie detector test and an administrator.

She was asked a lengthy battery of questions. The first half were what you would expect as a consequence of the controversy. "Are you a racist? Have you ever called anyone a nigger? Did you call Omarosa a nigger?" Then followed more stereotypically Stern style questions. "Have you ever had a lesbian encounter? Have you ever had a lesbian fantasy? Have you ever had a sexual fantasy about Howard Stern?" She answered "no" to everyone one of those questions. She was found to have lied on one of them. Which one you ask? You guessed it.

It turns out, she actually HAS had lesbian fantasies about other women. But she never called Omarosa a nigger. Meanwhile, on the final episode of The Apprentice, Omarosa was cornered on several overt lies that she made, which they had the tape to prove were lies. Unfortunately, I don't expect this controversy to be put to bed now, nor do I expect Omarosa to drop from the spotlight as she should.