This woman is an internet celebrity and she didn’t even have to take her clothes off.
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UPDATE: Clare is a fake. From what I can understand, she's not like the girl-with-the-jacket fake (ie: employed by a marketing company) but just made up her story when she saw a camera. Which is still kinda hilarious in its own way. Me? I still like Clare.
I'm late to this story but in case you are too, you need to know about Clare. On Saturday night, Clare witnessed a shooting in Kings Cross and gave an unintentionally hilarious and politically incorrect eye-witness account to a TV crew.
When the clip aired on 9 news, it quickly went viral and Clare became
an instant celebrity. Now she has AN AGENT and I'm not even kidding.
Clip after the jump….According to reports:
The resulting public attention has apparently been so overwhelming for
Ms Werbeloff, who is from Sydney's northern beaches, that's she's been
forced to turn to a PR agency to manage her.
"She's been inundated with calls this morning," spokesman Adam Abrams told ninemsn this afternoon. "We will be releasing a statement tomorrow."
A STATEMENT? ABOUT WHAT???? Sorry, back to the report.
Around 3am on Sunday morning, a man in his 20s was shot twice in the
leg outside a strip club on Darlinghurst Road at Kings Cross. Overnight TV camera crews sought out witnesses and it was Clare's frank
description of two men who began the argument that pushed the story
into the stratosphere.
"There were these two wogs fighting," she told Nine News. "The fatter wog said to the skinnier wog, 'Oi bro, you slept with my cousin'.
"And the other one said 'Nah man, I didn't for s***, eh' and the other one goes, 'I will call on my fully sick boys, eh'.
"And then [he] pulled out a gun and went [gun-cocking sound] BOOM. "
Her video interview attracted more than 100,000 views, a Facebook fan group with over 1800 members has appeared and even t-shirts featuring Clare quotes are available online. The group, "Clare the Kings Cross bogan fan club",
has spawned internet memes such as ironic motivational posters
featuring the young woman and two other people interviewed on the
night.
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So Clare is a fake. Well sort of. Do we care?
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Mother-Of-The-Year Chapter 142
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She looks pretty damn good for a woman with 17.5 children.
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Breaking: this morning I sat next to Shelly Craft’s nipple – actually both of them – in the Channel 9 make-up room. There were no slips.
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The ABC takes the unprecedented step of defending ‘Clare’
how long til she gets her kit off in zoo? can’t be long now…she’s done ACA…
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Hilarious. Even more hilarious that she made it up and went with it. Academy Award to Claire.
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Um, the gentleman who was shot is alive. He was not murdered.
According to the Herald, the police have said that following her interview with them, she said that she had not witnessed the crime.
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You’re right Tim, she’s a dumb broad…but not because she “blurted out the first rubbish that came into her head” after seeing a shooting in “real time”
She’s a dumb broad because, according to a report in today’s Herald Sun, she’s admitted to police that she didn’t see anything.
Apparently, she thought the quick road to fame was to make up a story and present it to police as an accurate account of what happened.
It’s shocking that there are people in the community prepared to try to sort out their differences with violence. It’s also disappointing that there are people like this girl, who think it’s funny to lie to police about such an awful incident.
So, I wonder what her newly appointed PR people will think of her now
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Hey this looks like it could be the latest internet marketing hoax. Funny how the beer ads are prominently framed behind her?
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Lighten up. She was just a dumb broad who was pissed in Kings Cross at all hours of the night and blurted out the first rubbish that came into her head. She had also just seen a person get shot in real time. I doubt she would have been in a state to have every intelligent person’s perspective in her mind when describing what she saw.
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Maybe I didn’t focus on the fact that a murder happened, I just saw red when I heard that girl’s description.
Crime is shocking wherever it takes place, and like many people I have become desenstised to crimes happening on an everyday basis. If this girl had used different language to describe the scene, then I may have paid more attention to the event itself.
Her use of the word wog put me offside because it represents for me personally (I want to emphasise that part) it is a derogatory term. She may not have meant it like that, but the fact that it has ended up as widely watched and laughed about as it has proves the ridiculousness of what this girl said.
I’m simply expressing my views, they don’t represent those of everyone else. I can’t apologise for being offended, her words strike at the heart of what it means to be Australian. We should not be singled out because of our appearance and ethnic origin.
When people choose to describe an event, they can do so with a bit more tact and more people will focus on the event itself rather than the way it is reported.
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So, maybe I missed it. Did her new PR manager issue a statement? I just want to know what the hell they had to say.
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Call them “idiot” would have been more appropriate, becouse they are a shame to the rest of us that belong to the category you anglo australian call “wog” cheers
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I have been called a ‘wog’. I’ve also been called ‘Abo’ and a few other – rather more distasteful versions – of the latter. I survived.
As I said in my response to Mia’s bullying post, the scars caused by those words run deep, but they made me stronger.
Bearing in mind, at the time I was called those names, I was a child (in primary school) and all I knew was that they hurt. As an adult, if someone calls me *insert insulting/derogatory word of choice here* I just brush it off, I have learnt that words wound only our pride, not our person.
And in case anyone was wondering, I do have Aboriginal blood, along with Scots, Black Irish, English and Welsh. I’m a bitser/mongrel, and proud of it. And you can call me whatever you like!
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I totally agree with you Cerry, thanks for a good dose of common sense….
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“The Greek guy” “The Samoan” or “The Vietnamese” may be more accurate than wog, but the reality is, if you’re standing down the road, you probably don’t know what ethnicity they are, just that they’re not white. The reality is “the wog” is more decriptive than “the ethnic dude”, since wog is a more specific group of people. No, it’s not the most PC term ever, but she’s part of a generation who don’t think it’s particularly offensive, unless there’s obviously malicious intent behind it. It’s like calling someone a chick – mum finds it demeaning, and hates when I say it, but I refer to myself as one, because as the language has evolved, a lot of the negative conotations have been removed. It’s offensive because you’re deciding it is, not because she’s meaning it to be.
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Thanks Lulu,spot on!
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“It’s called accurately describing a suspect”
Posted by: Jill | Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 11:19 PM
No, it isn’t. Saying, “the Greek guy”, “the Samoan”, “the Vietnamese” is an accurate description. “Wog” is not only an insult, it’s also non-specific.
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‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me’.
This is a saying from a generation long before mine expressing the fact that name-calling is innocuous, while the breaking of bones is, well, life-threatening.
What has happened to our society that we have become so precious that we dare not use nomenclature appropriate to the person. A person is of a gender, they are of a race, they are of an age, they are tall or short, fat or skinny. So why can we not describe them as such.
Equally, in a multicultural society, as it seems we now live, where is the element of humour? Non-existent as far as I can see. The agenda of the righteous seems to have been to expunge all joy from life, all humour, in the name of ensuring that nobody is offended.
This surely results in a society devoid of passion, devoid of a laugh, afraid to smirk unless told to; in short a society afraid to ‘be’. This is not a world we want to live in. Let us call wogs wogs, Let us call fat people fat, bald men bald. Ugly people ugly. Our eyes don’t deceive us, why should our hearts.
I’m a fat, old, bald man; let me rejoice in that fact rather than wearing any euphemism for acceptability. It not only makes me a stronger person, it gives validity to the rest of my life.
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Jill, I agree wholeheartedly. That someone can express anger at the use of nomenclature so colloquial as ‘wog’, yet gloss over the fact that a human being was murdered is astounding. Values are severely out of whack when taking a life is regarded as being of less importance than being given an appellation.
Ie, it’s ok to shoot someone, but don’t dare to call them a wog.
This is a joke.
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Personally, my concern is that someone takes his cousins’ sex life to heart so much that he’s happy to kill the person he thinks is sleeping with her!!!!!!
Ethnicity notwithstanding, what kind of idiot acts like this?
Answer: someone who should not be on the streets endangering civilised people going about their business.
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Patti, to the police and to people who would like to avoid being shot by a potential murderer, the etchnicity of said murderer is VERY relevant!
It’s called accurately describing a suspect and to ignore a person’s appearance is simply to endanger other people who may fall victim to this guy.
Ignoring appearance is fine in social circumstances. This is murder.
happy to set you straight
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If people find it offensive that I call someone a hick for discriminating on the basis of ethnicity, then they haven’t been called a ‘wog’.
As a kid I have been called that, and I’ve also been subjected to, ‘You Greeks’, or ‘your lot’ as though people with my heritage are suspect in some way. I’m actually alarmed that there are people who don’t find the ‘wog’ offensive or put it down to generational differences.
The term ‘wog’ shows disrespect for people’s backgrounds and should have no place in the English language.
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I think I like the cut of your jib, Dave, Outer Space…
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Whats funny is the PC lefties are going nuts over this, calling Claire a (white) racist. But none of those clowns thought to check her sir name.
The last time I checked, it was okay for one wog, to call another wog a wog.
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How does a “wog” look like? I do not want to be politically correct ………….anybody smelling racism ?!
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Just to clear something up, WOG is an acronym, which stands for Western Oriental Gentleman. Not derogative at all, but used in a derogative manner by a bogan.
Self-effacing wog humourists often use it as a play on words for things like the Canterbury Bull-wogs (a wog supported NRL team) and The Woggles (a children’s performance group who drive a big red monaro, with fluffy dice in the rearview mirror).
On a different matter, do you think this Clare is the same Clare as from the Matty Johns incident?
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I totally agree too Natalie – I don’t think I would’ve laughed SO hard if I thought she was intentionally being racist… I just think she flustered and didn’t have time to self-edit, haha
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Britts, thanks for more eloquently clarifying what I was trying to say
I think it is up to different people’s interpretation of the word and their experience with it as to whether or not they find it offensive.
In my case, I feel like she was using it as a describing word, not in a derogatory way. But that’s just my opinion, others might feel offended that she used such a word at all.
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fender4eva..
Society has become quite desensitised to violence but I think it’s very different when you see something firsthand. I’ve watched my fair share of CSIs, Law & Orders, etc but when my friend and I went to a gun range in the US we still freaked out when we saw the guns in the cabinets!
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I think we have become anaesthetized to violence in daily life . We need a zero tolerance attitude, or we are in BIG trouble, as a society……
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I think she’s brave to still be standing there after all that – what a girl ! A night out on the town with her, tattoo shop and all sounds like a cracker of a night !
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ditto fender4eva
I am a bit shocked at how I was not at all concerned with the shot guy or about people carrying guns – it is amazing how something so violent can be taken as common place – no more police dramas for me as my violence threshhold must be too high
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