Good and bad celebrity narratives

Omorosa Mainigult-Stallworth--I've been trying to think why I'm so fascinated with this person.  Watching the Youtube video of her appearance on the Wendy Williams show (seeing the whole 10 minutes) I was struck by the way she reframes her abrasiveness or "disrespectfulness" in a narrative of Black female empowerment.  She connects her behavior, rationalized in her book "Bitch Rules", to the wider struggle of African-American women in American history, including herself and Wendy.  She encourages Wendy to be nastier, then complements her on being nice, then shows solidarity with her as two African-American women fighting the same battle.  It's a very canny and clever  way of presenting herself and plays very much into the master American narrative of self-reliance, doing for yourself, and achieving your goals through your own efforts.  It's also savvy celebrity politics and I'm not surprised that she formerly worked for Al Gore during the Clinton administration. I want to think some more about this "nasty" and "nice" performance and why it's attractive (see her web site here).