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I never watched an episode of The Apprentice — in fact, Erika and I were steamed about the show because it meant that Scrubs had been moved. However, I’ll admit to having some ex post curiosity about the show, particularly the debate about the sexual office politics that the initial weeks stirred up. So I’m ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and the author of The Ideas Industry.

I never watched an episode of The Apprentice -- in fact, Erika and I were steamed about the show because it meant that Scrubs had been moved. However, I'll admit to having some ex post curiosity about the show, particularly the debate about the sexual office politics that the initial weeks stirred up. So I'm just going to reproduce this tidbit of Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth gossip from MSNBC's Jeanette Walls and leave it at that:

I never watched an episode of The Apprentice — in fact, Erika and I were steamed about the show because it meant that Scrubs had been moved. However, I’ll admit to having some ex post curiosity about the show, particularly the debate about the sexual office politics that the initial weeks stirred up. So I’m just going to reproduce this tidbit of Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth gossip from MSNBC’s Jeanette Walls and leave it at that:

Omarosa continues to lose friends and alienate people. The much-loathed reject from “The Apprentice” was scheduled to appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” last week, but refused to go on air when she saw a lie detector test backstage. “The lie-detector test wasn’t even for her,” a spokeswoman for the show told the Scoop. “It was intended for Jimmy’s Uncle Frank [a regular character on the show], but when Omarosa saw it, she just freaked.” Some fellow contestants have accused Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth of lying when she said one of them used the N-word. “We tried and tried to calm her down, but she just kept saying ‘I’m not going on stage with that lie detector test’ then she just walked out.”

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Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and the author of The Ideas Industry. Twitter: @dandrezner

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