No, she's not clever, "outspoken" or "controversial". She's a emotional crybaby with bigoted uninformed opinions and a big mouth. She's not particularly intelligent and rarely argues conventionally. Her appeal does not stretch to critically minded people, she's in fact rather illiterate in terms of societal issues and makes lots of fallacious and simple statements.
By calling her this and giving her a platform, we've legitimised her stupidity into the mainstream. This is a woman who got famous for shagging a married man on TV alongside a wave of other things, she's now maintained her platform by making generally uneducated comments that appeals to her fellow uneducated audience.