Posted on 01/26/2006 12:09:39 PM PST by Mike Bates
That's what I was wondering. I haven't read the book nor have I ever watched Oprah, but I heard that the parents were in the audience on the previous show, nodding like idiots as their son wove his incredible tale of bulldroppings. What parents would do that? They knew it was fiction, didn't they?
Like pompous prosists who help beefy bouncers see the errors of Bush's ways?
YES!
Yet they 1) preferred his lies of an especially troubled sordid life to the truth; 2) enabled his lies, to the point that he is now fully discredited; 3) therefore hurt to some extent the good effect he could have on other addicts with his victory over addiction, (a victory which is truly no small thing day by day!)
So he overcame addiction, but couldn't get away from lying? What lesson did his mother and father teach him by nodding benignly during Oprah show when he was telling all these lies to a nat'l audience?
What was it about?
Remember in "DUmmieland" truth is seconary to how one "feels" about any given fact.
Be careful venturing in DUmmieland, you might catch something.
Take your shots before you go again. lol
"I think his name is real."
On his name I think I'll wait until "The Smoking Gun" confirms whether or not it is real.
Their track record on his life is better than he is.
In September 2005, Oprah Winfrey chose A Million Little Pieces for her monthly bookclub.
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On January 8, 2006, The Smoking Gun published an article: "A Million Little Lies: Exposing James Frey's Fiction Addiction". [1] It alleges that Frey fabricated large parts of his memoirs, including details about his criminal record and rehab experiences. One incident in the book that has come under particular scrutiny was a 1986 train-automobile collision in St. Joseph Township, Michigan that killed fellow students Jane Hall and Melissa Sanders.Note to Oprah: Research your guests once in a while.Several news services have since picked up on the story. Frey has dismissed the charges, saying “So let the haters hate, let the doubters doubt, I stand by my book, and my life,” and threatened to sue The Smoking Gun. ...
I saw most of the clips of the show on Larry king. Ha.
What is sooo revealing is that Oprah didn't come out to trash Frey until as SHE said, she got all these angry emails on her website,etc. She is an excellant actress! And it is scairy to think her audience believes her "I believe in the truth.: Oprah believes in one thing: $$$.
Cosmo does have one redeeming value: the sex tips are actually useful!
chicagotribune.com
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0601270195jan27,1,190784.column?coll=chi-news-col
Oprah knows good TV, and that's no lie
John Kass
January 27, 2006
Completely Exaggerated News -- Flush with victory after verbally slapping the heck out of a drug addict on her national television program, Oprah! Winfrey will continue her "Stop the Fibbers Tour" next week in New Orleans, where she's scheduled to visit Mayor Ray Nagin and demand he make a proper chocolate shake. Earlier, she confronted Michael Jackson over his decision to wear what looked like a burqa during a visit in the Middle East. "You're wearing a burqa? I feel duped. From now on, I'm not going to let anybody embellish on my show! Even you. I'm mad as hell and I just won't take it anymore!"
Oprah! didn't say any of that. I was just kidding. I made it up, and I'm not even a drug addict memoir writer. I wouldn't want Oprah! to get upset with me. She doesn't even know my name, and let's keep it that way.
The last thing I'd need is for her to ask me on her show so she could kick my butt like she did that lying drug addict on Thursday.
I wouldn't know what's worse: Being asked by a Chicago Outfit boss to come to his house for a late spaghetti dinner and when you get there it's just the two of you and the floor is covered with plastic tarp; or making Oprah! angry and then she asks you on her show.
She's the queen of media, and you can tell this by all the columnists rushing to write how brave she is for inviting that lying drug addict on her show, then beating him up for being a lying drug addict, and praising her for being the brave one.
Isn't that what drug addicts do? Aren't they liars by the nature of their addiction? And when they're humiliated on national TV by someone who defended them only a few days before, they might get nervous and call their "pusher-man" and ask for more drugs.
That might make a good show too.
Still, Oprah!'s the brave one. She's brave. She's brave. There, I said it. I don't mind having mayors or governors upset with me. And I didn't mind teasing First Grandma Barbara Bush for making cracks about how the New Orleans poor were better off in the Astrodome than in poverty back home. But I wouldn't ever be foolish enough to get on Oprah!'s bad side. If she asked me to put on a puffy swashbuckler shirt and a Scottish kilt and dance, I'd have to pull my black socks up and start stretching.
By now most of you know what she did, and how President Bush angered millions of Oprah! fans by daring to hold a news conference during her show, thinking he should talk about nuclear Iran and the troubles with Iraq. And figured he didn't have to release those incriminating photographs of him smiling, his arm around crooked Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, because the country would be too preoccupied, eagerly anticipating a drug addict butt-kicking.
"I think he did it on purpose. Oh, that Bush!" said a woman in the lobby of a stately gothic building on Michigan Avenue. "I wanted to see Oprah beat up that lying addict."
You've got to know the story by now. She put "A Million Little Pieces," the memoir of lying drug addict James Frey, on her Oprah! book club, and it became a best seller. Then it turned out he lied throughout the book. Then Frey showed up on Larry King (another tough interviewer) and Oprah! called in to defend Frey, saying truth didn't matter as much as feeling.
Then she had Frey on her show Thursday, and she kicked his behind. Consider this from a ChicagoTribune.com story written by reporter Patrick T. Reardon:
"It is difficult for me to talk to you because I really feel duped," Winfrey told a startled-looking Frey, who licked his lips often before speaking. "More importantly, I feel you betrayed millions of readers. As I sit here today, I don't know what's true and I don't know what isn't."
According to Reardon, who watched the program (I was foolishly interested in a nuclear Iran), Oprah! appeared close to tears when Frey admitted that Lilly, a character in the book, didn't kill herself by hanging, but slit her wrists.
So Oprah! ripped into Frey some more and he licked his lips some more. That lip-licking detail really got to me. You know when a drug addict licks his lips on Oprah!, he's finished.
Recently, though, Oprah! called up the Larry King program and defended Frey from charges he was a liar. Details, shmeetails, she almost said, according to a transcript.
Oprah!: "Whether or not the car's wheels rolled up on the sidewalk or whether he hit the police officer or didn't hit the police officer is irrelevant to me. What is relevant is that he was a drug addict who spent years in turmoil, from the time he was 10 years old, drinking and tormenting himself and his parents. And, out of that, stepped out of that history to be the man he is today, and to take that message to save other people and allow them to save themselves. That's what's important about this book and his story."
King: "One quick thing, Oprah. So, therefore, you hold him no ill will, have no less regard, and still recommend the book?"
Oprah!: "Yes. Yes."
But now she feels duped. And many of us media people are rushing to her defense as she protects her brand. But we're not duped. Honest.
She did. Her dentist said it was totally impossible, and she told him she didn't believe him because she read about it in this guy's book. The dentist got the last laugh.
I had two root canals done a few years ago and my mouth was numb for three days, and I was given a weeks worth of pain killers just in case the novaicain wore off prematurely and I was in pain. Luckily though, I didn't have to take more then 2 pills.
I actually did watch her show, by way of a repeat airing at 2:00am. The funniest part was when Frey was asked how he came up with all these lies, and he said he recalled them from memory. The whole audience burst out laughing and Oprah was trying to calm them down by saying "Let him talk. Let him talk. Please, let him talk".
That part was about as funny as when Oprah stared into the camera and said "I feel duped".
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