Posted on 01/27/2006 2:55:59 AM PST by advance_copy
Too funny! But then, in a culture that seems to accept "West Wing" as the Real-White-House-in-Exile, I guess it's not surprising that flakes like this have ceased to distinguish between reality and their fevered dreams.
Glad the paper tracked him down and caught him. They must be taking lessons in investigative journalism from bloggers!
Timmy the gay Indian Vietman vet.....
So....This guy is basically what you would get by cloning Ward Churchill with some James Frey DNA spliced in ????
Another winner from the creative nonfiction genre.
Another example, an outstanding one, of what the concept of "truth" means to social Marxists.
Another "fake, but accurate" episode?
"The left lies because it must"
This A-hole, along with the one busted by Oprah will be making all memoirs suspect. I hope the publics usual attention span holds true and they are soon forgotten. My own memoirs will be hitting the stands within a couple months.
shttp://www.laweekly.com/index.php?option=com_lawcontent&&task=view&&id=12468&&Itemid=47
Link to original LA Weekly article referenced to in this article.
It's a long and interesting read. Note than another large publisher-Houghton Mifflin, i.e., not just Ballantine-, is implicated. At issue are questions of Houghton Mifflin passing off fiction as 'memoir' and Barrus, ala' Ward Churchill, representing himself as something that he isn't. AND, the utter failure of Houghton-Mifflin, Esquire,.... to authenticate 'Nasdijj'.
A good bit of the article also explores the issue of non Native Americans hijacking Native American genre.
My dad often admonished me to 'don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you read'. If he was alive today, I suspect he would revise downward.
Another product of Public School values?
Good point. Like the acclaimed memoir of the boy who grew up in drugs and prostitution (in fact written by a middle-class woman) entitled - "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things". LOL! Ain't it just!
read it!! thanks much for the link to this fraud
Thanks to both of you for those links.
Check out this load of baloney, which "Nasdijj" sent to a Salt Lake library. There doesn't appear to be an iota of truth - or truthiness- in it.
What a creep.
http://www.slcreads.com/pages/nasdijj_letter.htm
No, I think you would get a turd if you did that - this guy is just butt wipe - I could be wrong but I am certian that whatever you would get it would not be good.
I never knew you could make a living out of a career writing gay pornography. Must be a lot more fruits out there than we suspect.
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