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Oprah’s Next Frey?

It looks possible that Oprah has another fibber on her hands, but the situation this time is a bit trickier: The suspect is Herman Rosenblat, a Holocaust survivor who says he met his wife through the barbed-wire fence of a concentration camp. The New Republic ran an excellent piece on the controversy earlier this week, and today the Associated Press reports that the author and the publisher are standing by Rosenblat’s upcoming memoir, though are creating some distance by terming it “a work of memory and not of scholarship.” Oprah has twice featured Rosenblat as a guest.

Posted at 3:46 PM, Dec 26, 2008
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onbullshitdotcom

Over the years, Oprah has shown that she has a good knack for selecting not just bad books, but scammers.Perhaps she'd make a great Chairman of the SEC.

Good job Oprah.

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