If it's one thing that totally miffs Oprah, apart from half-eaten anything, it's insincere jerks that misrepresent themselves on her show. Bastards.
Seems it wasn?t that long ago that the Big O fell victim to the wily and deceitful James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces. Oprah, as you may recall, quickly came to Frey?s defense upon hearing the news that much of the book had been, er, made up, actually.
You may also recall that Oprah, upon receiving a trillion or so rage-filled letters from her viewers, promptly and publicly ripped Frey a new arsehole.
Well, it's happened again. What had been described by Oprah as the ?single-greatest love story in 22 years of doing this show? was in fact, a real nose-stretcher.
Herman Rosenblat, a survivor of Buchenwald, had appeared twice on Oprah?s programme, claiming that he had met and fallen in love with his future wife who saved his Iife by throwing apples to him over the Buchenwald barbed wire fence. “You have become the beautiful metaphor for what love can be,” Oprah burbled, ?for endurance, and fate and destiny.”
Or not.
Although Rosenblat and his wife were indeed concentration camp survivors, Rosenblat has now admitted that this charming tale of love and sacifice at Buchenwald was completely fabricated out of his own noodle.
?That's what happens with lies,” Oprah now says, ?They get bigger and bigger and bigger.?
Like grocery receipts.
And rib orders.
What a jerk. Pass the sauce.
Now.
[story by McG]
Julian Mentat says
From a future episode:
Oprah: “So you didn’t actually perform miracles?” (waving a Bible)
Jesus: “Well, you know how it is… you take a swim, your friends tell their friends, they tell THEIR friends, and eventually they have you walking on the water.”
Oprah: “Are you ashamed about the exaggerations in this book?”
Jesus: “Heck, no! I didn’t WRITE it!”
green says
You survived the Holocust. Had friends and family starved, beaten, worked to death, and/or gassed.
But bedamned if you will not be made to feel ashamed by a Narcissistic, over rated talk show host, who at the same age you, Mr. Rosenblat, were in a consentration camp, admittedly was screwing every ghetto looser within a 20 mile radius of her vajaja resulting in a pregnancy at 14yrs old, because you embellished a romance novel. You just don’t deserve the food, heart medication or whatever the elderly need to live that Social Security can’t afford you, that come from the sell of your romance book of lies.
Now bow to the girth that is the big O for saving all of us lesser swine from reading a great novel that we may find out is actually fiction resulting in people flinging themselves off buildings around the world.
or not.
Julian Mentat says
Green, I’m trying to summarise your message, and I keep getting this:
“If life has been hard on you, it’s OK to lie”
Is that what you really believe, Green?