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Roxie
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Username: Roxie
Post Number: 606
Registered: 06-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 04:03 pm: | 
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Updated: 12:52 PM EST
Oprah Calls Defense of Author 'a Mistake'
TV Talk Host Says James Frey 'Betrayed Millions of People'
By EDWARD WYATT, The New York Times
CHICAGO (Jan. 26) - In an extraordinary reversal of her strident and angry defense of the author whose book she catapulted to the top of the best-seller list, Oprah Winfrey said today she believed that the author James Frey "betrayed millions of people" by making up elements of his life in his best-selling memoir, "A Million Little Pieces."
Gino Domenico, AP
During the interview, Winfrey asked the 'Million Little Pieces' author why he made up material for his memoir.
She added that she believed "I made a mistake" when she said that the truth of the book mattered less then its story of redemption.
In a live broadcast of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" from her studios in Chicago in which she interviewed Mr. Frey, Ms. Winfrey apologized to her audience for her call to "Larry King Live" earlier this month defending the author. Today she berated Mr. Frey for duping her and her audience.
"I gave the impression that the truth does not matter," Ms. Winfrey said. "I made a mistake." To all of the viewers who called and wrote to her telling her she was wrong to allow Mr. Frey to maintain that his book reflected the "essential truth" of his life even though substantial details were falsified, Ms. Winfrey said, "You are right."
"I feel duped," she said. "I don't know what is true and I don't know what isn't," she said, before addressing Mr. Frey with the question, "Why did you lie?"
Getty/AP ''I made a mistake... I gave the impression that the truth does not matter.''
-- Oprah Winfrey
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Ms. Winfrey chose "A Million Little Pieces" in September for her popular television book club, and it sold more than two million copies within the next three months, making it the fastest-selling pick ever for her book club.
But questions about the truth of Mr. Frey's memoir began to arise almost immediately, as they had since its publication in 2003. The memoir tells the harrowing story of Mr. Frey's arrival at a Minnesota rehabilitation center, which has since been identified as Hazelden, after years of alcohol and drug addiction.
In early January, The Smoking Gun, an investigative Web site, reported that Mr. Frey's claim to have spent nearly three months in jail was false. Actually, he spent only a few hours in jail.
On Thursday, Mr. Frey said of the Smoking Gun report, "Most of what they wrote is pretty accurate."
Mr. Frey said he had made up many of the details of his life and had created a bad-guy portrayal of himself as a "coping mechanism."
"I thought of myself as tougher than I was and badder than I was," Mr. Frey said.
Ms. Winfrey asked if he made up the material because it helped him cope or because he thought it would help sell books. Mr. Frey responded, "Probably both."
Ms. Winfrey was about 20 minutes into her show when ABC News interrupted the broadcast to televise President Bush's news conference. "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is televised in Chicago in the morning but in the afternoon in most major television markets.
01/26/06
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Mrs_hart
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mrs_hart
Post Number: 199
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 04:22 pm: |
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She sure did!
http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/179/9370.html?1137493910
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Mrs_hart
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Username: Mrs_hart
Post Number: 200
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 04:23 pm: |
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She sure did!
http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/179/9370.html?1137493910 |
Mrs_hart
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mrs_hart
Post Number: 201
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 04:24 pm: |
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Sorry about that! Error message said that the post did not go through! |
Mrs_hart
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Username: Mrs_hart
Post Number: 202
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 04:32 pm: |
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POOR OPRAH!!!!!
http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/179/9528.html?1138308439
Sometimes you become so rich and so big, that you can no longer detect the bullshit anymore.
Oprah states that her OWN dentist told her that one cannot under go TWO root canals without NOVOCAIN!!!!
That's when she SUSPECTED something was NOT quite right!
I knew something was up with the man. Because just like on today's show where he is nervous and sort of bland and blank, he was the same way---only a little less nervous--on first show.
Oprah likes to talk and talk and not let anyone hardly get a word in.
The truth is, Frey didn't have to say ANYTHING because Oprah was so busy selling Frey and his book.
She was completely bowled over by A Million Little Pieces, and I couldn't understand why.
He was unexcited and a little slow to participate.
Oprah took that ball and RAN WITH IT!!!!
I would have kept my mouth closed too.
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Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 125
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 10:55 pm: |
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Uhhhhh....ok. Is there a point to be made here? |
Roxie
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Roxie
Post Number: 609
Registered: 06-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 09:05 am: |
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Enchanted:
"Is there a point to be made here?"
What's the meaning of life?
Why do I keep on living?
Is their really a God?
Cynical lately, aren't ya? :P |
Doberman23
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Username: Doberman23
Post Number: 9
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 05:16 pm: |
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man... oprah was looking pretty good when she was belittling that guy. i never watch her show, but i saw clips of her on other news cast... she kinda made me want to holla at her in chi-town 
and yes, i know ...her securtiy would have me bent up like a cashew if i tried to get my mack on. |
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