If you want to see Angry Oprah . . .
you'll have to stay up late tonight and catch the re-broadcast. Or, you can just check out the summaries. USA Today has a short one here and gawker has a blow-by-blow here while the New York Times has a summary of the whole flap here.
The bottom line is that Oprah says she was duped and that she's really angry and embarassed about it. Bravo to her for admitting that she was wrong in her endorsement of Frey, but I think it's still worth asking how on earth she (or, more correctly, her staff) found the book credible in the first place. Would someone please ask him what airline allows bloody, vomit-covered, unconscious passengers to be placed on board their planes?
Totally self-obsessed side note: I couldn't help wondering if, when Oprah said, "To everyone who has challenged me on the issue of truth, you are absolutely right," she had my column (among others) in mind.
Yes, I know this is pathetic, but there was a time -- I swear -- when she actually read the first few lines of one of my columns (about the show "Extreme Makeover") on the air, but didn't say my name. Come to think of it, that might have been the start of all my Oprah issues. I mean, seriously, would it have killed her to give me a little credit?
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I watched the show. If anything, Oprah was too polite. I never read the book, but even before Frey's faux pas caught the attention of thesmokinggun.com, the reviews I read had triggered my BS detector...
Posted by: finch | January 27, 2006 02:10 AM