No, this has nothing to do with the DNA test that disproved the ancestry she clings to like peanut butter on the tip of a dogs nose, but rather the bestseller "A Million Little Lies."
"In an October 26 show entitled "The Man Who Kept Oprah Awake At Night," Winfrey hailed James Frey's graphic and coarse book as "like nothing you've ever read before. Everybody at Harpo is reading it. When we were staying up late at night reading it, we'd come in the next morning saying, 'What page are you on?'" In emotional filmed testimonials, employees of Winfrey's Harpo Productions lauded the book as revelatory, with some choking back tears. When the camera then returned to a damp-eyed Winfrey, she said, "I'm crying 'cause these are all my Harpo family so, and we all loved the book so much."
But a six-week investigation by The Smoking Gun reveals that there may be a lot less to love about Frey's runaway hit, which has sold more than 3.5 million copies and, thanks to Winfrey, has sat atop The New York Times nonfiction paperback best seller list for the past 15 weeks. Next to the latest Harry Potter title, Nielsen BookScan reported Friday, Frey's book sold more copies in the U.S. in 2005--1.77 million--than any other title, with the majority of that total coming after Winfrey's selection."
Yeah, he made it all up so what's new? Conning Oprah is an American tradition so no one should be pissed at the guy. Really. She and every other media personality makes a magnificent living lying to the public, and Big Jim just hopped aboard the gravy train for his time at the trough. I have not, nor do I intend to read this fanciful account of one guys attempt at being a bad guy. An afternoon talk show bad guy. But check out what The Smoking Gun has to say because this is topical and I've been told to be topical. Maybe I'll even tune in to Dr. Phil.
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