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| Oprah Burned By Holocaust Hoax |
| 2008-12-29 |
| Truthiness gets an airing thanks to the original O From TFA: A heartwarming Holocaust memoir that is to become a big-budget film has been exposed as a hoax by a Jewish survivor in Britain only weeks before it was due to be published. Herman Rosenblat's Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love that Survived, tells how he met his future wife as a girl when she threw apples to him over the barbed wire fence of the concentration camp where he was held. Oprah Winfrey, who twice invited Mr Rosenblat on to her talk show, hailed the book as “the single greatest love story ... we've ever told on air”. The still-unpublished memoir became the basis for a children's book and $25 million (£17 million) feature film, The Flower of the Fence, which is due to start shooting in March. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #11 you mean living on food stamps and government cheese again... |
| Posted by: Abu do you love 2008-12-29 14:17 |
| #10 Too bad nobody hooked her up with Madoff. She'd probably be living on food stamps and guvmint cheese by now. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-12-29 13:11 |
| #9 Wait until she finds out that Obama is a fake also and that Bill Ayers wrote "Dreams of My Father". Sort of like Rathergate. The story is fake but the narrative is true. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-12-29 12:53 |
| #8 Surprised, shocked and amazed! |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2008-12-29 12:49 |
| #7 I read about this yesterday and there is an opinion of some survivors that this is mostly true. Mr. Rosenblat stated that he related the events as he remembered them from the perspective of a child. He claims this is not a hoax but his best remembrance of the events as they happened. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-12-29 12:45 |
| #6 Yep. Oprah endorses a lot blowhards who turn out to be bogus. Kinda makes you wonder about her endorsement of Obama. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2008-12-29 12:04 |
| #5 So Oprah got suckered and made to look like a fool? I'd call that "heartwarming"...to me. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-12-29 09:51 |
| #4 Remember, for Ms. O and her audience, a feelgood story is just as good as a real one. Typical of liberals. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-12-29 09:50 |
| #3 O has a problem in separating a 'good story' from facts or dealing with verifying claims of facts. It's the unfortunate half of elevating 'feelings' over the brains you were given. We saw the same problem manifested last month. |
| Posted by: P2k on holiday 2008-12-29 09:48 |
| #2 Simply proves there ain't no fix'n stupid. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-12-29 09:37 |
| #1 Oprah seems to get suckered on these to-good-to-be-true heartwarming stories on a fairly regular basis. Seems like it would pay her to check these stories out throughly before embarrassing herself again. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-12-29 09:35 |