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Originally Posted by €

heh - well I honestly see the whole controversy as unescessary. As I said above, the end result is another batch of disclaimer statements and increased sales of the book (oh and ratings for Oprah and hits for Smoking Gun).

Originally Posted by NA

I wish I had seen the show since it is difficult to discuss the contents armed with only subjective accounts of what actually happened.

Personally, I'm glad there was a confrontation, I'm glad more information about Frey's inconsistencies came to light. Oprah had serious questions as did those who had read Frey's book. I don't have the opportunity to ask Frey but Oprah did. Good for her.

Frey burned himself here by being dishonest in the first place. He did it to sell books, but I think it may have just ruined his career. Maybe not. There are lots of successful snake oil salesmen out there who mislable products. Frey's just one of them who happened to get the backing of someone really powerful.

I got the robe for Christmas - you know, Oprah's favorite? Well, I had no idea it was Oprah's favorite but apparently Oprah and I think alike. It's a great robe and, if it falls apart in 6 months, I'm not going to blams Oprah for promoting it. Maybe it's not the same thing as the Frey situation, but I certainly want to be able to post how great something is then find out later that it isn't as great as I thought. She just reaches more people than I do.

So that's where we left off in Anarchy land.