Unless Gawker is punking everyone, James Frey is right now getting the smackdown of his life at the hands of his former champion, Oprah Winfrey. Cool by me, but isn't Oprah being a little disingenous? She initially defended Frey not because she thought he was telling the truth, but because she agreed with him that truth doesn't matter, as long as the lies feel true. Apparently she apologizes to her audience at the top of the show, but I hope she makes it clear that she's retracting that statement.
Because my guess is that that's what this is all about. That Oprah, who is used to dealing with individual struggles, honestly believed the "underlying message" argument � and has only recently had some sense smacked into her by Elie Wiesel. The question is: Is Oprah's conversion honestly won, or is it just a PR move to short-circuit the possibility of becoming the woman whose endorsement cast doubt on the Holocaust?
