Dec 29 2008
Oprah Winfrey Hoaxed Again
You would think Oprah Winfrey would have a top notch research staff that would do some fact checking on her guests. Especially considering the earlier James Frey debacle. But nope. She’s been hoaxed a second time.
According to Access Hollywood’s site, Oprah endorsed the touching love story of married couple Herman and Rosa Rosenblat. Herman, a holocaust survivor, claimed that his future wife secretly gave him food through a fence in a Nazi Concentration Camp. Later, after the war they met on a blind date. A perfect story of romance escaping a dictatorial German regime–too perfect to be real.
The New Republic questioned the story saying it was an “impossibility” and brought doubt onto the authenticity of Herman’s words. Parts of the story were true: Herman was a Holocaust Survivor and he did meet Rosa on a blind date. It is the entire combination of events that does not add up.
Herman says he did it to bring happiness to people’s lives once they heard the romantic tale. More likely it was for a publishing deal with Berkeley Books that has now been canceled.
I love that picture lol
Gee, big surprise. Let’s see - she’s had on several authors with phony stories that she bought hook, line, and sinker. The first director of the girls’ school in Africa that she opened turned out to be a child molester. And which political candidate did she bring onto her program and tell Americans to vote for … hmm? Can’t wit to see what the next 4 years bring.