James Frey: Want to Get Away?

On his second appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show, James Frey didn’t look like the macho, tough guy that he pretended to be on his first appearance.

In fact, flanked by his publisher, Frey looked like a 5-year old child who’s just been scolded by his parents after he’s been caught…well…lying. He was clearly embarrassed, and looked like he’d rather be anywhere else rather than facing the scorn of Oprah.

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MORE:

• La Shawn Barber’s Corner writes that Oprah Eats Crow.
• Michelle Malkin has the video.
• Bartel at Digital Myth writes that Lying is the New Truth.
• And my favorite headline, A Million Little Pieces (of Schadenfreude), from Iwasawa.
• The Merlot Democrats have an excerpt from James Frey’s next “true” book, in which he describes how he overcame the difficult appearance on Oprah:

Ms. Winfrey told me in a very stern voice that she felt ‘duped’ then she stabbed me in the spine 23 times with a shank made of diamonds and human bone and then I died and then Oprah revived me and I had been dead for 9 hours and 17 minutes and that was a world record.