{"id":407,"date":"2006-01-26T20:59:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T03:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/01\/26\/james-frey-and-oprah\/"},"modified":"2006-01-26T20:59:53","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T03:59:53","slug":"james-frey-and-oprah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/01\/26\/james-frey-and-oprah\/","title":{"rendered":"James Frey and Oprah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what do you think? <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s water cooler talk at work on Friday.  Did Oprah go too far?  Or is James Frey a pathological liar who deserves the public flaming? <\/p>\n<p>I admit I was interested but once it started I quickly realized I couldn&#8217;t watch the show.  Seriously made me feel like I was watching a public execution. I can understand that Oprah was embarrased by his obvious misrepresentation of the actual facts. He lied. It&#8217;s obvious. But he is a person who is obviously not 100%, and showed up anyway&#8230;and I don&#8217;t think her approach created a desire to change or support forgiveness&#8230;I assumed she wanted to come off as a strong woman who would not allow her name to be associated with a lie, but to me she ended up looking like someone who was embarrased and had the means to publicly flog the culprit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what do you think? It&#8217;s water cooler talk at work on Friday. Did Oprah go too far? 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