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    Lying Holocaust Author Recounts Tale of Thing That Never Happened

    Lying Holocaust Author To Turn Novelist

    Oprah Deigns to Acknowledge Herman Rosenblat Hoax

    Exclusive: Excerpts of the Fake Holocaust Memoir
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    08/05/09

    In reply to Lying Holocaust Author Recounts Tale of Thing That Never Happened
    “This is the most important memory I’ve collected. [beat] It is also a lie.” Destroy the seven horcruxes, else Hitler and the Deatheaters will destroy the world as we know it.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    08/05/09

    In reply to Lying Holocaust Author Recounts Tale of Thing That Never Happened
    What kills me is that this guy lied--not about being in a concentration camp, something relatively few people still alive today can discuss with the sort of fluidity required in authoring a novel--but about the f*cking apples. The guy had a true Holocaust story, and turned it into a sham because he really needed to pretend that some girl tossed him some fruit over a fence. Come on. Is "based on a true story" really that much less desirable than "non-fiction"?
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    08/04/09

    In reply to Lying Holocaust Author Recounts Tale of Thing That Never Happened
    Bah.. so many things were so unfeasible about his story -- anyone who was in a concentration camp would say WTF to his claiming that he had the unadulterated freedom to fuck around the camp and wander up to the fence without anyone seeing him... i don't think you can just walk wherever you please and just hang out without the watchful eye of those psycho guards everywhere.
    Oprah is such a sucker.. :[]
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    08/04/09

    In reply to Lying Holocaust Author Recounts Tale of Thing That Never Happened
    We can still throw apples at him, you know. Hard.
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    08/04/09

    In reply to Lying Holocaust Author Recounts Tale of Thing That Never Happened
    So who are these movie producers? And are they doing a movie on his delusional rescue fantasies?
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    Image of EddieTheDane EddieTheDane
    01/08/09

    In reply to Lying Holocaust Author To Turn Novelist
    ...and then Gawker can bring him on as an intern for one day, and we can all laugh about how much we shit on him and, then we can suck his literary dick and play both sides of the fence.


    Seriously, Fuck off, Gawker. You can't have it both ways on every fucking issue out there.


    You didn't jump the shark, you went over to the other side, like when that fat Canuck left the genius of Spin for the celeb jerk session that is Vanity Fair.


    Behold thy wilting legacy, Denton...

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/08/09

    @EddieTheDane: Someone's angry this morning.
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    01/08/09

    @Hydroceph: Well, the whole Frey intern thing did make me sick. Eddie has a point.
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    01/08/09

    @forwardmotion: I think i tuned in too late to get too outraged over Frey (that was what? years ago?), although it did seem kind of odd that he was interning at Gawker. Stunt casting, i guess.
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    01/08/09

    @Hydroceph: I like how time works here. My memory is long. I should change my handle to Methuselah. (That name is a shout out to all of you commenters obsessed with following biblical rules to the letter, by the way. Have fun stoning your rebellious first born son to death!)
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    01/08/09

    @EddieTheDane: Give 'em hell, E the D. And I agree.
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    01/08/09

    @EddieTheDane: Spiegs?
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    01/08/09

    In reply to Lying Holocaust Author To Turn Novelist
    Bo-ring! We already know how the story ends.


    Unless in a shocking twist, it turns out that Mrs Rosenblat is actually a time-traveling cyborg from the planet Zaltron and has amazing expanding bionic nipples. Or Chapter 22 reveals that Mr.Rosenblat is a bisexual orgy enthusiast with a diaper fetish and the book climaxes with him meeting his transexual wife at a Trekkie-swingers convention.

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/08/09

    @Wrapitup: I'm not really sure that freak show would compel me to read it. I mean, the visuals alone would lead me to kill myself. Old people swinging? Star Trek shut-ins? Nonononoooooo!
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    01/08/09

    @Wrapitup: You have quite the subconscious, Wrapitup. I like you.
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    01/08/09

    @Hydroceph: And old people swinging and Star Trek shut-ins are things way more realistic and plausible than the book's premise, no?


    @forwardmotion: Thank you! I strive to use it for good instead of evil.

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    01/08/09

    In reply to Lying Holocaust Author To Turn Novelist
    A day late and a buck short.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    01/08/09

    In reply to Lying Holocaust Author To Turn Novelist
    so unrewarding
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    01/08/09

    In reply to Lying Holocaust Author To Turn Novelist
    Now if Herman would replace all the human characters with talking dogs I can see very good things happening for his tarted-up novel.
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    01/08/09

    In reply to Lying Holocaust Author To Turn Novelist
    Why can't books just the cheap lure that horror films use?


    "Based on a true story"

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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    01/08/09

    @eXXX: that would be "just USE the cheap lure"


    Coffee...

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    Image of HeyThatsMyBike HeyThatsMyBike
    01/07/09

    In reply to Oprah Deigns to Acknowledge Herman Rosenblat Hoax
    Oprah, you should probably stop trusting the word of drug addicts and old people. Especially if either of the above has a story that hinges on having all kinds of free time to wander about undetected at a Nazi work camp. Anyone who says that is lying, high, or senile.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    01/07/09

    In reply to Oprah Deigns to Acknowledge Herman Rosenblat Hoax
    Oprah was bedazzled by the idea of someone throwing food. She lost all objectivity at that point.


    So it's understandable she's got no one to yell at but herself (and a cringing, what-the-fuck-did-I-do-this-time? Stedman).

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    01/07/09

    In reply to Oprah Deigns to Acknowledge Herman Rosenblat Hoax
    My problem with the story wasn't the lies or Oprah but rather the choice of food that was lobbed over the fence. Giving apples to a starving person would only encourage gastric duress, if you know what I mean, which would bring on dehydration and a much more speedy death.


    Thinking on it now I realize that a more interesting angle on this story might be if the little girl was working for Dr. Mengele on a food and diarrhea experiment. The little fräulein is actually a rabid Nazi and only later marries the subject of her experiments to throw off the Mossad.


    Then we can wrap this one up with a dramatic appearance on Oprah in which Oprah reveals the true nature of Herman's love live on air. The news that his beloved is actually a sadistic anti-Semite who was intimately involved in his torture proves too much for him, and he strangles his wife as the audience watches in shock. Then he strangles Oprah too, and Gayle, because I've always found her very annoying.

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/07/09

    @Private Hangnail: thought about this for a while, have you?
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    01/07/09

    @Hydroceph: Maybe?
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    01/07/09

    @Private Hangnail: I just un-followed you, then began following you again for that.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    01/07/09

    @CaptainFantastic: Interesting use of following.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    01/07/09

    @Jlyn: Just using Gawker's nomenclature.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    01/07/09

    In reply to Oprah Deigns to Acknowledge Herman Rosenblat Hoax
    Oprah the shark jumps herself.
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