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First Video of Fabricating Holocaust Author Defending Self

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Aaron Altman
02/18/09

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Definitely a media trainer. That's not a producer's voice: that's a PR person doing his best imitation of an anchorman reading from a TelePrompTer (however it's spelled) that isn't a TelePrompTer at all, but a set of index cards with questions written on them in black Sharpie by an intern who is woefully underpaid yet adorably motivated. Plus he asks the stupid Oprah question, because we all know that Oprah would tell this guy to fuck right the hell off.
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phlox✔
02/17/09

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Why doesn't he (or his family) just play the dementia card?
All will be forgiven. No apologies will be neccessary.
And... applesauce for all!

Reaching an advanced age should and does have its perks.
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Wrapitup
02/17/09

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Oh, the power of believing. He really, really, really believed it. So it must be true somewhere. How poetic. How sweet. How romantic. How so not a con from an attention-seeking liar. And what a poetic, sweet, romantic profit to be had!
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jasonelias
02/17/09

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I can't believe a word he's saying. He sounds like a pathological liar.
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BookishLookish
02/17/09

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I knew someone who ate wood when she was in the camps. Paper would have been a delicacy. Shoe leather, straw, bugs, snow. She was eighty-five pounds when the camp was liberated.

There were no apples.
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ChillbearLatrigue
02/18/09

@BookishLookish: I have never known a Holocaust survivor, but I did take a rickety train to Auschwitz in 2003. It has an ominous quality to it. I went with my friend. We normally joke like idiots wherever we go, but there we were silent for three hours. In my humble opinion, there is no rooms for lies on this topic. I can forgive Mr. Rosenblat, but I will not be reading his book.
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pufflehuff
02/18/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: Yes, exactly. If there is going to be fiction based on the Holocaust, just bloody well flag it up. It's fine. That's okay. If you must, use it in fiction, and have that tag on the book. Don't give people ammunition.

"In reality, I wasn't telling the truth... in my mind I believed I did." THAT'S FICTION, BUSTER!

Fiction is peculiarly well placed to expose untruth, since novelists trade in fabrication and know a fellow liar when they see one.

[www.guardian.co.uk]
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DahlELama
02/18/09

@pufflehuff: What's sad is that I totally would have read the fiction version. The truth is, fabricating the holocaust part would have been way worse than fabricating the love story, so I'm a little surprised at how angry people are considering he's a genuine survivor, but I don't really understand why he needed to lie either, instead of just submitting it to an agent as fiction.
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pufflehuff
02/18/09

@DahlELama, ChillbearLatrigue: A lot of blame has to go towards the publishers who encourage this kind of Frey-nanigan, as they think all the public want is Dave Pelzer-esque horror-reality. Sorry to say, I generally find those kinds of misery memoirs badly-written and formulaic, despite my sympathy for their pain. How well do memoirs sell as opposed to fiction, anyone know?

Give me the fiction tag any day, I'll easily suspend my disbelief for that. I really don't think fiddling about with Rosenblat's memories of the Holocaust is helping anyone.

His fail here has a lot to do with the duff advice he was given, and he should really stop with this and just either tell his story or apply to be a Gawker intern. Or write a novel. Whatever.
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belltolls
02/17/09

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He is very easy to fogive. So much crap gets sold and flogged on a daily basis in the media; what's one more piece.
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prettyclever
02/17/09

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He's old!

Gross.
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Colander
02/17/09

@prettyclever: You made me laugh.
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