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    Holocaust Love Liar Gets His (Fake) Story Told

    First Video of Fabricating Holocaust Author Defending Self

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    05/18/09

    In reply to Holocaust Love Liar Gets His (Fake) Story Told
    What's up with their eyes?????
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    Image of StonedAndDethroned StonedAndDethroned
    05/17/09

    In reply to Holocaust Love Liar Gets His (Fake) Story Told
    Fuck, old people are dumb.
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    05/17/09

    In reply to Holocaust Love Liar Gets His (Fake) Story Told
    He would have had more success if hadn't spent so much money on the dental work.
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    Image of cdmunch cdmunch
    05/17/09

    In reply to Holocaust Love Liar Gets His (Fake) Story Told
    Thank god, when I saw the photo I thought this was going to be another piece on elder sex.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    05/17/09

    @cdmunch: You'll want to skip pages 47-102 in the first edition, then.


    Especially the illustrations.

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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    05/17/09

    @cdmunch: Well it is about getting screwed.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    02/18/09

    In reply to First Video of Fabricating Holocaust Author Defending Self
    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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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    02/17/09

    In reply to First Video of Fabricating Holocaust Author Defending Self
    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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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    02/17/09

    In reply to First Video of Fabricating Holocaust Author Defending Self
    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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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    02/17/09

    In reply to First Video of Fabricating Holocaust Author Defending Self
    I can't believe a word he's saying. He sounds like a pathological liar.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    02/17/09

    In reply to First Video of Fabricating Holocaust Author Defending Self
    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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    Image of ChillbearLatrigue 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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    Image of pufflehuff 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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    Image of DahlELama 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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    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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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    02/17/09

    In reply to First Video of Fabricating Holocaust Author Defending Self
    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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    Image of prettyclever prettyclever
    02/17/09

    In reply to First Video of Fabricating Holocaust Author Defending Self
    He's old!

    Gross.
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    02/17/09

    @prettyclever: You made me laugh.
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    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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