I am more disgusted with Oprah and her show today than I care to discuss in depth. I would like to say that I am appauled that she would allow and condone guests on her show to make jokes insulting the character of other guests on her show, in their presence. Even during a live airing.

I have never idolized a person like I have idolized Oprah, but that is in the past now. I cannot say I don't admire her genius, because she has been, in other times of her career, one of the most amazing and inspirational people I have ever heard of. But today, she has upset me. I won't forget that. She has lessened herself as a hero in my eyes.

The short, witty comments she makes while interviewing an enemy - the ones I usually love. She used those on James Frey today, and I was disgusted. They weren't witty. It embarassed me.

The guests on her show. Interesting how they're all journalists and they all talked about telling the TRUTH. How the TRUTH is so important. What position in this world do they think they hold? Because they have worked hard to have their words put into a newspaper, amazing work on their part. Does that make their opinion higher or more TRUE than any other person? No. Especially not any more TRUE. A journalist saying they value the truth and are shocked by James Frey's supposed lack of it... it's almost laughable. I'm a lawyer and I've never told a lie. That doesn't happen.

I do not believe that James Frey lied. Had this been a nonfiction piece of work, he would have. But it is a memoir. It is published as a memoir. He said from the beginning that he changed names, characteristics, and events in the book to render the characters unidentifiable. He is a writer, and it is in his nature to write to make things readable. Would this book have been as "fantastical" (as Oprah put it) if he had wrote the pure "truth"? No. It would be boring, it would be something that any person could write, it would not be inspirational. Do I feel James Frey wrote the truth? YES. And I believe that he wrote the truth as he knew it, something even MORE personal than I, or anyone except HE, can imagine. I'LL SAY IT AGAIN: WHO ARE WE TO PERCEIVE HIS REALITY?

I give him all the credit in the world. Not only did he face Oprah, and the world, and an entire audience full of people against him, he admitted to making a mistake in not making sure Oprah and his readers understood where he was coming from. I don't feel duped by him or anyone, though - I feel the memoir is an inspiration, one which I will continue to recommend, and one which I will continue to defend.

Oprah went below herself today. She says that this process has been embarassing for her. How dare she use that word in the presence of James Frey, a man who has had his dignity stomped on (more than once), and this time in front of millions of people. I would say that the show on this afternoon is more embarassing for her than any part of "this process" has been before.