A million little inconvenient truths.......
Posted by Bob Schultz at 2/15/2010 9:24 AM 
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Tags: Oprah An inconvenient truth Al Gore Global warming a million little pieces James Frey
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: Oprah An inconvenient truth Al Gore Global warming a million little pieces James Frey
(Kudo's to my sister-in-law, Laura, for this suggestion.)
Do you remember the book from the Oprah Book Club entitled, "A Million Little Pieces"?
The book was an autobiographical portrait of the author's efforts to overcome various substance addictions. As a national best seller, it was celebrated for its raw stories of tragedy and triumph. Oprah gave the author, James Frey, national acclaim when she named him to her "book club". The only problem was the book was pretty much a work of fiction. The author had made up nearly everything in the story.
Oprah was outraged. Author Frey appeared on her show. It was one of the few times that a couch has been used for a crucifixion.
What's little known though is that the author and his publisher were actually sued, in a class action lawsuit, over the book. Under terms of the settlement, author and publisher were required to refund the purchase price of the book to consumers up to a total of $2.35 million.
Where am I going with this?
In 2006, a documentary film was foisted upon the American people. More than $40 million in tickets were sold for the documentary. It's now been discovered that the "factual" piece was based on exaggeration and outright fraud. Just like the book "A Million Little Pieces", the film, "An Inconvenient Truth" was a fiction.
Al Gore's film about global warming was filled with innuendos that had little basis in fact. Further most of the statistical information has now been debunked.
Using the "Millions Little Pieces" lawsuit as the road map, it sure looks like the hucksters behind an "Inconvenient Truth" should also be sued, and refunds remitted to people who were defrauded.
Do you remember the book from the Oprah Book Club entitled, "A Million Little Pieces"?
The book was an autobiographical portrait of the author's efforts to overcome various substance addictions. As a national best seller, it was celebrated for its raw stories of tragedy and triumph. Oprah gave the author, James Frey, national acclaim when she named him to her "book club". The only problem was the book was pretty much a work of fiction. The author had made up nearly everything in the story.
Oprah was outraged. Author Frey appeared on her show. It was one of the few times that a couch has been used for a crucifixion.
What's little known though is that the author and his publisher were actually sued, in a class action lawsuit, over the book. Under terms of the settlement, author and publisher were required to refund the purchase price of the book to consumers up to a total of $2.35 million.
Where am I going with this?
In 2006, a documentary film was foisted upon the American people. More than $40 million in tickets were sold for the documentary. It's now been discovered that the "factual" piece was based on exaggeration and outright fraud. Just like the book "A Million Little Pieces", the film, "An Inconvenient Truth" was a fiction.
Al Gore's film about global warming was filled with innuendos that had little basis in fact. Further most of the statistical information has now been debunked.
Using the "Millions Little Pieces" lawsuit as the road map, it sure looks like the hucksters behind an "Inconvenient Truth" should also be sued, and refunds remitted to people who were defrauded.
Bob,
This whole global warming stuff and The Inconvenient Truth book/movie reminds me of a movie called Shattered Glass.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323944/
It is about an author at the New Republic Magazine that lied about every story he wrote by making up characters and even whole events.
How is this any different from Al Gore or Phil Jones? Gore and Jones should be prosecuted for fraud, plain and simple. The Academy Award Gore won should be return, if anything because his movie won as a documentary, not as a work of fiction that it was. Gore should also give back his Nobel and the prize money that went with it.
At the very least, check out Shattered Glass. Interesting parallels to Gore and his band of merry frauders.
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Forgot to add that Stephen Glass is a real person, and the movie Shattered Glass is based on true events.
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