oprah's two-faced about face

after standing by as baseless claims of child rapes flew during her hurricane katrina show(s), oprah's book club selection james frey's a million little pieces also proved pretty faulty.

it didn't matter, oprah stood by her man at the outset of the controversy, going with the fake but accurate route.

this massive misjudgement trumps any do goods oprah attempts now. gawker live-blogged, the frey return show, during which she belatedly apologized but largely assigned blame to frey without assuming much responsibility herself.

oprah deserves no credit because she tried to downplay the problem, and appears to only have backtracked due to the backlash

¶ - nitish @ 4:19 PM