I've come across this forum hosted on the Atheist Network, and I've been reading a lot of the stuff posted. Of course I can't keep my thoughts to myself, and I posted quite a few things in the first few days of reading. Last night I was up pretty late checking out things going on, and decided to read the findings from The Smoking Gun on a book Oprah's book club sponsored. Seems this guy embellished quite a few things from his early days as an 'outlaw wanted in three states', and they did some digging and caught on, after the book had sold millions of copies.

Well, after reading the six long pages about it, I decided to post some ideas on this forum. It was pretty late, and toward the end I was falling asleep. Here is the post that made it on the forum. The last few lines illustrate my point...

I wasn't paying too much attention to the story about the book highlighted by The Smoking Gun, not until the publisher offered to refund people's money. That caught my attention. I still didn't visit the TSG web site though, that is until I heard Oprah's still supporting the author's claims, kinda sorta.

In my opinion, Oprah is doing more harm than good on this one. I learned, after visiting TSG and reading the huge article, finally, that Oprah has not only offered up contemporary authors for public consumption, but also some classic stuff as well. As a result, book sales of these books have increased. This is a good thing, people reading at all, whatever it is, is generally a good thing, and reading the acclaimed classics is even better.

The point is, Oprah is using her influence to do some real positive things, at least as far as reading among the general public is concerned. Her continued support of this author putting out fallicies can only tarnish the book club's reputation. This can only detract from any good she is doing, because some will be put off by her association with this author that obviously some form of discredit.

This just means I shouldn't be writing shit like this when I'm tired, I obviously can't think straight. Aside from the spelling errors, that last line makes no sense at all.....