Axed ABC Newser Faked 'Bama Sitdown
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
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• French Barack interview, c'est faux: Obama says he never gave an interview to a French magazine in which he supposedly calls the war in Iraq a "defeat." The reporter behind the fabrication, Alexis Debat, was asked to resign from ABC News in June after his alleged Ph.D. from the Sorbonne was also found to be false.
• Frey fiction: The disgraced, embellishing memoirist who was ripped into a million little pieces by Oprah and shunned by the literary world will release his debut novel, Bright Shiny Morning, through HarperCollins next summer.
• Goldman squeezes the Juice: Speaking of Oprah, Fred Goldman will appear on the show today to promote OJ's, If I Did It: Confessions of a Killer. Goldman has virtually cut Simpson's hypothetical "if" from the title by reducing the font size to microscopic levels.
• Democratic mashup: The eight Dem candidates field hardball questions from Charlie Rose and "wildcard" queries from Bill Maher in an online candidates' forum. Maher asks of Joe Biden: "A good reason why ... marijuana should be illegal."
- Tragic One Direction Singer Liam Payne Dead Aged 31 After Horror Hotel Balcony Plunge: Celeb Tributes Pour In as Images Emerge of Smashed Up Hotel Room Strewn With White Powder and 'Drugs Foil'
- Family of Menendez Brothers Beg for Convicted Killers' Freedom in Press Conference Three Decades After Brutal Murders: 'They Were Failed By Their Parents!'
- BREAKING: Jailed 'Sex Beast' Sean 'Diddy' Combs Hit With Another Wave of Horrific Lawsuits — Rapper Accused of Drugging, Raping, Sodomizing and Threatening to Murder Multiple New Victims
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• Eggers does good: The man behind McSweeney's became the youngest person ever to win one of the $250,000 Heinz awards, which he will donate to his nonprofit writing and tutoring centers.