FlapsBlog.Com: Day By Day by Chris Muir January 7, 2009 – Speaking Volumes

Flap wonders the role of Oprah in the Obama inauguration?

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And, still no comment about the latest “DEBUNKED” book on Oprah’s list. But, she did place a disclaimer.

The update appears at the bottom of the first of three pages about Rosenblat, his wife Roma and their two appearances on Winfrey’s television show. Winfrey spokeswoman Angela DePaul, when asked Tuesday why Rosenblat’s story — listed on the site as the first example of “Love Lessons From Amazing Couples” — wasn’t removed, referred to the update posted by “the oprah.com editorial team” and declined further comment.

Rosenblat, 79, a resident of North Miami Beach, Fla., was a Holocaust survivor who for years had endeared himself to Winfrey and others by recalling how he and his wife met on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence at a sub-camp of Buchenwald in the 1940s and were reunited more than a decade later on a blind date in New York. Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), had planned to release his memoir in February.

But after scholars, friends and family members challenged him, Rosenblat acknowledged the story was untrue and Berkley pulled the book. A planned feature film is still scheduled to begin production this year, with producer Harris Salomon saying that the script may note the “fabricated elements of their wartime love story.”

And, what about Obama, Tony Rezko and Hot Rod Blagojevich?

No disclaimer there.