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Public pile-on unworthy of Oprah
As I watched the public caning of James Frey, I couldn't help but see a broken, sick man being humiliated by pundits eager to elicit laughs at his expense. If Frey actually listened to some of the tenets of AA or NA, he would have come clean and admit he embellished anecdotes for the sake of sensationalizing his story. It's the way to make his nightmare end. My only hope is that he doesn't sink back into substance abuse as a coping mechanism or, worse, reach for the gun as he had grimly joked (one hopes) to Oprah.