Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denies that the holocaust ever happened, that it was a fiction created to enable the foundation of the state of Israel. Having spoken to actual survivors of Nazi death camps, as well as seen photos taken by a veteran who liberated Buchenwald, I think I believe mine own eyes and ears rather than the gratuitous assertions of a madman.

One of my family members was there and opened the gates at Buchenwald. Within a couple of days of opening the camp he participated with the Allies when they marched every man and women from a nearby village at bayonet point through the gates to bear witness of the atrocity. Read more…

Pulizter Schmulitzer

In 2004, it was exposed that USA Today correspondent and Pulitzer Prize nominee Jack Kelley had been fabricating stories and sources. He denied the charges and resigned. Read more here: from USA Today.

Ms Pulitzer Schmulitzer

Washington Post journalist Cooke won a Pulitzer Prize for a story called ‘Jimmy’s World,” about an 8-year-old heroin addict. The only trouble was that she had created the entire story out of thin air. Once it was discovered, Cooke resigned and returned the Pulitzer. She has since sold the movie rights to her story.

Like Glass and Blair, Cooke lied about her schooling and previous experience in order to get the job. She falsely claimed to have a degree from Vassar College and to have studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.

In 2003, the New York Times reporter was caught plagiarizing and making up parts of his stories. He resigned and published a book in 2004 called Burning Down My Masters’ House: My Life at the New York Times. In the book, he blames his behavior on a past battle with bipolar disorder and drug problems.

While working as a reporter in the late 1990s for The New Republic, it was discovered that Glass had been making up facts in his stories. Glass had gone so far as to create fake websites and sources.

A movie about Glass called Shattered Glass came out in 2003, starring Hayden Christensen as Glass. The tagline for the movie was: “He’d do anything to get a great story.”

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After his autobiography A Million Little Pieces became a bestseller thanks to Oprah Winfrey selecting it for her book club, it was discovered that important parts of the book had been fabricated.

After much controversy, Frey appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show for the second time on January 26, 2006 and claimed that the “demons” that had driven him to abuse alcohol and drugs were the same ones that had led him to invent events in his autobiography. Oprah told him: “I feel that you betrayed millions of readers.”

Check out the video link. He now thinks he is some kind of celebrity entitled to special consideration. Welcome James to the NIP Hall of Shame.