Unbelievable... wow... wow... unbelieveable...

Kitty Kelley's critique of Oprah's interview with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel at Auschwitz is completely distorted and out of line. She writes:

"Unfortunately, the interview Oprah conducted with Elie Wiesel on that trip was, in the estimation of frontpagemag.com, "vapid". She sounded inane as she walked the icy grounds of the death camp. "Wow," she said. "Unbelievable... wow... wow... unbelieveable..." (Page 168)

To mock Oprah's reaction to seeing the ruins of the Holocaust, that millions of people were killed through systematic persecution and genocide, is completely inconsiderate and insensitive. This was not a typical sit-down "interview", it was an exploration of a place that many people will never see, but is a horribly important piece of history to remember. Oprah wanted her millions of viewers to see the rows of bunkers, the crematorium, the gas chambers, the shoes and clothes from those killed. To mock Oprah's reactions is reprehensible.

And has anyone heard of frontpagemag.com??? How does Kitty Kelley choose who to cite in her book?

I just cannot believe that Kitty Kelly is mocking someone witnessing the remains of the Holocaust. Out of all the shows to criticize, all of Oprah's reactions, all the times Oprah said penis on the air, this is the show that Kelley goes into detail critiquing?

Oprah is not interviewing him. She is walking, witnessing, and reacting to unimaginable and horrible remains. The fact that Kitty criticizes Oprah's reactions is contemptible.

Kitty continues her critique:

"Granted, the sight of ovens used to dispose of human beings challenges description, but as she interviewed Wiesel, Oprah began to sound like Little Miss Echo:
Wiesel: There were three to a bunk.
Oprah: Three to a bunk...
Weisel: Straw.
Oprah: Straw..." (Page 160)

Let's examine the clip to see how Oprah really interviews him:



I'm sure if I ONLY cut and pasted the phrases you repeated in a conversation, Kitty, you'd sound like "Little Miss Echo" too. That is not a transcript of dialogue, that is an exaggeration and contortion of fact.

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