You know you're in really deep sh*t when there's controversy over your controversy.

Lucky for the us, the controversy over James Frey's "memoirs" has finally gone transcendental. The new motto? Who cares about the truth and whether it's important or not, it's high time we concentrate on who exactly started Frey-gate, a topic that has infected and tainted the media world.

The general assumption (read: what Oprah said) is that Bill Bastone's (the investigative nerd on your right) "The Smoking Gun" first spread the news. But, now, American Muscovite Mark Ames (the sick freak on your left), the editor of Moscow's English language "The eXile," is claiming that his paper first gave the gonnorhea-like Frey bug to the public. Via the "New York Post's" Page 6, Ames sites an editorial that questioned the truth of Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" back in September 2005 -- roughly a month before "The Smoking Gun" went public.

Wow, It's like a whole new Cold War in which the weapons are words (simile! *wink*). Now it's only a matter of time before "The Smoking Gun" and the "eXile" go on Oprah, where she'll become so irate at the lies that she'll punch one of them in the face. You go girl!

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm
http://www.exile.ru/2006-January-27/freys_fall.html