Growing 'Angel At The Fence' Scandal Reaches B-Side Blog

Late last night, I received a curious email. The subject merely stated “herman rosenblat. holocaust hoax book attached.” Spam perhaps? However, upon opening the cyber missive, I saw that it wasn’t spam. This was an actual “leak” of the controversial manuscript, Angel At The Fence, which was recently killed by publisher Penguin Group after it was revealed that the whole thing was a sham. Well, even though I didn’t really care about any of the surrounding hoopla, I was still mighty excited to get my hands on such a hyped document. I mean, there it was: the entire manuscript for my eyes to feast on!
I thought about posting it, but then I realized that that would probably land me in a litigious mess (note the case of the blogger vs. Guns N Roses). Then I thought I could read through the book and post excerpts of the most noteworthy moments, but that would entail actual work, and honestly, I didn’t care enough for that. Besides, I knew it wouldn’t be long before Gawker would have its own copy and would be doing the same (Sure enough, about two hours later, they posted this). It just leads me to ask one question: who’s been leaking this manuscript, and how many bloggers did they send it to? I mean, if I got it, many others must have as well. Granted, I like to consider myself a VERY influential blogger (ahem, “Speidi” coinage), but even so, I wouldn’t necessarily think I’m high on the totem pole when it comes to literary scandals. Nevertheless, to whoever it was — whether it be one of the Rosenblats or their agent or publisher or assistant — I’d like to say thank you for legitimizing my blog that much more. Sorry I can’t post the PDF, but I just don’t feel like getting arrested or sued or waterboarded.