Faking It

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02.19.2006
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Mark Sundeen got an offer he couldn't refuse. A publisher paid him upfront to write a book on bullfighting in Spain. Mark doesn't speak Spanish, knows nothing about bullfighting, and hates to travel, but that didn't stop him from writing the book. He just made the whole thing up. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the art of faking it and the philosophy of BS.

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    Mark Sundeen tells Anne Strainchamps he accepted an advance to write a travel book about bull-fighting in Spain. What he wrote instead was an over the top fake documentary.

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