Yeah. And. So. What?
He can tell whatever stories he wants to in order to promote himself or his business. Lies in those situations are to be expected.
CBS is the group responsible, in this case, for determining how much is verifiable. If you're surprised that the news isn't fact checking well, then you've not been watching the news for the past decade or so.
The guy told exaggerated or made up stories about himself. People who are TV writers made a TV show out of them. None of that is fraud.
Even if the writers believed him - and I think that's doubtful - he's still just telling tall-tales to writers who then write about them.
The writers are crappy writers anyway. Let them write crap.
I'm finding that despite all the Web 2.0 hullabaloo, there's a decrease in niches for people to hang out in the small. You can go to MySpace with 90 million "friends" (who you know as well as "Tom" no doubt) or jump on an IRC channel or video chat, but these are such abstract and impersonal relations I get nothing from them. You meet people and know they like waterskiing, the first season of Lost and long walks on the beach, but do you know them in any meaningful way?
People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
