O.J. Simpson's upcoming book amounts to a confession to the 1994 killing of his ex-wife and her friend, his publisher says. The book, "If I Did It," scheduled for release Nov. 30, is a hypothetical account of how the former football star could have killed Nichole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman. Juice admits nothing.But publisher Judith Regan told The New York Times that, in her opinion, the book is an admission of guilt and she would have had little interest in it otherwise. She said further that a lengthy interview on the Fox Television Network slated for Nov. 27 and 29, convinced her of his guilt, the Times reported.
I find many things strange here. 1] Why write the book in the first place? 2] Why did the publisher say it was tantamount to a confession? Because she’s white? Because she’s a woman? She’s supposed to be for him. 3] What is he trying to prove? That he’d do it another way, so it wasn’t him? 4] How can he be so calm, cool and collected? Seems a bit strange, the whole biz.
He's obviously written it because he's hard up, it certainly sounds like an admission of guilt too. And he doesn't have to sell many copies because he can sell extracts to newspapers to publish and publicise it on TV for vast sums. I'm not surprised to hear that there will be various claims on the cash, which is nothing more than blood money.
ReplyDeleteDiane Abbott MP summed up OJ at the time of his trial. "Everyone knows two things about OJ. That he did it and that he'll get off with it."
ReplyDeleteHe only got off by using the race card (you know, the Nazi policeman). From that moment, he was free.
ReplyDeleteI was living and working in the US at the time of this whole theatre. To say that it dominated media would be to understate the circus. Johnnie Cochrane was appointed to the Board of Directors of our company, who did a lot of work in California and Johnnie knew everybody. He was surprisingly normal when I met him in Singapore. You have to hand it to him as a Defense Lawyer for a pretty hopeless case. I imagine that there is a part of OJ that would love to be found guilty and perhaps this is the way to do it, since he cannot be prosecuted.
ReplyDeleteI take all the points above but also feel that this point:
ReplyDelete...I imagine that there is a part of OJ that would love to be found guilty and perhaps this is the way to do it, since he cannot be prosecuted...
Might be very close to it. He seems to want to be seen as guilty.