Well, I was going to post tonight on the brilliant scheme that we feminist bloggers cooked up to pressure Judith Regan and Fox News to donate the proceeds of the O.J. Simpson confession to domestic violence shelters. But they managed to do an end run around our demands and simply cancel the show and the book. I still recommend this article from Debra Dickerson at Salon where she suggests that O.J. Simpson should kill himself. Having read Judith Regan’s explanation for why she felt like getting this confession from Simpson was a good idea, I tend to buy her story. Thanks to those who publicized the efforts to write letters to the NY Post asking Regan to donate the proceeds from this project to domestic violence shelters. This wasn’t the ideal outcome, but it’s better than Simpson making another dime of killing his ex-wife and her friend.
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Ha. I guess when you find yourself agreeing with Bill O’Reilly of all people, it’s hard to think what kind of argument there could be. This is a happy ending of sorts; after all it’s hard to imagine anyone giving Simpson work or publicity again after this loathsome business. It’d be nice to think that the underlying lessons of the situation will be taken on board by Fox and the rest of the media, but whether that’ll happen remains to be seen (yes I know, it’s pretty hopeful).
What’s really funny about O’Reilly is that he was calling for a boycott of HIS OWN COMPANY.
Unfortunately, not all who should be, will be punished in this lastest nasty fiasco.
Regan, Harper Collin will take a bath on the $3 million dollar advance (and the cost of pulping all that, well, pulp.)
Murdoch will lose a couple points in the sweep, and whatever blood money they threw at publicizing this quagmire.
However, OJ has already pocketed either the whole or a good part of the $3 million dollar advance on the book (which, according to how the payment was structured, was either $1 or $2 million, at the least).
And if either Regan or Harper Collins think they can pry that from his blood sticky figures, they should talk to the Goldmans, who have yet to collect on the $30 million judgement awarded to them in a civil suit against OJ.
But since Regan admitted that she hadn’t paid the money to OJ directly, which was his way of laundering it so the Goldman’s couldn’t attach it, I’d say at least Regan and Harper Collins deserve that smack of Kharmageddon in the face.
Mmm, does this mean I should cancel my draft love letter “If I had actually been stalking you, this is how I would have done it…”?
“every now and again - not often, but occasionally - you get to be a part of justice being done” — Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks’ character in Philadelphia), as quoted on IMDB.com)
The fact that this idiocy was even contemplated, much less advanced to the point that money changed hands and publishing and media was scheduled, is abhorrent to me. Judith Regan can piously claim that she was trying to get a confession out of O.J., but her bottom line was that she thought “Ooh, I get to publish the most controversial book EVAR OMG I’M SO DARING!” If she had any balls she would have said to O.J. “okay, we’ll publish it, but the advance check’s being made out to the Goldmans.” Yeah, like that would have happened.
She totally fumbled, Patricia, but I have to wedge and say that a part of me thinks it would be useful for ordinary people to see how abusers are cold, calculating motherfuckers.
Whatever drugs the person/s were on who thought this whole thing was a good idea and green-lighted it, I want some.
Having read Judith Regan’s explanation for why she felt like getting this confession from Simpson was a good idea, I tend to buy her story.
I *really* don’t like the idea of not taking seriously a woman’s claims that she was abused; however this *is* Judtih Regan we’re talking about. She’s such a thorough slimeball that if she claimed that the sun rises in the east, I’d want corroboration from independent witnesses.
If HarperCollins’ attorneys try to get the advance money back, they’d only be embarassing the company even further. The deal was apparently structured as half on signing, half on delivery&acceptance. The book went to press and was being shipped to bookstores — it could not have gone into production if Regan hadn’t accepted it for publication.
I heard on the news again this morning that OJ still gets money from this. If that continues to be true, where is the incentive for him NOT to cooperate with any idiot trying to make a quick buck off this?
There will be people profiting from this tragedy for the next 50-years. The real question is how much OJ gets in the next 20-years, and to figure out how to stop him from getting it…
“it would be useful for ordinary people to see how abusers are cold, calculating motherfuckers”
Turn on Lifetime TV any day of the week - no need to waste time, money or braincells on OJ.