Friday, June 24, 2011

"Poor me, I'm a Victim!"

Larry Haley, writing at The National Enquirer, reveals that O.J. Simpson has finally confessed to killing Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. Simpson confessed in a jailhouse interview with a producer of Oprah Winfrey's new network. Simpson claims self defense in both killings. Although he "confessed" to killing them, he withheld certain facts, such as where he hid his bloody clothes and how he fooled the cops. Now it is just a matter of negotiating terms of a sensational televised jailhouse interview with Oprah, as he is serving time in Nevada for an armed robbery conviction.

You think his slimy lawyers did not suspect he killed them? Hey, they got their money, did they not?

And, let's give The Enquirer credit. In keeping with their m.o. of trashing celebrities, I remember when they posted pictures of O.J. walking the sidelines in his Bruno Magli shoes, which Nicole's and Ron's killer wore. The Enquirer photo was of celebrated football star and popular NBC broadcaster O.J. Simpson at an NFL game. When questioned by the police, before the Enquirer published the photos, he said, "I would never wear those ugly ass shoes." Only a few hundred pairs of those shoes were made yearly at the time of the killings.

While we probably don't need to go as far down the skepticism road as does the National Enquirer, a reasonable dose of skepticism is surely healthy in modern day America. O.J. Simpson had it all. He was practically worshiped by most black Americans. He was immensely popular. But he could not control his anger in California or Nevada.

Do you think Oprah will challenge his "poor me, I'm a victim" mentality?

1 comment:

Terri Wagner said...

I always believed he did confession or not. What I think Oprah could have spent interesting money on is the jury. What were they thinking?!