This has to be the most perverse case of truth being stranger than fiction. But O.J. Simpson has given a stab by stab account of how he (would have) killed his ex-wife and her friend in the summer of 1994. And it had all cable news channels awash last night with talking heads venting moral outrage.
But I have no moral compulsion to join the chorus of people damning O.J. to a living hell. Not least because the most outraged are the very ones still watching O.J. (and hanging on his every word); you know, the way rubberneckers gaze at roadside accidents.
Suffice it to know that I have no doubt O.J. committed those murders. And, for what it’s worth, no matter its crass commercial purpose (with its must-see TV companion interview), this book will constitute as much of a confession as a psychopathic and narcissistic megalomaniac like O.J. would ever make.
But I don’t know why there’s so much shock and dismay that he would intentionally inflict emotional distress upon his two children in this manner. After all, O.J. had no paternal scruples about the trauma his killing their mother would inflict when they were mere adolescents. Therefore, he’s probably inured to any such concerns in this respect today. Indeed, far more troubling (and perhaps newsworthy) is how his publisher rationalizes her unconscionable decision to publish this book:
I made the decision to publish this book, and to sit face to face with the killer, because I wanted him, and the men who broke my heart and your hearts, to tell the truth, to confess their sins, to do penance and to amend their lives.
[Judith Regan, Publisher of Regan books and OJ’s Mother Confesser offering her patently specious and self-indulgent rationalization for profiting off OJ’s murderous notoriety]
Enough said!
Finally, if you’re wondering why OJ doesn’t sue some of the high-profile people calling him a murderer for defamation, it’s because he knows the truth gives them an absolute defense. Besides, a civil court has already established as truth that he is a murderer, and even ordered him to pay $33 million for killing his wife and her friend. Therefore, he’d probably be charged with abuse of process for even filing a claim for defamation.
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