Now that Fox has shelved plans to publish a book and broadcast an interview with OJ Simpson where he'd describe how much better he'd be at murdering those two people than the bloke who actually did it, a few questions have been raised.
Firstly there's the obvious question about how OJ Simpson would have killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, which we'll never get to know now that Fox has pulled the plug. Secondly – and more importantly – there's the question that goes "What in the name of shrieking piss were you thinking, OJ Simpson?" because it probably wouldn't occur to most people to write a book about how they'd have done the murder of their ex-wife and her friend that they had already been found to be liable for. OJ Simpson knows this, and he's made it clear that any money If I Did It, Here's How It Happened raised would have been "blood money," but blood money that he sorely needs because his retirement money is running out.
Cuh, people just aren't as quick to employ people who are prepared to describe the imaginary murder of their already-murdered ex-wives these days, are they?
Next week the world was going to be treated to one of the most piddle-headed interviews ever to have graced a TV screen, the OJ Simpson interview with Fox entitled OJ Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened that would have accompanied a book of the same name where OJ Simpson would have described how he would have murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman if was him that did it instead of someone else.
Unsurprisingly there was a bit of a public outcry about the book and interview, especially since – although he was found to be innocent in a criminal trial – OJ was deemed liable for the murders in a subsequent civil case to the tune of $33,500,000. Unfortunately for Fox, it was a "we'll boycott you if you show this" outcry instead of a "cool, this looks interesting" outcry, so Rupert Murdoch himself pulled the plug on OJ Simpson's murder fantasies, even though some people had already written some pretty funny OJ Simpson haikus about it.
But even though OJ Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened won't see the light of day any more – with the interview never to be shown and any printed books to be pulped – people are still questioning what the hell OJ Simpson was thinking when he decided to write the book. Was it a weird way for OJ Simpson to confess his guilt? Had he got so close to the case that he discovered a brilliant new way for Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman to be murdered that he couldn't keep from the world any longer? No, it just turns out that OJ Simpson wanted to make a fast buck, as the New York Times reports:
“This was an opportunity for my kids to get their financial legacy,” Mr. Simpson said in interviews this week with The A.P. after the book deal was abandoned by its publisher. “My kids understand,” he added. “I made it clear that it’s blood money, but it’s no different than any of the other writers who did books on this case.” … In a radio interview on Wednesday, Mr. Simpson said the project was not a confession. “I made it clear from the first day I met the writer that I wasn’t involved,” Mr. Simpson said on WTPS-AM in Miami. “I said, ‘I have nothing to confess.’" … Mr. Simpson said he was convinced that the book would have been a best seller. “My kids would have been coming into a lot of money,” he said, adding that he desperately needs the cash because his retirement money is dwindling.
Not just a best seller, but it could have kick-started a whole new career for OJ Simpson, the If I Did It, Here's How It Happened series describing the way that OJ Simpson would kill other already-dead personalities. Now, look us in the eyes and tell us that you wouldn't want to read OJ Simpson's If I Killed JFK, Here's How It Happened (where OJ Simpson would have run alongside the motorcade and kung-fued Kennedy's head off), or OJ Simpson's If I Killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria, Here's How It Happened (he'd have filled his bed with poisonous spiders) or OJ Simpson's If I Killed Julius Caesar, Here's How It Happened (with a giant effing space laser).
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Simpson Calls Failed Plot Blood Money, Not Confession – New York Times
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