OJ, full of pulp
I don’t know who you are, but everyone aside from me and like 10 other people in the US thinks OJ Simpson is a murderer. Admittedly, things did look pretty bad there for a while, but in the end he was aquitted. This means, he cannot be tried again, and that there was not even enough evidence to get a hung jury (meaning some thought he was a killer some thought he wasn’t).
Unfortunately he was the first in the new trend of Media Trials. Where everything from his ex girlfriends, next door neighbors, college roommate was put in front of a camera to say how awful he was/is as a person. Now I don’t think he’s as clean as “the preachers sheets”, but there clearly wasn’t enough evidence to do anything to him.
Now the guy is all over the news cause he was with some guys who allegedly robbed some sports memorabilia from some dealers in a hotel in Vegas. The hostility and the general drooling from the media as they got to, once again, run this guy’s name in the mud was just unmeasurable.. No one ever mentions that the media basically ruined his career. It wasn’t MUCH of a career (for Hertz, and in some minor movie roles), but it was SOME money.. Probably more than I make.
Anyway, this whole trial by media thing hung him out to dry. I was deeply SADDENED to hear that the book he helped with (not sure how that worked out, ghostwritten by someone.. etc..) all the proceeds go to the victims of the crime.. wait for it.. he was ACQUITTED OF! Lets not get into the travesty of justice it was to even sue the man after being acquitted, it basically served to leach money off of a rich guy that was sufficiently slandered in the media that almost everyone despised him. They took advantage of that and hung him out to dry. Now his ex wife, she was apparently beaten pretty often, and all this.. So maybe her family should be able to suck some money from him.. but the waiter? Why is the waiter’s family privy to any money from the innocent man? Its just generous to the utmost that he is doing it this way, even if the book is creepy (it is, and kinda stupid on his part.. but what else does he have going for him?). When I heard it was doing good, I actually thought.. I’d buy that book (wouldn’t read it though.. not interested), I mean he got screwed pretty royally.. and is now probably just livin off his old money he had from football (I assume). I’m sure its more money than I’ll ever see, but honestly he’s willing to work.. and can’t. He wasn’t gifted as an actor, or anything but he was funny in the naked gun movies. I don’t know how much Hertz paid him as a spokesman, but he’s not getting it now.
I feel bad for him. I mean, lets go both ways on the story here:
- He is robbing the guys..
- This makes him a felon, a long way from rich/famous now..
- this FURTHER cements him as a dingleberry , cause now he’s
- a wife beater
- a armed robber
- a felon
- He’s back in the spotlight as a douche
- now thats 2 narrow scrapes with prison terms associated
- eight out of the ten people with me that think he’s innocent of murder, are now going to be convinced he probably did (why people make that jump, well he did X ,surely he’d do Y, is beyond me)
So anyway, I feel for the guy. The nation is almost united against him, and money from a book he helped with is funneling in to victims from a crime he didn’t commit. I mean he’s not poor since he plays golf, like.. all the time (although they had some old guy making fun of him playing golf on national TV). I can’t afford to even have golf clubs.. so I imagine hes way better off than me. Anyway, that was buggin me and now you know.