This is taken from MSNBC.com:
O.J. Simpson criticizes Goldman family Online interview features hostile questions from public
LOS ANGELES - O.J. Simpson lashed out Tuesday at the family of the late Ronald Goldman, a day after they won the rights to Simpson's canceled "If I Did It" book about the slayings of Goldman and Simpson's ex-wife.
In an online interview featuring questions from hostile participants, the former football star criticized Goldman's family for seeking to profit from the book after they said it promoted criminality and commercialized abuse.
A federal bankruptcy judge in Miami awarded the book rights to Goldman's family Monday to satisfy a $38 million wrongful death judgment against Simpson.
"I find it sort of hypocritical that they talked everybody in America to boycott the book: it was 'immoral,' it was 'blood money,'" he told interviewer Kate Delaney. "But we now see it wasn't 'blood money' if they got the money."
Goldman attorney David Cook said his clients were justified in accepting rights to the book as payment for the judgment against Simpson.
"Mr. Simpson himself has placed us in this horrific setting of seeking to liquidate this asset," he said. "His comments are beyond redemption."
Simpson has maintained his innocence in the killings of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Goldman in 1994. Simpson, who now lives near Miami, was acquitted of murder in 1995 but lost lawsuits to both families.
The book, in which Simpson reportedly explains how he might have committed the killings, was never released because of public outrage.
Simpson used much of Tuesday's interview broadcast on business news Web site Market News First to reiterate that he maintained many fans and supporters, a fact he accused the media of obscuring.
But he found little support from members of the call-in audience, whose derisive phoned-in questions he avoided answering at times.
One caller asked the former football player if he thought it was "a bigger feat to break 2,000 yards in one season or slice two necks in one night."
Simpson seemed not to hear the question, which interviewer Delaney reinterpreted for him as, "What was your biggest accomplishment, basically, in football?"
The made-for-Internet studio environment was considerably more austere than that of his last major TV appearance, when he was interviewed for NBC by Katie Couric in 2004.
On several occasions, Simpson and Delaney sat silent. At another point, he called toward an off-camera section of the studio, "Hey, please close that door, guys."
Dallas-based Market News First said Simpson was not paid for his hour long appearance, the first of four to be broadcast throughout the week.
Simpson said in the interview that he agreed to participate because the Web site's staff made him feel like he would be able to express "what's really been going on," rather than being "cross examined."
"Sometimes you want to have a voice," he said. "I'm tired of people talking for me."
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Here is where I vent about this low life so I am giving you fair warning.
"If I Did It"? You have got to be kidding. What book company would sink so low as to even entertain writing a book about his pretend side of the murder if he were to have done it.
Top that off with MN1.com agreeing to do four interviews with him. Are they insane? Just their agreeing to letting him have a voice is ludicrous. I hope they realize that they just discredited their name by making so many people angry & disgusted at giving him a voice.
When will MN1 air interviews with Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman's family? When do Nicole & Ron get to speak for themselves?
It is bad enough that this murderer got off, but why is anyone giving him any kind of publicity. Why hasn't he been blacklisted from any kind of media? He may not be getting paid for these interviews, but I believe this opens up an opportunity for potentially paid interviews.
I really believe he has gone into such a deep state of denial that he actually believes he did not murder his ex-wife & boyfriend. Then again, I believe there is a part of him that does know what he did.
Why? Because I recognize that look on his face - in his eyes. The liar's face. The I didn't do it, she is overreacting face. The pretend acting that goes along with this look. The pompous look of I'm Fooling Everyone. My gut reaction & outward disgust at the mention of him. My ex-husband had that face, acted like he didn't do anything wrong. It was always my fault. I brought his anger on. I deserved it.
Just writing about this makes me furious & sick to my stomach again. I don't even want to give him space here, but I want to inform as many people as I can to what OJ is up to.
I urge you to boycott the interviews. Turn the tv/computer/radio off at any mention of OJ's name. Don't buy any books about him. Write how you feel in your journal. Tell as many people as you can.
Contact MN1.com & voice your opinion:
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Keep contacting any media source that gives OJ any voice.
Thank you for hearing me out.
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i am sick and tired of everyone that is blasting o,j,he has a right to say what ever he wants to.this is a free country.or i thought it was .it is if it dont apply to o,j,.dont every one remember that his was aquited by a jury of his peers.he was framed big time by mark furmann & the whole la rest of them ,i hope i live long enough to finalt find out who really killed ron & nicole.ans as for goldman i am sorry for his lost but why would he want to publish a book that he fought so hard to keep from being published?. velma
ReplyDeleteSomeone is living deep in denial. I totally agree with you. He's scum and a murderer. No doubt about it.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate you putting this out there and being so upfront with your feelings and your story.
Hugs, Kathy