Outrageous Online Interviews with OJ Simpson

Has anyone heard about the interviews OJ Simpson is doing on www.MN1.com (Market News First)?  I first heard about this on Z100 (NY's local music radio station) & I am outraged.

This is taken from MSNBC.com:

O.J. Simpson criticizes Goldman family Online interview features hostile questions from public

Updated: 11:03 p.m. CT July 31, 2007

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."

O.J. Simpson criticizes Goldman family - Celebrity News - MSNBC.com

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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Market News First & MN1 Radio
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214.461.3400 - office
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info@marketnewsfirst.com
requests@marketnewsfirst.com

Keep contacting any media source that gives OJ any voice.

Thank you for hearing me out.

Tags: sob, low life, MN1's loss of integrity, scum, murderer, abuser

my fortune cookie...

               

"Emotions are energy in motion."

Cute enough to share

The broken lawnmower

When our lawn mower broke and wouldn't run, my wife kept hinting to me that I should I should get it fixed. But, somehow I always had something else to take care of first, the truck, the car, playing golf, the house, always something more important to me.

Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point. When I arrived
home one day, I found her seated in the tall grass, busily snipping away
with a tiny pair of sewing scissors. I watched silently for a short time and then
went into the house. I was gone only a minute, and when I came out again I
handed her a toothbrush.

I said, when you finish cutting the grass, you might as well sweep the driveway.

The doctors say I will walk again, but I will always have a limp.

Moral to this story: Marriage is a relationship, in which one person is always right, and the other is the husband!

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Church

 

A little boy was attending his first wedding. After the service, his cousin asked him, "How many women can a man marry?"

 

"Sixteen," the boy responded.  His cousin was  amazed that he had an answer so quickly.

 

"How do you know  that?"

 

"Easy," the little boy said. "All yo have to do is add it up, like the paster said. 4 better, 4 worse, 4 richer, 4 poorer.

 

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A little girlwas sitting on her grandfather's lap as he read her a bedtime story.  From time to time, she would take her eyes off the book and reach up to touch his wrinkled cheek.  She was alternately stroking her own cheek, then his again. Finally, she spoke up, "Grandpa, did God make you?"

 

"Yes, sweetheart," he answered, "God made me a long time  ago."

 

"Oh," she paused, "Grandpa, did God make me too?"

 

"Yes, indeed, honey," he said, "God made you just a little while  ago."

 

Feeling their respective faces again, she observed, "God's getting better at it, isn't he?"

 

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An Italian Mother

Mrs. Ravioli comes to visit her son  Anthony for dinner. He lives with a female roommate Maria. During the course of the meal, his mother couldn't help but notice how pretty Anthony's roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two, and this had only made her more curious.

 

Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if  there was more between Anthony and roommate than met the eye. Reading his mom's thoughts, Anthony  volunteered, "I know what you must be thinking! , but I assure  you, Maria and I are just roommates."

About a week later, Maria came to Anthony saying, "Ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the silver sugar bowl. You  don't suppose she took it, do you?"

Well, I doubt it, but I'll email her, just to be sure." So he sat down and wrote:

Dear Momma,

 

I'm not saying that you 'did' take the sugar bowl from my house; I'm not saying that you 'did not' take it. But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.

Love, Anthony

Several days later, Anthony received a  response email from his Momma which read:

Dear Son,

 

I'm not saying  that you 'do' sleep with Maria, and I'm not saying that you 'do not' sleep with her. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her OWN bed, she would have found thesugar bowl  by now.

Love, Momma

 

Lesson: Never lie to your  Momma...especially, if she's Italian.

 

 

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no failure

 

"There is no failure until you stop trying."

Only I know

        

Not A Day Goes By .........................

 

 

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Blogger Award

                      

 

I was quite shocked & pleasantly surprised to learn that Katie from Turning The Pages (now private) passed this award onto my journal! Wow! Someone actually reads it!

 

According to the Rules of the Award, I have to pass the Award on to 5 other girls whose blogs I read and enjoy.  And they, in turn, pass it on to 5 girls blogs that they enjoy.

 

Only 5!  But there are so many! Here is goes:

 

Indigo -  Raven's Lament -  who must thousands of these already, but who has always been supportive & understanding to me.

 

Brittany - Juicy Apple Designs - for the incredible graphic tags she makes for everyone!

 

Dawn -  Carpe Diem - Seize the Day - who has a lot on her plate, yet remains a verystrong & supportive to everyone else.

 

Kathy - Yadayadayada (private, also has a public journal A Little Left of Center) - who has been with me since the beginning & has such a lovely journal herself!

 

Deb - Frosty Thoughts - who always has time to read my journals & provides me with stories of what life is like from across the country.

 

Thank you Katie!

 

 

Weekend Assignment #173: Share a Joke (redone)

Weekend Assignment #173: Share a joke. Make it funny. Also, since I'll want to link back to them, and I am, after all, but a cog in the great AOL machine, keep it reasonably clean and free of ethnic/sexual put-downs. You know. http://journals.aol.com/johnmscalzi/bytheway

(I posted this one a couple of months ago, but it is still one of my favorites!)

 

Someone at Google Has a Great Sense of Humor!

1. go to www.google.com
2. click on "maps," above the search bar...
3. click on "get directions"
4. type "New York" in the first box (the "from" box)
5. type "Paris" in the second box (the "to" box)
6. click on "get directions"
6. scroll down to step #23

 

 

What you would have seen had Google not discontinued this!:

 

From Google Maps

 

                   

Get directions:

Start: New York, NY 
End:  Paris, France
Travel 3,800 mi (about 29 days 7 hours) 
Drive: 3,800 mi (about 29 days 7 hours)

1. Head southeast on Chambers St toward Broadway................0.2 mi 1 min 
2. Turn right at Centre St................0.1 mi 
3. Slight left at Park Row................210 ft 
4. Sharp left at Frankfort St................0.3 mi 1 min 
5. Turn left at Pearl St................ 56 ft 
6. Turn right onto the F.D.R. Dr N ramp................0.4 mi 1 min 
7. Take exit 17 on the left for Triboro Bridge/Grand Central Pkwy toward I-278/Bruckner Expy ................0.4 mi 2 mins 
8. Merge onto Triborough Bridge Partial toll road................0.4 mi 1 min 
9. Merge onto I-278 E via the ramp to I-87 N/Bronx/Upstate NY/New England................0.6 mi 1 min
10. Take exit 47 to merge onto Bruckner Expy/I-278 E toward New Haven...............1.9 mi 2 mins 
11. Take the I-278 E exit toward New Haven................0.3 mi
12. Merge onto Bruckner Expy...............5.0 mi 6 mins 
13. Continue on I-95 N Partial toll road Entering Connecticut .................62.1 mi 1 hour 12 mins 
14. Take exit 48 on the left to merge onto I-91 N toward Hartford...............36.8 mi 37 mins
15. Take exit 29 for US-5 N/CT-15 toward I-84/E Hartford/Boston.............0.4 mi
16. Merge onto CT-15 N...............1.7 mi  2 mins 
17. Merge onto I-84 E Partial toll road Entering Massachusetts................40.7 mi 38 mins
18. Take the exit onto I-90 E/Mass Pike/Massachusetts Turnpike toward N.H.-Maine/Boston Partial toll road................. 56.0 mi 56 min                                                                            19. Take exit 24 A-B-C on the left toward I-93 N/Concord NH/S Station/I-93 S/Quincy...............0.4 mi  1 min
20. Merge onto Atlantic Ave................0.8 mi  3 mins 
21. Turn right at Central St................0.1 mi
22. Turn right at Long Wharf................0.1 mi  ­
23. Swim across the Atlantic Ocean................3,462 mi 29 days 0 hours 
24. Slight right at E05...............0.5 mi 2 mins
25. At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto E05/Pont Vauban...............0.1 mi
26. Turn right at E05 Partial toll road................17.3 mi  22 mins 
27. At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto A131/E05 heading to A131/Rouen/Paris/Evreux Partial toll road................9.1 mi  8 mins
28. Take the exit onto A13/E05/L'Autoroute de Normandie Partial toll road................20.3 mi 17 mins
29. Take the exit onto A13/E05/L'Autoroute de Normandie Partial toll road................56.5 mi 47 mins
30. Take the exit on the left onto A14 toward Nanterre/La Défense Partial toll road..............12.5 mi 16 mins
31. Slight right at N13................1.4 mi   3 mins 
32. Turn right at Avenue de Neuilly/N13................269 ft
33. At the traffic circle, take the 4th exit onto Avenue de la Grande Armée................0.7 mi  3 mins
34. At Place Charles de Gaulle, take the 5th exit onto Avenue des Champs-Elysées...............1.3 mi  3 mins
35. Slight right at Voie Georges Pompidou ................1.4 mi  3 mins 
36. Slight left to stay on Voie Georges Pompidou................440 ft
37. Slight right at Quai de la Mégisserie................377 ft
38. Continue on Quai de Gesvres 0.2 mi.................1 min
39. Turn left at Place de l'Hôtel de Ville................194 ft 

Tags: ny to paris, jokes