November 21, 2006 6:42 AM

The (far too infrequent) triumph of decency

Rupe shill-acked by O.J. outrage: Thousands swarm Net to decry mogul-omaniac (thanks to Richard DuBoff)

OJ ‘confession’: now US turns on Murdoch

No More O.J. Special for Fox

It must have seemed like a good idea to someone. The man most Americans believe is behind their country’s most infamous murder agrees to a virtual confession in a book and TV interview. Surely it would be a ratings and publishing smash.

As ESPN College Football analyst Lee Corso would say, “NOT so fast, my friend….” I’m certain that someone…most likely Judith Regan (a formidable DUMB@$$ AWARD candidate in her own right)…thought that former DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener O.J. Simpson’s book was a sure-fire cash cow just looking for a place to land. Someone was so confident that Simpson’s book If I Did It would sell that they printed something like 400,000 copies. No doubt the decision to publish If I Did It was made for one reason and one reason only: money. It was certainly evident that NO ONE considered the possibilities of the furious shitstorm that could (and did) ensue if O.J. Simpson was allowed into the media spotlight once again.

I never thought I’d find myself EVER saying anything positive about Rupert Murdoch, but I applaud him for make the right, and really the only decision. When you get right down to it, Simpson’s book was pointless, tasteless, and just downright mean-spirited when you look at it from the standpoint of the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Fox may be the home of numerous shamless Right-wing ideologues, Murdoch included, but it’s comforting to know that at least someone in that fetid sewer has at least a glimmer of something resembling decency.

Of course, no one should doubt that Simpson, his book, and his interview with Judith Regan are going away completely, The informercial interview is in the can, and there are 400,000 copies of the book in a warehouse somewhere. This will all resurface- sometime, somehwere, somehow. Count on it…and we’ll all be right back here all over again.

Because there’s money to be made, that’s why.

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