… media coverage with a slimy story and you, too, could become more well-known and maybe make a pile of money off others’ prurient interests and pain.
Yes, after trying to stay away from the topic for days, I, too, have been drawn into the cesspool of a story because I find it is so offensive on several levels.
I’m talking about “powerhouse publisher” Judith Regan's peculiar, perhaps illegal but surely sordid attempt to assign an “uncredited ghostwriter" to write a hypothetical confessional book. “O.J Simpson, If I Did It."
Even O’Reilly was disturbed to hear that, “O.J. Simpson will tell FOX New, "how he would have committed’ the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in atwo-part interview to air later this month.”
Simpson agreed to have the interview unrestricted (What was he thinking?) with no-holds-barred Regan no less. The low-key (sic) title?
"O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened."
Regan's publishing the book because her ex-husband abused her. That and, "I made the decision to publish this book, and to sit face to face with the killer, because I wanted him, and the men who broke my heart and your hearts, to tell the truth, to confess their sins, to do penance and to amend their lives."
If that’s her story then why did she give a semi-exclusive statement to the Drudge Report of all places. Then, to add insult to injury, offer an exclusive today to the Murdoch Post?
I can’t say it gets worse, but there’s more to this twisted story.
Regan admitted that Simpson did not say he committed the murders. In fact the the hypothetical approach used in the book could be read as a denial rather than admission.
She's basing her book on ex-CIA agent Phil Houston, who simply said, "When killers confess, the way they often do it is by creating a hypothetical."
Simpson didn't sign an agreement related to the book, did not write it and does not own the rights to the book. Now that’s a a long reach for Regan to get back at the man/men who wronged her.
"What I wanted was closure, not money," says Regan.
Regan’s imprint is part of HarperCollins, which has pitched it as a “blind” title to booksellers, meaning they bought it on the strength of the publisher’s word that it would sell – yet not knowing what it was about.
Many booksellers around the U.S. bought copies of this hot potato and now must figure out what to do with it, so Regan is guaranteed legs to this sordid story. I won't bother you with Regan's ostensible charity angle for book profits.
The Colbert Report writers must wonder some days that there is no room for parody when real life is so over the top that it trumps what even their warped minds might have devised for a show.
Who knows? Like Mel Gibson discovered, we may see may see this "ripped from the headlines" by Dick Wolf's venerable Law and Order before the end of the year.
No I won’t link to the book.
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