I’m relieved that O.J. Simpson has apparently decided to confess that he killed his wife Nicole and Ron Goldman. The evidence was always overwhelming, but some of the details were unknowable. It’s been a long time since I focused on any of the facts in the case. But one of the curious aspects to it was how exactly Mr. Goldman arrived on the scene and why he became a victim. What I remember is that Ms. Simpson had been out at a restaurant in Brentwood where Goldman was working, and she had left her glasses there by accident. After Goldman got off work, he took the glasses over to her residence as a favor, and somehow got involved in the altercation.
According to Mr. Simpson, he had apparently showed up at the restaurant as well, which is a new fact that I find extremely surprising because it’s hard to believe that no one noticed him there.
The former couple had got into an argument after Nicole was said to have snubber [sic] Simpson when he interrupted a meal she was having at a restaurant with their children.
‘O.J. said he went home and kept getting angrier and angrier and worked himself into an absolute rage,’ the source told the Enquirer.
Simpson allegedly told the producer he ‘didn’t like the way she treated me in front of the kids at the restaurant. I didn’t like that she was routinely having guys have sex with her at her condo with the kids there.
‘I went over there to give her a piece of my mind,’ he was quoted as saying.
After pounding on the door, according to Mr. Simpson, his ex-wife answered it but was wielding a knife and acting aggressively. He disarmed her and then murdered her (in self-defense, he claims). Mr. Goldman happened along after Nicole was already dead and saw her body. O.J. says that he attacked him, too, and was also killed in self-defense.
I don’t buy this self-defense argument, but I assume the basic chronology of events is probably accurate.
This was my old pizza delivery neighborhood, and I always took a special interest in the case because I had lived there just a couple of years prior to the murders. I always thought that Goldman was already there when O.J. showed up and that his presence may have been what set him off in a murderous rage, but I wondered why Mr. Simpson decided to drive over there in the first place.
I’ll have to go back and research a couple of things to see how plausible this account really is. Again, the most remarkable thing about it for me is the news that O.J. saw Nicole earlier in the night at the restaurant. I do not remember that ever being noted during the case, but then maybe I am just forgetful.
If true, what’s the over/under on who will ask the POTUS what he thinks about OJ’s confession.
Cause ya know, as a Black man the POTUS must have an opinion on OJ freakin’ Simpson.
ughhh. I was sick of the OJ case back then and I’m sick of it now. Who the hell really cares?
BTW, I freely expect the 90’s racist to come out of the woodwork to re-hash the black vs white view of the OJ trial! Nevermind that a majority of Black people believe that OJ was guilty trial or not.
But I’ll predict right now that Fox will have the more inflammtory headline.
I think this report may be made-up bullshit.
Truthfully, I do hope it’s false, not because I think OJ is innocent, but because the last thing I wanna have to discuss is this BS.
I’d rather he come clean and tell us some of the details so people can get over it.
He doesn’t want his son to go to prison…
This.
Oprah has been talking about how this is the one interview she always wanted to have…where OJ confesses to her.
Fighting back because you got really angry is not self-defense, even if you were being attacked.
I remember sitting in an airport restaurant, I think it might have been Charlotte, sometime around the very end of the first OJ trial. I told a co-worker that maybe the worst thing that could happen to OJ would be to actually get off.
I reasoned he was obviously guilty and had one of the most recognizable faces on the planet. His guilt would surely gnaw at him and his sanity. There would be no place on Earth where he could avoid harassment or even death threats from those who would know he got away with murder. He’d probably be broke. Jail might seem better. At least he would know he was paying his proper price. Either way he’d never have anything like the coolest-guy-on-the-block charmed life he’s known since high school. Eating a bullet in the White Bronco might have been the right choice all along.
He did lose his mind in some way by trying that crazy stunt to get his stuff back that now has him in jail for 9 years — for a crime he never would have committed if he hadn’t taken two loves in the first place.
And finally I guess the strain is causing him to almost admit he did it — in self defense. Not “if I did it”. Not home over-sleeping or in the shower. And the blood WAS Nicole’s. And he DIDN”T cut his hand on a glass, And the gloves I guess DID fit.
As for the racist shit. On another site I already saw a posting that accidentally referred to OJ as Obama. And keep in mind that many jurors at the trial have said that they thought OJ did it but that the prosecution and police totally screwed up the case. Blacks DO have a bit less forgiveness for THAT and with cause.
Boo, I have to go back and look but the diss that OJ is referring to IIRC took place BEFORE the school event when she took the kids out for pizza or something. Later she went out for a late dinner where she left her glasses at the restaurant. Goldman apparently had some friendly relationship with her (or more) and thought to run them by her house when he got off work.
OJ also clearly had gone over there with malice aforethought. He brought the knife (which he had bought at some show IIRC in Vegas) and a ski mask and the famous gloves. It was some sort of ninja stealth attack mission he planned and he timed it so that he would have a near plausible alibi about going to Chicago.
Yeah, okay, so it would have been in the morning or something.
I remember that he came prepared and that argued against a simple crime of passion.
I do not remember the provenance of the murder weapon.
This WILL be the only OJ thread on Booman, ever? Right?
I can’t promise that.
To me, that’s what really was noteworthy about the whole affair. CNN learned that covering salacious non-newsworthy events could be a huge ratings booster. That accelerated the development of the whole infotainment approach that all of the cable news channels seem to use these days.
Remember the precedents: Menendez Bros and Anita v Clarence.
What you need to do is research the epidemic ADD that afflicts white liberals. While Republicans have maintained one consistent message on deficit cutting, in the span of one month white liberals have gone from “The ghosts of FDR and LBJ save us from Paul Ryan.” Then “We can worry about saving the social safety net later, we now have to rally around Weiner’s dick.” “Well since we are on the subject of penises let’s bring gay marriage to forefront and hold the President accountable for not supporting gay marriage eventhough he said he didn’t when he was running for President because it’s no longer enough to bitch and whine about shit he actually promised and delivered on. We have to start in on shit he never ever promised.” Can we get back to Paul Ryan’s budget? “Nawww, we have bi-partisan support to attack the President on Libya and Afghanistan, eventhough we really don’t give a fuck about either.” And now OJ.
In the mid ’90s, for my own amusement, I wrote a short dystopic comic novel (which mercifully I never bothered to try to publish). It was set 20 years in the future – i.e., this decade – and the background premise was that immigrants and the dispossessed had staged a revolution in the US against its corporate rulers, but that most of the white suburban population hadn’t noticed, because they were fixated on the OJ Simpson retrial. Double jeopardy claims were rejected on national security grounds – the economy needed the boost. (One of the heroes was an eight-inch-long, bioengineered cow named Quarter Pounder.)
Lookin’ good…except for the bit about the cow…
I thought this was interesting news until I clicked on the link. The Daily Mail? Nuff said.
Oh Christ, not this shit again.
Is there anyone who really needs a confession?
I covered the criminal and civil trials. There are two “new” pieces of information here: That Goldman was at the restaurant and that O.J. killed his ex-wife and Goldman in self defense.
It is beyond curious that Goldman’s appearance at the restaurant was never mentioned by the defense at trial. Perhaps intentionally so, although the prosecution lawyers — as slipshod as they were — certainly would have taken this piece of information and run with it.
The self-defense line is pure, unadulterated bullcrap.
My further thoughts here:
http://kikoshouse.blogspot.com/2011/06/ready-for-confession-of-century.html