If we all did it...

If I did It by OJ Simpson MSNBC Newsweek - November 27, 2006 edition - by MARK MILLER, ANDREW MURR and WESTON KOSOVA, Newsweek - How Low Can You Go?

To those who worried our violent, sex-obsessed, celebrity-crazed culture had at last reached the very farthest depths of depravity, O. J. Simpson and Judith Regan come bearing news: we had so much farther to fall. The accused but unconvicted killer and the attention-hungry pulp publisher have teamed up to create a product so lacking in taste and decency that people are already lining up to buy it.

Regan's imprint at HarperCollins, which has put out books about convicted wife-killer Scott Peterson and a memoir by porn star Jenna Jameson, is set to publish a "fictional" account by O.J. that details how he would have killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman if he did kill them, which he still insists he did not. The book, titled "If I Did It," will go along with a two-part "Fox television event" in which Regan—a former National Enquirer reporter—will interview O.J., who'll apparently spell out in gory detail precisely how he didn't commit the crime.

...Simpson's friends and family say that at this point he's got nothing to lose. He can't sink any lower in the public eye. "There is nothing he can do to make the Goldmans or Browns happy," says a close family member. "He would have to drop dead and that wouldn't be enough ... They would find something wrong if he was saving dying kids in Africa."

O.J. saving dying kids. Now that would make for some great TV. Short of that, he could follow the lead of Borders, the national book chain, which announced it will donate profits from the book to victims of domestic violence. (Regan—who says, "What I wanted was closure, not money"—could hand over her chunk of the loot, too.) Don't hold your breath. But it would be an interesting experiment to see what would happen. If he did it. full story

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