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Today’s Big Thing

This is so disturbing.

The last thing anyone wants is O.J. Simpson pulling a prank on them.  How terrifying!

O.J. Simpson was found guilty on all 12 counts for the armed robbery that took place in Vegas last year.

Charges included conspiracy to commit a crime, robbery, assault and kidnapping with a deadly weapon.

He is facing possible life in prison.  Wouldn’t that be a beautiful thing?

From CNN:

Simpson, 61, and his co-defendant Clarence “C.J.” Stewart, 54, were charged with a dozen offenses stemming from the alleged sports memorabilia heist.

Stewart was also found guilty of the same charges as Simpson. Both men will likely spend the rest of their lives in prison.

Simpson arrived at the Clark County Justice Center at around 10:50 p.m. (1:50 a.m. Saturday ET). He told CNN’s Ted Rowlands on the phone before the verdict was read that he was “apprehensive.”

The jury of nine men and three women, none of them African-American, began deliberations Friday after hearing from 22 witnesses over 12 days of testimony. Chief among the witnesses were seven of the nine people inside Room 1203 of the Palace Station Hotel and Casino for the September 13, 2007 confrontation.

The evidence included testimony from the two dealers, four co-defendants who cut plea deals and cooperated with prosecutors and hours of often-profane, crackling, secretly recorded audiotapes.

Haha MFer. It’s about time.

“If the gloves don’t fit - you must acquit.”

Of course everyone remembers the infamous sentence (spoken by Johnny Cochran) that may have spared O.J. Simpson a lifetime in jail. Although seemingly obvious to many that Orenthal James brutally murdered his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her male friend, that one sentence convinced Judge Ito to let Simpson live out the rest of his life a free man.

Fast forward fourteen years, and we once again have O.J. in a legal bind -this time for armed robbery. But will his legal team be able to rescue him once again?

An FBI audio analyst, Ken Marr, testified Wednesday that the tape recording of the meeting between OJ and sports memorabilia dealers, Alfred Beardsley and Bruce Fromong, might have been altered before being turned in as evidence.

Of course, this all probably bullsh*t. The defense most likely found the most incompetent FBI analyst they could, you know how that crap works.

“With all of your expertise and all of the equipment available to you with the federal government, you cannot tell us as you sit there today whether that evidence was manipulated?” defense attorney Yale Galanter challenged.

“It might, sir,” Marr replied.

It might? WTF does he mean by it might? It might, but I am too dense to figure out my equipment?  Or it might because I got paid off?

With technology the way it is today I have a hard time believing this moron’s word.

On the flip side, the defense is saying that the guy who made the tape, Thomas Riccio, a sports memorabilia collector, made over $100,000 by selling parts of the tape to the media.  So really, neither side has been up to any good.

The first police officer who arrived at the Vegas hotel room after being called to a possible armed robbery explains the scene as he remembers it.

“I recognized Mr. Simpson instantly,” said Detective Andy Caldwell.

He said the first detail that Beardsley and Fromong provided was that at least two of the men in Simpson’s group were armed.

“Their primary concern was that they had guns pointed at them,” Caldwell said.

There is some hope that Simpson will be convicted.  Officer Caldwell says officers on the case waited two full days before arresting Simpson, because they wanted to make sure all their bases were covered.

He says, “If it was anybody else, we would have arrested him that night.  Because of who he was, we wanted to make sure we had everything right.”

And it was his own daughter!

OJ Simpson’s oldest daughter, Arnelle, 39, reportedly knocked her father on his ass after getting into a fight with his girlfriend, Christie Prody, 32.

She has grown tired of Christie’s excessive drinking and the fact that OJ, 61, gives his girlfriend more money than Arnelle’s mother who works at Walmart.  Arnelle’s mother, Marguerite Whitley, was OJ’s high school sweetheart.  That is, until Nicole Brown came along.

OJ dumped Whitley and married Nicole. Arnelle still harbors resentment over the fact that he left her mother to pursue Nicole.  Why? I can’t figure that one out. At least her mother wasn’t almost decapitated..

Arnelle’s anger was unleashed after OJ stood up for his girlfriend during a feud between the two women.

A source told the NY Daily News, “Arnelle had a fight with Christie over Christie’s behavior. That’s what started the whole thing. Christie has some problems with drinking, and Arnelle got mad. O.J. said ‘Don’t talk to her like that,’ and Arnelle pushed him.”

She caused some damage too. Simpson suffered a cut on the back of his head, his mouth was bleeding and his lip was cut. Some tough old man he is now, eh?

After calming down somewhat, guilt set in with Arnelle and she called 911 and admitted what she had done.

Police arrived on the scene shortly thereafter, filing a report and asking Arnelle to leave her father’s home.

I love every bad story I hear about this man.  I hope his business/personal/family/love life are all in shambles.  I hope people still call him a murderer in public places.  I hope he dies alone.  But he won’t, because there is always a money grubbing, bimbo whore, just like Christie (who looks just like Nicole) who is eager to leech off his money and fame/notoriety. Some bitches are just that dumb.

Just for fun, check out all the fun Christie and OJ have had together.

• Christie Prody has accused OJ Simpson of entering her home illegally, stealing pages from her address book and erasing her voice mails.
• Police have been called to break up loud fights between the couple five times in the past seven years.
• Prody was ejected from a hotel near Miami International Airport in May 2000 for kicking and slapping Simpson.
• She shoved him again on July 4, 2005, and then slapped one of his friends, according to various police reports.
• Now-deceased sex tape broker David Hans Schmidt allegedly tried to shop a sex tape of OJ Simpson, Christie Prody and model Patty Kuprys, a video Simpson denied existed and threatened legal action over.
• Christie Prody caused a rift between Simpson and his daughter Sydney, 22, in January 2003. Police found Sydney, then 17, alone in her bedroom. She told them she and O.J. were fighting because she did not like Prody.
• Sydney’s brother Justin, then 14, told investigators he got along fine with Prody … after the local Department of Children & Families received 13 anonymous calls from Miami accusing Simpson of child abuse in 2003.
• Prody was reprimanded by police in 2004 for using Simpson’s disabled parking permit to park in a handicapped spot at Target.
• Police recovered a stolen 30-foot motorboat - without its engines - from Simpson’s property in 2003. It appeared Simpson had no involvement.
• Federal agents raided Simpson’s home in 2001 as part of an international drug investigation. Simpson wasn’t charged in the Ecstasy ring.
• Christie Prody was busted for marijuana possession in Southwest Miami in 2006. She paid a fine for the misdemeanor drug charge.
• Prody was also fined by the city of Miami in 2002, pleading no contest to animal cruelty after her cat was found dead from abandonment.
• Just last year, the Juice allegedly threatened to kill a local handyman who he hired to do some repairs, then accused of sleeping with Prody.

(This post to remain on top of page for a few days- scroll down for updates)

Yes, sometimes I wonder why I post about a much hated celebrity, even if to rant about them, when in all actuality I am giving them free publicity.

Generally I really don’t think it is that big of a deal when we are talking about someone like ‘Borat’, ‘Paris Hilton’ or ‘Kevin Federline’. They aren’t molesters or murderers.

And they aren’t OJ Simpson.

This will be all I am going to publish about one of the most hated murderers of our time.

I read a quote by Mr. Fred Goldman yesterday, whom I have the absolute utmost respect for, and it certainly had an impact on me.

From FOX- In an interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live” on Wednesday,

“[Ron] Goldman’s father, Fred Goldman, advised viewers,
“Don’t watch the show, don’t buy the book, send a message loud and clear.”

I plan on following Mr. Goldman’s advice.

First off, I am not going to watch the interview. Murderers generally like to talk about what they did. They are proud. Even if they aren’t admitting to their crime/s.

Imagine how OJ is going to feel when FOX gets huge ratings and everyone is talking about him again. He will feel empowered..no matter what the rest of the world feels towards him.

This man has no remorse, no concern and no shame for what he managed to do to so many people. Mr. Simpson didn’t just murder two people that day, he killed their families. As well as his own.

He took precious lives that can and will never be replaced. He stopped beating hearts in a fit of inconceivable murderous rage.
He took his children’s mother, a sister, a daughter as well as a son and brother and left a hole as gaping as the one he left in Nicole Brown’s neck, in the hearts of of the victims families.

And he did it without an ounce of remorse.

So why, I ask, should we give Mr. Simpson the pleasure of rubbing it in the faces of those left to heal and mock our faulty justice system that failed not only those families but also the American people.

WHY?

As for FOX Broadcasting, I am gravely disappointed in you.
You, FOX, are usually a respected news source. Now you are just as bad as Mr. OJ Simpson, profiting off of a tragedy in which two Innocent lives were taken.

Coincidence that it will be airing during the big ratings week? I think not.

What purpose does this interview have?
Is it going to bring him to justice? NO.
Is it going to bring back to life the two people that he savagely stabbed to death? NO.

But I will tell you what it WILL do.

It WILL salt the wounds of the victims families who I am sure to this day still cherish and miss their loved ones more than anyone can imagine.

It WILL give Mr. Simpson a certain satisfaction and a chance to to gain attention and it WILL help the sale of his book, in turn meaning some financial gain.

And lastly, it WILL get you RATINGS. That is what this is all about, isn’t it?

You should be ashamed of yourselves, FOX. And that goes for all of you who buy his book or watch his interview as well.

To end this rant I will be sending this on to FOX and various media around the country. I hope that maybe Fred Goldman’s words can inspire not only me, but a nation, to turn our backs on the OJ Simpson/FOX interview and the literary garbage that this murderer has somehow managed to get published.

“Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.”
— Proverbs

“People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.”
— Edith Wharton, American novelist (1862-1937), from The Age of Innocence

“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
—Mahatma Gandhi

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*Readers, I invite you to write to FOX BROADCASTING and voice your displeasure of their exploiting this tragic situation for ratings and profit.

EMAIL: FOX Broadcasting — AskFox@FoxInc.com

(The above address has been corrected! If you sent an email to the last address, please forward it to this NEW email! -Thx Eric!)

Call Fox at 310-369-3553
Viewer Comment Line 310-369-3066
Entertainment President Peter Liguori at 310-369-1000

FOX Broadcasting Co.
P.O. BOX 900
BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90213-0900

Or email me and I will gladly forward any messages.

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UPDATES:

11/16 - Response from my local FOX station

“Thanks for your email and honest feedback on the OJ Simpson special. Here’s the latest from our station: Right now our parent company, Tribune Company, is reviewing the Fox network produced program and discussing it. We expect a final decision soon on whether (local) FOX will air the program. If the station does, (local)FOX would donate all local advertising time in the program to public service announcements about domestic violence prevention.
Thanks”

11-17 - A petition started by the Goldman family! (Sign It!)

http://www.dontpayoj.com/index.php

Evening Briefs - Your Evening Dose of Smack

Fred Goldman wants to own the rights to OJ Simpson’s likeness and image. OJ was acquitted in 1995 of the brutal murders of ex-wife Nicole Simpson and friend, (Fred Goldman’s son) Ron Goldman. In 1997 a jury found Simpson liable in the wrongful death case in a civil trial and awarded the Goldman’s $33.5 million. The Goldman’s have hardly received anything, even though OJ does quite well for himself doing trade shows and exhibitions. The family is asking the courts to give them control of those appearances in order to payback some of the monies owed to the family.

Apparently Paris Hilton is having a worse week than we thought. The heiress not only booked on DUI charges early Thursday morning but also was pulled over Wednesday evening before arriving at the Dragonfly Nightclub in Hollywood for a fundraiser, making her late. No word yet as to if she received a ticket for that incident.

Shanna Moakler tells People Magazine that she never cheated on Travis Barker. She also states that she is not a gold digger because they never signed a prenuptial agreement. When asked what broke up their marriage she says, “The problem with my marriage is that I never felt like an equal. When I fall in love, I think I sacrifice a great deal of myself and my personality and my work.”

MGM is planning for as second sequel to ‘Legally Blonde‘, this time without Reese Witherspoon. No word on who will be playing ‘Elle’ yet, but does it matter? Elle IS Reese Witherspoon. Lame.

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