[Vision2020] O.J. Special: Some Things Are Just Wrong

[Tom Hansen]

>From today's (November 19, 2006) Bob Schieffer's commentary on "Face the
Nation -

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O.J. Special: Some Things Are Just Wrong
By Bob Schieffer

I thought the Congressional Page scandal would surely win the most
disgusting story of the year prize - but who knew O.J. Simpson would write a
how-to manual describing the way he would have killed his wife, had he
chosen to commit the crime. 

Or that he would get two prime-time hours on Fox television to promote it? 

In our country the law says a citizen who is found not guilty can't be tried
again for the same crime. 

So along came a publisher named Judith Regan who found a way to funnel
millions of dollars to O.J. to write this trash. 

And get this: she says one reason she did it was because she was once an
abused wife. I'm just guessing here, but I'll bet another reason is she gets
a cut of the profits. 

She will personally conduct the two one-hour interviews that will air later
this month on Fox Television, which - like Ms. Regan's company - is owned by
Rupert Murdoch. 

I've never been one to criticize competitors - it always sounds cheesy - but
may I congratulate the Fox affiliate station owners and managers who have
decided NOT to broadcast this dreadful thing being sent out by their
network. 

Someone - I think it was William F. Buckley - once said, "Something doesn't
have to be against the law to be wrong." 

This one is more than wrong, it is just awful.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"Only by going too far can one possibly find out how far one can go." 

- Jon Dyer