Um… eww.
I don’t care if Ron Goldman’s family (including papa Fred, pictured at right) is getting the money. I don’t care if they’re giving some of it to "the Ron Goldman Foundation for Justice." I don’t care if the Goldmans get to add "key commentary" to the otherwise unedited manuscript by O.J. Simpson (pictured, left) and his ghostwriter. (What does "key commentary" mean, anyway? Scrawling, "What do you mean, ‘If…‘?" in the margins?) They can try to make this package as tasteful and respectable as they like, but I’ll still say…
Eww.
Which New York publisher would buy this book? (Guess we’ll find out later today.) For that matter, what reader would buy this book?
Did I mention… eww?
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I’m assuming its the same publisher that put out A Million Little Pieces without doing a fact check. Just putting it out there…..
I thought the Goldman’s were outraged when this book originally was going to get published. Now they want to put it out themselves???
I am going to throw up. Can’t the Goldmans get an injunction to stop the publisher from printing OJ’s book?!
I still don’t get it at all? “If I had done it”? He’s smart, yet evil. OJ DID do it, but now he can’t incriminate himself. Bast-rd!
Oh nevermind what I said before. The Goldmans are moronic. No amount of money can make up for a life taken.
I cant beleive that the Goldman’s themselves managed to make one of the most disgusting displays of fame grabbing even more foul. So they were against what is quite possibly the worst-book-idea-ever… until they realize they can make a buck off of it? Do ANY of these people have souls?
Didn’t his trial end 12 years ago? Why do we still have to hear about this man and the things “he didn’t do”. It’s too bad this is all he’ll be remembered for instead of being a great football player.
Do the Goldman’s need the money? Do they miss the limelight? Will we have to put up with Fred and OJ hitting the talk shows? The special hour on Larry King should be a blast. There is no good reason for this.
I didn’t know Rollie Fingers was related to Ron Goldman, wow! And Wooohooo! Big Love is back on Sunday nights where it belongs, John From Cincinnati is so terrible.
Are free mustache rides included with every purchase? A sort of G with P?
really? someone is stupid enough to publish a book called “IF i did it”? i bet the whole thing is like “if i did it, this is how i would get away w/ it… oh shnap, i DID get away w/ it, so my plan worked!!”
i dont know whose worse: the murderer who never went to jail and is making money off his dead victims… or the family of dead victim making money…
What does it say about our society if we chose to publish this kind of crap? Have we become that obsessed with celebrities that anything passes as entertainment? I hope anyone with any type of brain activity will simply withhold their money. Shame on anyone even remotely involved with this project.
I am not going to judge what the family of a murder victim is doing with a book that the murderer wrote. I have no idea what they are going through or what their plans are!
I would say that I hope no one reads this exploitative garbage but I’m not kidding myself; I know people are going to be all over this out of some sick curiousity.
Rollie Fingers!
What I love is the cover designer who made sure the word “If” blended into OJ’s shirt, making the cover read on first glance “I Did It” in big screaming red letters.
Yuck on everyone invloved in this (including the Goldmans)
The thing that kills me here is that if it were the Browns publishing this mess, Goldman would freak. There is more than one family of victims here.
how about taking part of the money going to the “Ron Goldman Foundation for Justice” and put it towards the future therapy fund for the Simpson-brown kids?? This is really beyond words.
Only in America can something like this go on shame, on all that are involved.
O.J. you really don’t deserve this attention.
For anyone questioning if society will buy this horrid crap, remember Paris’ book was a best-seller
I heard about this being a possibility a few weeks ago and it just had me stunned at words. I can argue all day about how overrated and overblown the OJ case has become over the years and the hypocritical morals thrown everywhere, but this…WTF?! How could the Goldman family, who shunned both OJ and the book’s original publishers for their shameless exploitation, yet did a 180 and decided to let the book on the shelves anyway for a little bit of alimony money? That’s just unbelievable beyond words. They’re acting no better than the media pundits that blew this case up to epic proportions. For shame on everyone involved.
The sad thing (okay, one of them), is that in their sad, greedy way, the Goldmans are giving OJ exactly what he wanted. That book was never about the money (though I’m sure he would have liked to have it), it was about getting him one last, desperate shot of fame, and a platform to spew his self-indulgent mewling at the world. And now he’s going to get it. Congratulations Goldman family; that’s a hell of a win you’ve got there.
Oh, and Mr. Goldman totally looks like Geraldo.
the whole premise is disgusting. is there double jeopardy on this case, cuz i think the sleaze should fry.
i’ll buy it if the money goes to the Goldman family