The OJ Simpson interview: 10 Years after "The Chase"

[prayerfull]

I watched the interview with Katie Couric last night and I don't like the way that OJ talks about his kids and emphasizes so much that they're in really expensive schools, are really popular, like to hang out with their friends and party, etc. It just seems like he kind of supports certain behavior. For example, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that OJ lets his kids have parties at his house and supplies the alchohol....chit like that.

[Dionysus]

Originally posted by prayerfull
It just seems like he kind of supports certain behavior. For example, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that OJ lets his kids have parties at his house and supplies the alchohol....chit like that.

I wouldn't mind having that kind of dad.

[James]

I agrree with him. And I wager that a lot of women that have been raped at knife point, gun point, beaten unmercifally probably agree as well that there is a difference between their experience and a girl that got to drunk around her date one night and can't really remember what happened but must have been raped.

Originally posted by Steeltrap

During the interview on Fox, he also made inflammatory comments about rape, saying: “In my opinion, ‘date rape’ and ‘stranger rape’ are two different things entirely.”

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[FeeFee]

Originally posted by James
I agrree with him. And I wager that a lot of women that have been raped at knife point, gun point, beaten unmercifally probably agree as well that there is a difference between their experience and a girl that got to drunk around her date one night and can't really remember what happened but must have been raped.

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[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by James
I agrree with him. And I wager that a lot of women that have been raped at knife point, gun point, beaten unmercifally probably agree as well that there is a difference between their experience and a girl that got to drunk around her date one night and can't really remember what happened but must have been raped.

And you probably don't think a guy can really "rape" his wife or girlfriend...

Why is he having a reality show that's basically a Punk'd ripoff? I would be scurred to be Punk'd by OJ. I'd run like hell if I saw him coming. He just needs to go home and be a good father to his children.

[AXEAM]

Actually I like the fact that O.J has not let the whole ordeal destroy him. I must admit that after the murders in 1994 that I was rooting against O.J, but the way the media covered the story made me somewhat of an unwilling supporter of the man. In the end w/the many blunders made by the L.A police I feel the not guilty verdict was correct. I know many people will not agree w/me but I feel that a person should not be covicted of murder if there are so many mistakes made by the police dept.

[mccoyred]

Originally posted by AXEAM
I know many people will not agree w/me but I feel that a person should not be covicted of murder if there are so many mistakes made by the police dept.

You're right...I don't agree. I could give a whit about procedure in the pursuit of truth. I know procedures have been established to ensure FAIRNESS but what about TRUTH and JUSTICE?

Too many people are sitting in jail or on death row because something like DNA testing was not allowed by the judge or the defense did not investigate thoroughly. Too many criminals are still out on the street because the police and prosecutors screwed up or the judge was personally swayed.

I haven't been convinced one way or the other as to whether OJ is guilty or not....there are too many inconsistencies in each side's case. Sooooo under the 'innocent until proven guilty', he should be free. However, I feel he has been subject to a form of double jeopardy by his wrongful death liability in the civil suit. Has anyone noticed that this type of civil suit-after-criminal verdict is becoming more common?

[AXEAM]

You said you don't agree....yet your post suggest that you do agree w/ what I stated. It's hard to have a real pursuit of truth and justice when that pursuit is clouded w/ bias and mistakes.

[DELTABRAT]

Originally posted by AKA_Monet
I WAS ON THE I-10 FREEWAY NEAR SEPULVEDA BLVD. EXIT WHEN O.J. LOST HIS FCUKIN' MIND ON THE FCUKIN' FREEWAY!!!

I was also in Los Angeles. It was the year I graduated from UCLA (undergrad). It was graduation weekend, literally, and it was overshadowed by the OJ-ness. I think I was in my apartment in Westwood when news broke. For those familiar with the landscape, UCLA is minutes from Brentwood. Everyone was consumed by the madness and driving by the murder scene and doing their own "how long does it take to get from old girl's spot to his Brentwood Estate?" drivebys. CRAZAY!!!!!

[Honeykiss1974]

I saw a snippet of this interview on GMA this morning and OJ look and talk like he on "that stuff".

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
I saw a snippet of this interview on GMA this morning and OJ look and talk like he on "that stuff".

On what stuh? The stuh that you smoke or the stuh that you shoot up your veins or the stuh that you suck up your nostrils?

[mccoyred]

Originally posted by AXEAM
You said you don't agree....yet your post suggest that you do agree w/ what I stated. It's hard to have a real pursuit of truth and justice when that pursuit is clouded w/ bias and mistakes.

I guess what I am not agreeing with is that you specifically indicated the police department. Their 'mistakes' were not in the pursuit of truth but to fit their perception of reality. If procedural errors occur (esp on the prosecution or police), trials can be thrown out, even if the person is guilty as sin; often times the cases aren't retried and guilty people are walking the streets. How many times have we seen folks who are up their elbows in stuff but were never convicted?

In the meantime, we have people on death row whose cases were tried 'by the book' and whose appeals were repeatedly denied only to find out that they were innocent the entire time.

[Steeltrap]

Here's a link to pictures of Ohhhjjjj's kids.

http://p071.ezboard.com/fjjboardfrm1...ID=53737.topic

[AXEAM]

No disrespect but no matter what we feel towards Mr. Simpson we should try to leave his children out of this madness.

[Steeltrap]

This is a quote from a blog about Ohhjjj and the case. The thought in bold is pretty much my thoughts about the whole system.

A decade after the murders, the Editor's Desk Roundtable reviewed the recent O.J. Simpson interviews. Comedian Jessi Klein said she watched to see if the interviewers will "make it through." Toure (no description or last name necessary) said "his life since the verdict has been pathetic" as if "you freed a slave and then he became a couch patoto." Tina interjected, "I thought he spent his time doing coke and girls." Attorney Ed Hayes disagreed said, "You get away with murder in America, and his kids are doing fine. That's it. That's the way it works." And Michael Daly of The Daily News said "the bigger question is what have we learned from this case." Perhaps that we can still suck it for ratings?

Toure explained black America to Tina: "I think most black people think he's guilty, but they're kind of laughing and snickering at the system. . . We don't love him, we're not happy people got murdered. . . we're not happy he got off, except we are because one of us won one time."