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ONLY IN AMERICA - OJ DOES IT AGAIN

What the critics of the aborted O.J Simpson book and TV interview projects
did not reveal is that what the corporate cabals behind the projects tried
to do with O.J. Simpson and how O.J. tried to profit from this corporate-O.J
conspiracy is as American as the Ford Motor company--it is otherwise the
American Way. The American way is the lack of restraint from profiting from
the miseries of others uninterrupted. Don King had it right when he stated
that, it is "Only in America" that certain things take place. There is no
conceivable misery in American life that has not resulted in a blockbuster
movie or book or generation of celebrities (TV, media or film or
professoriate etc).

And O.J understood this American phenomenon very well. O.J was living the
"Only in America" way. And he has succeeded at it. First of all, he beat the
criminal charges by using the only resource Americans know, love and
understand too well: money to hire a dream team legal team. Without his
money, O.J would be in prison right now. No defendant facing what he faced
would have beaten those charges without the money O.J poured into the case.
Everybody knows and understands that. Very few celebrities or defendants
with money ever get convicted in American courts. You just have to watch A@E
for evidence of this. The Enron-type crooks were exceptions, though quite a
lot of them got acquitted.

The US Today edition of November 24th, 2006 quoted O.J as stating that "all
the jackals profited" from his case, and why couldn't he. The O.J saga
created rich people and TV personalities. No one complained. So Simpson
wanted to get in on the action like everybody else. Despite the cancellation
of the projects, Simpson has already been paid and he told US Today that he
used the money to pay his debts and to take care of his children while
living the American Dream: what more could be more American? The money he
earned which is already used is out of reach of his creditors along with his
Football pension and his house in Florida. Escaping debt by any means
necessary in order to take care of one's interests is again an American
institution. O.J couldn't care less about the cancellation of his projects:
he has already benefitted. His only concern is that the individuals who were
behind these projects like Rupert Murdock, the owner of Fox News and
HarperCollins are now trying to take the "high moral road" and leave him out
to dry. They initiated the projects in the first place. They should be
criticised the most. But they weren't because again the American Way is that
you leave the big and powerful, untouched. They can do no wrong. These are
the people who keep politicians in power, the American Way.

But over in the publishing world, the O.J book, "If I Did it" may very well
end up being the biggest book blockbuster that never was. There is hardly
any newspaper around the world that did not carry information about the book
and the sales weree expected to be very high. I had already placed an order.
The Wall Street Journal of November 24th, 2006 had two book reviews of the
aborted book already. The reviewers report that those copies that were
already available before the publishing date of November 30th, 2006 are
selling like hot cake on the Internet. The bidding prices could even go as
high as US$5,000 per copy. One of the reviews was even entitled, "If We Read
it" already signalling that the Simpson title has caught fire and very soon
we will be seeing victionalised titles of everything in America, like "If I
Slept With..." etc etc. I see a whole industry generating out of the title
alone. I see may people making a lot of money on the available copies of the
O.J book.

The difference with the Murdock-O.J Simpson projects with other similar
projects where misery was turned into gold, silver or green money is that
noone this time defended the Murdock-O.J projects with, "if you hate the
subject of the interview, don't watch it", or "just don't buy the book",
"you have a choice" etc. That really is the question: Why has the American
Way been resisted so vociferously this time around?