O.J. Special: Some Things Are Just Wrong
Weekly commentary by CBS Evening News chief Washington correspondent and Face the Nation host 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.
By Bob Schieffer