OT- OJ Simpson Granted Parole
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After nine years in prison, OJ Simpson has been granted parole for an armed robbery in a Nevada hotel. I did not think he stood a chance after he closed his presentation with "you go ahead and stamp your form sonny, because to tell you the truth, I really don't give a shit." But I guess it worked.
Can't say I am particularly surprised. That was a really hefty sentence for this particular offense. He was rumored to be involved in something else, though, IIRC.
is probably one of the best, if not the best, documentaries that I have ever seen.
The day he was aquitted I was working here in Cleveland and I've never seen an event where the perception of outcome was so clearly driven by race. At the time I was working in insurance replacement car rental and the office I was in had about five white guys and five black guys working in it. When the judged said "not guilty" every one of the white guys mouth's dropped open with a WTF look on their face and saying "no way" and every one of the black guys were happy, yelled "YES" and high fived each other. It was amazing to see.
more amazing is that, even watching a lot of the trial and the slowly cummulating errors that were being made, it really did not even occur to me that he could be acquitted. It is not until I really considered it in retrospect this year watching Made in America how obvious it should have been. You can count on one hand the number of things that the prosecution actually did right in that case.
but even in the absence of the strategic and tactical errors by the prosecution, I still finished the Made in America documentary (which was brilliant) with the sense there was absolutely nothing they could have done to secure a conviction. Trial was a deck stacked against them with social history of a black population in LA that had been brutalized and disenfranchised over a period of decades by LAPD. By the time the trial part started in the documentary, hell, even I was partly rooting for him to get acquitted just because I was so pissed at the social history.
It was never going to go their way, even if there had been a video of OJ committing the murders, a detailed murder plan written in OJ's handwriting duly notarized by a local county clerk the day before the murders, and a book titled "Damn Right I Did It." He was going to walk from Day One.
Everyone in America saw the chase on TV. And most knew who OJ was. They would've had to move the case to North Dakota to find people with no exposure to the case and that would definitely not be a jury of his peers.
and I watched the acquital in the quad. One common area was full of white kids, another common area was full of black kids. I thought it was strange how it just happened that way organically. The contrast in the reaction was stark, to say the least.
Sadly, all that trial really proved was that being rich gives you a better chance at getting favorable verdicts.
The divide in opinions was really something shocking. I remember thinking then, for the first time, that we were a very, very long way from getting past the "race thing". Like 50 or 100 years away.
at his age, with his knees, he could never push the thing far enough when it breaks down
No Hertz should use him. Have him walk in and take one of the new Broncos off the rental lot. "Run OJ RUN!"
The Juice is loose..
if this thread will end well...
Just wait until he has his own TV show, O.J's family values.
Obviously the Kim K sex tape played a huge role, but I feel like OJ is some what responsible for the rise of the Kardashians. For that, I can never forgive him.
of the Fox show about the OJ Saga was how they kept trying to shoehors the Kardashians into it. They were totally pandering to their acolytes. Thats entertainment, I 'spose
I never watched the FX OJ Saga. Thinking of David Schwimmer as anyone other than Ross Geller was a commitment I wasn't willing to make.
Yeah, but hearing David Schwimmer say "Juice" a million times was great:
cause the Juice is Free!!!!!!!!!
Only a matter of time before he does something stupid and ends up right back in jail. People like him don't change. Doesn't matter if they're black or white.
I hope his brain is getting donated to science when his time comes. That'll be one hell of a case study to see just what is going on in there.
I give him 3-6 months, once he gets out, to violate his parole.
I think it's even money he doesn't make it through the weekend.
O.J. Simpson the Heisman Trophy winner?
Doesn't he have a year of eligibility left? I'm just sayin'.
With Tyrone Wheatley gone, we could use a running backs coach. Right? Right? Am I right?
We'd never have Norm's great line about Charles Woodson at the Espys.
Do tell!?
He was going around the crowd with a joke regarding several of the celebrity athletes. He stopped at Woodson. I'm paraphrasing. "Charles Woodson. What a year. The first primary defensive player to win the Heisman Trophy. They can never take that away from you...Well, unless you kill your wife and a waiter."
Compare that to current day ESPN and Peyton Manning, where the edgiest joke was about Kevin Durant joining the USA Gymnastics team to win.
ALSO I just found the opening I have never seen before with a bunch of Broadway stars dressed up in team uniforms dancing on a chorus line. It might be better than the monologue. Youtube Link
I still remember his Weekend Update line from 1995, but also a paraphrase:
'Cancer was the number one killer of Americans last year, at just over 800,000.
(beat)
...Second place was OJ Simpson, with two."
BTW---Water covers 70% of the earth. Charles Woodson covers the rest.