Conviction Of Violent Creep O.J. Simpson Advances The Cause Of Racial Justice
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
O.J. Simpson did exactly two admirable things in his life: he played football well, and he was in The Towering Inferno. Besides that he was a completely unhinged wife-beating and likely double-homiciding egomaniacal lunatic with impulse-control problems. If you are the LA Times’ resident turdburglar Jonah Goldberg, you look at O.J. Simpson’s depressing, shameful, and entirely predictable decline — culminating in his recent prison sentence for armed robbery — and say, “Hmm, what does this have to do with that other black gentleman I have heard of, Barack Obama?” MORE »
John Edwards was stumping in Iowa this weekend when an older gentleman wanted to know what Edwards would do about the crisis facing this country that had been “sticking in [his] craw” for a while. That crisis, which the man in question felt the President of the United States needed to solve was how, in the O.J. trial, “The black jury in Los Angeles, the reason they found O.J. not guilty was ‘payback.’” Edwards was all… um, what the fuck, dude, that was like 12 years ago! But the old guy pressed his case.