haha.. OJ!

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » October 18, 2002, 5:42 pm

http://www.msnbc.com/news/822149.asp

Oct. 16 — Days after former O. J. Simpson defense attorney Johnnie Cochran said on MSNBC that he is “about 90 percent” certain that his client was innocent, Mr. Simpson today said that his attorney had planted “fresh seeds of doubt” in his own mind.

“FOR YEARS, I’VE BEEN pretty sure that I did not murder my wife,” Simpson said today at a golf course in Boca Raton, Fla., where he was taking a rare break from searching for the real killers of his wife. “But if Johnnie’s not 100 percent sure, I’m like, hey, maybe I better take another look at this.”
Simpson added that it would be “crazy” not to be swayed by Cochran’s new statements, which he called “thought provoking.”
“Look, you’re talking about a guy, Johnnie Cochran, who is a pretty smart guy,” Simpson said. “If he said maybe I did it, then maybe I did it.”

Cochran’s doubts about Simpson’s innocence may help resolve one lingering mystery for the former Heisman Trophy winner: why it has been so difficult for him to find his wife’s real killers, whom he pledged to hunt down after his acquittal in 1995.
The former NFL star said that, in light of the new revelations, he may slow down his search, which he said has occupied almost every waking moment of his life for the past seven years.
“If it turns out that I’m actually the one who did it, then looking for the real killers would be a big old waste of time,” Simpson said.

Man this is like the most surreal news story I have ever read.

noel · Post by **noel** » October 18, 2002, 5:48 pm

OMFG. That's probably the stupidest publically made statement I've ever seen.

Edit: Oops almost forgot an even dumber publically made statement:

Trust not what I say, trust what you see. - Xanupox.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » October 18, 2002, 5:57 pm

is it possible this could be satire?

i'm asking cause i have no idea.

noel · Post by **noel** » October 18, 2002, 6:03 pm

I'm guessing he was tired of being asked, and was giving a sarcastic response to members of the media.. which they then, quoted.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » October 18, 2002, 6:04 pm

That really is stupid, I mean really stupid.

Neost · Post by **Neost** » October 18, 2002, 6:22 pm

The guy that writes that column is a humorist.

/votes for satire.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » October 18, 2002, 6:36 pm

Borowitz writes serious stuff too. But he didn't write this article, it is just in his section because it is hilarious.

I don't think it is a humor column. Nothing about it smacks of it being satire (except for the nature of it article itself). If it were made up, it would probably be fairly good grounds for a lawsuit by OJ, because it's being reported as actual news. I can never remember the difference between libel and slander but it's one of the two.

The article is even copywrited by Newsweek, which doesnt do satire.

I personally think he is probably just being an asshole who is sick of reporters interrupting his golf ga.. search for the real killers. It would be funny if he was trying to be genuine though, and thought the public was as stupid as the jurors on his trial and would buy such a line of bullshit.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » October 18, 2002, 6:48 pm

It would be libel.

Gordiken the Wicked · October 18, 2002, 7:31 pm

wtfux you are all wrong, "If the glove does not fit, aquit!"

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » October 18, 2002, 8:18 pm

haha that's hilarious