In an April 12 segment, CNN commentator Ashley Allison says that, during his 1995 murder, OJ Simpson 'represented something for the black community in that moment, in that trial, particularly because they were two white people who had been killed.'
If there's one thing you'd think Americans could agree upon 30 years later, it's that OJ Simpson was a wife-beating double-murderer who got away with it.
What serious person, let alone national news chiefs, can countenance such grossly distorted reframing?Nicole Brown Simpson, his 35-year-old ex-wife, was slaughtered so violently that she was nearly decapitated. You can see her larynx through the blood pooling in her neck. How fitting, this week, to see a longtime NPR editor writing for The Free Press about liberal newsroom orthodoxy choking objective coverage. The Wall Street Journal has a similar piece about The New York Times.
One scene from January 1, 1989: Nicole calls 911 at 3:58am from their marital home on Rockingham estate in Brentwood. So if we're going to talk privilege, let's start here: OJ was a known, longtime wife-beater, a former professional athlete of great strength who stood 6'1", weighed over 200 pounds and repeatedly pummeled his 5'5", 129-pound wife to zero consequence.
Before Nicole died, she told her sister and others: 'One day OJ will kill me. And he'll get away with it.' The crime scene was among the most gruesome the LAPD had ever seen. Nicole was a battered wife who had called the cops for years, begging them to arrest OJ after the latest beating he inflicted, but they would never do a thing.
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