The Simpson

According to Reuters, "O.J. Simpson says his hypothetical account of killing his ex-wife in his aborted memoir "If I Did It" was invented by a ghost writer and filled with errors that he refused to correct for fear of appearing to be guilty of the crime."

I'm assuming he means factual errors, like the "if" in the title.

I can understand the dilemma O.J. is in though. If he corrects the mistakes in the book, he could look like a real hypocrite, rather than a man simply trying to cash in on the death of his wife.

I also assume the corrections read something like this:

(p. 27) "As I stood before my wife, the woman I had loved and cherished, the woman who had brought me as much joy as pain, I felt my hands shake and tremble within their gloves. Sinking the knife into her body was the hardest thing I've ever had to do." (O.J.'s Note: Actually I didn't cherish her very much while she was alive, and the stabbing motion is not that dissimilar from throwing a football, so I was used to it. Try to keep to point.)

(p.28) "There he was, my wife's lover. Rage surged through me like a Titan. I stabbed and stabbed and stabbed again..." (O.J.'s Note: I wasn't angry so much as hungry. Nicole was dead and there was a cheeseburger wrapper nearby Ron's left ankle (again this is hypothetical) and it reminded me how unlikely it would be to get a home-cooked meal tonight. And I played for the Bills, not the Titans. Keep up.)

It's not likely that these notes would appear to the public at all (except in some special edition pre-order hardcover deal), but with this modern age of intense journalistic scrutiny it would only be a matter of time before someone found out and called his bluff. After all, who better to take the fall for a few flubs in historical accuracy than a man whose freedom rests upon the cracks in the American Judicial System?

I'm with O.J. here. Nice try, society. But not this murder.