From his final thoughts on "Face the Nation" today:
And finally today, I thought the congressional page scandal would surely win the most disgusting story of the year award.
But who knew that O.J. Simpson would write a how-to manual describing the way he would have killed his wife, had he chosen to commit the crime, or so he says. Or that he would get two prime-time hours on Fox Television to promote his book.
In our country, the law says a citizen who is found not guilty can't be tried again for the same crime. So along came a publisher named Judith Regan, who found a way to funnel millions of dollars to O.J. to write this trash. And get this. She says one reason she did it was because she was once an abused wife.
I'm just guessing here, but I'll bet another reason, maybe she gets a cut of the profits. She will personally conduct the two one-hour interviews that will air later this month on Fox Television, which, like Ms. Regan's company, is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
I've never been one to criticize competitors. It always sounds cheesy to me. But may I congratulate the Fox affiliate station owners and managers who have not decided -- or who have decided not to broadcast this dreadful thing being sent out by their network.
Someone -- I think it was William F. Buckley -- once said, something doesn't have to be against the law to be wrong. This one is more than wrong. It is just awful.
From Fox's Web site. (And we thought Western civilization had hit a low point back when we all crowded around the television to watch that white Bronco cruise down the highway; if we'd only imagined...)
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