The Goldmans appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show and the Today Shows and offered reasons for publishing the book. Fred Goldman said that “In the beginning, our feeling, perhaps like a lot of folks, was that, one, we didn’t want him to profit by it and two, we didn’t know what the content of the book was. We were concerned it’s a manual for murder. We’ve learned two things since then. One, he had profited substantially — $680,000 approximately of his actual piece of it — and we have read it and it is not by any stretch a manual on how to commit murder. There’s more violence on TV, more violence on the Internet than exists here.” 

Goldman goes on to say that Simpson implicates himself, in a sense, by describing the attacks — albeit in hypotheticals. “We view it as close to an admission, a confession, as is humanly possible, in his words,” Fred Goldman said.

I guess now that the Goldmans stand to make money from the sale the book, it is no longer despicable or garbage, but what happened to the public outrage over the publication of the book? Goldman’s decision to publish the book has not generated public outrage. Same book! Last year outrage came from all sectors of the media.

The Goldmans say this is the only way to collect the money that OJ owes them for the civil verdict, but really this won’t bring Nicole back and it just makes the Goldmans look greedy.

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