12/01/2009 12:20 pm

Culture

O.J. Simpson by Harry Benson

Shea Stadium, New York City, 1973
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© Harry Benson

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carengittleman
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By carengittleman on 12/01/2009 12:54 pm
BelindaJoy

Harry Benson is the master at taking candid and provocative photos. The one he shot of Hillary and Bill is the one I find truly captivating. The shots of Michael Jackson however leave me angry for some reason…sickened. Given that we as a society know the intimate backgrounds of some of his subjects he chose to shoot, it makes it darkly disturbing and intriguing at the same time. He is a genius.

And to the WoW staffer that chose to entice us to view Mr. Benson’s photos by way of posting murderer OJ Simpson in the nude, good one…it worked. How sad it is to think women once lusted after a man who was capable of committing murder. What am I saying? Women still do i guess.

By BelindaJoy on 12/01/2009 12:57 pm
bigbiggityben
Belinda Joy, oh how so well you have written of your feelingss relative to the Harry Benson photos, then sink into a pit of ignorance that simply demeans your opening remarks; by venturing into subject matter that you think you know but one of which you simply have no impirical truthful knowldge about.  You haven’t done, to my knowledge, any indepedent investigation and objective examination of the evidence in the Simpson matter to say that Simpson is a murderer.  You have no conclusive knowledge of that fact, the best that you could be doing at this time is citing information given to you via a lackadazical media, who failed to do any meaningful due diligence, by a corrupt police and district attorney’s office in Los Angeles, CA.  Both departments, by the way, are still under the supervision of the U.S. Justice Department since 2000 for their admitted involvment in framing over several years between 3,000 and 30,000 innocent men into long prison terms with planted evidence in the Rampart Scandal.  Even the movie that was based upon this sordid conspiracy, that even garnered an academy award for its star, Denzel Washington, "Training Days", did not do justice to the full story of the level of malfeasance and corruption that existed within the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.  Simpson was being chauffeured to board a flight to Chicago at 11PM while his wife Nicole was still alive and well talking on a phone to her mother, Juditha Brown, at 11PM.  Both the prosecution and defense team hid and concealed the actual telephone records from the jury that would have exonerated Simpson and then entered a time of 9:37PM into the trial by stipulation circumventing jury examination.  See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk3Muy_MgJA
By bigbiggityben on 12/15/2009 6:22 pm
BelindaJoy

In all due respect, you have no proof of O.J. Simpson’s innocence, anymore than I do of his guilt. You are defending his innocence based on your belief and desire to believe he is innocent. I however look at all the same evidence that was presented in the media outlets and I see him as guilty. Was the L.A. Police department and District Attorney’s office corrupt? Yes. But that does not mean Mr. Simpson and countless other men and women weren’t guilty of murders in 1994 in Los Angeles.

It is what it is. You have a right to your opinion, as do I.

By BelindaJoy on 12/15/2009 7:14 pm
bigbiggityben
Again you are misled, however, I doubt that we’ll move beyond a proclivity of presumption, i.e. "on your belief" and "desire to believe", you don’t know anything about what I believe, or my desire to believe, nor what work has been done independent of that which you have placed so much faith in your belief.  In spite of your youthfullness, your words appear mature enough for you to know better than to depend so heavily on what others hand to you as a represention of truth in America; remember "yellow cake", "immediate and imminent threat" and "WMDs".   If time permitted I could argue that the Simpson epoch has been more useful in stimulating a certain mentality in preparation for invasion, than being an example of due process, especially with images of Simpson in topics on national TV related to Osama Bin Laden in Novemebr 2001 and Kalid Sheik Muhammad in 2009.  Please, don’t bypass the youtube clip that was posted at the end of my last, it may raise pertinent questions, even in your beautiful mind. 
By bigbiggityben on 12/15/2009 9:23 pm
EldebboC
All I can say is WOW!!!! Even reading the note giving me warning, I was still a little shocked!!!!
By EldebboC on 12/01/2009 1:12 pm