got away with murder. i will point out one thing. at the time of the acquittal in 1995 only 20% of african-americans believed that oncht j. simpson had done it and gotten away with it. latest polling shows well over 50% of african-americans and almost 100% of white americans believe that o.j. simpson got away with murder. i say infamous not famous. why do you think people still care about o.j. simpson after all these years? we love a fallen celebrity story. he did not go quietly into that dark night. he was out, playing golf. i covered him in california. i was amazed. people were swarming him to get a pukt with him and get his autograph back then. he was basking in the limelight, never mind he had just gone through a double murder trial. during the civil trial, same thing. he was out there, sort of flaunting it. i still cared because i was there the day, the moment that the morgue truck was taking those two bodies away.
didn t complain necessarily about megyn kelly. they sent out a press release, saying they thought he won the debate. then he started to go after her. now, you have this situation where he sort of, at least for a while, framing fox as the establishment. of course fox news typically, has been viewed by conservatives as sort of a brothern in the cause. so, it s very odd and there s all of these sort of back room conversations that are going on now with trump and alles. it s a media story, a celebrity story, a political story. it s a big mess. what do you have, jeff? look, i think megyn kelly is doing her job. this isn t about megyn kelly, it s become about her. she said let s get back to the
we asked you what the top celebrity story of the year was and michael has a result. happy new year. same to you. counting down starting at number 5 everyone s favorite friend jennifer aniston getting engaged to justin thorough over the summer. before that big news number 4 celebrity story announced they were splitting up. breakup of tom cruise and katie holm holmes. death of whitney houston rounded out the top 3. news that kate middleton is expecting. finally number one celebrity story the much talked about speech at the national republican convention. kristen stewart and pat tin son did not make the top 5. now we want to talk about the top five songs. top five songs of the year according to itunes. the most downloaded songs of 2012. counting down star ships by
thank you for much for being was. and joe bebe is back, contributinged for for rolling stone. let s get right to it this mo morni morning. the investigation into whitney houston s death, her body is back in new jersey. they are refusing to say whether or not she drowned. they re waiting for the toxicology reports. in past cases, we know it could take weeks or weeks. he also won t comment on whether alcohol or drugs may have played a role in her death. look at a body and not know what the cause of death is. you might have a suspicion, but the person could have suffered a heart attack or an embolism or something. and no matter what medications they re taking, until we run a toxin and see the level and see what s in the system, we re not going to speculate. he s been on tv a lot saying a lot of nothing lately. how come it takes eight weeks to do a toxicology report? this is typical. let s be honest. we re talking at many, many tests. you know, initial reports say i r
they know what the consequences are if you don t do that. i think they re all a little wiser. so despite that enormous amount of scrutiny out there and twitter feeds and facebook and all the rest of it, i think they themselves, especially if their marriage ends up being happy, will mitigate against the kind of temptations that charles and diana had. that s true. it does take two to tango in the sense that journalists may look for leaks, but you have to have somebody to provide the leaks. i was stunned that kate middleton, may be a lovely person, she s been dating william for years, that she talked to the press exactly once when the engagement was announced. so she s beenly shielded from this. i find that hard to understand given the american concept of celebrity where you re supposed to be out there all the time. i think matt s point is absolutely right, that there are different ways to play out any celebrity story. and i don t think there s a dimunition at all. when you have the s