It took anti-Semitism to get her fired? Not blatant idiocy in choice of publishable materials? In other words, Rupert Murdoch squashed the OJ book only because of the uproar, he thinks it was a good idea.

Sheesh.

Ha. Sounds like a make-up call to me. (Make up in the missed penalty in hockey sense, not in the cosmetic sense.)

Speaking of someone's goose being cooked (okay, we weren't, but)...

Has anyone cooked goose for Christmas? Do you know any good recipes? What are the challenges (I'm told it's greasier?), advantages, tricks, etc.? The SO wants to try this year.

In other words, Rupert Murdoch squashed the OJ book only because of the uproar, he thinks it was a good idea.

Or at least not that bad an idea.

I was thinking the same thing.

More on why Judith Regan was fired when she was: [link]

The “If I Did It” book and television package was shelved not because it was in bad taste or because it was bad for the culture at large, but because it was bad for business. The News Corporation, after all, was riding with Ms. Regan every step of the way as she bolted together the multiplatform deal for “If I Did It.” It was only after an outcry that included two dozen Fox affiliates that the HarperCollins project was junked.

And now Ms. Regan’s career at the News Corporation is in the same trash bin. Why now?

No one woke up Friday morning and discovered that Ms. Regan had bad, if lucrative, taste. But when her O. J. Simpson deal went south, she refused to go away quietly even though Mr. Murdoch had already taken a bullet, then continued to complain that she was being undermined long after the story had quieted down.

The News Corporation had profited handsomely from Ms. Regan’s tendency to shoot from the hip, but when she started firing inside the corral, well then, that was another matter.

If she did it, here’s how: Ms. Regan first responded to public opprobrium over the Simpson project with an unhinged eight-page defense of her interview. And then, after the plug was pulled on Nov. 21, she failed to accept the decision. (When Mr. Murdoch says something is dead, put away the paddles and pull up the hearse.)

Instead she railed against HarperCollins, the News Corporation book division that owns her ReganBooks imprint, while taping her Sirius Satellite Radio show, according to Ron Hogan, an editor at GalleyCat, which is a book-oriented blog. And finally, she made offensive remarks in a phone call to one of the company’s lawyers on Friday, according to a report in The Los Angeles Times.

“I think someone looked a little bit down the road and saw train wrecks everywhere,” said a HarperCollins executive who declined attribution because the case might end up in litigation.

Which makes sense. I mean, if you look at the whole thing from a business perspective.

More:

Ms. Regan always lived her public life as if it were one big MySpace page, which she filled with outrageous personal and professional behavior and intemperate words. Part of it seemed like shtick, but she seemed to cross a line bordering on mania after her motives in interviewing Mr. Simpson were questioned.

First, she issued a statement that compared her own alleged victimization as a battered woman with that of the murdered Nicole Brown Simpson. “The men who lied and cheated and beat me — they were all there in the room. And the people who denied it, they were there, too.” (It sounded a little crowded in there.)

Instead of saying sorry about that, Ms. Regan went ballistic in a statement that read like an autopsy on an open deadly wound. Her nonapology apology approached absurdity, a biblical Act of Contrition written (at times) in the voice of a young girl.

“I made the decision to publish this book, and to sit face to face with the killer, because I wanted him, and the men who broke my heart and your hearts, to tell the truth, to confess their sins, to do penance and to amend their lives. Amen.”

People with big egos annoy me.

Has anyone cooked goose for Christmas? Do you know any good recipes? What are the challenges (I'm told it's greasier?), advantages, tricks, etc.? The SO wants to try this year.

While my Mom always served Turkey on Thanksgiving, we always did something different for Christmas--duck, cornish game hen, etc. Every few years, we would try goose because it just seems so right. However, we were always disppointed in our Dickens fantasy Christmas. It definitely is much greasier and that is the real challenge. You think it is going to be similar to duck, but it's not. I'm sure there are ways to do it well, but we never found it. I wish you luck.

Crooks & Liars has a roundup of memorable quotes from Donald Rumsfeld, on the day of his leaving. Among them, such gems as:

"We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead."

and

"Needless to say, the President is correct. Whatever it was he said."

Crooks & Liars has a roundup of memorable quotes from Donald Rumsfeld, on the day of his leaving. Among them, such gems...

Too bad he was in charge of the military instead of being minister of information.

"We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead."

I don't suppose asking them to vague that up for us would help.

"We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead."

Well, we do know that he's not both alive and in outer space.

D'oh. Day Break was cancelled.