His television work was enlightening, but his life outside outside of television and film was that of what C Wright Mills described as a Power Elitist. While he could criticize Bill Cosby, he could not do the same for even more inhumane OJ Simpson, who his show Different Strokes even hyped in the episode where Arnold wanted to play football. Mr. Drummond referred to Arnold as “a regular O.J. Simpson.” I really would not be surprised if Norman and his organization People for the American Way were among the O.J. Simpson get-out-jail-free crew. Even as prominent USC football player between 1965 and 1968, O.J. preserved the legacy of football-promoting JFK’s New Frontier speech, which took place just five years before the start of Simpson’s Heisman Trophy-winning USC career at the USC Trojans’ L.A. Coliseum football stadium. OJ:The Lost Confession? documented O.J.’s history of domestic abuse reasonably against Nicole reasonably well, but I doubt Norman would’ve ever been willing to exploit it nearly as well, O,J. shouldn’t have even been still been advertising for Hertz.
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