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Any day with two stories where the leftosphere and rightosphere agree is an unusual day, so let’s not let it pass unnoticed.

This afternoon News Corp. announced it would not be publishing the O.J. Simpson book, “If I Did It,” and it naturally follows, Fox would not be airing the accompanying Judith Regan interview. If there’s anyone in the blogosphere who’s upset with this turn of events, you won’t find them on Memeorandum. When Firedoglake and Michelle Malkin agree on something, pause to savor the moment (or let your stomach settle).

Before the announcement, Newsweek had a story prepped for the issue out today that you just know the authors had a great time writing:

Regan’s imprint at HarperCollins, which has put out books about convicted wife-killer Scott Peterson and a memoir by porn star Jenna Jameson, is set to publish a “fictional” account by O.J. that details how he would have killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman if he did kill them, which he still insists he did not. The book, titled “If I Did It,” will go along with a two-part “Fox television event” in which Regan—a former National Enquirer reporter—will interview O.J., who’ll apparently spell out in gory detail precisely how he didn’t commit the crime.

Time may have hired Ana Marie Cox, but Newsweek can do the snark, too.

Next, how could we ignore the bizarre, racist and unfunny Michael Richards meltdown this weekend — making the former hipster doofus another victim of the YouTube revolution, if not actually YouTube itself. Any sympathy for him in the blogosphere? Not a bit. There really is only one take on this, although as Roy Edroso points out, after the initial condemnation, the tangents followed by some are less than enlightening.

Bonus Fun Fact: Longtime readers of Gothamist’s franchise in the District might recall that this is not the first indication that there was something odd about Richards:

Michael Richards — you know, Cosmo Kramer — got interested in Freemasonry around the time that “Seinfeld” ended. In 2001 he told the Post’s Peter Carlson about reading [impenetrable thousand-page Masonic text written by an alleged Kluxer] “Morals and Dogma.” Said Richards: “I don’t fully understand it, but I have an intuitive understanding of what it means.” That Kramer — he’s always up to something!

I’m not sure exactly how to tie in that episode of “Seinfeld” where Kramer played the O.J. role in a re-enactment of the Bronco chase or Jackie Chiles’ Darden-esque courtroom gambit — “Of course a bra’s not going to fit on over a leotard. A bra’s gotta fit right up against a person’s skin… like a glove!” — but then again, I suppose I just did.