The Book Deals Cometh

Oh, come on!

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Two of the 12 jurors who voted to acquit singer Michael Jackson of child molestation and other charges said Monday they regret their decisions.

Jurors Ray Hultman and Eleanor Cook, who both have pending book deals, planned to appear Monday night on the MSNBC show "Rita Cosby: Live and Direct."

In a preview shown Monday on NBC's "Today," Cosby asked Cook if the other jurors will be angry with her.

"They can be as angry as they want to. They ought to be ashamed. They're the ones that let a pedophile go," responded Cook, 79.

Hultman, 62, told Cosby he was upset with the way other jurors approached the case: "The thing that really got me the most was the fact that people just wouldn't take those blinders off long enough to really look at all the evidence that was there."

Shouldn't she have said "We're the ones that let a pedophile go"? I mean, it's not like the jury was deadlocked or anything. These people should be ashamed of themselves. Not only are they living proof that you don't need to be intelligent to be on a jury in California, but now they've got book deals to make money off of the victimization of young boys by Michael Jackson?

Welcome to the decline of Western Civilization. Can I interest anybody in a Bloody Mary made with real virgins' blood? Good grief.