Think what you want of the bizarre creature that was Michael Jackson, but at least young boys around the world may sleep a little safer tonight. Jackson was
a dangerous man and sick predator whose only mitigating excuse is that he was enabled by sick family and business associates and an even sicker mainstream press.
From the comments at the link:
When Farrah Fawcett died she was taken to heaven and then granted one wish– that the Earth would be a safer place for children.
It is, Farrah, it is.
Update: Do not read this after you eat.
Update: By now there are thousands of eulogies of Jackson. Don’t bother yourself with them. Read only this one. You will see what I mean.
Update: Very seldom have I read something as pitiful than this. Jackson had been dead for years. He just didn’t know it.
Update: Fom the Gunslinger.
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Similarities between Jackson and Uberpanty.
1. Undeserved Apotheosis.
** Jackson. Walks backwards. Big deal.
** Obie. Nice baritone. Big deal.
2. Flim flam
** Jackson. Pretends to walk forward while moving backwards. Lust for children disguised as love.
** Obie. Pretends to fix problems but in fact creates more problems. Thanatophilia [supports third trimester murder. Pain killers better than chemotherapy for elderly]
3. Speech patterns that affect fake boyishness—“Love me. I’m so cute and harmless.”
** Jackson. Falsetto. Girish giggle.
** Obie. Girlish lilt at end of statements. Sibilant lisp. [Nauseating.]
4. Frequent “Look at me” gestures and routines.
** Jackson. “Look. I’m dangling my kid over the railing.”
** Obie. “Look. I’m riding a bicycle.” “Look. I’m an Athenian.” “Look. I’m in Germany.”
5. Easily insulted.
** Jackson. “That’s mean.”
** Obie. “I won.”
6. Destructive trajectory
** Jackson. “How do like THIS nose?”
** Obie. “Hey, how about we spend a few more trillion of YOUR money?” [I can get away with this indefinitely.]
7. Creepy.
** Jackson. Hospital masks. Fruity glove. Grabs package more often than actually necessary.
** Obie. Inappropriate laughter. Lies with straight face.
How about both Jackson and Brocko wanting to reverse the course of spiritual/psychological evolution in their egotistical desire to return to a “land of innocence” – quite obvious in Jackson’s case, and in O’s case a collective return to Mommy and the Magical Teat.
Of course, one can’t return to the land of innocence. If one tries, the result is psychological fragmentation, the center cannot hold.
Spengler, now known as David P. Goldman over at First Things, writes of Jacko:
“The Anti-Priest of an Anti-Congregation Encounters Anti-Life”
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/spengler/2009/06/26/the-anti-priest-of-an-anti-congregation-encounters-anti-life/
A friend’s young daughter saw something about his death on TV and said, “wow, I didn’t know Michael Jackson used to be black!”
Yes, black, human, male. You name it.
I’m trying to think of one child mega-star who did not become twisted. Shirley Temple, and perhaps a couple others. It is the worst possible thing to happen to a child.
No doubt in my mind he was the candyman, a major pedophile predator, but I haven’t run into one person today who believed that or thought it was an issue. Even Sean Hanitty was gushing what a terrible tragedy it was even if there were issues. No it wasn’t.
There was a South Park episode some years back where the eight-year-old Kyle, I think it was, would respond to the adult fans of Jackson with “Dude, he fucked little boys.” I’ll try that tomorrow.
And the parents of those little boys would send them to the ranch, subliminally hoping to cash in on lawsuits.
Great link to Sippican Cottage.
I posted something on this week’s celebrity deaths this week myself. My focus was not so much on the character of any of these celebrities, but of the over importance we give them compared to the grandmother up the street that passed away this week, too…but you aren’t going to see her or her love, honesty and accomplishments on CNN.
Blogger Lawrence Simon had this hilarious tweet after MJ’s death:
With Michael Jackson dead, Disneyland reduced its terror alert status from orange to yellow.
I love it.
Dear Lance de Boyle:
But can Obama sing and dance? Can he “beat it”?
Dear Will:
Michael Jackson will serve as fodder for thousands of psychologists and students. He is a case study in perversion. He wanted to return to innocence but ended up at an entirely different address.
Dear svgjjc:
One of the commenter’s to Spengler’s article wrote that “Jackson died a premature death.” I think not. Jackson should have died 20 years ago. He entered Eternity already DOA.
Dear Gagdad Bob:
You ask me to name it? How about “animal, mineral or vegetable?”
Dear James:
I was thinking the same thing this morning, and came up with Temple only.
Jackson’s death “a tragedy”? Farce, yes. He should have died years ago.
And those parents with their little boys clinging to Jackson: Could somebody tell me the difference between those parents and your average run-of-the-mill pimp?
Dear Texmom:
True enough. The world recognizes its own and ignores or kills the rest. But God sees all. How will CNN fare at the End?
Dear KT Cat:
Perfect. And unbeatable.
I must relate this joke as I found it hilarious : They are not going to bury nor cremate Michael Jackson, he will instead be converted into plastic grocery bags; white, plastic, and dangerous to children!
I feel sorry for MJ. I felt sorry for Elvis. They were true tragedies in the classical sense. Too much too fast overwhelmed them and they didn’t have the strength to keep their souls. Their poor tortured souls.
I’m glad it isn’t my job to judge them.
Michael Jackson… the only person who started out a poor black boy and became a rich white woman.
I suppose we should pray for his soul.
The only thing I regret in this is that although (according to statistics from my local police force) girls are three times more likely to be interfered with and thirty times more likely to be raped than boys, all the attention is on boy rape victims. Jackson wouldn’t even have been arrested and not a word would have been said about him had he molested little girls.
This doesn’t just somehow make raping a boy seem more of a crime than raping a girl (as if girls deserve rape or aren’t harmed by it or – I don’t know, it just seems horrible to me), but, even worse, it selectively punishes the little boys who are raped by putting their names in the paper. We shouldn’t know who Jackson’s victims were. They did nothing to deserve the publicity they received.
On the other hand, all those celebrities who molest thirteen-year-old girls (or younger) should be exposed as well. There are a LOT of them, but neither the mainstream media nor the conservative alternative press will lift a finger to point them out. Boys are more valuable than girls, after all, right?
Brother:
The best thing we can do is to say no more about this man. Out sight out of mind. He should be air brushed away like one of Stalin’s political opponents.
PS “Music is the enemy of reason” St. Augustine
Dear Jeff:
Another winner. I am afraid that Jackson dead will provide as mush fodder for humor as Jackson alive.
Dear suek:
I as well wish not to judge the Eternal state of one’s soul. I can only measure my own.
Dear Karen:
Yes, we are required to pray for him but as well to pray for those children he damaged when we do.
Dear Charlene:
“Jackson wouldn’t even have been arrested and not a word would have been said about him had he molested little girls.”
I see the opposite as the case. Look at the disparate punishments meted out to male teachers who have sex with their female students and female teachers who have sex with their male students.
Jackson could carry on as he did for so long because of his money, his star status and the fact that the popular culture favors homosexuals. Look at the popularity of The Vagina Monologues, a play that rhapsodized about the lesbian rape of a 13 year old girl.
The attraction to children by adults is a great perversion no matter the gender of the molester.
Dear ER:
Probably right. That explains my short eulogy.
It seems Saint Augustine did not enjoy music. Some people simply do not. I am that way with poetry. But music is one of those things that raises my heart to Heaven.
Well, MJ’s imam is supposedly planning the funeral rites. You do know he converted from Jehovah’s Witness to Islam a while ago.
Maybe St. Augustine had no good music to listen to. Maybe all the local bands stunk up the house. Can’t picture much selection along the North African coast, some dude beating on a clay pot while someone else caterwauls or ululates. He’d change his mind if he heard some Baroque Masses.
MJ got celebrated and had people stick up for him endlessly because they gave him a pass for picking little boys. Same for the mayor of Portland – look at his case and think of he would’ve gotten handled as easily if the subject was female. Had it been girls he may not have escaped justice as easily. Polanski got busy with a 13 year old female model and they still want to prosecute him for it 30 years later. Bob Greene had an affair with a female page who was legal age, 18 or 19, and it ended his newspaper career. If Barney Frank’s roommate was running an escort service that featured underage girls instead of boys, I doubt Frank would have this pass and he remain in Congress. But R. Kelly was able to win, and his record sales rose with his notoriety. Who knows.
Dear mts1:
Who knows what religion Jackson held to? Probably none—at least none that we would recognize.
What you write abut the differences between the molesting of boys and that of girls is true—unless a lesbian is involved. Then it is to be celebrated.
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