NY Rep Blasts Jackson As "Pervert"

[Cicero]

He will end up on a stamp, I predict -- just like Elvis and Sinatra.

The Jehovah's Witnesses Protection stamp.

 

[quixotecoyote]

My conclusion is that we should not have these quasi-religious "celebrations" of the life of any entertainer. They are all pretty flawed and if you start down the perversion/legality rabit hole, it seems to me that it gets pretty complicated and the standards become more about atheitics and personal choices than actual perversions...though, I can see that Elvis' illegal drug abuse could be judged somewhat more lienently than, say, actual pederasty.

Yeah. That.

 

[portlandatheist]

Was Elvis ever found guilty of illegal drug use? (rhetorical)

 

[eeyore1954]

When your kids get sexually abused, you would be OK with the guy paying you 25 million and you be silent about it? dont think so.

No but maybe a parent who is irresponsible enough to let their children have a sleep over with Michael Jackson might

 

[eeyore1954]

Originally Posted by Dictator Cheney

When your kids get sexually abused, you would be OK with the guy paying you 25 million and you be silent about it? dont think so.

No but maybe a parent who is irresponsible enough to let their children have a sleep over with Michael Jackson might

What if you were pretty sure he wouldn't be convicted and you didn't want your children to be subjected to the trial (which can be hard on the victim) would you then take the money. So at least he suffers some kind of punishment.

Or , How about the reverse if your kids didn't get sexually abused, you would be ok with the guy paying you 25 million and you be silent about it? I wouldn't partake in that kind of extortion.

 

[DC]

mmmh ok some good points, the best point did MJ deliver himself, he seem to really have slept naked with a boy in bed. thats sick enough for me.

amazing how many great entertainers have very shadowy sides in their private live.

 

[headscratcher4]

Was Elvis ever found guilty of illegal drug use? (rhetorical)

Was Jackson ever found guilty of pederasty or child abuse?

These are not noble men. They are deeply flawed. It saddens me that our culture spends so much time on them.

As someone on one of the political blogs pointed out: where's the mourning and public grief over the American deaths in Iraq or Afghanistan?

I just find the whole Jackson spectical incredibly depressing.

 

[johnny karate]

Can you think of reasons why others, then, did not take advantage of the sexual molestation gravy train?

Yes.

 

[dudalb]

Was Elvis ever found guilty of illegal drug use? (rhetorical)

Elvis's problem was with abuse of legal prescription drugs, not illegal drugs.
And that is the trap. A lot of celebs tell themsleves "I do not have a drug problem. I do not use Illegal drugs. I only take drugs prescribed by a doctor" managing to surpress that they have, in essence, bribed doctors into writing the said prescriptions. It is a sad, sad, story. Hopefully this might finally blow the whole scandal of "Showbiz Doctors" wide open.

 

[Matthew Best]

If it didn't happen when Elvis died, (or when Anna Nicole Smith died), then I don't see any particular reason it should happen now.

 

[Darth Rotor]

The idol worship of MJ is pathetic. So is the Elvis and JFK worship.

This legislative official popping off about this is pathetic squared. He's not in LA, and has a hell of a lot of work to do in his home state about New York stuff.

I say to this elected crook official: Stay in your lane, mister.

 

[BPSCG]

As I understand it, King wasn't just "popping off." He was trying to block a congressional resolution sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Moonbattia):

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shut the door Thursday to a resolution honoring Michael Jackson because debate on the symbolic measure could raise "contrary views" about the pop star's life.

Lawmakers are free to use House speeches "to express their sympathy or their praise any time that they wish," said Pelosi, D-Calif. "I don't think it's necessary for us to have a resolution."

A resolution sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, cites some of the singer's charitable acts and proclaims him an American legend, musical icon and world humanitarian.

Even before Pelosi's comments, some Democrats said privately they did not support the resolution and a divisive debate would hurt House efforts to muster the votes for priorities such as health care and climate change.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who posted a video on YouTube calling Michael Jackson a "pervert" and a "pedophile," has pledged to do all he could to block the resolution.

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