Michael Jackson: Gentle Soul Or “Twisted Sicko”?
July 2nd, 2009, 11:09 AM EDT
Pulling no punches, New York Post columnist Linda Stasi has the most devastating piece on Michael Jackson I’ve seen. While most of the world waxes poetic and ecstatic about his genius and his contributions to society, and his friends talk about his love for his children and goodness, Stasi has the opposite view.
a drug-addled, creepy-beyond-words, accused pedophile who literally bought his children with the help of two brood mares and, apparently, his dermatologist — a group of amoral savages who had no problem giving their kids to a man who looked like the Phantom of the Opera and who behaved like a depraved worm.
You can call it “adoption,” but I call it child-trafficking.
That’s just the warm-up. Then she takes the glove(s) off.
Alan, is she wrong?
Budda Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I don’t think she is wrong…but what do I know ? I’m not a 12 year old boy, or drug dealer.
TDro319 Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Stasi’s a columnist for the New York Post. Nuff said.
flap Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:12 pm
“TDro, you’re a lib. Nuff said.”
TDro319 Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
True dat, Flap….and proud of it.
Peace, Love, Brotherhood.
Kregg Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Alan’s problem is that he puts this stuff out AS IF the piece is inaccurate but never really risks by actually stating that it is or not. If this lady was accurate about Jackson what is Alan’s beef?
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:28 am
As far as the pedophile stuff goes. I think it is important to recognize the fact that he was found innocent in a court of law. Need to have some respect for that process. That being said I would not have been sending my kids to Neverland ranch for a visit.
michael Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Whether or not he actually molested children doesn’t change that his behavior when it came to children was inappropriate. No grown man should be sleeping in the same bed as somebody else’s children. I don’t care whether it’s sexual or not.
flap Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Amen, Michael.
hhhhhah Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Why not, if he was proven innocent you should of sent your kids to play with him.
The courts are correct 100% of the time.
OJ didn’t do it, and Clinton never lied.
RDM Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:40 pm
I have fee tickets for a concert in the park this weekend for a new group.
The Jackson 4.
Howard K Fluffenburger Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:17 pm
and he also settled out of court on a case or two so they say…I dont know for sure but I think he was a diddler, which is bad …really bad……..shakes head slowly and walks away
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Twisted is a good word to describe this subject.
The popularity of this subject leads me to believe that he had power of many people, and they wanted to believe that he was good, was kind, was not warped.
REMEMBER…. Obama may have directed the media to distract the public in order to take eyes off his latest plans to change of gov’t.
People are sooo naïve…. keep your eyes on the road ahead!
The economy, the changes being made should be the focus.
pierre Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Very good,
Mini, Rush Limbaugh! You want him/the country
to fail as well.
To reconstruct a burned house, it takes money and time.
Rush just like you wanted the new president to fail 24hrs post inauguration(remember the interview of Sean-boy with el limbo).
That shame-boy is even promoting that every should remove their money from the market/investment.
What a great American!!!
jasperjava Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Obama may have directed the media to distract the public in order to take eyes off his latest plans to change of gov’t.
That’s the most insanely paranoid piece of garbage I’ve read in quite a while.
Maybe Obama MURDERED Michael Jackson in order to distract the media from his nefarious socialist schemes.
Maybe he also did it to hush up the truth about a three-way he had with MJ and Larry Sinclair in the back of a limousine.
Maybe Michael Jackson was present at Obama’s birth in Kenya. He would have been two years old at the time, but maybe he remembered it and was going to talk!
Maybe Michael Jackson was the only person standing between Obama and his dream of a Soviet Socialist Republic of America.
The Right has been taken over by paranoid psychotics.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:54 pm
I’ll take twisted sicko for 500 Alan.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:04 pm
This is like a CHESS GAME
Who feels that IMPEACHMENT may be our best move, the changes are going to cost everything we hold dear.
Times are hard – can we afford this?
Questions for you:
Has Obama provided a birth certificate to provide the prerequisites needed to rule?
Did he say that he would not raise taxes on the middle class?
Will the middle class survive the CHANGE?
Will there be just 2 classes- the elite and the low class peasants in the future?
Will change slide more middle class American’s down to become struggling class AMERICANS?
Why did Walmart switch lanes?
Please answer or comment on any question above.
JaredfromTexas Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:13 pm
SMITH,
Has Obama provided a birth certificate to provide the prerequisites needed to rule?
Yes.
Did he say that he would not raise taxes on the middle class?
No. He said he wouldn’t raise taxes on anyone making less than $250K…in either case…he’s failed (”sin tax).
blissfulconservative Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Jared
I think the number started at 250, but it got lower and lower the closer to the election he got.
JaredfromTexas Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:19 pm
BLISS,
I think, if I remember correctly, it was other Dems who kept lowering the number…and not Obama. I’m sure he stayed steady with $250K.
blissfulconservative Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:24 pm
I think obama started with families making under 250 and individuals under 200, then switched to families making under 200,000, then Biden said families making under 150,000.
JaredfromTexas Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
BLISS,
I can’t remember…I’ll have to look it up.
blissfulconservative Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:14 pm
NO, the middle class won’t survive and my guess is that would be great for a lot of folks who want everyone to be totally dependent on the government.
pierre Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Keep on reading Jerome Corsi’s books.
And you will get the answers when chicken develops
teeth.
Or you can wait for 8 more years for your favorite candidate that can ran an issued-oriented campaign.
blissfulconservative Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
What makes you think I’ll have to wait 8 years?
jasperjava Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:38 pm
You’re right: after President Obama is overwhelmingly re-elected in 2012, there will be a groundswell of support for repealing the 22nd Amendment so that he can run again. You may have to wait until 2020 before you even have a chance to regain the White House.
Daddio Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
A-la Hugo Chavez, right Jasperjava. Is that what you really want? Maybe you’re just kidding. :)
jasperjava Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:35 pm
I dare the Republicans to try to impeach Obama. The President is popular, and he enjoys the support of the majority of the people. Most people recognize that the economic crisis started before he became President, and that he’s trying to fix the mess left behind by his predecessor.
Even if they are nervous about his solutions, people genuinely like Obama and wish him to succeed. Republicans talking about impeachment would destroy the GOP. Independents amd moderate Republicans (what’s left of them) would desert the party in droves.
So yeah, let the extreme right-wing nuts keep talking about impeachment! You’re digging your own political grave.
EricG Reply:
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:09 am
“This is like a CHESS GAME”
Sure is.
And we Democrats are playing chess while you guys drool and chew on the pieces.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I read the ‘most devastating piece’. It’s a passionate rant, nothing more. Alan, do you personally know Linda Stasi? Is this post just a friend promoting (over-hyping) another friend’s writing? I don’t have suggestions about what you should write about (It’s you’re blog.), but I’m extremely unimpressed. The dark side of Jacko is not the story I want to read about (as a liberal, nor as a conservative, the two hats *I* wear)
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Linda Stasi like the rest of the media are still morbidly fixated on Jackson’s death. Pretty sick to me.
TDro319 Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:58 pm
I agree, CRH3E
EricG Reply:
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:59 am
What’s sick to me is not that they are covering it but how much of it is all about the accusations against him and drug use when if Jerry Falwell dies we all don’t start talking about Larry Flint’s ads against him or if Elvis dies we all don’t start talking about morbid obsesity on the TV all day.
I heard some in the black community say that they felt it was racially biased but I think it’s just dirty-laundry is all the media cares about and honoring people’s memory is getting harder for them by the day.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:39 pm
If she really did have a friend that their kind was molested–why did she wait so long to report it?????? Thats pretty irresponsible on her part.
jasperjava Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:41 pm
That’s a pretty unfeeling comment. Confused young people who go through an ordeal like that suffer from terrible stigma and guilty feelings. It can sometimes take years before they are ready to confront their abusers.
placefield Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Yes that is a pretty tricky subject. I have a friend that was molested by her step father when she was young. I met her in her early twenties and she was just starting to remember that this even happened to her. The memory was completely suppressed. It wasn’t until years later after the jerk died that the kids started to talk to each other (quite a few kids and step kids due to multiple marriages) and it turns out this happened to almost all of them. None of them reported it Adults have a lot of power over kids.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:49 am
my dad was in a religious position that he had occasion to talk to people as they went through the repentance process…He recounted a conversation that he had with one pedophile (who is in jail now I believe) and he simply asked, how did this go on for so long, and the guy said, it’s easy, you tell the kid that something horrible is going to happen to them or their parents and they’ll never talk. Pretty sick.
TDro319 Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:33 pm
That’s a good question, Suzanne. If this columnist had information on the alledged child abuse, why DIDN’T she report it?
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:50 am
media aren’t mandatory reporters…but it doesn’t mean they don’t have a conscience.
EricG Reply:
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 am
Mandated reporting doesn’t fall on all of us.
I know personal secrets and other things only because people know I’d never pick up the phone under some kind of mandate and they won’t listen to me to urge them to take it forward.
If nobody will hear someone without someone getting locked up then most times nobody talks at all. Which is worse than at least getting it off your chest.
This is one where reality is not friendly. And most people would never admit it but they would rather not know about any of it in the first place. Someone has to stand up.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
July 4th, 2009 at 2:35 am
some people are mandatory reporters, school teachers, counselors, and a few other people (I’m not sure if that’s a state by state issue, but it’s true in my state)
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
yes, but this writer claims to have first hand knowledge of this abuse. This should have been reported, and exposed at the time, not in a caustic column after the singers death is my point.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:37 pm
“You can call it “adoption,” but I call it child-trafficking.”
And I call this piece and Linda Stasi immoral and repugnant.
To disgrace the dead so soon after his passing. Truly disgusting and vile people do such things.
Lee Reply:
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:19 am
I think the point is that right now many people are acting as if Nelson Mandela has died..
Nothing she writes in this column is really new.. These allegations have been out there for years. However, if MJ really was as depraved as depicted here, even considering his musical genius and hugely positive impact in not just music but possibly society as a whole, should we really be worshipping his memory in the way we’ve seen over the past few days?
I personally think on balance, that he deserves the benefit of the doubt and therefore this should not be rehashed so soon. However I think this is a good thought-provoking article in at least posing the question here due to the dramatic way people have reacted.
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 am
On talk radio I often here patriotic statements: My America, I love America, I buy American, Support America, etc. So, taking another view of Michael Jackson, why did he not opt to hold his final performances in America, like California and give it a nice little economic boost? Instead he was going to hold his performances in London, helping out those hotels, restaurants, taxi companies, etc. Sorry if I am off base here, but I am really stretched to find anything good about Michael Jackson as a person. A great performer who was at the top of his profession some years ago is a given. But, can anyone tell me how he has helped others. I am not saying that he (or anyone) has to donate money or set up foundations for cancer research or something, but if he had, then that would count towards being a great person. Doing your job well and then spending the spoils on yourself does not make you a great person, just a “regular” person.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
July 4th, 2009 at 5:01 am
I think he was going to perform in London, because it was a huge deal worth a lot of money. I don’t think it was going to necessarily be his last run of shows, although there was some speculation of that, I don’t think it came from his mouth.
I think I heard he was going to get paid at least 1 mil per show.
July 4th, 2009 at 4:41 am
sorry…I meant to say: I often hear patriotic statements…just noticed my error. Sorry about that.
July 4th, 2009 at 4:42 am