"Pedophile Freak"--I mean, MJ, Trying to Avoid Bankruptcy

Published on April 13, 2006 By Gideon MacLeish In Current Events

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060413/ts_nm/media_sony_jackson_dc

Michael Jackson, of baby dangling, moonwalking, and child molesting (excuse me, I mean ALLEGED child molesting) fame is making a deal to avoid bankruptcy. Oddly enough it's a deal that everyone (everyone, that is, but apparently Michael) has seen coming for more than twenty years from this extremely talented entertainer who seems to be able to afford everything but that which he needs most: a decent shrink.

While it's fun to point fingers at Michael Jackson and laugh, his life has become a great tragedy as his incredible talent has been squandered by his apparently complete lack of self control. On the now infamous British documentary on Michael Jackson, he is seen on a shopping spree that seems more like a skit designed for "Saturday Night Live" than it does for a scene from anyone's real life. We've watched as he's erected what may be the largest amusement park ever designed solely for the amusement of a single person, and as he has had children produced apparently to further his amusement. We've watched as he bought his way out of one accusation of sexual abuse and was acquitted on another because of the simple fact that the family that accused him may have consisted of the one person on the planet actually SLEAZIER than Michael Jackson. We've watched as he's metamorphosized his face through multiple plastic surgeries into a freak of nature that is, quite frankly, hard to look at. And we've watched as he has squandered an incredible fortune built by selling over 300 albums worldwide, massive merchandising revenues dating almost back to the day he crawled out of his cradle, and profits from the Beatles songs he so infamously purchased the rights to many years ago. He has been the subject of many tabloid stories because, quite frankly, he's been a parody of himself for so many years.

But the parody's not funny anymore. It's tragic. While Jackson has not been found guilty on the speculative charges of child molestation, his insistence on sharing his bed with prepubescent males will always be suspect. He continues to find fewer and fewer people willing to justify his behaviour, and, in fact, has moved out of the country because of this. His ability to produce hits is suspect, and his starpower has faded greatly in this hemisphere, other than being good fodder to sell tabloids.

I have always believed that the line between good art and insanity is extremely fine; perhaps it's one Michael Jackson could only moonwalk on for so long. He has left an indelible mark on American culture, but it's a mark that's fast being painted over by the sideshow freak he has become.

Comments

bakerstreet

on Apr 13, 2006

Meh, his beatles song rights are worth a billion or so. He ain't broke by any standard other than the la-la land world he lives in. I don't think he'll ever really live in the US again anyway. He's a target now, and will be from now on. Between people who believe him to be a child molester and others who don't know if he is but are still going to accuse him for a payday, the US is a dangerous place.

I don't think it takes much of a stretch of the imagination why he ended up where he has. Needless to say a subculture of boy-love and an ability to "work things out" with the government is a big draw...

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