Our Elected Idiots Honor Michael Jackson While Dishonoring Our Country

This must be the worst bunch of politicians in the history of the USA. People of low culture, vulgarians, lacking even an ounce of refinement or grace. What an embarrassment. So mortifying that we have these thugs in any office with authority. Now they have Franken too…one of their own.

@GaffaUK:
and OJ didn’t kill anyone. The US like other western democracies, is all about money. You have the best trial lawyers, you get off. Plus, the fact is you are pointing to a nuance more than you are making any real point.. to me it would be the same effect if all of a sudden Madonna or Britney spears died from sudden lighting bolts out of the sky. They are pop culture celebrities. They contributed entertainment to us all. Wow… I rank being entertained right up there with eating cotton candy.

Agreed with DaNang… the “innocent” bit in public eyes vs jury. On the second molestation suit, Jackson was indeed being taken to the cleaners by a professional lawsuit type of family with a history of screaming abuse for cash. You’ll find even the much maligned Rush Limbaugh echoing my comments on that. He was set up, and deservedly found innocent.

The first lawsuit that Jackson settled was his downfall. The police, stripping Jackson nude to examine if the child’s “description” of him was close enough to be considered viable evidence – was the mitigating factor in the settlement decision for Jackson. The “description” was to vague to determine any proof of intimacy, but it also led to Jackson – rather like Howard Hughes in many ways – settling the lawsuit just to halt the process which turned excruciatingly humiliating. Little did he know that he tarnished his reputation by doing so, and set himself up for future lawsuits.

I, personally, am not convinced one way or another about Jackson INRE these leveled pediphile charges. In one way that suggests he was a very sexual person when I really got the impression he was very asexual. He’s often said he just doesn’t care about that physical pleasure, and I’m not sure sure I disbelieve that. He was an odd bird at best.

But I’m personally not going to dwell on unproven legal accusations, nor pronounce judgment. He was an extraordinary talent with music that, on the whole, I enjoyed immensely. And for all his gifts and wealth, he was such a very sad character.

His ultimate judge will be God… not me. I shall miss his music and presence in the artistic world.

However I certainly agree that a Congressional moment of silence is completely inappropriate. If they feel the need to honor the dead, they should do it daily for our warriors… not a music icon.

@Liam

Not only does raises questions over MJ – but also why did the parents let this go on? If your kid accused someone of molesting them – would you take money to be hushed up? Seems there are two pausible possibilities – either MJ did abuse children and he got away with it OR he was a bizarre guy who wanted to play and sleep beside kids to somehow recreate the childhood he feels never had. Either way the first trial never happened which casts shadows over all parties involved and the second did go to court and MJ was shown not be guilty. It like those cases where men are accused of rape but they are proven to be not guilty by their peers and yet so many others believed they did based on gossip and opinions. People do try to blackmail others for financial gain. We should accept such verdicts. Unless you want some kind of ’socialised’ law system where the rich can’t buy hot shot lawyers and we all have exactly the same service?;)

As for your central point – yes I agree. Not really appropriate but so many things like that are inappropriate. Why should Nixon shake hands with Elvis in the whitehouse – didn’t he have better things to do? Should the Queen have given MBEs to the Beatles? I don’t think it’s a big deal. Our modern culture is obsessed with celebrity. And I guess MJ was more than just a guy who sang and danced. To some in that he broke racial barriers and after the troubles in the 50s and 60s that counts for something. Sometimes such celebrities have more clout than elected politicians.

Basically this is NY state, a welfare driven, tax and spend organization that when they don’t get their way feel that they were wronged somehow. In my opinon I don’t see this hurting them in the political arena at all, the people that vote for them only care about whether their welfare checks get there on time and the social programs continue.

He is not be qualified to work as a member of local, state or federal law enforcement. He would never receive security clearance in the United States military.

Yet he is qualified to serve as the United States’ president and commander-in-chief — with access to our company’s greatest military and security secrets.

Something’s wrong with this picture.