Weren’t we already done with this guy? Wasn’t everybody saying how lucky he was that MJ kicked off when he did, eclipsing Sanford’s ugly public whipping? [see here and here]

You’d think he’d have been practically weeping while thanking his super-lucky stars for a reprieve from the unblinking spotlight. Instead, he’s apparently been jealous of the shifting attention. A fresh round of head-scratching and outrage began today as a number of his new statements hit the media, painting him as someone who is deeply flawed and needlessly forthcoming about his private life, to the point of surely hurting and embarrassing his family even more than they are already.

Why in the world would somebody do this? Simple: it’s because he’s an unhappy Republican. He’s finally coming clean about how hard it is to live within the impossible confines of perfect patriotism, patriarchy and Love for Jesus, and now he just can’t dam the catharsis. These lonely cries for attention make for some very sad, brutal stuff.

AP Newsbreak: SC gov ‘crossed lines’ with women

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he “crossed lines” with a handful of women other than his mistress — but never had sex with them.

The governor says he “never crossed the ultimate line” with anyone but Maria Belen Chapur, the Argentine at the center of a scandal that has derailed Sanford’s once-promising political career…

He says that during the other encounters he “let his guard down” with some physical contact but “didn’t cross the sex line.” He wouldn’t go into detail.

Sanford said the casual encounters happened outside the U.S. while he was married but before he met Chapur.

Wow. You can bet that his wife doesn’t want to hear all the pointed details, so why the hell is he going on about it publicly? It’s pretty obvious, actually–petty selfishness. And he’s doing all this after the breaking Jackson story? Terrific.

Sanford Calls Mistress His ‘Soul Mate’

COLUMBIA, S.C. (CBS) ―South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford called his Argentine mistress his “soul mate” Tuesday, but said that he would try to fall back in love with his wife…

In a lengthy and emotional interview with The Associated Press in his Statehouse office Tuesday, the governor described five meetings with Maria Belen Chapur over the past year, including two romantic, multi-night stays with her in New York before they met there again intending to break up.

What the hell? That’s fucked. But there’s even more:

The once-promising presidential prospect said he is committed to reconciling with his wife, but professed to The Associated Press his continued love for the Argentine woman at the center of the firestorm that gutted his political future.

In emotional interviews with the AP over two days, he said he would die “knowing that I had met my soul mate.”…

Sanford insisted his relationship with Maria Belen Chapur, whom he met at an open air dance spot in Uruguay eight years ago, was more than just sex.

“This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story,” Sanford said. “A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day.”

What a self-centered little douchebag. Oh, you’re really getting the public to sympathize with you, Sanford, you poor unfortunate romantic. I’m sure no one will care about the damage you’ve done to your family, or how hurtful all today’s comments will be to your wife and kids, we’re really just worried about your broken heart and shattered ambitions.

I can’t imagine how the kids are going to have to deal with all these additional revelations, including the fact that Mom was a mistake: the unexciting ‘not soul-mate’, that should sit pretty well with them.

This is why it’s a bad idea to be a Republican. At some point, the idiotic confines of public perfection and the high-wire morality march become too much to bear any more, and everything’s gonna break, and then you’re gonna act like an even bigger douchebag than you already are.

And will the right-wing finally wake up to the impossible demands they make of their politicians for the convenience of using ‘values’ to bludgeon the left? Or how these demands destroy more potential leaders than they create? Hell no.

Instead, they’ll just try to beat us with it like they do everything else. This is an actual ‘Red State’ post written in the aftermath of the Sanford fiasco, I’m not making this up:

To majority media and other Democrats : we police our own, and you don’t get to judge

By all means report the facts. I’m sure you’ll be happy to cover every salacious detail. Have at it. Be sure to cover the pain and suffering of Governor Sanford’s family. While you are at it, cover the depth to which all South Carolina and nation-wide Republicans and conservatives rightly feel betrayed.

Beyond that, just shut up. Shut your lying, hypocritical, power-above-patriotism, hyper-partisan, two-faced, shamelessly double-standard bearing pie hole.

You don’t get to judge.

The Library of Congress could hardly contain chapter and verse of the multitudes of ways the press and the other Democrats have gotten away with judging Republicans by wholly different standards than that applied to Democrats. But that double standard is both obvious and as wide as the Grand Canyon. You show no honor, no equity, no fairness, and no scruples yourselves. You, to put it mildly, do not police your own.

So, spare us your mock outrage, your tut-tutting, your finger-wagging, your eyebrows furrowed in anger. If you are well and truly outraged by Mark Sanford’s adultery, but could not trouble yourself to muster even a little mild disapproval against the cretin who wiped his feet with the honor of the office of President of the United States, then you are a hypocrite yourself of the lowest stripe. You are unworthy to judge.

So just shut up.

Ah, rebellion.

And when was the last time TMZ got it wrong? Now all you tools who’ve been telling me the famous child molester ‘..really loved women, he was totally married two times!‘ can just STFU. He never so much as touched Debbie Rowe.

I wondered why the kids were so completely white-skinned, now I guess I know why. Maybe that’s also why he always had them running around in masks, didn’t want to have to answer any of the obvious questions about the way they looked.

So the guy developed a condition that rendered his skin blotchy, and instead of choosing brown makeup to cover it up, he choose porcelain white. And he didn’t like his normal, perfectly good African-American nose, and instead chose a white sorority girl’s to model. And then he chose white sperm and egg donors, and a white surrogate mother to start a family. Nothing troubling there at all, just a normal guy.

So what are the odds the kids have no idea they’re not remotely related to the King of Pop? As weird and as secretive as Michael was, that’s pretty much a lock, and now they get to find that out in the next couple of weeks, terrific. What are the odds the Jackson clan didn’t know? Pretty high, I’m betting–they all didn’t even seem to like each other, or spend any time together. You can practically hear Jackson thinking: ‘If I tell them, then one way or another they will end up telling the kids–I have to protect them from that.’ Michael probably just wanted to keep the whole thing his special secret. God knows what he was telling the kids as far as why Mommy didn’t want to see them, or why they didn’t really look like Dad, or any of the aunts, uncles or grandparents.

And what does this mean, if anything, to the Jackson menagerie and their fight for the now ultra-super-rich kids? Debbie Rowe may have been legally married to Jackson, but it was a sham, a marriage arranged to cover the surrogacy and race issues surrounding the kids’ births.

And none of the original Jackson clan are related in any way to the children, they just as well could be you, or me. Michael the freak, even in death, continues to entertain…

Jackson/Rowe Not the Biological Parents

We’ve learned Michael Jackson was not the biological father of any of his children. And Debbie Rowe is not the biological mother of the two kids she bore for Michael. All three children were conceived in vitro — outside the womb.

We know there are documents outlining the whole arrangement for the birth of all three kids. Nonetheless, it’s still an open issue with the courts.
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More entertainment:
–Don’t bother to mourn the child molester.
–If he wasn’t a child molester, good luck with these questions.
–Amazing similarities between Elvis and Jackson’s decline and death.
–Top 5 enchanting Jackson-related stories.

Well, we have an early candidate for Comprehensive Dumbfuck Post of the Year now. Robert Stacy McCain, who writes for the Moonie funded Washington Times and for his blog “The Other McCain”, has dropped this Sarah Palin-rescuing load of really twisted Conservative crap on the internet [see here and here for background]. It’s so appallingly dumb and so loaded with his robust bigotry on ‘how gay people really are’ that there’s little doubt the real reason he bothered to write it was only this: ‘You know what? YOU guys are GAY! HA!‘ Which then puts him additionally in the category of narcissist.

This is pretty much it: ‘I know what’s really going on here–you guys are actually gay, and that makes you defective losers because my genius superpowers of gay observation figured out how you guys really are–yuck.’ And then, the piece de resistance: ‘Actually, I have no idea who you are.’

So why would a writer leap to a conclusion that someone else is gay, and therefore intellectually hamstrung and defective, only to write that he has no idea who this someone actually is? ‘YOU guys are GAY! HA!’, that’s why.

It takes small people to stoop this low

Says Professor William Jacobson regarding Wonkette’s despicable treatment of Sarah Palin’s year-old son, Trig. And I would amend the professor’s sentiments only to improve them by saying, “It takes gay men to stoop this low.”

Yeah, I just wrote that. And put it on the Internet.

Just an awesome start, if you’d like to be seen as some eternally stupid asshole. Straight folks can be scum, sure, but if you really want to see some low-life shit, you need gay men.

We could reference Susan Sontag’s Notes On Camp here, or we could invite comment from various rogue lesbians — Tammy Bruce, Camille Paglia, Cynthia Yockey — who from time to time have criticized gay culture in a way that certainly cannot be denounced as “homophobic.” But rather than make an argumentum ad vericundiam, let me defend my own argument on the basis of personal observation:

Now McCain is pretending to be smart here, which is a sure tip off, since he’s a typical Conservative, that a simpleton’s argument is now crammed in the web cannon. If we were smarter, we’d take cover…

*Gay men have mother issues. This has been a subject of much controversy. Freud’s view of homosexuality as a species of mental illness, and the resulting conception of homosexuality as a psychopathology requiring therapeutic intervention, has wrought much mischief over the years. Yet Freud was certainly correct to think of homosexuality as an [sic] matter of development with roots in early childhood, particularly in the parent-child relationship. No need to indulge in elaborate symbolism or references to Greek mythology (Freud was full of crap about that) to say this: It is obvious that most gay men can’t get past the “female = Mom” hurdle in their minds. We could discuss that at length, but this is a blog, not an advanced psychology text, so let’s move on.

Where do I begin to torch this overinflated zeppelin of hydrogen stupidity? Gay men have mother issues. Why? It’s been controversial, Freud caused mischief, then he was totally right, then he was totally wrong. And gay men just can’t get past the “female = Mom” hurdle, and let’s not go on here like an advanced psychology text although I certainly could.

What the FUCK? There are six sentences in that paragraph, and none of them are connected to each other, other than by mention of Freud. It’s classic Conservative writing, everything moves forward by secret association and kabuki logic.

BOB: “Gay men have mother issues.”

BOB: “Well, I write on the internet.”

The guy wants to talk ‘mother issues’ and mysterious hurdles, but can’t even tell you what he thinks those things are, why he believes they exist, why they’re important or how they’re relevant to Wonkette posting photoshopped pictures of Sarah Palin’s kid.

And if I’ve interpreted McCain’s nonsense correctly, isn’t the “‘female = Mom’ hurdle” only a real problem for straight men? I know I would never want to date my Mom. If the ‘hurdle’ exists for gays, then they’d be stuck thinking all women are ‘Mom’. I’d very much doubt they’d want to poke fun at Sarah Palin then, that’d make them pretty uncomfortable, right? Dumbshit obviously didn’t think twice about what he was writing, he was likely too satisfied with the triumphal insult of calling people ‘gay.’

Anyways, here are more of his horrific ‘insights’ into what gay people are actually like:

* Gay men are gynophobic. Which is to say, they are repulsed by the basic physical equipment of female sexuality. They’ve got no admiration for your vajayjay, ladies…

* Gay male culture is profoundly misogynistic. One of the most absurd claims of feminism is that the fashion industry’s mistreatment of women…is a manifestation of oppressive patriarchal sexism. This is a lie that could only deceive anyone so stupid they don’t notice that all men in the fashion industry are gay. To the extent that the Vogue and Cosmo are misognystic hate literature (as all Women’s Studies majors are taught), it is because they represent the typical gay man’s view of women.

* The normalization of gay culture requires the derogation of traditional female roles… One reason lesbians like Cynthia Yockey become disenchanted with the Official Gay Movement is the recognition that they’re riding in the back of the Equality Bus, and that the feminist “sisterhood” has made a cynical deal with the misogynistic gay-male Devil.

Now you see why I can claim this post as a ‘Dumbfuck #1′ candidate.

More campaigning:

…feminists are essentially correct in saying that in traditional societies women’s status is dependent upon their success in the wife-mother role. Let a woman gain fame and fortune, let her amass wealth and power and, in a traditional society, these achievements will not win her widespread admiration unless she is also a devoted wife and mother.

That there are in contemporary America successful female “role models” who are single and childless (e.g., Oprah) is testimony to how far we are from being a traditional society. Yet it is still the fact that the overwhelming majority of young women, imagining their futures, do not dream of reaching midlife as barren spinsters. (Yeah, I just wrote that. And put it on the Internet.)

So now he’s insulting women too.

Given the choice between being Oprah and Sarah Palin, then, most young women would rather be like Sarah — and not merely because Todd is such a tasty hunk of prime beef.

And now all the gay folks have fallen out of their chairs. Well, at least you’re laughing.

…just as the traditional family model celebrates a certain kind of woman, it also celebrates a certain kind of man — the kind of man the gay man is emphatically not. Furthermore, the domestic wife-mother type of woman is a universal object of horror and ridicule in gay culture.

So we return to Ken Layne and Wonkette’s vicious hostility toward Sarah Palin, a hostility quite sufficient to encompass even one-year-old Trig. Is Ken Layne actively and exclusively homosexual? I don’t know, and it’s irrelevant to the point that this type of hostility toward Palin — a hostility focused laser-like on her maternal qualities — is a classic expression of gay-male “camp” culture.

Amazing. McCain has gone all this way to tell everybody how this anti-Palinism is absolutely borne out of people being gay, and that the inherent defects of ‘those people’ are then manifested in public. So, Ken Layne, the guy who runs Wonkette, must be gay? “I don’t know, and it’s irrelevant…” Well, so much for this entire post, we can throw this into the trash right now, thanks for wasting our time.

The defect at Wonkette is a problem of who people are, but you have no idea who Ken Layne or anyone else at Wonkette is. Well then, this is just an insulting, stupid, bigoted diatribe aimed at all gay people in general, right? What a terrific guy Robert Stacy McCain is.

And if that doesn’t make you all utterly despise this shameless ass, try reading the rest of this awful, brutal post:

So it is with my gay friends… Does Bruce [Majors] fit the description of the Oedipal-conflicted misogynistic gynophobe hostile to the traditional family?…If Bruce is prejudiced against the vajayjay, that’s his own business. And if my own preference for the vajayjay borders on the monomanical — I’m a father of six, after all — that’s between me and Mrs. Other McCain.

The anti-Palin agenda of Wonkette therefore expresses the attitude of an extremely un-libertarian type of gay man, a man who is not at all like my friend, Bruce Majors.

So whether or not Ken Layne is actually gay, there can be no doubt that Ken Layne is a vicious cocksucker.

Yeah, I just wrote that. And put it on the Internet.

Wow.

Since so many disappointed people are hanging on to my little political site, calling me an asshole, a moron, a retard for pointing out that a child molester’s dying isn’t necessarily all bad (makes it hard for them to terrorize any more teens), I realize that they might be waiting for some acknowledgment of the beloved entertainer’s penchant for sweetness and light. Some simpatico in agreeing that Specialness did, indeed, flood pink-perfumed wonderful into this colorless world.

Jackson fans, you got it…

5.) Michael Jackson’s Chimp Bubbles Tried to Commit Suicide in 2003.

The year seems to be ending on a bad note for some of the male pop-stars on the international scene. Several of them are battling law-suits or the ire of fans. Heading the list is Michael Jackson, who was formally charged with child-molestation last week…

Adding distress to the singers plight was the fact that his favourite pet, a chimpanzee named Bubbles tried to commit suicide. The chimp was rushed to the hospital in time.

4.) Mr. Potato Head, Previously Known to Be Inanimate, Pukes.

3.) Louie The Llama’s Baby Kin Torn Apart by Dogs.

2.) Jackson’s Nanny Routinely Pumped His Stomach to Keep Him Alive.

[Grace Rwaramba] paints a grim picture of Jackson, sometimes penniless but deluded about his “riches”, leading a nomadic life, moving from country to country and hotel to hotel, before allegedly falling under the increasing influence of the Nation of Islam, the extremist sect.

Jackson is believed to have been taking up to eight different drugs a day, including three narcotic painkillers. Rwaramba, who is expected to be interviewed by detectives about whether she helped administer the drugs, said: “I had to pump his stomach many times. He always mixed so much of it.”

1.) Jackson’s Youngest Child Is Named Hex Bolt Blanket.

Selections from My Name is Blanket
© 2046 Blanket Jackson
As told to Paul Ford

My father Michael wanted to protect us, to give us inauspicious, normal lives free of the media spotlight. He accomplished this: by allowing documentary filmmakers to record our childhoods, by dressing us in feathered Mardi Gras masks and gauze when we left the ranch, and by dangling me out of a window with a towel on my head. In retrospect, the logic of his parenting was ambiguous at best. Nonetheless, I had my own giraffe.

My name was a problem. I had no regular playmates, aside from my siblings and the occasional busload of orphans. But on the occasions when the ranch had any visitors my own age or slightly older, they would call me Pillow, or, if they were French children, Duvet.

Just how stupid are Palin and her fans? It is a fathomless question.

Wonkette Goes After Trig Palin Again

It really is hard to understand why some adults feel the need to make fun of Trig Palin, a one-year old who has Down Syndrome. Politics alone cannot explain it. If you don’t like Sarah Palin, fine, but why go after Trig?

…Now Wonkette has taken Biegel’s Photoshop antics as an excuse to go after Trig anew. In a recent post, Wonkette promoted and joked about even cruder Photoshops of Trig at the Something Awful web forum, where people can post anonymously. Wonkette even included one of these photoshops [below] in its post while mocking Trig as the “New Jesus,” “Holy Infant” and “Sacred One.”

Why did Wonkette use the ‘religious’ language? Here. Read the evil, acrid Wonkette post below at your own risk. Obviously, photoshoppers don’t give a damn about the narcissistic Alaska Governor, her shameless ambition, or her endless campaign for the Presidency. They just want to hurt the 1 year old kid.

Sarah Palin Will Soon Condemn, Bomb Entire Internet

The Virgin Palin, Our Lady of Eternal Anger, gave birth to the New Jesus at some point last year — or not, who knows, and now Andrew Sullivan just cares about Iran (which is a good thing!) so we’ll never find out the truth — and ever since it has been both a Cardinal/Venial Sin and Sharia Law that no mortal shall “desecrate” an image of the Sacred One … no one but Sarah Palin herself, because Allah both allows and encourages the use of the Holy Infant as a cheap political prop as long as such cruel hackery is performed by the Virgin Palin herself.

Palin’s fury was such, when she found out some blog “on the Internet” had combined a picture of her cradling one of her Magic Babies together with a picture of her Jedi Master, some dingbat old radio talk-show clown in Alaska, that she did verily send her dumbest disciple, “Brother Meg,” to start a Jihad against the Entire Internet.

But we know what happens when a fear-and-anger crazed Snow Witch starts a vain war she can never hope to win: The Internet Strikes Back.

Which is to say, Palin basically poked a stick in the world’s largest beehive filled with cheap & tireless insanity, and the SomethingAwful.com goons have unleashed a pack of Photoshop Dogs From Hell to make the most incredible collection of Sarah Palin Desecration Images in the History of Time, the end.

So Wonkette made fun of the dense, endlessly self-centered and always-politically-attacking Palin and her supporters by posting even more hilariously photoshopped pics? And Palinites responded by doing exactly the same robotic thing they were mocked for?

Naw, we just hate babies, can’t help it.

On July 13, 1976, Presley’s father fired “Memphis Mafia” bodyguards Red West, Sonny West and David Hebler. All three were taken by surprise, especially the Wests, who had been with Presley since the beginning of his career. Presley was away in Palm Springs when it happened, and some suggest the singer was too cowardly to face them himself. Vernon Presley cited the need to “cut back on expenses” when dismissing the three, but David Stanley has claimed they were really fired because of becoming more outspoken about Presley’s drug dependency… The Wests and Hebler would later write a devastating indictment of Presley, notably his drug-taking, in the book: Elvis: What Happened?, published August 1, 1977.

Presley had developed many health problems during his life, some of them chronic.[251] Opinions differ regarding the onset of his drug abuse. He did take amphetamines regularly in the army; it has been claimed that pills of some form were first given to him by Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips,[252] but Presley’s friend Lamar Fike has said: “Elvis got his first uppers from what he stole from his mother. Gladys was given Dexedrine to help her with her ‘change of life’ problems.”[227] Priscilla Presley saw “problems in Elvis’ life, all magnified by taking prescribed drugs.” Presley’s physician, Dr. Nichopoulos, has said: “[Elvis] felt that by getting [pills] from a doctor, he wasn’t the common everyday junkie getting something off the street. He… thought that as far as medications and drugs went, there was something for everything.”[202]

…a thread of pain that ran through a remarkable career – and made painkillers all too accessible.

He also said the nanny of Jackson’s children repeatedly contacted him with concerns about Jackson’s drug use over the next four years, and said Jackson would avoid his calls whenever the subject came up.

In Rapid City, “he was so nervous on stage that he could hardly talk… He was undoubtedly painfully aware of how he looked, and he knew that in his condition, he could not perform any significant movement.”[242] His performance in Omaha “exceeded everyone’s worst fears… [giving] the impression of a man crying out for help…”[241] According to Guralnick, fans “were becoming increasingly voluble about their disappointment, but it all seemed to go right past Elvis, whose world was now confined almost entirely to his room and his [spiritualism] books.”[240] A cousin, Billy Smith, recalled how Presley would sit in his room and chat, recounting things like his favorite Monty Python sketches and his own past japes, but “mostly there was a grim obsessiveness…”

[Grace Rwaramba, who] Michael Jackson hired to be nanny to his three children had to regularly pump the pop star’s stomach “to remove dangerous cocktails of drugs,” a newspaper report, published early Sunday, says…

Jackson is believed to have been taking up to eight different drugs a day, including three narcotic painkillers. Rwaramba, who is expected to be interviewed by detectives about whether she helped administer the drugs, said: “I had to pump his stomach many times. He always mixed so much of it.”‘

According to Guralnick: “[D]rug use was heavily implicated… no one ruled out the possibility of anaphylactic shock brought on by the codeine pills… to which he was known to have had a mild allergy.” In two lab reports filed two months later, each indicated “a strong belief that the primary cause of death was polypharmacy,” with one report “indicating the detection of fourteen drugs in Elvis’ system, ten in significant quantity.”[253]

The medical profession has been seriously questioned. Medical Examiner Dr. Jerry Francisco had publicly offered a cause of death while the autopsy was still being performed, but before toxicology results were known. Dr. Francisco dubiously stated that cardiac arrhythmia was the cause of death, a condition that can only be determined in a living person—not post mortem. Many doctors had been flattered to be associated with Presley (or had been bribed with gifts) and supplied him with pills, which simply fed his addictions.[254] The singer allegedly spent at least $1 million annually during his latter years on drugs and doctors’ fees or inducements.[255] Although Dr. Nichopoulos was exonerated with regard to Presley’s death, “In the first eight months of 1977 alone, he had [prescribed] more than 10,000 doses of sedatives, amphetamines, and narcotics: all in Elvis’ name.

Michael Jackson’s death has lifted a veil on the sinister underbelly of fame, with associates of the pop icon hitting out at celebrity-dazzled doctors who funnel powerful narcotics to the stars.

Reports that Jackson had been injected with a powerful painkiller by a personal physician shortly before his death triggered speculation that the star had a ready supply of prescription medications. Days after his death, reports indicated that Jackson took a daily cocktail of Demerol, Vistaril, Soma, Dilaudid, Vicodin, Zoloft, Prilosec, Paxil and Xanax.

Bus fight over news of Michael Jackson’s death lands Fla. man in jail on assault charge

NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials say one passenger chased another down the aisle of a county bus during a fight over news of Michael Jackson’s death.

Wideman allegedly shouted profanities and threats at Kiernan and chased him with a knife. Kiernan wasn’t hurt.

I’m not going to try to talk sense to any more of you fame-lamed zombies on the other thread (Do not bother to mourn Michael Jackson…). You can all just demonstrate your brilliance by tackling this new post.

You all seem to know for sure that the wholly bizarre superstar, Michael Jackson, was not at all the unrepentant criminal he appeared to be, you’re all so much smarter than all the unfortunate people who have first-hand experience witnessing the behavior of child molesters. Well, then, you rigid apologists can certainly handle these questions. Should be a piece of cake for you wise old students of human nature:

If Micheal Jackson was not a child molester…

1.) Why did so many people accuse him of being one?

Pretty simple question. You guys think the accusers are greedy–if they wanted to victimize the poor innocent guy and make a bundle, the jerks had to make something up, right? Why was it always child molestation? Just about the most lurid, disgusting thing imaginable? It might be the hardest thing to prove because it’s so unbelievable, so disturbing.

Tommy Lee, Alec Baldwin settled assault cases, George Harrison, Billy Joel settled plagiarism cases. Libel, slander, negligence, harassment, take your pick. But child molesting is a typically easy, frivolous and successful case to press? Really? And someone will do this even though they’ll be forever known as a sex-crime victim? Really?

This is the bottom line: it’s the STUPIDEST thing to make up out of thin air because NO CELEBRITY WILL EVER SETTLE THE CASE. It’s too awful, too damaging, too destructive–it has to be fought tooth and nail, destroyed. A guaranteed war.

Which obviously brings up the next question…

2.) Why would he settle those cases?

At least three cases. I can’t imagine any person in the world wrongly accused of child molestation ever choosing to settle. Any case. Ever. No matter what. I would choose to throw my career away if I could press any allegation to the ragged ends of the Earth and reclaim my good name. But not the most famous guy on the planet? Even keenly aware that everybody will know that he paid off the alleged victims? Fight for your good name vs. publicly paying off the money-grubbing liars: what’s the problem? It’s a no-brainer. Unless you’re guilty. And then it’s the opposite no-brainer.

3.) Why did he sleep with others’ children?

Don’t give me the ‘innocent’ or ‘harmless’ bullshit. No typical adults ever want to do this. Men especially, for obvious reasons, but he did it over and over again. It’s insane.

Jackson: “It’s very right. It’s very loving, that’s what the world needs now, more love more heart.”
Bashir: “The world needs a man who’s 44 who’s sleeping in a bed with children?”
Jackson: “No, you’re making it – no, no you’re making it all wrong …”
Bashir: “Well, tell me, help me …”
Jackson: “Because what’s wrong with sharing a love? You don’t sleep with your kids? Or some other kid who needs love who didn’t have a good childhood?”
Bashir: “No, no I don’t. I would never dream …”
Jackson: “That’s because you’ve never been where I’ve been mentally …”
Bashir: “What do you think people would say if I said well – ‘I’ve invited some of my daughter’s friends round or my son’s friends round and they are going to sleep in a bed with me tonight’?
Jackson: “That’s fine!”

4.) Why was he ‘grooming’ children?

“Child grooming, in the context of this article, refers to actions deliberately undertaken with the aim of befriending and establishing an emotional connection with a child, in order to lower the child’s inhibitions in preparation for sexual abuse.

Examples of activities sometimes used as part of child grooming

* Taking an undue interest in someone’s child (having a “special” friend)
* Giving gifts or money to the child for no apparent reason
* Showing pornography to the child
* Talking about sexual topics
* Hugging, kissing, or other physical contact even when the child doesn’t want this attention
* Talking to the child about problems that would normally be discussed between people of the same age or more commonly, adults (e.g. marital problems)
* Becoming good friends with the child’s parents in order to gain easy access to their child (e.g. Babysitting)
* Looking for opportunities to have time alone with the child.
* Inviting the child over for sleepovers or sleeping in the same room or bed with someone else’s child.”

That’s a perfect description of Jackson’s private life. Hell, his public life, too. Nobody who isn’t a child molester behaves like this, it’s very disturbing.

5.) After narrowly escaping being found liable in the ’94 Chandler case, why did he return to his unsavory, child-centered life?

If he’s not a child molester, why would he return to behavior that nearly destroyed him and everything he had accomplished? If he knew that greedy criminals could make up and press a wholly groundless case based upon the mere appearance of a child obsession, why again prop up the appearance of a child obsession? If the whole fiasco was the worst, most wrenching event of his life, why wouldn’t he try to avoid a second episode?

“It was a nightmare, a horrifying nightmare.”–Jackson

…but a second episode followed, this time resulting in a criminal case. The guy was also a brilliant businessman and savvy mega-millionaire, but this was a typically good, reasonable decision?

6.) Why couldn’t he have relationships with adult women?

…or adult men, for that matter, or anyone? Gay, straight, whatever. How does anyone carry out a life entirely absent any romantic or sexual interest? Especially a giant, famous life–everybody else like that turns that to their advantage, they choose to have as many partners as they like, or they get the best looking, or richest or most famous.

Michael chose…nobody? Does anybody buy that? The two icons he’s being currently compared to in American life are Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. Those two dudes went through hundreds, maybe thousands of women.

But this is who he ‘married’? This was his passion, the cherished mother of his children?

Although [Rowe] also cited irreconcilable differences as a reason for their divorce in 1999, on 4/27/05 she testified at the Michael Jackson trial that “[we] never shared a home; we never shared an apartment.”

She also stated that she had not seen her children in more than two years. Debbie had been limited to seeing her children only every 45 days, and then for only eight hours under the supervision of a nanny.

Heck, it almost sounds like he doesn’t really like the mother of his children. Sounds as if he’d rather keep her out of his and his kids’ lives.

And those are but a few of the dozens of questions I could ask that no one could possibly answer: Why couldn’t he recognize typical parents’ concerns for the children around him? Why did he have to be with children alone, away from their parents? Why did he have to have sleepovers? Why did he keep such a large porn stash around? Why did he give ‘Jesus Juice’ to teens? Why did his bedroom have an alarm for people walking down his hall? Why was he a lifelong drug addict?

No one, that is, who refuses to pull his head out of the superstar’s ass: the guy was a child molester. That’s the answer that explains absolutely everything. It’s obvious.

Which leaves us with the final question: Why can’t you admit the truth?

Liberal Alaska blog pioneer Celtic Diva has been tracking and prodding the dense Governor’s goings-on and has been particularly curious about her ‘palling around’ with cronies. Unfortunately, as with many things in Alaska, the governmental norms stink to hell: it’ll cost our intrepid blogger thousands of dollars for the authorities to release the proper records. So Diva has been holding a fundraiser.

And as part of that, she managed to create a couple of graphics that’d tickle the web funnybone, one of which was this one:

..a picture of Palin with her youngest, but with the face of a rancid right-wing radio yokel photoshopped in. Really funny.

Palin, of course, made a meal of it:

“Recently we learned of a malicious desecration of a photo of the Governor and baby Trig that has become an iconic representation of a mother’s love for a special needs child,” Palin spokeswoman Meghan Stapelton said in a statement provided to CNN. “The mere idea of someone doctoring the photo of a special needs baby is appalling.”

Stapelton also suggested President Obama should speak out against such behavior from liberal activists.

“Babies and children are off limits,” She said. “It is past time to restore decency in politics and real tolerance for all Americans. The Obama Administration sets the moral compass for its party. We ask that special needs children be loved, respected and accepted and that this type of degeneracy be condemned.”

…’desecration‘, incidentally, is defined as: blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; “desecration of the Holy Sabbath”.

The narcissistic Governor believes that photos of her children are sacred religious objects. Like the stuff inside those ancient Italian reliquaries, pieces of Noah’s Ark, like that.

Puzzling that the believers weren’t upset last week, or the week before, when some internet wag uploaded this eventually far more widespread image:

It’s probably hard to be consistent when your outrage is manufactured on the spot.