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Salvation by Moonwalking: The Jacked-Up Message from Michael Jackson’s Demise

Anthony Keith Wrote: Jul 13, 2009 4:53 PM
With today's column you open up with a declaration that the MSM is comparing MJ to Mother Theresa. Personally, I haven't seen that anywhere. Everywhere I look, even those who laud Michael also bring up his foibles, his weirdness, his eccentricty, his questionable behavior when it came to youngsters. Yeah in many ways Jacko was jacked-up - true enough. But do you really think the MSM has ignored the troublesome part of his life? How could anyone ignore it?

Is is so wrong for people to want to remember the good in spite of the bad about a person? In light of his significant contributions to the entertainment industry and (try to ignore it if you must) his humanitarian work?

Great artists are often troubled and conflicted...

Is anybody else out there not buying the Mother Teresa comparison crap the MSM is attempting to pawn off on us regarding Michael Jackson?

This would be the same media that routinely—and righteously, I might add—exposed, ridiculed and condemned Wacko Jacko while he was alive for all of his out-of-this-world, can’t-get-more-jacked-up-than-that asininities he shoved up our culture’s collective tailpipe.

Let me see if I get this straight. If I live by Jacko’s rules:

• I can, as a 50-year-old man, sleep with a stack of little boys in my bedroom—a room, mind you, that is protected with advanced...

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