Posted on 06/26/2009 9:46:41 AM PDT by mojito
For a while, the weirdness exercised a global fascination. The prestigious Oxford Union invited him to address their members, and Michael Jackson flew in to Britain wearing his trademark surgical mask, a wise move considering the country was then in the grip of Mad Cow Disease. On an official tour of Blenheim Palace, which must have been a bit of a comedown after Neverland, they rolled out the red carpet, but he insisted it be heavily disinfected, and it squelched under his crutch. Crutch, not crotch. Due to some domestic mishap, he was grabbing the former rather than the latter. At Oxford, he called on the world to adopt his Children’s Bill of Rights, including “the right to be thought adorable” and “the right to be listened to without having to be interesting”. The right to a $30 million out-of-court settlement, won by a 13-year old former playmate of his, was not mentioned.
Michael also revealed the pain of his own lost childhood, as tears rolled down his cheek - or whoever’s cheek it was originally. It was a constant motif in his work. “Have you seen my childhood?” he sang in “Childhood”, the theme song from Free Willy. (Free Willy, by the way, is a motion picture and not another demand from his Bill of Rights.)
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LOL: “The right to be listened to and thought interesting” and the “right to be thought adorable.” Seems to define every ugly feminist that ever existed.
great writing
At last....the truth about this pathetic, narcissistic, plastic, childish, outlandish, flamboyant, perverted, twisted, psychotic, self-centered, egotistical, pederast, phony, artificial, made up, vain, child molester.
Hollyweird lionizes this type of behavior.....unless of course you happen to be a Catholic priest.
“as tears rolled down his cheek - or whoever’s cheek it was originally”.....
L.O.L.!
"Tito, give me some tissue......Jermaine, stop teasing!"
I wonder if any of this is “pre-fabricated”, or did Steyn just crank it out from scratch in the 16-or-so hours since the story came out?
well said. not to speak ill of the dead, but i’ve had more than enough pathetic hero worship of this child molester.
All the guy did was sing and dance, for Pete's sake.
Because he was good at that he's some sort of god?
No wonder our world has deteriorated to the point that many believe that the U.S. electing an unqualified person president based on skin color somehow proves that we've moved beyond judging people based on skin color.
When there are no standards, foolishness and insanity reigns.
The guy can be poster boy for everything that’s sick and wrong with America popular culture.
I asked a girl I used to work with, (an African American girl) if she listened to Mahalia Jackson. She said ‘You mean Michael Jackson???... sure, I love him’. She never HEARD of Mahalia Jackson!!! Sad
Mad Cow Disease CANNOT be spread through the air. Mark Steyn needs to get a grip and not put out Biden like medical advice.
Idiot. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) isn't transmitted by air. The only way his mask could keep him from getting BSE would be for it to get in the way of him eating tainted meat.
Absolutely!
“All the guy did was sing and dance, for Pete’s sake.”
He generated an enormous cash flow.
“Because he was good at that he’s some sort of god?”
Becasue he generated an enormous cash flow, he was protected and enabled.
“When there are no standards, foolishness and insanity reigns.”
When the standard is money, greed reigns.
It’s amazing to think that Jacko’s not even been dead 24 hours and Steyn has this richly-textured masterpiece already published.
Amazing.
The line is meant to mock Jacko.
Brilliant. Totally irreverent, but absolutely brilliant.
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