Word: jacksonism
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...just an ideology or a philosophy. We have an ability to cut to the chase. Black and white isn't a bad thing. Liberals gravitate toward the gray to muddy the waters, to muddle people's thinking. I had a liberal on the air today defend Michael Jackson." I almost made the liberal mistake of defending the guy who defended Michael Jackson...
...Jackson makes headlines with (to use the kindest phrase) unusual antics, like displaying his 8-month-old son outside an upper-floor window. Now he is accused, in effect, of dangling a 12-year-old's innocence over the ledge of his own confused sexual need. Many people think of Jackson as a pathetic predator. Many more don't think of him at all except as the albino freak who used to be Michael Jackson...
...Perhaps Jackson is the last innocent in a cynical age. He may not be guilty of the current charges--we are obliged to assume so unless a jury decides otherwise--but it is hard not to think of him as a study in pathology. When he acknowledged to Winfrey that he had been abused as a child, he turned to the camera and said to his father, "I'm sorry. Please don't be mad at me." Jackson is still, everyone agrees, the world's oldest child star. If he could forgive and love the father who abused him, could...
...essentially hopeless." Dan Klores, high-profile public-relations executive, explaining why he declined a recent offer to represent Michael Jackson...
...Michael Jackson... is not going to be a piñata for every person who has financial motives." Mark Geragos, attorney for the singer, who has been accused of multiple "lewd or lascivious acts" with a child...