Jun
14
2005

the verdict

Gathered around a small TV tuned to CNN, we watched the Michael Jackson verdict come in this afternoon. Not guilty on all counts. But plenty of damage has still been done to Jackson’s public image. Columnist Tina Brown just about summed it up back in March when she wrote,

The weirdness of the King of Pop is so overexposed that no new revelation can shock. Either Jackson is a complete lunatic who slept with young boys and didn’t fondle them or he’s a complete lunatic who slept with young boys and did.

(Washington Post: “Michael Jackson’s False Front?” - 03/10/05)

The jury says he didn’t commit a crime. But that doesn’t make him any less creepy.

Posted at 1:09 AM in current events, music

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