Check out “backlash” against Rep. King over Jacko comments
A whopping two people have contributed a whopping $75 to the new campaign to unseat NY GOP Rep. Peter King because he called Michael Jackson a “low-life” and a “pervert.”
HuffPo is promoting this lost cause.
Shamon!
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It isn’t a smear if it’s true.
Ha. That $75 should go toward paying back MJ’s outrageous debt.
I agree with King’s sentiment, though I cant say I agree with how he expressed it.
Once in a while there are things, that while true, are better off left unsaid. This is one of those times.
King should apologize.
Truth is an absolute defense and Jackson was in fact a socially perverted, drug addicted pedophile. End of story.
Why?
Well and good in court. Irrelevant in fund raising and elections.
Up to !4! supporters and !$140! since you posted, MM. Maybe a few of your readers are closet liberals and/or MJ lovers.
So, Chappy – how much are you donating?
75$ x’s 2 eh? Reminds me how the bartender at the beginning of the shift will put a couple of bucks in the tip jar just to get it going.
If all the liberal left were to start apologizing for every case of smear and character assassination they have committed just since 2000 they would have the “microphone” well into the next presidential election cycle.
PC is Thought Control
LEE
MJ was acquitted……
So was OJ.
Absolutely – racisim is alive and well in America.
I like King and sort of cringed at the video but the more I think about it, I like that he spoke out for the police, firefighters, military. Time to speak out and of course some are going to attack him for it (what 140 bucks worth?) but the man stood up. He better not apologize.
huh? how would want him to express his honest feelings, soften it up so someone’s feelings don’t get hurt?
jeeez, once again huh? why is what congressmen King said better off unsaid…did you get your feelings hurt? Apologize for what exactly, stating his opinion? You with the new “thought police”?
I could not care less about King or the (former) King of Pop.
He doesn’t need to apologize for anything. I’m SO SICK of the GOP bowing to the PC left…
The right has spent way too much time tip-toeing around these kinds of issues… so much so that if we keep it up the next thing to be legalized and held up as just an alternate lifestyle will be pedophilia. That’s how the left keeps getting its way, by continually silencing all dissent by making those of us on the RIGHT feel like we can’t say the truth about a thing. Meanwhile they slander all things good and virtuous.
Momentum is building!
8 and $225!
In all seriousness, Act Blue raised a ton of money for Dem candidates last cycle. They are a legit fundraiser.
MsCheryl, since you brought it up…I’m sort of wondering it that Huff n Puff piece was an attempt at race baiting (besides trying to cash in).
I can’t blame King for what he says. The over-the-top beatification of Jackson finally produces an equal and opposite backlash from those who have become so weary, so dismayed and finally so repulsed by it.
Anyone remember the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode in which a mad scientist type character manages to transfer his soul into Data, then gives his own funeral oration?
Data/Mad Scientist: “I can safely say, that to know him, was to love him. And to love him, was to know him… Those who knew him, loved him, while those who did not know him, loved him from afar –”
Captain Picard: “Data…”
Data/Mad Scientist: “I am almost finished, Captain –”
Captain Picard: “You are finished, Data!”
– Well, that’s what I’m reminded of as long as the sob-fest continues for a talented, yet equally deeply disturbed and flawed man.
Hateful, Rep. King! Just hateful. So what if he liked to sleep with young boys? So what if his room was more secure than Fort Knox?
Sheez! Let him rest in
hellpeace!I think what irritates the leftards and MJ fans the most is, Rep. King is RIGHT! Not only is he correct, he has great big brass ones for saying, out loud and in public, what a great number of us are thinking anyway.
I am so sick of hearing MJ this, MJ that, tributes, services, gatherings. For what? A freak who HAD a career. He HAD talent that was not wasted, it was spit on, thrown in the garbage and burned by no one other than Jackson himself.
Now people all over the world are acting like he was this sainted guy with huge talent and are simply ignoring the rest of the story.
Enough already!
yes, prolly – what isn’t now adays?
Appearantly “Hurricanes” can’t find Wikipedia which explains that Jackson paid $22 Million in 1994 to 13 year old Justin Chandler to settle the FIRST molestation suit out of court.
Awful lot of smoke about Jacko being a pederast for there not to be fire.
But even if he wasn’t a pederast, he spoke in a freakish falsetto, had numerous plastic surgeries to apparently make himself look more feminine and maybe less Black, had sleep overs with little boys, and died a junkie.
He certainly was no role model.
So, I’m guessing he won’t be voting in favor of Sheila Jackson Lee’s resolution.
I’m glad MM put
in quotes.
I’m movin along now…
oh boy, but he could sing and dance…
Yip.Eee.
God was interviewing Farrah Fawcett at the Pearly Gates and stated to Farrah. ” For all your suffering for the past years, I will grant you a boon.” Farrah thought for a few minutes and requested that God help protect the children on the earth.
Two hours later, MJ died.
I wonder if any of the MSM sycophants will mention that the lyrics of one of Michael Jackson’s songs was “Jew me, sue me, everybody do me”.
maybe than can get Robert Downey Jr. to play him in the movie, just turn him black again, er uh, white? I’m soooooooo confused.
They aren’t going to bury or cremate MJ. Since he’s made up mostly of plastic, they are going to melt him down and make him into legos so he can still play with little boys.
I’m sorry – but I had to do it.
Ha! funny one Misscheryl.
lmao
I don’t give a damn what your court of law says, he’s burning in hell where he belongs.
C’mon associating MJ with singing and dancing sounds almost; Dare I say it ?
Raaaaascist…
Right on Mr. King I wouldn’t change a thing or even think about an apology! It’s time to get tough people stop playing their game and beat them at it.
I echo the comments of most of the above. It’s about time someone said it! I am MORE than tired of hearing about him.
Don’t know about elsewhere but here in Cali it’s still heavy in the local news. The big viewing or whatever it is a the Staples Center, who wants to see a dead freak? Sadly it seems like many.
Hey what’s MJ doing now? Decomposing near as I can figure.
At least, we didn’t have to worry about Mr. BoJangles and Shirley Temple.
Just because a court of law finds you “not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt” does not mean you didn’t commit the crime. Michael Jackson was found not guilty, but he was not found “innocent” – they are not the same.
..and just because he was found not guilty doesn’t mean that he was not a pervert…he was just not a convicted pervert.
It’s no surprise that these moonbats are barking up the wrong tree – the last time I checked the AOL reader’s poll, 75% agreed with King…go and vote.
Didn’t you hear? Micheal Jackson didn’t die from a drug overdose. He died from food poisoning, he ate some six year old weenies.
Incidentially, here is something that I found that I wish I’d written:
WWTDD on the Michael Jackson Memorial
The Washington Post reports:
“Like a modern-day Willy Wonka tale, more than 1.6 million fans waited to learn Sunday whether they were among the lucky few to win access to Michael Jackson’s memorial service Tuesday at Staples Center.”
On Sunday evening, fans around the world started posting Twitter messages about receiving tickets.
“OMG OMG OMG OMG i got tickets to the Michael Jackson memorial service!!!”
A few days ago, What Would Tyler Durden Do had a Kornbluthian suggestion about what to do with the lucky winners:
“If LA wants to clean itself up, they should wait for all 30,000 people to show up and then just lock the doors. It’s not gonna be the team behind the Large Hadron Collider. It’s gonna be Billy Bush and Mary Hart and Joe Jackson and 800 lawyers and an army of delusional retards who the only thing they had to take time off from was clogging up 911 with calls about “that bitch is crazy, you needa arrest her ass.” They should lock the doors, and then it turns out [the fans had] actually climbed aboard a rocket.
And then just shoot that thing right into the Sun.”
Did you hear that he died of food poisoning?
He ate 6 year old weenies.
How many individuals would give away $22 million over allegations then, invite more young boys over unsupervised ?
I honestly believe their parents should have been investigated for being unfit too.
Would anyone here have sent their youngster to spend the weekend with him ?
Jesus juice gone bad…
Faster on the draw than I was Roller.
Didn’t our own House of Representatives observe a moment of silence, and some other race monger ask for a stamp to honor Jacko? Then you have Jim Brown trying to attack Tiger Woods because he’s not involved enough in the shake down of all citizens…I’m fed up with the issue of race and glossing over the seemier side of Jacko doesn’t work in my book. He was not a saint. I’ll never listen to another MJ recording, but I will watch Tiger Woods every time he plays. There is a difference, and that difference is honor, integrity, and morals.
Marc #29
King of Pop, dabbler in Farakhan’s Nation of Islam, may not have liked Jews.
Rabbi Boteach apparently advised the King of Poop for a while. And I think Uri Geller was Jewish.
Or “some of his best friends were Jewish”…
http://rabbijaffe.today.com/2009/06/26/michael-jackson-jew-me-kike-me-video/
RE: Marc.
I was going to quote lyrics, but apparently the forum has a filter against a word that rhymes with bike and starts with a “K”
Disgusting.
Remind me again when child molestation became funny.
I guess that supporting child mosters doesn’t go down well in huffpo land either.
anybody remember that MASH episode with Harry Morgan playing a looney tunes General and what he did at Hawkeye’s hearing?? basically asked the black pilot to break out in song and dance…then toddled off doing the same…
mosters = molesters…
I mighta advised Rep. King, from a political standpoint, to just pass on making the comments right at this time.
On the other hand, I admire a politician who’s not afraid to speak his/her mind. I just hope Rep. King isn’t bullied into the “Don Imus” apology route, replete with the Sharpton and Jackson behind-kissing. That would lose the admiration I’ve just granted the guy.
Yup, his “General Steele” role, before he came aboard as “Col.Potter”.
Your one of those huh?
Michael Jackson’s life and death are tragic. He was tremendously talented, and that talent has been wasted. He was also very likely a child molester, paid for nothing short of self-mutilation, and spent money recklessly.
Mr. King’s commentary is a bit harsh, but something that needs to be said in a political and cultural arena that is so skewed out of whack that the nation should be crying to God for forgiveness for such lack of perspective. There are heroic role models whose sad passing we should have on the front page, and Michael Jackson should be relegated to a footnote in history for what he squandered.
King is bluntly right. We desperately need leaders like him to tell it like it is.
*I’m not bothered by Rep. King speaking the truth; I’m bothered that he voted for the original sin bailout; I’ll send money to a true conservative willing to primary him out.
*Young people need role models now more than ever with the out of wedlock birthrate so high; Compare and contrast Tiger Woods sponsoring and winning a golf tournament yesterday that assists youths and honors our military with a Staples Center ticket frenzy for a drug addled pedophile whose career essentially peaked 20 years ago!
Micheal Jackson’s life, celebrity, death and eulogy should signal to everyone in the world how far away from mature and rational, society is, and exactly why extreme glamorization is bad for all of us in so many different ways.
Was MJ happy, healthy? Not at all.
Were those around him affected adversly? Yes very much so.
Were rules and laws bent even broken? Yes his stardom was promoted at the cost of moral example and personal injury.
What side of a pro/con graph does the bulk of his extreme adulation fall on? Not the pro side.
Is entertainment at the cost of so much, that important or that needed?
Only to those not yet mature, regardless of age.
Its a society sickness, a signal we’ve gone too far, as children and as adults who prefer to be children.
There’s money in immaturization of society, but adults must raise adults.
Regardless.
bjc #53
My point exactly about Tiger Woods and the silliness we’re witnessing with a pop icon. Tiger is comfortable in his own skin, MJ has tried and failed to break loose of:
1. His maleness
2. His ethnicity
3. His inability to curtail his wants and cravings.
And, we lost seven of our magnificent military members today in Afghanistan. Will our House hold a moment of silence, or propose a stamp in their honor?
I salute you for using the term “boon” there, pdv. One of my personal faves.
I believe General Steele was singing ” Campdown Races “
24Klady
*Tiger had the good fortune of having some fine parents that instilled the necessary moral values long before he became a worldwide icon; The foundation was laid; 2 parent families there for the children make a world of difference.
*If this is our Princess Di, as some people are claiming, Lord help us; We have some serious, life changing issues before us as a country, so this had better be the end of such counterproductive idol worship.
Shamon! You’re so funny. I cracked up when I saw that at the end.
I think this man is entitled to his opinion and he can express himself exactly as he did on the video.
We are entitled to agree or disagree.
I think people need to chilax a little.
It’s still wonderful to see so many people dancing on someone’s grave that they don’t even know. . . and has no effect on their lives whatsoever.
How BRAVE of the people here to trash talk a dead guy. You people really know how to pick important fights. This one will get you some influence somewhere for some reason, I’m sure.
I really can’t believe that people are calling him ‘brave’ for saying this about a dead guy. But it’s OK. I know that America’s favorite past time is condemning. It’s just so much fun.
Maybe Chapoutier will vote for MJ if they stuck the letter “D” on him…
No! King should most definately not apologize. For what? Speaking truth?
King is one the few who boldly speak out about the decline of this nation….
No More PC drivel!
We need to bring back the concept of SHAME in this country. There seems to be little to none.
I voted for 2 Rs and an I last election.
38 people and $937 dollars now.
When do we start using “whopping” in a non sarcastic sense?
I was about to say…I never heard Chapoutier imply he thought MJ’s life style was a role model to anyone we would want to associate with.
And about speaking lightly of the dead….
I have no problem speaking out strongly pro or con about the dead.
The life they lead gives license to the the memorializing they receive.
And this man had his pros and cons and so will be his legacy.
I’m sure the Rep. is terrified by the ground-swell of opposition.
When, Burger King sponsors the page ?
What is even more laughable… These are probably “pledges”, just like liberal public television. Donors promise but rarely do they fulfill. HA! Either that or the donors will file an unauthorized charge to their credit card to get their money back. Double HA!
…and those kids! How will they end up?
Their father was a syringe, their mother was a petri dish, and they are being turned over to the grandma who raised this wreck of a human being.
I hope they can overcome all of that.
Well, I guess this means King won’t be getting the freakish child molester vote or the outraged, mourning celebrity worshipers either. As usual, they will throw their support to the Dems.
Anyone see this story about MJ being buried without his brain.
Seems to properly autopsy it they had to remove it to let it solidify. The last line of the story that sums it up states:
I sort of thought he had lived the last few years of his life without a brain.
BTW – I agree with Peter King.
Hey Whacker! We aren’t trash talking a saint. We’re trashing a DEAD PED. And there you go with the “you people” thing again. Are you a racist?
$937? I spent more on dog food than that
In my post above (#21) I said NOTHING about MJ that I didn’t say PRIOR to his death and wouldn’t have said directly to his face. Public figures like MJ get talked about. Freakish public figures, once again like MJ, get trash talked.
BTW – the lego joke was funny, thanks.
I love it when someone has the ba!!s to say what most people are thinking.
King was right to point out the media has lost all perspective. Seven courageous US Military personnel lost their lives in Afghanistan since MJ died and all we get is 24/7 diefication of the talented drug addict.
Jackson was not convicted, he looked guilty as hell but a primarily white jury in Santa Maria acquitted him. King could have chosen different wording.
“MJ was acquitted”
LOL! Then why did he pay $40 million to settle child molestation suits?
Just as OJ was levied with a substantial judgement for the Nicole murder in civil court?
And if he was so innocent why did he have a sensitive alarm system installed leading to his bedroom so as to alert him to anyone coming while some kid was up his wishing tree?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyAbHdqjzW0&NR=1
You don’t hear chap or misscheryl arguing that a CIVIL suit’s outcome doesn’t mean anything, because….it does.
Did MJ’s alleged childhood abuse by his father, cause him to have second thoughts about being black?
He married white women.
His children are white.
He bleached his skin ghostly white.
He named his estate after a fictional white boy who never grew up.
I don’t recall ever hearing him speak ebonics, either.
It seems to me he emotionally and physically abandoned the black race, both in deed and action. Those who still support, and elevate him will regardless claim his victim hood at the hands of the white man. It has already started.
Chap:
Chap, can I have a hit off your bong so I can catch up to you?
So…King is getting ‘Palined’?
Sorry, I’ve been on the road all day and am trying to catch up on the snewz.
I think people are kinda tired of being told to rend their clothes and weep in the streets for the latest dead celeb who, as you noted, they don’t know and who had no effect on their lives.
They’re also probably not all that keen on having another month of Paris Hilton’s problems with the law, so we’re all collectively hopin’ she keeping her nose clean – not because we love her – just to spare us from that media torture again.
And it could be worse, Thack. Someone could ask “Name something that’s green and that kids have played on?”
Answer: Michael Jackson.
Now that would be cruel.
Big deal…they all are acting like D’s these days. You should have no problem choosing socialists.
Sorry. Tancredo or Jindal or whomever you guys feel is the great conservative torch bearer these days weren’t on my ballot.
Apparently you get a lot of enjoyment out of it. It’s pretty much all you do on this board. What’s really funny is that you don’t even see the contradiction in your own smug, arrogant, condescending, self-satisfied little rant.
King is entitled to his opinion, and you’re entitled to not like it. But don’t pretend to some moral high ground. Jackson was a sad little psycho. I’ve felt sorry for him forever, because he grew up without a childhood and spent his “adult” years trying to compensate. But he was still sleeping with little boys, whether he was molesting them or not.
Shockingly, I’ll agree with txvet.
When is this freak show ever going to end, I ask rhetorically?
Thank you ONCE AGAIN Congressman King for saying out loud what millions and millions of citizens of the United States can only say to one another!
You continue to make me proud that We The People have SOME sanity in the House!
‘Cuz your benevolent media ilk selected our dunce for us. It was a planned outcome for the Obamination.
Not so shocking. It’s just that there’s little basis for comment or discussion on those occasions when we agree.
While I wholeheartedly agree with King, I believe that discretion dictates his silence on the matter.
I have learned to restrain myself somewhat after seeing hundreds of women wearing thong swimsuits in Hawaii that should be wearing a one-piece with little attached skirt.
Biting my tongue is a survival measure, and builds character.
And the last time I laid on a beach in a swimsuit, Greenpeace volunteers kept pushing me back into deeper water.
“On July 6th, 2009 at 10:17 pm, chapoutier said:
Shockingly, I’ll agree with txvet.”
It’s an unwritten comment board rule that everyone has to agree with txvet2 at some point during their sojourn here.
The secret handshake and decoder ring are a whole ‘nother thing. That’s only for the privileged few who promise not to open a facebook account to tell about it -
MI6 chief’s private information caught on Facebook website
I support King because he cuts right through the sick adulation given to low lives in our society; a strange inexplicable behavior that has cropped up in the past 30-40 years. Once upon a time a man who slept with boys wouldnt dare show his face anywhere. Not in 2009 where we forgive the most heinous transgressions, and do not have the courage to judge anybody for being, or doing anything.
Look at the people society celebrates today: race hustlers, Hollywood losers, B-Movie re-treads; has-beens, and never “wases” who inhabit reality TV, celebrities who do nothing but disgrace themselves and often their own Country, musicians who cannot seem to do anything but hate the Country that gave them the opportunity to be free and rich. Back in the day, when we had the spine to call a spade a spade, single mothers were somewhat embarrassed to be in their predicament. Today we MUST celebrate them in books, in movies, though their children’s crime statistics, drop out and suicide rates dwarf those of children from 2 parent households!!! What a deluded fantasy world the left has created for us.
Peter King, with his triumphant rant, laid waste to the delusions of people that actually admired a narcissistic and creepy pedophile like Jackson, who may have started his career in a deserved spotlight; but then went to la-la land, and became a sexual predator.
King reminded people that right and wrong is not always a relative concept; there can be and are some absolutes. King “shocked” people because it was a verbal slap in the face of the foolish people in this Country that seem to covet everything and everyone that is base; while showing disdain for people of class and morals.
I stand and applaud Peter King.
Because the world is becoming increasingly insane, it wouldn’t surprise me if he isn’t thrown out of office over this issue. I have no faith in the people within our borders anymore (note, I don’t refer to the people here as “citizens,” because so many wouldn’t know what one of those are anymore).
The MSM is now treating Michael Jackson as a selfless ascetic, sort of like Mahatma Ghandi. Nobody is the MSM will mention the disgraceful personal attack he launched on a prominent music industry head when Mr. Jackson’s record sales plummeted. Nobody wanted the dreadful History or his later junk. But Mr. Jackson would not accept it and he launched a particularly nasty personal attack on the music industry head. I believe that it was Tommy Motolla who was the object of Mr. Jackson’s venom. But I might be wrong about that. But, in any event, Mr. Jackson simply hurled a series of blatantly false and perhaps defamatory charges against the music industry leader. But it would be considered “insensitive” to bring up that Michael Jackson was fully capable of attempting to destroy a reputation when the time came to do so.
I believe King is in a pretty safe R district, yohann. Even if the Dems could find a candidate and waste millions of dollars, I think his constituents won’t be fooled or bought.
If we have someone from his area here they could say better than I, but from what I know this isn’t going to matter very much, if at all.
Up to over $1,500 from 62 contributors! I’d say King’s in real trouble over this (/eye roll).
He probably raised that much in 5 minutes after this hit the airwaves.