Comments on: World mourns child-molesting song & dance man, and hat-lover

By: zippo

zippo — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:32:57 +0000

Of course nothing excuses child molesting but you have no evidence that Michael Jackson did such a thing. He does not fit the profile of a pedophile. He hang around hundreds of kids throughout his lifetime and what 2 reckons that he molested them?

He was framed by these the parents of both these kids who were after his money. The parents of the first boy, went to a lawyer first before the police found out. Who goes to a lawyer when their kid gets molested and who would accept money for it? I would want the bastard thrown in jail. In the second case, he was acquitted. Because there was no evidence of the crime, for example: the kid´s older brother says he saw Michael Jackson´s penis and described it circumcised and in fact it was not.

Being childish wanting to hang around kids is NOT a crime.

What doesn OJ have anything to do with Michael Jackson, what because he was a black celebrity too? Get your facts straight.

It would be more useful if you tried to find out who were the actual makers of Michael´s Jackson´s hat and the specifics of the fedora hats he wore in the Smooth Criminal (white) and Billie Jean performances (black.)

By: Steven Lewis

Steven Lewis — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:08:51 +0000

It’s true that MJ was acquitted but so was OJ. My argument isn’t about not giving Michael Jackson credit for what his music, it’s about his music not entitling him to a whitewash about his inappropriate relationships with children. I don’t know whether he was the best entertainer of all time but, as I argue in the post, talent doesn’t excuse molesting children.

By: Littlehoney

Littlehoney — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:56:52 +0000

You people make me sick….Michael Jackson was ACQUITTED!!!!!!!>>>NOT GUILTY!!!!!!!! That makes him NOT a pedophile nor a child molester, just being accused tarnished him as a human being….Bill O’Reilly is a racist person period, and Peter King is a bad representive for his state. Apparently they havent learned anything from being a vulture, thats what the media people are, VULTURES!!!!! They dont have anything better to do then sit there at the desk and rip someone’s life to pieces, as they are all doing on every network. Give Michael credit for what he did do instead of continuely tearing apart every aspect of his life. CAN’T YOU FIND SOMETHING ELSE BETTER TO DO THEN FURTHER DESTROY MICHAEL?????? He was and ALWAYS will be the BEST entertainer of ALL time, there will never be another like him. Maybe everybody that is talking negative about him needs to listen, and I mean really listen to Michael’s song “Man In The Mirror”, because I am truly confident that you all have skeletons in the closet.

By: Dane

Dane — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:41:32 +0000

Good on you for saying it how it is Steven. Whilst it is taboo to talk about the recently departed it would be a greater shame if fame and money can be used to cover up something like child molestation.

@thomas – you don’t have to agree with Steven, but that doesn’t mean you can’t continue to read his views. After all, if our views are never challenged how do we know how strongly we feel about them?

By: Steven Lewis

Steven Lewis — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:33:45 +0000

I’m sorry to hear that, Thomas, and also to hear that you read only what you agree with.

I wonder if you’d feel differently if it were OJ Simpson who had died and the world and its media had gone soft on his memory.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:19:43 +0000

You just lost a reader with this one.

By: Steven Lewis

Steven Lewis — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:39:58 +0000

That's fascinating, Charlie. Perhaps in death Michael Jackson will start a fedora trend he didn't in life. It would be interesting to hear from you how long the demand keeps up. You're right that the Fed IV isn't the hat Indiana Jones wore but it was conceived as a direct response to "Indiana Jones fans and hat collectors who wanted a genuine pre World War 2 fedora" (Hats Direct website). Michael Jackson, on the other hand, didn't lead to a similar hat homage.

By: Charlie Swindall

Charlie Swindall — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:27:35 +0000

We have had 1000’s of MJ hat inquires and supplied a number of these hats to collectors and also to impersonator people doing Mj the world over. It is an extremly popular hat with some crowds but pales in comparrison to IJ’s hat that was NOT the Akubra Fed IV.