Althouse: It's Jacksonman.

December 14, 2008

It's Jacksonman.

Superhero/super villain.

7 comments:

Bob R said...: Althouse- Maybe you should start a "mental illness as entertainment" tag. Jackson, Sullivan, etc.; 12/14/08, 6:04 AM
George M. Spencer said...: From Wiki....

In the early 1990s Jackson was accused of child sexual abuse by a 13-year-old child named Jordan Chandler and his father Evan Chandler....Jordan Chandler then told a psychiatrist and later police that he and Jackson had engaged in acts of kissing, masturbation and oral sex, as well as giving a detailed description of what he alleged were the singer's genitals.

....Jackson's image took a further turn for the worse when his older sister La Toya Jackson accused him of being a pedophile, a statement she later retracted. Jackson agreed to a 25-minute strip search, conducted at his ranch. The search was required to see if a description provided by Jordan Chandler was accurate. Doctors concluded that there were some strong similarities, but it was not a definitive match....

On January 1, 1994, Jackson settled with the Chandler family and their legal team out of court, in a civil lawsuit for $22 million. After the settlement Jordan Chandler refused to continue with Police criminal proceedings. Jackson was never charged, and the state closed its criminal investigation, citing lack of evidence.

In 2003....Jackson was charged with seven counts of child molestation and two counts of administering an intoxicating agent in order to commit that felony; all charges regarded the same boy, Gavin Arvizo, who was under 14 at the time of the alleged crime. Earlier that year, a Granada Television documentary called "Living with Michael Jackson" featuring the singer, showed him holding hands and discussing sleeping arrangements with Arvizo, who would later accuse him of child sexual abuse....

Jackson denied the sexual abuse allegations, saying that the sleepovers were in no way sexual in nature. Jackson's friend Elizabeth Taylor defended him on Larry King Live, saying that she had been there when they "were in the bed, watching television. There was nothing abnormal about it. There was no touchy-feely going on. We laughed like children and we watched a lot of Walt Disney. There was nothing odd about it."During the investigation, Jackson's profile were examined by a mental health professional called Dr. Stan Katz; the doctor spent several hours with the accuser too. The assessment made by Katz, was that Jackson had become a regressed 10-year-old and did not fit the profile of a pedophile

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Jackson is the father of three children.; 12/14/08, 8:35 AM
jayne_cobb said...: As a fan of comics I just have to say that that is one of the most terrifying characters I have ever seen.

Is it possible to send him to Arkham (or whatever it's real world equivalent is)?; 12/14/08, 8:36 AM
Bissage said...: My best efforts to the contrary notwithstanding, I simply cannot hate the man who taught me how to moonwalk.; 12/14/08, 9:20 AM
Palladian said...: I much prefer his Phantom of the Bookstore look from a few months ago.

Pathetic attention queen. He does this shit on purpose now.; 12/14/08, 10:45 AM
Wince said...: Whatever Jackson is trying to do, certainly it is not travelling incognito.; 12/14/08, 10:46 AM
Trooper York said...: Bissage on top of Palladian in the same thread.

Holy smokes Jacksonman.; 12/14/08, 3:22 PM