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Rep. Peter King Slams Media’s MJ Mania, Intensifies Mania in So Doing

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Posted on Jul 6, 2009
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Any salient points that hard-boiled Long Island Congressman Peter King made about the media’s Michael Jackson fixation were, for one, overshadowed by his descriptions of Jackson as a “low-life” and a “pedophile,” and also apparently lost on certain mainstream media outlets, given how CNN proceeded to fold the King story into its ongoing Michael Jackson coverage.

Here, King makes his initial comments in his video posted on YouTube on July 5:

Then, CNN takes the King story, runs with it on Monday:

And here’s another CNN clip making the story about whether Jackson was a pedophile or not:

 

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By rage96, July 8 at 8:40 pm #
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When this nimrod’s arteries finally clog from the constipation and apoplectic vitriole judgemental political tools too commonly experience with the mere thought of a black man having a single nickel more than a white man in Amerika, there won’t be enough cash for his aids to successfully bribe his wife and kids to attend his funeral. I promise that King will not have brought enough joy and satisfaction to anyone during his days of legilative service to merrit a well attended funeral broadcast live on television, not even on cable access channels in his home district. King might get an honorable mention on his local NPR affiliate if defense contractors haven’t funded pretentious fluff superceding his funeral in public interest and importance. King already bitterly concedes all he’s going to get when he falls off the last barstool is a couple paragraphs under a photo of him that’s older than his eldest child on the obituary pages of a couple local papers, letting the handful of constituents finally see what the guy looked like in college whose lever in the voting booth they pulled election after election. King knows he’s playing to the best reviews he’s ever going to get from a less than loving American public. And, he’s pissed. King feels he deserves WAY more than he’s getting as a Congressman, certainly more than the paltry kick-backs he’s stealthly grifting under the table from the relentlessly overbearing corporatocracy mercilessly jerking him around the Hill as an aggravated elected servant of an ungrateful, demanding public, shilling for perdition, always under the oppressive scrutiny of the US Justice Department just waiting to crucify him. Tax funded, socialized healthcare, generous compensation, free postage stamps, and a free cot in his office on the Hill seem so inuslting, when MJ got a menagerie of exotic pets loitering around an amusement park on the front lawn of a gazillion acres in a California zip code literally neighboring the seventh heaven of paradise, while King daily circles the ninth ring of hell, knowing that it positively blows to be him.

Well, Rep. King, you too can have everything Michael had, replete with global worship from an adoring world up to whose outrageous expectations you will never be able to live, let alone exceed. All you have to do is allow the entertainment industrial complex to abusively market you as some outlandish freak commodity conveniently passed off as anything but human, yet overwhelmingly exotic to fickle fanatic acolytes in an alluring way that sells your soul to satan for all the cash printed and minted on Planet Earth. And, oh, learn to moonwalk. Moonwalking follows up smoothly with your erotically masturbating and screeching your self-satisfaction in a captivating falsetto live on stage. The kick-ass band and a huge bevy of scantilly clad bootilicious dancers, along with gazillions of screaming fans going tantrically bacchic at your feet during those grueling 150-city tours will be provided, as well as juicier perks like butt-loads of cash, haute couture wardrobes, ginormous palacially appointed homes in every paradisical zip code in the known world, first class transportation, luxury accomodations for that useless entourage of worthless on-hangers, carefully screened groupies, discreetly selected sexual partners, armed security, and professional party planners with awesome drug connections.

Sir, Michael was an ENTERTAINER compensated by the industry he served well! And, you’re an elected crusty, legislative crank whom a slim majority of voters deemed worthy to represent their governing interests in the Hollywood for ugly, less entertaining people. Michael Jackson wasn’t even registerd to vote in your district. Now, get the hell over it, and focus on delivering the single-payer public healthcare option, please! Or, else, pray you’re better at moonwalking than you are at pissy congressional bitching!

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By samosamo, July 7 at 3:12 pm #

Rep. Peter King can have all the opinions about mj that he wants because that is NOT what this post is about even though ‘namecalling’ is easier to discuss but what should be of importance for everyone is his slamming of the MEDIA, our traitorous MSM, for streaming endless dribble about any one person or thing that becomes a never-ending story that distracts from real issues or does everybody think that there is nothing wrong with the MSM?

I say there is plenty wrong with the MSM as I named it ‘traitorous’ for good reason and that is their contrived subversion of the information people need to make important decisions which is soo much more important that it is probably the first thing our ‘new’ president should have corrected but didn’t and won’t since the MSM played such and important part in getting obama elected.

So think why a we come to sites like this which is actually to get away from the MSM for real news instead of being ‘beguiled’ by their on agendas.

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By CJ, July 7 at 12:33 am #

King certainly cannot say—for having no way of knowing—whether or not Jackson was a pedophile, though there’s reason to suspect he was.

I’d not seen any of this after giving up on CNN yesterday evening when “the best (or whatever) name in news” could hardly be bothered to interrupt ongoing extolling of Jackson by Jesse Jackson and Tom Mesereau to cover events ongoing in Honduras. There were a few pauses so as to speak with Carl Penhall on the scene in Tegucigalpa, though damn few pauses. For the past week, CNN has attempted to have it both ways—covering too few (which is standard for all TV news operations) events worth learning of by pausing just long enough (not very long) to make mention before returning to topic at hand: Adulation (and gossip) of Michael Jackson. Which all networks have discovered—by noting overnight ratings—is a “winner.”  I was myself suckered until enough was enough.

CNN, like all the rest, pays attention only to ratings so that they might force Lilly to fork over more for putting up ads for Cialis. Which ads often commence, ironically enough, with, “All around the world…,” in most masculine voice. Then there’s hammering with ads for Nutri-System—for those well heeled enough to be able to afford delivery of daily meals by mail. (That’s right: CNN is mostly brought to you by providers of meats. Thank you very much.)

The past almost two weeks have been the most disgraceful in American mega-media history. Worse even than recent cheerleading of war on Iraq. At that time, at least embedded were in the vicinity of events, for all the little that was reported. MSNBC even got Howard Zinn on just after attack on Iraq. Vs. cold-warrior Col. Ken Allard, then employed by Microsoft/GE. “Radical!,” I thought. Though Howard was obviously not bully equal to Allard. Zinn, of course, was eventually vindicated, while Allard simply disappeared.

By now, mega-media has become not much more than a never-ending Access Hollywood. Focus always on personalities deemed “charismatic.” (So was Hitler.) Just lately, Jackson, Sanford and Palin. History needn’t be erased, since never learned in the first place. Obama has said nothing of history of U.S. “involvement” in Honduras, while pundits maintain he stole away opportunity for Chavez to speak of U.S. imperialism when he got out front with his own condemnation of what he/Clinton still refuse to declare—for legal reason—a “coup.”

Mainstream putty-fied would have all of us putty-fied, molded same as they’ve long been (speaking of “dead fish,” Sarah)—according to ideology of the free market in combination with ardent (indeed fascistic) nationalism. Journalist, Tom Paine, only implored we employ some common sense founded in reality far as can be HUMANLY known by senses available to humans. (Not simply reality per language, one need note. Though there’s also that.)

Orenthal James Simpson too was acquitted. Which hardly mattered to media as they made, and still make, fun of (mostly black-jury) acquittal, as same presume we all presume Simpson did deed. Not that any other than Simpson knows.

Some are laying into King for not noting that Jackson was acquitted. Same who’ve more than once alluded to Simpson as (presumed) guilty. No matter fact O.J. was equal, if not better, dancer—for five, ten, 15, occasionally 50 or more, yards per play.

We DO know Jackson paid $20 million to make something go away. While white jury got revenge on black jury’s acquittal of Simpson.

Peter King IS outta line, though not a wit more so than hypocrites who continue to presume O.J. guilty. King asks whether any would have left children alone in a room with Jackson. For any who answers, “yes,” how about overnight in a room alone with Jackson? No? Thought not.

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By Kathleen Ferdinand, July 7 at 12:22 am #
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Rep. Peter King:
I live on long Island and I must say that I don’t know whether Michael Jackson acted inappropriately or not with the children (That issue is between Michael and God.)  I do know that I and the world loved Michael’s music.Michael was the Beethovan of POP Music. Michael’s music made alot of people very happy and feel good. Your comments spoken show that you lack compassion and you certainly exercised very poor judgement in making those comments at a time when a family is mourning the loss of a loved one. Please next time think before you open your big inappropriate mouth.(Remember, Let he who is without sin cast the first stone-Are you without things in your closet?)

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