Post Saint Jacko: What About Reagan and the Middle Class?
I was planning to post this on Tuesday, after the Jackson service event. But the anticipation and waiting is too much, so here goes.
I used to like Jacko’s music, but that was way back in the eighties and beyond; I liked the Jackson Five before that. But that liking stopped sometime in the early 1990s.
But this king too is buried now, or is he, and no more excuses to force us to watch all our news as the ‘Michael Jackson’ hour. I was never a fan of Larry King’s Jelloball news either before all this; I am less of a fan now.
Finally, I have thought for about 17 years or so that Jacko is a weirdo. I would not use the p------ word, because that strong word is in the eye of the beholder: one flock’s revered parson can be a police investigator’s prime suspect. And he was absolved by a court of some charges that were repeated against him.
But he was …..something. Sleeping with little boys, or girls, even if it is only friendly sleeping, is not normal behavior- people younger than fifty or forty can go to jail for that. He only got weirder by the month as the years passed. His death got more coverage than Ronald Reagan’s five yeas ago, something that baffles me: after al, he did much less damage to the USA than I heard one radio commentator claim Reagan did.
It was almost comic to watch all the pundits, politicos, and civil rights leaders try to look somber as they groped for an explanation as to why he should be honored more than, say, Arthur Miller, Jack Kerouac, or even Karl Malden. Not to mention the Gipper who, according to the radio commentator, did more damage to the American Middle Class than Jackson ever could. (The commentator was on Air America).
Luckily, he was not a Catholic, Jacko not Reagan, so there is not a chance of him being canonized by the Church.
Cheers
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