Keisha Knight Pulliam has repeatedly asserted that Bill Cosby is a saint who never raped of anyone, since he never did anything around or to her.
However, look at all the women who accused Cosby. They all fit a certain “type”. A type that Keisha doesn’t resemble at all.
Tom Brokaw has been accused of sexual impropriety. Rachel Maddow immediately came out in his defense, which pissed me off. I suspect that Rachel Maddow is not Tom Brokaw’s type. I think she’s attractive and everything, but I’m not thinking she’d be in the best position to know whether Tom Brokaw is an undercover horndog.
A coworker of mine was just fired for sexual harrassment. None of my close coworkers claim to have ever seen him harass anyone. He didn’t harass me. But he harassed someone. And that’s all that matters.
Sex perverts are always selective with their perversions. If they weren’t selective, it wouldn’t take decades to root them out.
The fact that there have only been four accusers to come forward is something I guess I knew, but it never really hit home how small that number is, given the massive amount of press this story has gotten over the years, and the accusations as detailed last night. It does seem that number would be so much higher if he had been molesting to the degree implied in episode 1 of the documentary. Given that MJ was acquitted twice, I believe, perhaps this gave victims pause before deciding to put themselves in the spotlight of a world-wide known trial. But still…
As for financial gain, the two men from the documentary last night maintained MJ’s innocence for years, and of course only sued him after he died. This alone of course is no reason to discount what they said in the doc, but surely we must remember they were not under oath, had years to come up with believable, detail-filled stories, and of course that Jackson wouldn’t be around to defend himself. On the other hand their still exists the sad possibility that they were so affected by the alleged molestation that it took them this many years to come to terms with it.
I don’t disagree with the notion that the prosecution was outgunned. I’ll take your word for it as I don’t know those details. But just because he had skilled lawyers is no reason to think they necessarily got him off despite of his innocence. Maybe he was innocent. There is that possibility, right?
I just watched the entire 4 hours. One of the most powerful documentaries I’ve ever seen.
I never denied that MJ was a pedophile. I find the diehard fans to be repulsive people. If MJ weren’t rich and famous, they wouldn’t be defending him or automatically assuming he was innocent. Money and fame doesn’t make child abuse ok.
But I guess before this, I always thought MJ was a pedophile because he was emotionally stunted and (for lack of a better word) naive. Like MJ didn’t have the emotional maturity to understand pedophilia was wrong. I looked at Michael Jackson like a mentally ill person or a 11 year old who commits a crime, someone who did wrong but wasn’t competent to understand what they did was wrong before seeing this.
But watching this documentary, I had no idea how evil Michael Jackson was.
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[li]He’d listen in on phone conversations between the parents of children he was abusing, so he could use the conversations to manipulate the child into not trusting his parents. [/li][li]He’d cut kids off from their parents. [/li][li]He’d build little kids up and make them emotionally addicted to him, then just abandon them when he found new victims to molest. That part for me was hard to watch, to see these young grade school kids wonder what they did wrong that their abuser lost interest in them and to watch these young kids wonder what they could do to get back into Michael’s good graces. [/li][li]He told little kids that both he (MJ) and the kids would spend their lives in prison if they talked about the sexual abuse. [/li][li]MJ had all these tricks to determine if anyone was approaching a secluded area to catch him molesting kids. [/li][li]MJ threatened an ex-victim who refused to testify in his defense.[/li][/ul]
etc. I’m really wondering if MJ has some serious antisocial disorder. Or was he just so entitled due to his fame and wealth that he felt he was above good and evil.
I used to think MJ was an emotionally stunted pedophile who wasn’t emotionally mature enough to understand the consequences of his actions. But now I realize he was an evil pedophile, and an evil human being (assuming these accusations are true, and I don’t know why they’d make them up). I hope that scumbag burns in hell. Who knows how many victims he had.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Michael Jackson did NOT molest any the famous child stars he befriended. And that their “public relationships” were all planned by Jackson in order to convince non-famous people his interest in their boys were entirely innocent and he just likes to "relive’ his childhood.
All of those are I believe common traits of pedophiles – manipulate your victims into think you’re the only one they can trust. Tell them you’ll both get in trouble if they tell. Alienate them from their families. And a lot of them do end up abandoning their victims once they get beyond the age they’re attracted to.
They also tend towards troubled kids, who aren’t as close to their families, because they’re the ones who are least likely to blab.
Now I’m curious about this documentary. HBO Now has a free seven-day trial, so when things settle down around here in about a week, I might watch Neverland.
On a more serious note, the Jackson estate and family are always claiming that accusers are motivated by financial interest.
This is incredibly ironic, since they themselves have a vast financial interest in denying the charges and smearing the accusers. Last year Sony paid $250 million for distribution rights to Jackson’s music. Sony may now lose money on the deal, and future deals are very much in question.
There are a lot of people still feeding on Jackson’s corpse who are afraid that the streams of easy money are going to dry up.
If I recall correctly one of the two accusers was the choreographer for NSYNC, so I’d imagine that he’s already financially comfortable, or at least not so uncomfortable that he’d have to resort to a bunch of embarrassing (to himself and his family) lies. I can’t imagine how hard it must be to put such personally embarrasing stories out in public.
We live in the era of “the more obviously you the fit the profile of someone bad, the more likely a subset of the population will see that as evidence you are good”.
Trump is another example of this at work. Golden toilets. Multiple divorces and infidelity. Bragging about his wealth. Draft dodger and attacker of war heroes like McCain. Surrounded by criminal and suspected criminals all of his life.
“He’s a man of the people.” “He a good Christian man.” “He’s just the one to fight for the middle class.” “He’s going to drain the swamp”.
I think at the heart of it, people have a heard time conceiving of someone who proudly waves their red flags; we assume that if someone is into wrongdoing, they have enough of a conscience to hide any sign of that. So when we see blatant signs, we register it as innocence.
Do even .01% of the most fervent of Trump’s supporters really claim this?
It seems to me that his base (who many admittedly might pay lip service to Christianity, but that’s where it typically ends for most of them) justify his vile personal life by saying, “I know he’s probably a deeply immoral man, but by gum, I didn’t vote for a mollyfocking Sunday School teacher, and he’s the only one who is willing to fight Political Correctness and take care of X,Y,Z that no one else has the guts to do, so what he does in the bedroom is between him, God and his hott little Eastern European whore of a wife.”
Damn near no one actually thinks Donald Trump is a “Good Christian Man” particularly actual practicing, faithful Christian Men.
He was also the choreographer for Britney Spears. He’s clearly very accomplished in his field and I would imagine that he has a lot to lose by accusing Jackson.
