# Michael Jackson never got it. On a different note, neither Uri Geller. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 19, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023 "2003-11-19T02:01:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/1 "2003-11-19T02:01:59Z")
Pitting 2 for the price of one! > **[MSNBC News - Breaking News and News Today | Latest News](https://www.msnbc.com/)** > > MSNBC breaking news and the latest news for today. Get daily news from local news reporters and world news updates with live audio & video from our team. You really don’t get it Michael. However, I will save my bile once more info is available, because I see that also that Uri Geller has popped up: [http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1277082003](http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1277082003) > [@](#): > > Uri Geller, a psychic and “paranormalist” who is a long-time friend of Jackson’s, told Fox News that, if the allegations are of a sexual nature, he does not think they are true: “I’m a father and I would never associate myself with anyone who’d do anything with a child.” > > Geller described Jackson as “gullible, innocent, maybe a little confused … but I would never believe he would sexually abuse a child”. And you call yourself a psychic? Something so devastating, as a new allegation coming up, never registered in your psychic sensors? Some powers you have there. I can’t believe this guy is still being taken seriously by many. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/2 "2003-11-19T02:13:58Z")
I thought Gellar was a telekinetic, not a psychic? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/3 "2003-11-19T02:42:06Z")
He’s neither. He’s a fraud. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/4 "2003-11-19T02:42:06Z")
Gellar is neither a psychic nor telekinetic. He is just a fraud. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/5 "2003-11-19T02:44:00Z")
But maybe **DtC** have some paranormal powers, look at that simulpost. ---
**Author:** ![carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/6 "2003-11-19T02:50:50Z")
Name change: **Diogenes the Psychic**. Or possibly **Diogenes the Psychic Cynic**. Or **Diogenes the Cynical Psychic**. Nah, that last one sounds too much like a children’s Christmas special. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/7 "2003-11-19T02:52:20Z")
er- **DtC** and I have some paranormal powers. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/8 "2003-11-19T02:52:26Z")
Uri can stick a spoon in it! ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/9 "2003-11-19T02:58:12Z")
Hi Kat. 🙂 Uri Geller likes the “psychic” title, and the attributes that go with it: [http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/01/tod.07.html](http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/01/tod.07.html) I believe **DtC** has more powers of prediction than Geller. **vainilla** , considering the OP, do you think Michael… Nah, too easy! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/10 "2003-11-19T02:58:33Z")
Jinx! Buy me a coke! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/11 "2003-11-19T15:26:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vanilla \* > \*\*Uri can stick a spoon in it! \*\* Not possible. [There is no spoon.](http://www.cs.wright.edu/people/faculty/sthomas/nospoon.html) ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/12 "2003-11-19T16:50:28Z")
Mental note: never eat soup with **rimshotdansk** ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/13 "2003-11-19T17:35:50Z")
Sounds like Uri is preparing to distance himself from Jackson. After all that time being his No. 1 best buddy too. Maybe he’s taken a lesson from Blaine. Apparently one of the first things Blaine did after getting out of his perspex box is tell his people to keep Uri out of his face. I think he must have been fed-up waking every morning, cold and starving, but with the sight of his ‘good friend’ Uri below him sucking up as much publicity as possible. He was out there, uninvited and in front any camera or microphone that would have him, for 30 of the 44 days. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/14 "2003-11-19T19:21:36Z")
For the love of God, what parent(s) nowadays would let their child spend unsupervised time with Michael Jackson? ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/15 "2003-11-19T19:31:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Futile Gesture \* > **Sounds like Uri is preparing to distance himself from Jackson. After all that time being his No. 1 best buddy too.** I believe Elizabeth Taylor got wise and did that a few months ago, or perhaps it was a year ago. Anyway, I remember reading about how she and Jackson aren’t friends anymore. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/16 "2003-11-19T19:37:21Z")
So what’s jacko going to do this time? It’s not like he has another $20,000,000. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/17 "2003-11-19T20:02:39Z")
[Apparently, there is now a warrant out for Jackson’s arrest.](http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/19/jackson.ranch/index.html) I wonder if he’ll manage to weasel out of it this time. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/18 "2003-11-19T20:22:25Z")
He can’t buy his way out of it this time. California specifically changed the law so that the victim can now be compelled to testify against the defendant. The last time Jacko was in trouble the victim refused to cooperate once he received his pay-off. That can’t happen again. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/19 "2003-11-19T20:31:47Z")
Assuming the charges are true (and I refuse to draw and conclusions until more evidence is brought forward), it makes me wonder about the father in the earlier case, who settled for $20 million. I mean, if my kid really was molested, I wouldn’t settle for _any_ amount of money… ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023/20 "2003-11-19T20:38:38Z")
here’s a concept for the lawyers: (Assuming molestation charges **are** true) what would be the case against the parents in the first case being sued by the parents in the second case on the supposition that had the case not been settled, and it had been known that MJ was a molester, the second child wouldn’t have been in that position (either 'cause MJ was in prison or had been identified as a molester officially)? yea, I know. But, I also wonder at any parent allowing child to stay w/MJ. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-never-got-it-on-a-different-note-neither-uri-geller/214023.md?page=2)