Agreed in part - I certainly wouldn’t want him to throw his kids in a lake, unless they can swim. However, the moral outrage over the very brief dangling incident is ridiculous in the extreme - I saw the video, and, yes, it was a stupid act of showing his kids off to the fans below and putting the child at unnecessary risk - but for a matter of a few seconds.
Meanwhile, parents all over the world are driving around with their kids unbuckled, smoking like chimneys in their presence, feeding them McDonald’s from the time they can eat solid food, abusing their children behind the closed doors of their homes, etc - and we get worked up about Wacko erring in judgement for a few seconds.
No, but we’re all perfectly aware that it happens - what’s your point? Does MJ doing something brief and stupid in the public eye make it worse than a lifetime of abuse by the others? Is the “degree of wrongness” determined by how many people witness an act?
knowing that ‘it happens’ is very, very different from:
I know that person there has done criminal deed A, B and/or C.
Being able to prove #1.
So, bottom line - we wouldn’t ‘give a pass’ to some celeb/dweeb doing something hazardous to their child in public on video (remember the video taped mom slapping her child in the car?), nor should we.
we also “understand” that there’s a great number of children out there suffering worse, behind closed doors.
and of course, once they’re identified, we would’t ‘give a pass’ to those who abused them, either.
And I’ve never advocated giving him a “pass” on what he did - but it making the front page of CNN and FOX news sites is a bit much considering other news in the world. It says something about what we find newsworthy.
Sorry - I only saw it as the “headline” in the entertainment section of CNN. and only for a day.
and given that celebrity weddings, deaths, brushes w/the law, injuries etc. are often ‘news’, perhaps your beef is with the concept of ‘celebrity’ itself.
Aw, give us a break. We just had a contentious election and we’re about to embark on a major war. In the meantime, let us have a little fun with Jacko, why don’t ya?
