Thursday, July 9, 2009

Bill O'Reilly, Al Sharpton: Michael Jackson Strange?

Yesterday, Bill O'Reilly had a discussion with Al Sharpton about Michael Jackson's "strangeness" and the accusations made by Rep. Pete King.

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BILL O'REILLY: The Michael Jackson situation yesterday at the memorial service in Los Angeles -- Al Sharpton said this:

AL SHARPTON: Michael made us love each other. Michael taught us to stand with each other... I want his three children to know, wasn't nothing strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with.

O'REILLY: With us now is Reverend Sharpton. Nothing strange about Michael Jackson? All that plastic surgery, altering his face and all of that. The hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on prescription drugs. In vitro on white kids, you know, when you're black man. Nothing strange about it?

SHARPTON: Well, no.

O'REILLY: You don't think any of that's strange?

SHARPTON: First of all, you could probably have a large percentage of Americans that have had plastic surgery.

O'REILLY: Not like that.

SHARPTON: Well, maybe he had more resources. Maybe a lot of this is exaggerated. Let's deal with the issues. The issue is that it is totally irresponsible for a lawmaker to disregard the law. Charges were made against Michael Jackson. A mostly non-black jury... he talks about nine out of ten, let's try twelve out of twelve in a jury said he was not guilty of child molestation. That's all. And it's as reckless and irresponsible to say he's a child molester as it would be for me to come on here and say Dick Cheney shoots his friends hunting.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sharpton's diatribe at the memorial service was reprehensible. He just said what he had to say to get into the Jackson inner circle. He continued the BS on O'Reilly's show.

To suggest that MJ had anything to do with promoting civil rights, etc. is a joke. He was a psychotic freak that built his own fantasyland in which to live. MJ was a pathetic figure no matter how much anybody tries to rewrite his history.

Anonymous said...

In this conversation, O'Reilly shows just how unsound and irrational his thoughts are. Common sense is not his reality. O'Reilly how do you describe parents who allow their children to spend the night with Michael Jackson? The facts are not his style of journalism--this man is a complete fraud!!

Anonymous said...

Mr. O'Reilly, I am speaking as an African American. I wish Reverence Sharpton would have had more time to explain to you about the AA community. We(AA) are the most welcoming family orientented community in the world. We are descendents of kings, queens and "big mommas" or black matriarchs who head our households. We see children. We don't see color. I am a social worker and there are more kids in the system for dependent/neglect from "white" families than blacks. We ain't perfect, but we take care of your own. Michael Jackson was a good father and the little "white" girl said it first!

Anonymous said...

I am a white male and I have to say BO'R is illogical on this point: Because Michael Jackson had white children he has now distanced himself and is not an AA civil rights icon. As an AA who made it to the top as he did, that alone means he had to further civil rights for many. It goes with the territory. I'm tired of the focus on strangeness. Why not focus on the fact that Michael was a caring individual as depicted by virtually every single person that knew him personally. BO'R, shame on you and your SPIN.