February 27th, 2003

headwound

Way overdue . . .

Okay, these are the notes I started taking during the M.J. rebuttal. I meant to get this up sooner, but that little fuck\bag came around the other day to divert me, and then the last five or so days I've been away, and now I've just feel like sunshine is beaming out of my anus. Without further adieu, here are my notes from Michael Jackson's videotape:
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Potshots: Part Deux
20:00:59

Welp, here we go. M.J.'s tale, his side.

20:02:59
What is with FOX and these goddamn four minute spoiler videos before every show?

20:04:05
Maury says M.J. had no editorial control over the footage. Good.

20:06:35
""People would be surprised to know what a simple life I lead" or something.

Mike . . . please.

So . . . this expose is supposed to reveal what a fuckwad bashir is, right? Okay, we'll take that tack.

20:09:23
Well, back to the train. The kids are all still black. I wonder . . . oh, the WISH foundation. Well, that explains something.

20:12:42
I do not deny that the "raw footage" does give a different perspective. Michael doesn't seem so . . . close, I guess. Still, things like "I'm Peter Pan in my heart" are still a bit off, though.

20:15:17
Okay, M.J., you win. Bashir's a scumbag. He lied to you.

There is nothing right about you having camp-outs with young boys.

There is still footage of the children left to be seen.

20:17:54
I do feel kind of shitty about being suckered in by Bashir's editing.

Look, though, just because he's not quite as "fucked up" in this raw footage, does not negate the innate creepiness in some of his statements. I'm actually surprised by the FOX footage so far.

Hey, any of you moron's that might be tempted to write me and mouth off about how "Ahh, you recanted! You like him! You wanna marry Michael Jackson!" I'd thank you to direct your mouse to another page.

I admit it, okay?

I was too hard on Michael Jackson.

I may be going off in antoher direction when that baby stuff gets up front.

Here's what's killin' me: the raw footage shows him relaxed. I just want you all to see how affected by editing I was by that ABC show. I'm a fuckin' media baby, man, I'm immune to schizoid-paroxysms induced by electromagnetic waves, baby. I was . . . when was MTV? '81? I would have been 11-12 that year. I was ten years old when Star Wars came out,

the perfect age.

Slightly older or slightly younger than 10 when that movie happened . . . it didn't quite hit you the same way as a ten year old. 9-12. Anyone that was in that age range when they went to sit in a movie theater and watched Star Wars had their fuckin' DNA changed, man. We are apathetic, and combat ready.

I'm OT.

Point is that of course I was affected by the editing of the ABC show.

20:30:59
What's her name? Debbie Ovum? Debbie Ovum is fucking rehearsed.

20:33:57
Okay, I get it. This is yet another perpetuation of the media's talent for manipulation. Michael is, of course, going to look more relaxed, but then FOX gets in touch with the mother and says, "We'll give you $$$ to make it look like there was ever anything normal about your relationship with M.J."

20:41:02
Proof: Debbie claims to be responsible for "the veils."

A lie.
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And I stopped taking notes there because I realized how ashamed of myself I was -- I am such a lemming that all those big synth hits, and close camera angles, and all that other fucked up shit that Martin Bashir did with his footage definitely tainted my perspective.

I will say this, though: in the M.J. footage we never see the footage of him feeding the baby. Now, since Righ'?'s on the brain, I'm going to annoy him and confess something you people probably don't know about him: that fuckin' guy cannot get his fuckin' leg to sit fuckin' still. I don't know what it is, but . . . tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap -tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap . . . . niggah's got a nervous leg.

Drives me insane.

The reason I bring that up is that that is exactly what M.J.'s leg was doing while he was trying to stuff that fucking nipple into Prince Dangler's mouth.

Anyhow, to get back OT: Michael's footage, as, quite responsibly, unedited by FOX, shows an entirely different picture than Bashir's footage. However, again, the things we do not see are the baby footage, the zoo (although if that SNAFU was an accurate telling, which I beleieve it was, then I can't fault him for that excursion), and we don't get to see the crying shit . . . as far as I remember. To their credit, the only footage I have ever seen of the dangling was slowed down, and that was MSNBC.

I don't know what it is, but I have a knack for this stuff. FOX (unless they actually sped up the footage, which, frankly I can't see why they would have an interest in doing that) showed the dangling at normal speed. It seemed more apparent to me that he had a reasonably secure hold on the child's armpits, and it was just a brief "swoosh" motion that a perfectly healthy 44 year old man would be more than competent (and indeed was) of executing with100% guaranteed safety of the child.

If I had spoken that sentence in real life, I would have passed out from lack of air to the brain.

Maybe I am long winded?

Fuck 'em.

Point being this: there ain't nothing right about a 44 year old man sleeping with 11 year old cancer patients.

Michael . . . they make a male Real Doll . . . that is the answer to all your problems. I guarantee they'll make you something cut to your specifications, and keep it on the DL. Don't be ashamed of what you are. These days, Michael, it takes a rebel to tell the truth.

Be a rebel.

I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here, buddy, so don't make an ass out of me. FOX made you look . . . if not normal, than stable with a decent amount of eccentricity . . . come to think of it, we didn't see the shopping spree either (I guess there's just no justifying some things).

Whatever . . . all M.J. has ever been about for me is the cult of personality.

We must be disgusted with ourselves.

I am.
headwound

Freddy's Dead

Wow, Mr.Rogers pulls off his last sweater. Pedophiles all over the world have lost a role model. I only half mean that, I was a Mr. Roger's kid, but the guy was a bit on the side of creeptastic. There was never any scandal with that man, was there? Oh well. Sorry to see you go, Fred, you did some good stuff. Your show always tried to do something good, rather than just keep kids set in front of the tube like most children's programming these days.

Soon enough, we'll all be your neighbors.
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