The first Michael Jackson interview...

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60 Minutes got the first interview with Michael since this whole deal with the kids...It's on CBS on Sunday.

[vienna waits]

I'll have to watch.

This article about it was on the aol thingy : http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/arti...26160909990003

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....bump.

[Janice]

Ed Bradley interviewed Michael on 60 Minutes tonight. Michael said he doesn't sleep in the same bed as the kids. He says he doesn't have a dirty mind and just genuinely loves children. He seems sincere to me.

Trading Mooses, that's an excellent point about having a surrogate mother to have his children. Gay and single men do it all the time.

His plastic surgery has done a number on his face, but he looked decent on tonight's interview. Very decent actually.

He looks bizarre at times with the makeup and all, but he's in show biz. Elton John, Boy George, Marilyn Manson, Liberace--the list goes on--all look or looked off the wall.

Never Land is an act of love on Michael's part. Underprivileged and sick children go there to live out what may be their final days. Michael has given millions to children's charities over the years.

Hanging the child over the balcony--a terrible lapse in judgment for which he apologized profusely.

You know, the hell with it, I think he's innocent. I haven't seen a smoking gun. He's got issues for sure, but I just don't think he's a pedophile.
I think he's being sandbagged because he's got deep pockets and he's an easy target.

[Ravey]

You know what? After this interview I believe he's innocent too. I can't believe they locked him in the bathroom for 45 minutes. And those bruises on his arms, from the handcuffs looked really nasty. I really felt bad for him during this interview. And he seemed like he was innocent.

[Ravey]

Originally posted by Janice
You know, the hell with it, I think he's innocent. I haven't seen a smoking gun. He's got issues for sure, but I just don't think he's a pedophile.
I think he's being sandbagged because he's got deep pockets and he's an easy target.

Exactly, you can tell he has issues, but tonight he just didn't seem like a pedophile.

[isiahthomas]

Jackie i really like your different avatar pictures of Beyonce. Your newest one is hot. Anyway i saw the Michael Jackson interview & i felt bad for him too when they showed a picture of what his arm looks like when the police roughed him up. He had a big bulge in his arm that did look nasty. When they locked him in the bathroom, that was uncalled for especially when he said there was doodoo on the wall & the policeman made a sarcastic remark about does it smell good in there. That's cold blooded. The police didn't have to rough him up like that. The police are just jealous cause Michael has more money than they'll ever see in a lifetime. They also didn't have to trash his Neverland ranch like that either. He said they cut up his mattress on his bed & they searched places at Neverland that they didn't have a warrant for. I believe he's innocent too now after seeing that interview cause that boy's mother doesn't wanna sue now & her lying ass doesn't have anything to say cause Ed Bradley said he asked to speak to her & she declined to speak to him.

[felicitylen]

I also think Michael is innocent. Just like he said, he is being sued over money. I think some people are blowing things out of proportion when he says that he shares his bed. He let the kids sleep in the bed and he sleeps on the floor. I've been to people's houses (friends, family) where they have offered their bed and they would sleep on the couch or the floor. Neverland seems like a really cool place to go and just be a kid. Just like someone else mentioned, Michael is a easy target.

Now that he did this interview, he should be left alone. He doesn't need to be talked about on every news channel. There are other things going on in this world that needs more news coverage.

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Originally posted by felicitylen
I also think Michael is innocent. Just like he said, he is being sued over money. I think some people are blowing things out of proportion when he says that he shares his bed. He let the kids sleep in the bed and he sleeps on the floor. I've been to people's houses (friends, family) where they have offered their bed and they would sleep on the couch or the floor. Neverland seems like a really cool place to go and just be a kid. Just like someone else mentioned, Michael is a easy target.

Exactly. Like he said, people have dirty minds.

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If you missed it, you can read the transcript

[Janice]

Jackson Still in Pain From 'Manhandling'

NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Jackson says he is still in pain from being put in police handcuffs last month and tells CBS's "60 Minutes" that authorities "manhandled" him.

The pop star said he suffered a dislocated shoulder from the way he was cuffed and handled during his arrest on child molestation charges.

"It's hurting me very badly," Jackson said in an interview broadcast Sunday. "I'm in pain all the time."

Representatives of the Santa Barbara County sheriff's department did not return a call seeking comment Sunday. District Attorney Thomas Sneddon has said Jackson was treated fairly while in custody.

Jackson denied the molestation charges against him in a partial transcript of the interview released Friday, and said he still believes it's acceptable to have children sleep in his bed.

On Sunday, CBS released the full transcript of Jackson's Christmas night interview with Ed Bradley.

Jackson, 45, is charged with seven counts of performing lewd or lascivious acts upon a child under 14 and two counts of administering an intoxicating agent. After surrendering to Santa Barbara, Calif., authorities Nov. 20, he was set free on $3 million bail.

"It seemed to me like he reindicted himself," Bill Dickerman, an attorney who represented the family of the alleged victim and remains close to them, told ABC's "Good Morning America" Monday after reviewing a transcript of Jackson's interview.

"He said many things that were not in his favor," Dickerman said. "His reference to being Jack the Ripper or a pedophile or not being Jack the Ripper or a pedophile I thought was very strange."

During the televised interview, when Jackson was asked if he thought it was still OK to sleep with children given the charges against him, he answered: "Why not? If you're going to be a pedophile, if you're going to be Jack the Ripper, if you're going to be a murderer, it's not a good idea. That I am not."

"Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists," Jackson said.

The pop star also said authorities sought to belittle him when he was taken into custody.

"They were supposed to go in, and just check fingerprints, and do the whole thing that they do when they take somebody in," he said. "They manhandled me very roughly. My shoulder is dislocated, literally."

The pain from being handcuffed behind his back "keeps me from sleeping at night," he said.

Jackson said he was locked in a restroom for 45 minutes after he asked to use the facilities. He said the room was smelly because of feces thrown all over.

His bedroom at his Neverland ranch was left a "total wreck" by investigators acting on a search warrant, Jackson said, although he admitted he has yet to see it.

Bradley pressed Jackson, a father of three, on whether he would allow his own children to sleep in a bed with a 45-year-old man and if he understood the way this appeared to others.

"People think sex," Jackson said. "They're thinking sex. My mind doesn't run that way. When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much."

[Janice]

DA Apologizes for Joking About Jackson


By TIM MOLLOY

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The district attorney making child molestation allegations against Michael Jackson apologized for joking last week when authorities announced an arrest warrant had been issued for the pop icon.

Santa Barbara County District Attorney Thomas W. Sneddon was responding to criticism about his demeanor at the Nov. 19 news conference.

At one point, the prosecutor drew chuckles when he welcomed reporters to Santa Barbara with the line, "I hope that you all stay long and spend lots of money because we need your sales tax to support our offices."

In a CNN interview Tuesday, Sneddon said, "I think the criticism was valid, I think to some extent (the comment) was inappropriate. I feel bad about it because I should have known better."

The apology came as questions emerged about the credibility of the family of Jackson's accuser and as the singer's attorney, Mark Geragos, vowed to "land like a ton of bricks" on anyone who besmirches his reputation.

"If anybody doesn't think based upon what's happened so far that the true motivation of these charges and these allegations is anything but money and the seeking of money, then they're living in their own Neverland," Geragos said Tuesday, referring to the singer's Santa Barbara County estate.

The statement followed revelations that Geragos and Jackson were secretly videotaped while flying on a private jet to Santa Barbara last week for Jackson's surrender and booking.

Geragos claimed in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against Santa Monica-based XtraJet that the charter company covertly installed two cameras in the plane's cabin.

The cameras "were recording attorney-client conversations and then somebody had the unmitigated gall to shop those tapes around to media outlets in order to sell them to the highest bidder," he said.

The tapes' existence came to light when representatives of XtraJet showed it to several news organizations, saying they had found two videotapes aboard one of their jets and wanted to know whether it was legal to distribute or sell them.

The attorney for XtraJet did not immediately return a call for comment. The FBI said it seized tapes from XtraJet and were trying to assess whether there had been a violation of federal law.

"Michael Jackson is not going to be abused," Geragos said. "Michael Jackson is not going to be slammed. He is not going to be a pinata for every person who has financial motives."

The developments came as details about the boy's family began to emerge, including two previous cases that involved abuse allegations: a lawsuit in which the family said they were battered by mall security guards, and a divorce fight in which the father pleaded no contest to spousal abuse and child cruelty.

In November 2001, J.C. Penney Co. paid the boy's family $137,500 to settle a lawsuit alleging security guards beat the boy, his mother and his brother in a parking lot in 1998 after the boy left the store with clothes that hadn't been paid for, court records show.

The mother also contended that she was sexually assaulted by one of the guards during the confrontation.

A month before the settlement, the boy's mother had filed for divorce, beginning a bitter fight that would include criminal charges of abuse. The father's attorney, Russell Halpern, said the mother had lied about the abuse and had a "Svengali-like" ability to make her children repeat her lies.

Halpern said the father once showed him a script his wife had allegedly written for their children to use when they were questioned in a civil deposition.

"She wrote out all their testimony. I actually saw the script," Halpern said Tuesday. "I remember my client showing me, bringing the paperwork to me."

The Associated Press does not identify alleged victims of sexual abuse. The child's mother has an unlisted number and could not be located for comment. J.C. Penney lawyers did not return a call seeking comment.

The family's past legal cases could be critical in the current molestation case, if Jackson attorneys can show the mother or the accuser lacks credibility, said Leonard Levine, a defense attorney who specializes in sexual assault cases.

"It sounds like music to a defense attorney's ears - that there have been other cases where they have sued and there is at least an argument that the allegations are similar to the ones here," Levine said.

Jackson's spokesman, Stuart Backerman, declined to comment about the past lawsuits involving the accuser's family. The Santa Barbara County district attorney's office declined to comment Tuesday.

In 2002, the boy's father was charged with four counts of child cruelty, and one count each of injuring a child, making a threat and false imprisonment. He pleaded no contest to one count of child cruelty but it was unclear from court records which of his children was involved. The other charges were dismissed.

The father also pleaded no contest to spousal abuse in 2001.

[Janice]

This is the confidential Department of Children & Family Services memorandum detailing the Los Angeles child welfare agency's February 2003 investigation into sexual abuse allegations against Michael Jackson.
The Smoking Gun has blurred the names of the children involved in the probe, which ended with a finding that the charges were "unfounded."


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/dcfsmemo2.html

[Ravey]

Originally posted by isiahthomas
Jackie i really like your different avatar pictures of Beyonce. Your newest one is hot. Anyway i saw the Michael Jackson interview & i felt bad for him too when they showed a picture of what his arm looks like when the police roughed him up. He had a big bulge in his arm that did look nasty. When they locked him in the bathroom, that was uncalled for especially when he said there was doodoo on the wall & the policeman made a sarcastic remark about does it smell good in there. That's cold blooded. The police didn't have to rough him up like that. The police are just jealous cause Michael has more money than they'll ever see in a lifetime. They also didn't have to trash his Neverland ranch like that either. He said they cut up his mattress on his bed & they searched places at Neverland that they didn't have a warrant for. I believe he's innocent too now after seeing that interview cause that boy's mother doesn't wanna sue now & her lying ass doesn't have anything to say cause Ed Bradley said he asked to speak to her & she declined to speak to him.

Thanks. And yeah I agree with you, they shouldn't have handled him the way they did.

[isiahthomas]

Janice nobody cares about all that information u posted about Michael LOL.