Celebutard of the Week: Joe Jackson
by Andrea PeyserIn the unappetizing race to scavenge the remaining flesh from the bones of Michael Jackson, Joe Jackson, the star’s Daddy Dearest, is turning the singer’s death into a spectacle unimagined by Barnum & Bailey.
Joe, to whom his son left nothing in his will, is the architect of the star’s final world tour, putting him on display like a freakish piñata. Joe also disrupted a weird press conference this week to promote his record label, unable to resist waiting a millisecond to profit from what is shaping up as the biggest celeb death of the decade.
This is why Joe Jackson is my Celebutard of the Week – in keeping with my book, Celebutards: The Hollywood Hacks, Limousine Liberals and Pandering Politicians who are destroying America. (Kensington.)
In his life, the superstar was clearly damaged beyond repair, reconfiguring his face and allegedly sleeping with underage boys. You need to look only as far as Jackson’s relationship with his father to understand where it all began. Jackson has said in interviews that his father was a tyrant, beating him mercilessly if he missed a dance step, ridiculing his dark skin and wide nose.
Michael Jackson’s pop talent was undeniable. So was his status as a predator. He seemed unaware that there was anything wrong with reliving one’s childhood through the company of young boys.
Had Joe Jackson been a better father by even one-tenth, would the world have had a Michael Jackson? He was his creation, as well as his failure.
One thing father and son have in common: Neither seemed to believe his chosen hobby is wrong.
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I could not agree more. I see absolutely no redeeming qualities in Joe Jackson.
From everything I've ever read Joe Jackson is a mean spirited, destructive guy. LaToya Jackson wrote in her autobiography that he would routinely beat the kids, Michael especially. There were also alligations that there might have been some sexual abuse of the girls. Something I found interesting in the last few days was the fact that it appears that Katherine and Joe are not living at the same address. This came to light when the will was read yesterday and I heard about that on the news. This man helped to create many of MJ's problems I'm firmly convinced. He should be ashamed of himself, but I'm sure he isn't as that would call for a conscience, something he doesn't appear to have.
Joe Jackson is a worhtless human being…. he wanted to make a comment on his son untimely passing and he went into his NEW RECORDNIG LABEL…. are you serious? his son passed away, and he is more interested in his new company doing well? Just a piece of garbage…..
I go to listen to Luther Jackson, Michael's uncle, here in AZ and he plays some killer Chicago Blues. I had no idea he was related to Michael until all of the publicity about Michaels last trial came out. The old guy didn't want anything to do with all of the publicity. We were set to listen to him and his band at one of our favorite spots and here comes all of the media stations in the valley circling the place like vultures, needless to say he didn't play that night. I also had my picture taken with him before I knew. Good music is good music.
Too bad old Joe doesn't have some of his brothers integrity.
Sick!
some people NEVER understand how much pain they have caused and take no responsibilty for their actions.Joe Jackson is a horrible person who, now, wants to profit from his son's death. i've not seen one ounce of hurt from him that his son is dead, only "what can i get?" i've known people like him. they NEVER get it.
This guy should be beaten everyday at 4 o'clock for an hour for the rest of his miserable life.
They had separated for years because among many other faults, Joe was a philanderer.
oh he can do worse than getting a "garbage: label"… there's a word I'm not allowed to use in public.
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2009/07/exc...
$25 to attend the memorial?!?!?
Joe is the quintessential bad stage parent. You bet he's in the counting house ready to exploit his new windfall. Why change now?
This guy's nothing more than a scheming, greedy leech. I can't look at him without feeling disgust and repulsion. Imagine how he'd exploit and market Michael's children if he got his slimy hands on them. I bet all he's thinking is how much money they'd bring in if they were put on display or worse, beaten into performing.
Well thank goodness they're not living together. She's got custody of his three kids (for the time being) and I wouldn't want this sorry waste of skin to get anywhere near them….or any of his grandkids for that matter. Have you seen Rebbe's son? His name is Auggie Brown and he appears to be a well-adjusted, good-looking kid. Here's hoping that the next generation can carry on the musical legacy without all the weirdness attached. If Joe is kept out of the picture I'm sure they will do much better.
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*sigh* I'm so aging myself, but I used to know an awful lot about the family when I was a teenager. I think Rebbie has sort of always been the sane one. Maybe because she was the oldest. (anyone else remember the really-not-very-good hit she had called "Centipede?"
Mark, your 100% correct…. just a sorry excuse for a human being…..
JJ is arguably the biggest duncecap, among a very dysfunctional family. The sad thing is that people pay attention to this old stooge.
I know a car wreck is hard to ignore but we must bear up and do it anyway.
And, as my finance professor always says: "In the end, its all about the money!"
But why are they fighting over Jackson's estate – when he was over $400 million in the red?
the patriarchal setup of the Jackson clan can be best understood if you know anything of the Jehovah's Witnesses and the fundamentalist offshoot Jackson belonged to- The Seventh Day Adventists. This rigid parenting style and family control defined Michael, and is largely responsible for the tragic dichotomies he wrestled with his entire life… his incredible fame and popularity clashed with the selflessness and humility that are the hallmarks of these particular beliefs.
But it also helps explain the hundreds of millions in charitable donations he alone gave…
JJ may be the lead vulture but Andrea you didn't miss a chance to snack on MJ bones either did you honey ? A plug for your book planted squarely in this same article ? Shame on you.
I'm sorry, but the whole clan makes me nauseous with old Joe (Pimp Daddy) leading the pack. I just heard about Jermaine's interview on Today, where he says that "Michael was a gift from Allah, and now he has taken him back", and I paraphrase. I hope to high heaven that "12 virgins" from Allah promise isn't true. Maybe that 's why MJ converted from the Jehovah's Witnesses, or maybe Michael already collected on that out on the ranch. Sickening. All of them.
Phew! When I saw the headline, I thought you were talking about the Joe Jackson of "Steppin' Out" fame.
he icked on me…
The only reason Joe gets a pass from others is because of the color of his skin. The man is a racist wife beater and child abuser and yet all the usual suspects show up to defend him and attend his parties like Joe is their patron saint. It disgusts me that we see so much of this in the black community.
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Good God he's funny looking. What a pimp.
That's how he's bringing sexy back.
I'm… too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts…
Par for the course. His son was nothing but a dollar sign to that guy- both in life and death.
This Joe Jackson's such a pud, even Jamie Foxx wouldn't claim he "belongs to us"!
Is he the one who played for the Chicago White Sox?
Because Michael Jackson is worth more money now that he's dead. His debt will be paid over time with the royalties he's going to make on his music. (He also owns 50% of the Beatles catalog.) That's why the vultures are circling.
LOL! I haven't heard that in years. . . now I'll be hearing it all day.
It's still ringing in my head. Thought i would share the joy.
more like a pimple
Just remember this–don't buy any recordings with his name associated with it!! Let him and his bro Sharpton make it on the preacher trail–that should be worth a laugh
When I was a teenager my father told me his father used to beat the crap out of my dad and his brothers and sisters routinely when he was young. My grandfather was gruff, tough, the son of polish immigrants, different time, different people, different ways, so it wasn't uncommon back in the day.
Then he told me had promised himself when he had kids the abuse would stop with him. And it did, I can only recall getting walloped two or three times, and really, really deserving it then. He kept his word. And as a result, neither I, my brother or my sisters would ever even conceive of taking that kind of anger out on our own, or any child, or really, any one. It's never crossed my mind to ever raise a hand in anger at any one in my family.
That's the difference between a father and some one you happen to be related to.
Good advice, but I suspect the chances that any any act he promoted would be worth a red cent are highly slim.
Joe Jackson looks like something I dropped in the toilet this morning. He needs to get flushed.
I believe God has a special place for people like Joe and it ain't heaven. I suspect Michael will be there, too, to greet him.
I'm just curious… Why 4 o'clock? AM or PM? Any particular reason? That just struck me as odd…
When I look at Joe Jackson, I see the embodiment of greed, wickedness, and a very bankrupt soul. I try never to judge others, but the mere sight of him makes me want to vomit. We all will reap what we sow–a spiritual law, a law of the universe–so he WILL get "paid" one day in a manner that he never imagined.
MICHAEL JACKSON WAS A PEDOPHILE. there is no "allegedly" about it… anyone who believes otherwise is a moron. so why are we celebrating him? buying his music? what does this say about this current cache of humanity? and screw everyone who lived off this pedophile while children were pimped to him…
But offhand she always plugs her books, just like lots of contributors plug stuff they want to make money off of, and other things like campaigns and good causes. We expect it, and as good capitalists we want to see them get something for their effort.
50,000 media outlets feeding off Jacko while swooning over his greatness, and you want to complain about one conservative who is critical of him and his father? Is it because she is a woman? Is this a liberal "Palin effect" issue you have?
As long as it takes away this MJ song that has been nagging me for days For No Good Reason.
They cannot all be Bill Cosby, but it sure would not hurt if they tried.
I prefer the Wierd Al verions myself.
The family may be hard up for cash for awhile, and Ms. Peyser may look like someone they could extort some money out of with a made-up lawsuit. "Allegedly" is good enough for us.
You mean to tell me that plugging a new wear or company is better then laying your son to peace? It goes to show you that people or SOME people are more interested in themselves then there children which is just plain SICK…….
Kit – well said.
p.s. glad you dig the blues "good music is good music
dcase The SDA movement has NOTHING to do with, nor did it evolve from Jehovah's Witnesses. My parents are Adventist and they believe in the Bible and the Bible ONLY. As far as tying his parent acts to being Adventist is moronic at best. There are bad people in all walks of life and in all religions. I've met a lot of nice Jehovah's Witnesses and a lot of nice Adventists so while I agree that Joe is a despicable person and Michael was screwed up it was not because of their religious affiliation.
And now comes the line where he is too sexy for his pussy…
Smelly and Ill-mannered…..CHECK.
100% FIEND……………………..CHECK.
brings a whole new meaning to the song "Beat it"… or Weird Al's "Eat it"
Wow. Look at that photo.
He looks like what the result would be if Ed Gein performed his handiwork on one of the characters from "Antz"…
Well, there was a classic Twilight Zone episode called "Four O'Clock". Theodore Bikel plays a man who spies on people, makes calls claiming people are subversive, etc. He then decides – through unspecified mystical means – to shrink all of the evil people in the world at four o'clock. Of course, at four o'clock HE is the one who has shrunk.
Here's the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_O%27Clock
Yeah, me too. So there was relief for a moment…then I read the article and the relief is replaced with disgust.
Celubuturd of the YEAR is more like it!
I think youre the retard! is not nice to keep up RUMOURS about Michael Jackson offending his memory with lies.
I've actually been thinking that Wierd Al Yankovich has suffered the most from this whole affair. Whose songs is he going to do parodies of now?
radio host/Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa has been playing the audio of JJ hawking his record company in the middle of all the "grief"…the guy sounds like your typical no-feeling loser we see all the time in the celebrity world
Dude you are grasping here. The Jackson are like a American freak show and you are dissing Andrea for a plug?
I used to really dig his "Is She Really Going Out With Him" song. It'll never sound as good now.
There is something disturbing about the "Weird Al Effect" at work here.
Weird Al does a Nirvana parody, Kurt Cobain dies. Al does several MJ parodies, MJ dies years later. Eventually Doug Fieger (Geoffry Feiger's brother) from "The Knack" (My Sharona / My Bologna) is going to keel over dead, yet nobody will be looking Weird Al's way.
Where was Weird Al when Dan Blocker unexpectedly died during surgery? Why did the news leak out about Jeff Goldblum's demise in New Zealand, only to be recanted when we find out Weird Al's charter jet to New Zealand was grounded and he could not make it over?
Forget the "Truthers" and 9-11 consiracies out there. Let's get to the bottom of "The Manchurian Entertainer" who calls himself Weird Al.
There is something disturbing about the "Weird Al Effect" at work here.
Weird Al does a Nirvana parody, Kurt Cobain dies. Weird Al does several MJ parodies, MJ dies years later. Eventually Doug Fieger (Geoffry Feiger's brother) from "The Knack" (My Sharona / My Bologna) is going to keel over dead. Yet nobody will be looking Weird Al's way.
Where was Weird Al when Dan Blocker unexpectedly died during surgery? Why did the news leak out about Jeff Goldblum's demise in New Zealand, only to be recanted when we find out Weird Al's charter jet to New Zealand was grounded and he could not make it over?
Forget the "Truthers" and 9-11 consiracies out there. Let's get to the bottom of "The Manchurian Entertainer" who calls himself Weird Al.
LOL
Although I was never a fan (only bought one single–the 45 PRM of "Don't stop 'til you get enough" when I was in high school), his death has hit me really hard, and I can't understand why. I keep drawing the connection (and have for years) between Michael and his whacked out father as the reason he became the way he did. Just the comments made here helped to confirm that. I know personally what abusive fathers can do. I have a younger brother who at times seems a little bizarre (if you only knew) himself, and I probably seem a little weird to others as well. My sister is not to be left out either. At least my father admitted his wrongdoing (alcohol abuse), asked for forgiveness, and has tried to make amends with his children.
Every picture I see of Jackson Sr. it seems that all that is missing is for him to be in a hood with a scythe typical of the "Grim Reaper"…what a creepy old clown…
Yep. Jacksons are freskish sure as shyt. But she (Andrea) pointed at the JJ leach component, *in that context* I see irony in her book plug .
Nuthin' wrong with a book promo per-se just this context it is ironic.
Also funny how some so called conservatives in this thread serve up a knee-jerk response when one of us ain't goose-stepping to the same tune.
Thanks for that, Dcase. I consider myself a lapsed Jehovah's Witness, and I appreciate it when someone gives us a decent shout-out. Witnesses are often told to try to avoid fame because of the way it conflicts with the spiritual guidelines and scriptural interpretations. When I was a kid I found this hilarious since I thought it would be awesome just being famous, but growing up and seeing many Witnesses rise to fame and then self-destruct, I think there is something to embracing a humble lifestyle if you're in the faith.
Joe Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton. You gotta know they are best buds.
Is it my imagination but does Joe Jackson look a little like the ghost of Colonel Tom Parker after Elvis died and shining up the floors at Graceland to sell tickets to tour the Jungle Room? This guy has no shame.
What a creepy looking guy. What is it with the men in that family and makeup?
Ouch! I already heard MMMMBOP today…..AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHGHGHGGGH!!!!!
2 freaks – one living, one dead.
I hope this old black buzzard gets what's coming to him
I think it is damaging for republicans to label liberals as the only bad guys. Sure, there are people in the left who are idiots, but the same thing could be said about the right. Has anyone watched "The 700 Club"? It's hate speech pretending to be spiritual, just like Real Time with Bill Maher" does nothing but lump republicans as racists, homophobes and backwards.
Me, I thought "I'm the Man" and "One More Time" were great, but I never knew he was such a tool.
A freak drug/plastic surgery/media attention addict is given a free pass because allegedly his father abused him over 40 years ago and he was a "great talent" . Great excuses for a child molester — NOT!
And this has to do with this thread how?
Yeah, I heard about Jackson exploiting his own son's death at What About Our Daughters:
http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/2009/06/an-o...
You have to be one evil, selfish man to sink THAT low. Even dictator Saddam Hussein had more ethics than this Joe Jackson.
Well, there are people like myself who've condemned Joe Jackson along with well-known Black bloggers like Gina McCauley:
http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/2009/06/an-o...
The problem is the same liberal MSM that glamorizes White deviants (e.g., liberal Hollywood) does the same for Black ones. This makes non-Black Americans THINK that all Black people support Joe Jackson when the opposite is true.
Wow, it's always weird when evil people really look evil!
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Notice I said the usual suspects. That doesn't include ALL Black people. Many I would imagine can't stand Joe or Michael but are silent because of peer intimidation and racial undertones that prevade society. Some are courageous enough to stand up for what they really believe and moral decency. But a few doesn't make a crowd and the average street person seems to be cool with Joe because 'It's Michael's Daddy'. Just look at who attends the spectacle for Michael Jackson at the Staples Center. Even a Child Molester will get a big send-off in the Hollywood and Black community because of the color of his skin and his fan worship. It disgusts me to the max.
He settled out of court the first time and was acquitted the second time. It was criminal stupidity to let children into the house after the first event, but we do live in America: innocent until proven guilty. Tom Sneddon bent over backwards to convict him and couldn't do it.
Michael had some serious social maladjustments to say the least (thank you daddy Joe!), and was guilty of terrible judgment — but that's not a crime.
sorry for the delay…
Jackson's tragic greatness can only be understood if you follow his belief system and how it clashed with the secular world. Funny no one else caught this… Fame can be dealt with humbly (Oliver North comes to mind) but poor Michael was a prisoner. Not a fan either, but could never understand the vitriol aimed at him. Terrible tragic life…
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