Joe Jackson, Michael's Ghoulish Father

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Date: July 14th, 2009
Name: Sue
Subject: Joe Jackson
Comment: Joe Jackson looks like a pimp and now he is trying to exploit the death of his son and his son's children. That old man should be embarrassed and ashamed of himself a true low life scum who should stop living of the backs of his children. He and Michael may have started to redevelop a connection but Micheal is rolling now that he wants to do the same thing he did to him. Death snatched the wrong man.

Date: July 1st, 2009
Name: love Michael
Subject: Joe jackson - the true abuser
Comment: Super! Thank you so very much for exposing the truth about childhood of Michael and calling spade a spade when comes to old Jackson. This unbelievable abuse Michael endured undoubtedly led to his deep depression and other so called eccentricities ( we are not to judge this though). I feel this incredible burden and pain this man had to endure all his life. No wonder he was so guiles and soundiscerning when gave interviews to two journalist who greatly contributed to his break down - Diane Sawyer and Martin Bashir

Date: July 1st, 2009
Name: Mrs A Robinson
Subject: MJ
Comment: I felt this when I watched his father on TV. At no time did he seam to be the greiving father. It is so sad that Michael died the way he did alone and unhappy except for his children which are the only things that gave his life meaning when the Touring and singing stopped. To have not been allowed to have or make friends, to having no normality in his life, to want to go and play and have to record instead, a father who pushed and pushed a small boy into a limelight and was not given a chance to live a normal life....

Date: June 30th, 2009
Name: Maria
Subject: Joe Monster Dad Jackson
Comment: I'm so glad members of the black community are speaking out about Joe's absolutely revolting behavior in the day's following Michael's death - not that it was any better while he was alive. Joe is quick to dismiss anything from the white community and surrounding himself with Sharpton and Jesse Jackson as a defense. His behavior is beyond repugnant and shows exactly why MJ cut him out of his life as soon as he was able. (99% of MJ's problems....)

[Michael Jackson's Passing: Comment]

Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson's father, obviously had no love at all for his son.

He could not even hide it. This is clear by the interview he gave to the CNN reporter Don Lemon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCc3NHRrTOc

Joe only "loved" Michael when he was a boy and part of the famed Jackson Five with his brothers. When the boys were making money before they even owned individual bank accounts.

That's when the father could use his sons as his cash machine. Even then, his tyranny made him infamous. The falling out started when Michael became older, asserted his independence and eventually launched his solo career.

Joe could no longer cash the checks.

It was clearly beyond a falling out by the time Michael Jackson died last Thursday. Michael had already died long ago to Joe, the father. When he could no longer exploit Michael and his earnings.

Asked by the CNN reporter on what it meant to lose Michael, the father spoke of the "world" losing the "greatest star." Not about a father or a family losing a "beloved son."

The reporter Lemon had begun gently enough, noting that the last few days must have been tough for the Jackson family; to which Joe Jackson retorted, "And?"
It was one of the saddest four minute interviews. The reporter tried his best to humanize the father; but there was no soul there. At least not for
Michael Jackson.

It was so clearly bad that a publicist jumped in to read a "statement" on behalf of the Jackson family.

Joe Jackson had nothing redeeming that he could find in his heart to say about his son--assuming Michael was his son. At one moment, he even wistfully observed that "I wish he were here to see all this to hear all this," referring to the outpouring of grief and adulation for Michael.

No Joe; wish he were here to be with his children. Joe Jackson is ghoulish.

Joe Jackson seemed impatient and snapped quick responses when Lemon inquired about the well-being of Michael Jackson's other siblings and his children. He almost waved off the reporter when he was asked about funeral arrangements.

Instead, he dragged over a friend of his named Marshall and announced that he wanted to make "a real statement." What was that statement? Was it that he had tried to repair relations with his son in recent years? Was it that he now felt that he was wrong to have exploited Michael with his great tyranny and perhaps driven him into some of the eccentricities he later adopted?

Not so. Old Joe Jackson wanted to announce that he had formed a new record label with his friend Marshall.

Shamelessly.

The reporter Lemon was so taken aback that he tried to contextualize the remark and asked how Joe's 65th wedding anniversary had been. So bitter is old man Joe Jackson towards his son that he disses him in death. A sad state of affairs.

Now we can only imagine some of Michael's stress and distress; when his own father saw him, in life and in death merely as a money machine.

Michael deserved better--if not from the world, at least from Joe Jackson.

But Michael is in a far better place, and safe from Joe, forever, because of what he did and what he shared with the world while he was here.

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