The King of Pop is Dead

Michael Jackson is dead. A great artist has died. A tortured soul has passed from this world. A spoiled, skinny, man-child who earned roughly a billion dollars in his life, spent nearly a half-billion more dollars than he made. Where's the liberal outrage? The ACORN thugs that rail against the bonuses on Wall Street should be rioting in the streets. This man consumed a half-billion more dollars of wealth than he generated. According to the socialist theory of Obama, they ought to draw and quarter his body and burn the pieces. There are poor children in the inner cities that starve everyday because of the debt that Michael Jackson created.

If a Republican sends a suggestive e-mail to a page, it's a foil for a national slime campaign. But if a brilliant dancer-singer is a serial pedophile, then Hollywood and pop culture America looks the other way.

Michael Jackson became the sorry excuse for a human he was because the hangers-on in his life never told him "no."

Michael Jackson died the way he did because the hangers-on in his life never told him "no."

Much like Elvis, he lived in an artificial world of adulation that destroyed him.

With strength and discipline, he would have been an enduring, unstoppable force for real progress. Instead, he's another Hollywood "rags to riches" and "drugs to the grave" story.

It will all be OK. After all, tomorrow is another day...