OK, maybe deciding to run a headline a la The Onion wasn't a great idea. But you can't really blame us. Honestly, we were struck speechless by Joe Jackson's latest interview.
Tabloid interviewee and abusive father of the year, Joe Jackson. Image courtesy of the Fark Knight.
Joe has been sponging off Katherine Jackson since Michael died. She has supposedly been paying him $30,000 a month.
We don't know what prompted his latest interview, but we're guessing Katherine told Joe that, like other child abusers of retirement age, he needed to file for Social Security.
Instead, he mouthed off to the tabloids, saying it's Katherine's fault that Michael died.
Katherine was weeping uncontrollably and highly upset. But I didn't give her a hug because I was MAD at her crying. I said, 'If you had listened to me Michael would be living now!' I kept thinking about the times I had stood in front of her saying something was wrong.I couldn't bottle up my feelings. Katherine didn't say a word - I had to get away from her. If she'd done what I asked, Michael would be here today. I am incensed with her. She could have made a difference.
Our reaction?
1. What a douchenozzle.
2. Michael was 50 years old when he died. Isn't there a statute of limitations on blaming moms? Please?
This man is pretty much the lowest form of scum there is. He exploited and abused his children for his own benefit, he has refused to do ANYTHING to support himself, probably his entire adult life... I will NEVER understand why this family does not just completely cut this sorry as excuse of a human out of their lives like the cancer he is. It is PATHETIC that he would accuse her in this way, no matter what had happened, she probably *is* as much to blame as he is. I am sure none of them ever encouraged Michael to get out of the business that was killing him... they all needed his support too much. I shudder to think how those children of his are going to turn out.
Everything that Flutterby said.