KING ON 'KING"

US Rep. Peter T King, more concerned with truth and veracity than political correctness and fan styled voyeurism, made some recent YouTube comments about the death of pop-icon Michael Jackson, nick-named the 'king of pop.'

As noted in an earlier posting, Michael Jackson was a talented musician but a deeply flawed human being. The fawning over his passing, and the seemingly unending stories about his upcoming funeral have overtaken the media, who have chosen to focus on this funereal situation with laser-like focus to the detriment of publicizing the other news which is being made; such as pronouncements from Russia during the trip of Pres. Obama to Russia, his upcoming side-trip to Ghana, and other issues including the upcoming confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor which start on 13 July.

While people may be offended that Congressman King had the gumption to express an opinion about all the obsessive focus on the Jackson funeral and his comments about the life led by the recently deceased Mr. Jackson, Michael Jackson remains a talented musician who was a deeply flawed human being by any rational societal standard of conventional behaviour; even in the entertainment industry of which he was an iconic presence.

The same people that accorded Michael Jackson the right to act and speak as weirdly as he may have done during his lifetime and who wish to perpetuate the image after his death should stop their sanctimonious hypocricy.

These same people, obviously enamored of Michael Jackson and his legacy for reasons of their own, should cease their individual and collective verbalized negative comments about Pete King. They should employ the same spirit of 'live and let live' that they want applied to Mr. Jackson to be applied with equal force and equanimity to Congressman Peter T King Esq., MC, who while choosing to disassociate himself from the circus that has become Mr. Jackson's funeral could never be a Member of Congress that the public would confuse with his colleagues who are more 'political' than they are ever 'correct'.