> Rep. King on Jackson: 'There's nothing good about this guy'
> Posted: 09:30 AM ET
> From From CNN.com's Kristi Keck and CNN's Paul Steinhauser
> (CNN) - New York Rep. Peter King called on the media to "knock out the
> psycho-babble" and stop covering Michael Jackson because "this guy was a
> pervert."
> "He was a child molester. He was a pedophile. And to be giving this much
> coverage to him day in and day out, what does it say about us as a
> country," King said Sunday in front of the American Legion Hall in
> Wantagh. "We're too politically correct. No one wants to stand up and say,
> 'We don't need Michael Jackson.'"
> King, a nine-term Republican representative from New York's Third
> Congressional District, said the media has "disgraced itself," noting that
> there are people dying everyday.
> "There are men and women dying today in Afghanistan. Let's give them the
> credit they deserve," he added.
> Jackson went on trial for child molestation allegations in 2005, but was
> acquitted after a 14-week media circus of a trial in Santa Maria,
> California. A decade earlier, prosecutors in Los Angeles declined to file
> charges in their own 13-month child molestation investigation. That case
> settled out of court, reportedly with Jackson paying millions in damages.
> "There's nothing good about this guy. He may have been a good singer, did
> some dancing, but bottom-line is - would you let your child or grandchild
> be in the same room with Michael Jackson? What are we glorifying him for?"
> he said, asking instead that the public honor people like servicemen,
> teachers and firefighters.
> King was chairman of the powerful House Homeland Security Committee from
> 2005 until the Democrats took over the House in January 2007.
> He won 64 percent of the vote in his re-election victory last November.
> Earlier this year he said he was considering a run for the Senate next
> year, taking on Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, who replaced Hillary Clinton
> as New York's junior senator.
> dave
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