Joe Jackson Needs To Be Assassinated

CLEVELAND - First of all, I salute Joe Jackson for keeping his young sons focused and dedicated enough to become international superstars in the early 1970's.

Other than that, he's a total jerk.

Jackson, the 79-year old father of pop icons Michael and Janet, as well as the other seven children has been a sketchy figure for decades. But in the aftermath of Michael Jackson's shocking death last month, he's been downright abominable. His first knuckle headed moment occurred at the BET awards on June 28, just three days after his son died. The elder Jackson seemed absolutely indifferent to the fact of his son's untimely departure. In fact, he spent more time (and was clearly more interested) in promoting his new record label. Not a tear was shed by he, and during that show's lengthy tribute to Michael, he sat stoically in the audience with Rev. Al Sharpton.

The following day, Jackson tried to defend himself against the criticism he was suddenly receiving for his seemingly lack of compassion and self-serving attitude, and ended up making matters worse. He has given one undigestible interview after another in recent weeks and continues to come off like a devilish monster that never truly cared about Michael.

Let's get rid of this clown.

Last night, Jackson appeared on Larry King Live and again, was painful to watch. His voice, when talking about Michael sounded very insincere and his body language suggests that, to him, losing his son was nothing more than a financial loss. Of course, Joe says the "right" things and never actually incriminates himself. Michael has long accused his father of abusing him as a child, but Joe Jackson continues to blatantly deny anything remotely resembling abuse of his sons. He even went so far last night as to proclaim that "Michael was raised properly" and that he "never made any mistakes in raising him."

Does this guy even believe his own garbage?

True, Joe transformed his five oldest boys into the Jackson 5 in the mid-1960's which led to their enormous popularity and dominance of Motown Records in the next few years, but his tactics were always questionable. He was a known adulterer during his boys' meteoric rise to fame and was, by all accounts except his own, a strict disciplinarian. By the time Michael evolved into an unstoppable, enormously popular solo artist in the early 1980's, he was gaining more and more independence and fired Joe as his manager. Daughter Janet did the same thing a few years later, which may have, in the case of Michael, turned Joe sour in his feelings towards his son.

In two high-profile interviews (with Oprah Winfrey in 1993 and Martin Bashir in 2003), Michael detailed his father's shameless abuse and how it also came in the form of verbal insults that led to his self-consciousness about his appearance. It is safe to say that Michael's rapid and dramatic change in appearance can be heavily attributed to Joe. During the King interview last night, Jackson painted himself as the "good guy" who always had Michael's best interests at heart.

Ironically, he was clueless when King asked the current whereabouts of Michael's body as well as what the families' private autopsy revealed. He denied wanting to transform Michael's three children into performers and seemed a bit annoyed at those questions as well as questions about Michael leaving him out of his will.

I found it funny that Joe continuously mentioned that he wasn't able to get close to his son due to the "securities that barred [him] away" from Michael. He seemed unaware that this was because Michael truly didn't want to be around him!

Joe Jackson is an illiterate speaking, disingenuous, self-serving tyrant that deserves to be assassinated. He's arrogant, deceitful and wildly out of touch. Yes, he brought Michael and the boys to the world. But he also destroyed his son Michael and scarred him for life.

Joe Jackson -- damn you to hell!