Michael Jackson Story Gets Even Weirder

Just when you thought everything surrounding Michael Jackson was strange enough, now comes word as to who the mystery father of one of his kids might be.

ACTOR Macaulay Culkin is the mystery dad of Michael Jackson's son Blanket, it was claimed last night.

The Home Alone film star is said to have donated sperm to help Jacko create his seven-year-old offspring - real name Prince Michael II - with an unknown surrogate mum.

The two celebrities became firm friends after Culkin, now 29, shot to fame as a child in the 1990 box office smash.

He went on to star alongside Jackson in the video for his hit song Black or White in 1991, regularly visited the singer's Neverland ranch, and took the witness stand to defend him at his 2005 child molestation trial.

One source said: "It is well known Jackson and Macaulay shared a unique bond.

"Now rumours are spreading like wildfire that Macaulay, who Jackson nicknamed Mack, is actually Blanket's biological dad."

Fevered speculation gripped the US after repeated claims that a "well-known Hollywood actor" donated the sperm for Blanket.

Now sources close to Jackson say the Thriller star asked Culkin for the donation to help him complete his "perfect" family.

The source added: "This isn't just chitter-chatter, even Culkin suspects he's Blanket's father.

"So many names have been mentioned as prospective dads, and this is probably the wackiest yet.

'It Was An Orgy of Glorification'

After the first day or so of the Michael Jackson coverage I felt the same way. Hard to believe they haven't even held a funeral for him yet. Thankfully, with beautiful weather and time off, I've had much better things to do than watch the excessive coverage of the freakshow that tomorrow will overrun Los Angeles.

Always one to speak his mind honestly, New York Congressman Peter King has had enough and is now taking heat in some quarters for his recent comments.

Tonight he's not backing down.

Good for him.

Over the weekend, Long Island Congressman Peter King posted what is often called "a rant" on YouTube -- sounding off. In this case, about what he called the media glorification of Michael Jackson. CBS 2 HD sat down with the congressman Monday and King continued in person where he left off on

On the video, King launches into scathing criticism of Jackson.

"For the last, I don't know how long now, this low-life Michael Jackson, his name, his face, his picture, is all over the newspapers, television, radio. That's all we hear about is Michael Jackson. Let's knock out this psycho-babble. This guy was a pervert, a child molestor, he was a pedophile, and to be giving this much coverage to him day in and day out, what's it say about us a country?" King says on the video.

The "rant," as such a video posting is called, that Rep. King posted on the popular video sharing site sparked a split of outrage and praise. And Monday, he told us why he did it.

"I just thought, this has gone over the top. It was an orgy of glorification," King told CBS 2 HD on Monday.

On the video King also says: "I just think we're too politically correct. No one wants to stand up and say, 'We don't need Michael Jackson!' He died, he had some talent, but fine, there are people dying every day. There are men and women dying everyday in Afghanistan, let's give them the credit they deserve.

"The bottom line is, would you let your child or grandchild be alone in a room with Michael Jackson?

King also says "there was nothing good about this guy" even though Jackson "may have been a good singer" and "did some dancing."

On Monday he carried the rant further:

"Yes, he did violate young boys. He did put them in terribly inappropriate positions. And that's a terrible signal to be sending out to society -- that we're somehow condoning that behavior. And you are condoning it when you give him the type of --- when we give him the type of regal coverage! And millions of people fighting to get to this mega-memorial! I mean, this is --- this is wrong!"

Needless to say, most news outlets will be going wall-to-wall with the freakshow Tuesday.

I won't be watching.

Meanwhile, if you need a good laugh, some goofballs are raising money to try and unseat King. As of this writing they've raised just over $500.

That'll go far.

Michelle Malkin notes one of Barack Obama's stooges at the Huffington Post is promoting this.

Classy French Weigh In On Jackson

Looks like the French are seeking to give Perez Hilton a run for his money to see who can hit rock bottom the fastest.

A FRENCH newspaper has branded Michael Jackson a "mutant" whose music was "kitsch".

A number of columnists have dug the daggers in deep with some calling Jackson "the icon of our disturbing modernity".

"Neither monster nor extraterrestrial," Michael Jackson was a "mutant" according to Gerard Lefort writing in the daily newspaper Liberation on Saturday.

For Herve Cannet of the La Nouvelle Republique Jackson was "neither black nor white; neither old nor young; neither child nor adult; neither man nor woman" but rather a "sort of androgynous imp".

Philippe Waucampt wrote in the Republicain Lorraine newspaper that the "little Afro-American became a sort of alien between white and black, between young and old, as unclassifiable, universal and kitsch as his music."

For Francis Broche of Le Progres daily, Jackson may have been an icon, "but an icon for our times, the head of planetary promotion."

When Are Dead Celebs Fair Game?

Apparently there's no longer a moratorium on trashing dead people. Michael Jackson's body wasn't even cold Thursday when alleged comedians started yukking it up.

THE first commandment some pundits forgot on Thursday, shortly after Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died within hours of each other, was: Thou shalt not speak ill of the dead.

On his late-night ABC show, Jimmy Kimmel said, "What's especially sad is that most people of a certain generation only know Michael Jackson as a crazy guy who had a lot of plastic surgery -- whereas the truth is . . . He was an extremely powerful symbol -- a black performer who whites could relate to and then later in life, a white performer who blacks could relate to."

When the audience didn't laugh, Kimmel asked, "Is it too soon? I can never tell."

Uh, Jimmy, there was plenty of room for Jackson jokes before he was dead. Mere hours after he died? Not so funny.

Speaking of unfunny, they also note the odious Perez Hilton, as noted here yesterday. If anyone gives this moron a second of attention any more it's their problem.

Meanwhile, Jackson wasn't the only dead celebrity getting getting mocked. The always classy New York Times decided it was a good time to criticize the just-deceased Farrah Fawcett's acting chops.

Similarly, Fawcett fans were disgusted with yesterday's "appraisal" of her by Alessandra Stanley in the New York Times. "Not all of her performances will stand the test of time, but what is worth remembering is how hard Farrah Fawcett tried," the piece said.

Then, trashing NBC's "overproduced and overpromoted" special, "Farrah's Story," Stanley seemed to blame Fawcett for her anal cancer, saying the documentary "never made the public service point that . . . the HPV vaccine is the most promising form of prevention against this type of cancer, which in most cases is sexually acquired."

Stanley said, "She really tried. And for a sex symbol that alone can be like an accomplishment."

When Alessandra Stanley pases on, we'll all remember she was a no-talent hack at a worthless rag with junk-bond status, but she really tried hard to cobble together coherent sentences.

Stanley, in fact, may have already set records for most corrections to her stories.

At this point, New York Times star television critic Alessandra Stanley has all the credibility of a Wikipedia entry. Most of the information is probably right, but you shouldn't take anything as gospel because you never know what's real and what's just been invented by a bored 13 year-old in Iowa. Alessandra Stanley Correction Watch has gone from an evergreen subject to an old joke. Geraldo had to threaten to sue the Times to get them to correct something Stanley invented out of thin air. As a service to the human resources department at the New York Times, after the jump, we present the best (worst?) Alessandra Stanley mistakes since the last time we rounded them all up.

She might be consistently wrong, but hey, she tried hard.

'Jackson's Not Dead, He's Living In a Bunker With Elvis Presley'

Good grief. All the loons are coming out of the woodwork.

Within just a few hours of the announcement of the death of Michael Jackson, the internet was flooded with unanswered questions and conspiracy theories relating to the star.
Such bizarre theories came in all shapes and sizes and included the mad, bad and also the plain sad.

One of the earliest and most unpleasant claims came from Hollywood blogger Perez Hilton, who alleged Jackson was 'pulling a stunt' to get out of his concert commitments at the O2 in London.

Perez added: 'Jacko pulled a similar stunt when he was getting ready for his big HBO special in '95 when he ''collapsed'' at rehearsal!

'He was dragging his heels on that just like his upcoming 50 date London residency at the O2 Arena, of which he already postponed the first few dates.'

The turd Hilton lamely redacted his post, but some folks saved it. Oops.

He truly is a disgusting human being.

The conspiracy theorists were given their starting pistol by the abovetopsecret.com site which hours after reports Jackson was taken to hospital said: 'Michael Jackson is dead....Now how long until it becomes a conspiracy?'

One of the weirdest claims emerged on a site called 68comeback which reported that Jackson was living in a 'bunker' with Elvis Presley.

'You can believe the mainstream media if you want... or you can believe that he faked his own death in order to escape a) bill collectors, b) the pressure from his planned “re-emergence,” c) the supreme daily pain-in-the-assness of being a ultramegasuperduberstar, and/or d) any or all of the above, plus e) any other rationales, realistic or feverish, that might be attributed to a man of Michael Jackson’s demeanour, for wanting to pretend to be dead when he is not, in fact, dead.

'Surely you’ve heard of the secret, seven-story deep bunker that Elvis Presley had built underneath Graceland, prior to faking his own death?

'MJ lives there now with Elvis and certain other "dead" celebrities. You don’t have to be sad for him anymore.'

Michael Jackson Dead at 50

The iconic pop star turned oddball has died today in Los Angeles.

On a magical night in 1983, Michael Jackson struck a pose on stage, clasping the black fedora on his head with his white sequined glove. His black jacket and silver vest glittered as white socks showed under his high-water black pants. Then he erupted into a flurry of fluid dance moves in a performance of Billie Jean that would catapult the former child singing sensation into full-blown superstardom.

Probably no celebrity has been as revered and reviled over the past 40 years as Jackson, 50, who died Thursday in Los Angeles. The troubled, reclusive star was rushed to UCLA Medical Center by paramedics responding to a call from his home at about 12:30 p.m.

A troubled soul. May he rest in peace.

Child-Molesting Freak in Failing Health?

Shocking, isn't it? He's always loooked the picture of health.

Michael Jackson is suffering from a rare lung condition and needs to undergo an emergency transplant operation, according to a report that continues to gain steam.

And his normally outspoken publicist hasn't denied the allegations.

The King of Pop may even be fighting for his life, New York Times bestselling biographer Ian Halperin tells In Touch magazine and Britain's Sunday Express newspaper.

Halperin, author of such tomes as "Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain" and "Stalking Britney: Under Siege With Britney Spears," says Jackson has been diagnosed with Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, an occasionally fatal genetic condition.

"He's had it for years but it's gotten worse," Halperin told In Touch. "He needs a lung transplant but may be too weak to go through with it.
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According to Halperin, Jackson "can barely speak" and is having trouble seeing: "The vision in his left eye is 95 percent gone."

Jackson, who has lived largely out the public eye in recent years, shocked fans in July when he was photographed in wheelchair.

The 50-year-old also received help walking when stepped out in Los Angeles earlier this month wearing a Zorro-style face mask.

Jackson's rep was unavailable for comment Sunday, but the singer's brother Jermaine didn't deny the reports, telling Fox News, "He's not doing so well right now. This isn't a good time."