“Steppin’ Out” Magazine Steps All Over Michael Jackson
Not everyone is totally broken up over the death of music legend Michael Jackson last week.
With what might be called an anti-tribute, Steppin’ Out magazine is lashing out at the deceased King of Pop a mere week after his passing.
In a column charmingly entitled, “*sshole of the Week: Michael Jackson,” Steppin’ Out scribe Chaunce Hayden lambastes Jackson for his reputed inappropriate behavior with minor children. (Though Jackson had been accused multiple times of child molestation, he was never convicted of such a crime and was acquitted of child-molestation charges during a 2005 trial.)
“I refuse to jump on the ‘rest in peace, we love you, Michael’ bandwagon and shed tears over someone who was so f*cking despicable. How quickly the world forgets or conveniently chooses not to remember,” Hayden writes. “Allow me to quickly recap the life of this troubled superstar: Michael Jackson was a pedophile. Michael Jackson was a drug addict. Michael Jackson abused his own children both physically and emotionally. Michael Jackson was a deadbeat who owed millions in unpaid bills. Oh yeah, and Michael Jackson could sing and dance like a motherf*cker. And now, he’s dead. Boo hoo. What surprises me is how long this frail child molester was able to physically walk the earth.”
Wow, judge, jury and poison-penned journalist all in one!
The column concludes, “I will not mourn the death of Michael Jackson no more than I would mourn the death of any pedophile that hunts down children for deviant pleasure…Regardless of his musical abilities. Tonight, as I write this column, my heart and tears go out to those children who grew up much too soon thanks to the ‘King of Pop’.”
Harsh words, but it’s hardly a unique sentiment, as the national dialogue about the complicated life of Michael Jackson continues to unfold.
Let us know what you think in the comments section: Is Chaunce Hayden totally out of line, or does he have a point?
He has a point
No way! Michael Jackson was cleared of ALL charges. If you watch his interviews, he is one of the nicest and most generous people I have ever heard. And I said Is, because he still lives on!! xx Rock In Peace Michael Jackson! xxxx
This is DISGUSTING!!!
How does this journalist have the nerve to talk about his life?He was innocent, PROVEN innocent in court, so you can not call him a pedophile, and how on earth would that ***hole know if he abused his own children? “Mentally & Physically”?What a douchebag, you have no idea, no proof for your allegations so go f*ck yourself!
Michael Jackson touched million of lives around the world, he had talent and then some, yes he was troubled in many ways, while you Mr Hayden are a low feeder!!
he has 1 point: michael jackson could sing and dance like a motherf*cker
this person may not like mj but he needs to show respect to the dead. a family has lost a son/brother and r grievin. culdnt he keep his comments to himself until at least after this media fiasco
here, here amanda…I’m going to remember him at his best dancing and singing like a motherf*cker.
If you HADN”T molested a kid,would you really pay 20 million to shut him up? NO,you’d fight tooth and nail to prove your innocence & clear your name. He never paid off any of his hundreds of “legit” debtors,either. Nobody cared about him,or bought his crappy records for two decades,and now the whole world runs to smooch his dead ass. He was great as a little kid,but after that was pretty much a pedophile piece of sh*t. As Elmer Fudd once said,”Good widdence to bad wubbish!”…
reality check people
step back
he rode the highway to hell
just funky like.
MJ was tried and acquitted by a jury of his peers in a country that has some experience in these matters. If Chaunce Hayden has information that the jury didn’t get to hear, then he should speak up. Or shut up.
Couldn’t agree with the author more. While the world mourns I can’t help but hope he went slowly and suffered some. The world is a better place with one less pedophile. And to the “he was found innocent” crowd, the fact that a prosecutor couldn’t seal the deal doesn’t erase the horrific acts reported by multiple children. Are you calling these children liars??
When someone dies, it’s always best to try to remember the things that they did and offered to others…………….that includes the bad and the good.
[quote=smitty]If you HADN”T molested a kid,would you really pay 20 million to shut him up? NO,you’d fight tooth and nail to prove your innocence & clear your name. He never paid off any of his hundreds of “legit” debtors,either. Nobody cared about him,or bought his crappy records for two decades,and now the whole world runs to smooch his dead ass. He was great as a little kid,but after that was pretty much a pedophile piece of sh*t. As Elmer Fudd once said,”Good widdence to bad wubbish!”…[/quote]
What’s more trivial…? If your child was really damaged and hurt from being “molested” by Michael Jackson, YOUR CHILD, would really fold, and take the money and drop the charges? Seriously. Your child. I personally, would not.
you are a f*cking ***hole. you do even know the truth? were you there at the scene where late michael behave with that kid? its all about money. the parent if this kid mus be like hey its michael jackson. lets get something out of him. money is the rude of all evil.
watch his interviews and you will know what kind of person he is. and oh, did you know the boy admitted his parents forced him to lie to get money from michael? ruin a person life for money? such ‘beings’ shouldnt be alive. they are the ones who should be dead. and i love you,michael.
step all over michael jackson one week after his death? that makes you no better.
[quote=smitty]If you HADN”T molested a kid,would you really pay 20 million to shut him up? NO,you’d fight tooth and nail to prove your innocence & clear your name. He never paid off any of his hundreds of “legit” debtors,either. Nobody cared about him,or bought his crappy records for two decades,and now the whole world runs to smooch his dead ass. He was great as a little kid,but after that was pretty much a pedophile piece of sh*t. As Elmer Fudd once said,”Good widdence to bad wubbish!”…[/quote]
The same thing can be said about the parents. If your child had been molested, would you accept $20 million ? or fight “tooth and nail” until you saw the guy getting some type of punishment and public knowledge that would prevent other kids from getting molested…???
Exactly. Only the people involved know what happened. Either way people can mourn whoever they want and people mean different things to everyone. You can not ask someone not to mourn the death of someone else just because of what YOU thought of said person.
I think if the child was really molested, no parent would want to compensate the emotional and physical pain a child suffered with a monetary reward. It is also quite evident that his children really love him, and I think if he did abuse them they would be afraid of him, just as he was afraid of his father. How can you disrespect someone and further stain their memory based on things that have no proof and basically sounds like the opinion of a bitter person. You are being a bitter person by trying to hinder the grieving process of people who respect, love and miss MJ. It does not make you a hero or better person or a disciple of the ‘truth.’
Its amusing to me that people say that “no parent would…” Michael Jackson’s victims were from homes with greedy and dysfunctional parents.
I could just as easily say that I can’t imagine that any grown man would have an unnatural interest in boys he is not related to. i could say that I can’t imagine that any grown man would sleep in the same bed with boys.
Michael Jackson had HIS OWN CHILDREN, yet for some reason, chose to create relationships with stranger’s children and have them sleep over in his bed! This man was a child molester.
While it’s not good to speak ill of the dead, he is right. Michael Jackson WAS a pedophole (being cleared of charges doesn’t prove anything. I find it very hard to believe EVERY single allogation was a lie) and pedophiles are the most disgusting, despicable people on the face of the earth. I don’t agree with the way the journalist chose to display his feelings, but he was right to hate a child molester.
Wow… how can you say he was “proven innocent in court” (Sarah and others that feel this way). He’s FAMOUS! He doesn’t have to prove anything as long as he has enough money to pay off the complainers. As far as I’m concerned he was proven innocent the way OJ was. Good for this guy for writing what should be said but won’t be by most journalists out of fear! I completely agree with him. Some good songs and the Moonwalk don’t make you above reproach. I wrote something similar shortly after his death. You can see it at http://www.bestoftheboring.com/2009/06/always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life/
WAKEUP LOSER AND GET A REALITY CHECK!! UR JUS A JEALOUS HATER! HE WAS THEMOST KIND HEARTED PERSON ON THIS EARTH HE WAS AQUITTED ON ALL CHARGES!! AND KEEP IN MIND SOME OF OTHES SAME BOYS CAME UP 2 CHRIS TUCKER AND JAY LENO 4 MONEY ASA WELL AND TESTIFIED THAT IN COURT! MJ IS THE BEST THERE WAS AND THE BEST THERE EVER WILL BE, YEA HE CUDNT AFFORD SOME BILLS BUT HE WAS STILL MAKIN MORE THEN UR CHEAP ASS EVER CUD AND HES MAKIN EVEN MORE NOW THAT HES GONE SO SCREW OFF AND REEVALUATE UR OWN f*ckED UP LIFE!!
This piece is ludicrous. If the author doesn’t want to mourn Michael Jackson’s death, that’s fine. He shouldn’t, however, be so quick to spread the disguting opinions he has formed concerning the details of Jackson’s life as the truth.
Particularly offensive are the author’s unsubstantiated claims alleging the singer of pedophilia and emotionally/physically abusing his own children. I wonder if this ‘journalist’ was around to witness such interactions.
While the author’s courage to voice an unpopular opinion is admirable, his grasp of pertinent facts is not. Mere conjecture is insufficient means on which to base scathing accusations.
To recap, in 1993, at the time of the first public accusation of molestation, no criminal charges were pressed against Jackson due to lack of evidence. In 2005, Jackson was charged, but acquitted of all charges of child sexual abuse. THESE are facts.
in reply to smitty.
if you believed someone had molested your child would you accept any amount of money? and by the way idiot after MJ died that stupid son of a b*tch came out and said he had lied.
As for that other piece of s*it family, im sure in time they will come out and say they were lying and just wanted money too. People like you are scumbags. ignorant fools in mjs words.
go to hell. get some respect while your there
Hayden is totally out of line for such comments. He apparently deems himself more informed and intelligent than the Judge and Jury that acquitted Michael. He has taken liberties in assuming guilt, where there is no evidence to support it. How much faith do we put into Evan Chandler who wanted 20million and a record deal? Or how much faith in the second accuser’s mother who had been accused of extortion and fraud from other celebrities? Or the fact that Jordan Chandler has allegedly come forward to say he lied about the entire incedent. There were plenty of snakes in the grass who had no problem fabricating facts in an attempt to get a piece of Jackson’s money. BTW, Mr. Know it all…Michael did not want to settle he wanted to prove his innocence. It was Lisa Marie Presley who advised him to settle so he could move on with his life. In hingdsight, it may have served him better not to have taken her advise. He probably would not have relied on prescription drugs in an attempt to kill the emotional pain and humiliation and still be with us today. One things for sure. Nobody’s gonna miss you when you’re gone
Who the hell is Chaunce Hayden!! Clean your own dirt y´all ignorants, really. How can ANYONE OF YOU claim to know about Michael Jackson and his deeds? You met him? You talked to him? Dammit, don´t ever quote the tabloids, people.. We are left to believe he did it or not. But I think nobody´s interested in any of your beliefs, so hold it! I can´t understand how anyone of you who blame him can be so emotional about gossiping, haven´t you got any other problems than hurting a dead man and his family including all disciples??
The world is full enough of hate like that. Think about it.
Diane, sorry but I don’t think it’s safe to assume he was relying on prescription drugs to kill the emotional pain and humiliation that came as a result of taking his token wife’s advice. It’s probably much more likely that he relied on said medications to deal with the emotional pain his own appearance caused him after his obsession with surgeries left him without hair and a face you could hardly recognize as a human face anymore. Just a thought. LMJ, I don’t hate the man. Hate is such a strong word. I also refuse to idolize him and turn him into some god he is not just because “he sang pretty”. On that note, your use of the word “disciples” frightens me. Just goes to show the masses will follow anyone blindly. Oh well, join the many others in buying his albums up now that he’s dead to help the inheritors of his estate pay off his bills. In the mean time, allow others to practice their freedom of speech and choose not to keep their beliefs to themselves. ;)
Oh, and Sara, the only reason he’s making more than my cheap ass ever could is because people like you threw your money at him. Who cares? I don’t have to like him just because he is rich. Get over it. Money doesn’t automatically make him cool. The talent and the man are two different things. I can appreciate his music and still not care for the man behind it. If only you could as well…
who the hell is this journalist????? No one on earth knows who the hell he is. Say MJ and the whole world knows!! He was/is and always will be so very important in so many people’s lives. He brought the world together and sang of love, hope. oppression, the world, the peple and gave such joy to all. You are no one and what have you given to the world????? Your views are absolutely not important at all!!! Who the hell is Cnaunce Hayden????? I rest my case!!!!!!
Umm… Hayden wrote this article. You know him, because you’re making comments about his article. There, happy? And, you don’t really have a case, so I’m glad it’s rested. You’re only argument was that Michael brought the world together, which is simply again crediting him for things he did not in fact do and putting him up on that proverbial pedestal. You can’t say he is wonderful simply because everyone knows his name and no one else’s opinion should matter. Everyone knows the name Hitler. Does that mean we should celebrate him? I rest my case (and yours).
dang you people … im thinking you guys must be pedophiles and r angry that because of his love for children he got a chance to really help some of them….. the parents of these children taught their kids to lie and continue to lie by bribes,thats what is sick and sad and i think he paid so they would leave him alone also i think that is what eventually killed him because people could think he would stoop so low as to hurt these babies he only wanted to show them the love he didnt receive as a child … geeesh
[The point is, he paid them off to leave him alone, he was very private and not because he was a pedophile. He just wanted to get on with his life, but people like you drove him to pills and sh*t. All them people wanted was his money and for you to judge someone, you better take a look around and at yourself ***hole. You are nothing but a prick with no heart for his family. Maybe we should dig around in your background and see what we can find out and make that public. What goes around comes around and you will get yours in due time. Get over it because he might have passed away, but he will never go away. You got to love it!!!!! God Bless his family and may he now be at peace from dumb ignorant people like you. He will be in my families prayers everyday and his family. Love you Michael
Everybody has skeletons in their closet and the thing of it is, people need to get a real life and focus on the world and what the hell is going wrong, not whether Michael was a pedophile. We have soldiers dieing everyday in war and the economy is broke and no jobs to go around. Write something about that, not what you think of someone that is not here to defend himself. If more people were like him, very inspirational and caring and loving, this would be a beautiful world. Go check your closets people. God bless Michael Jackson and his family. They are in our prayers and thoughts everyday and he will be remembered forever. Ha Ha Ha Live with it and get over it yourself.
KISS HIS ASS, BUT YOU WILL NEVER KISS IT GOODBYE, BECAUSE HE WILL LIVE ON FOREVER IN OUR LIVES UNTIL THE DAY YOUR IGID ASS DIES!!!! I PRAY FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. YOU NEED TO HAVE THE HEART HE HAD, YOU MIGHT NOT BE SO IGNORANT. I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU, STICK YOUR COMMENTS UP YOUR ASS AND GET GLAD. MICHAEL JACKSON LIVES ON IN HIS MUSIC AND HIS VIDEOS AND IN SPIRIT. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!!! MAY HE BRING THE HEAVENS TOGETHER. I CAN SEE OUR LORD JESUS ROCKIN WITH MICHAEL NOW. LOVE TO SEE IT!!!!!!!!
that reporter is a complete idiot. and so is every person who doesn’t understand why someone is innocent until proven guilty
@ Smitty–On the flip-side, what MOTHER would accept $20 million rather than “fight tooth and nail” to put a criminal behind bars and save other children? I think that is the better question…..Fact is, the man was wealthy, generous and mild-mannered-three qualities that bring out the moochers. We will never know what really happened either way and I think it’s about d*amn time to let him rest in peace.
People are always finding a way of making money and fame. hence a reason one child came out saying a story and when others saw his story they also began INVENTING that Micheal abuse them. Know will see who will be giving them money since Micheal is no longer er. One last thing why when Micheal was alive people didnt treat him to his best? why when he needed help many back off and know everyone wants to come to talk marvelouse about him after they do gave him his back. Micheal no matter what everyone will remember you no one will ever be like you.