Yeah, Okay, Big Surprise.

Jackson_in_bahrainHere is a picture from Bahrain.

The person in the middle is wearing the standard, total-covering clothing traditionally worn by Bahraini women.

A mother out for a stroll with her children?

Then why is the child on the right wearing a black head covering?

That’s not traditional.

So what’s going on here?

It’s the latest in the bizarre permutations of American pop star Michael Jackson–who is known for putting face-concealing coverings over his children in public.

He’s a real freakazoid.

I mean, the kind you don’t take home to mother. (Or get within a hundred yards of, yourself.)

For years there have been jokes that Jackson, an African American male, decided that he wanted to become a caucasian female for some reason.

Now it looks like he’s decided to become a Middle Eastern woman instead.

I don’t know how well that will go over in the Middle Eastern environs where Jackson has recently ensconced himself.

We’ll have to see what happens.

In the meantime,

GET THE STORY.

We need to pray for this guy.

And his children.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

19 thoughts on “Yeah, Okay, Big Surprise.”

  1. This kinda-sorta makes sense.
    1. Jacko gets away from the crazed US entertainment “press” and perhaps lawsuits.
    2. He’s in a culture where it’s perfectly normal to be covered head-to-toe and thus allows him to be anonymous (although he needs some pointers, obviously). Also, it allows him to hide his irreversible plastic surgery damage.

  2. the kind you don’t take home to mother.

    Technically, that would make him not a freakazoid, but a superfreak.
    I’m just sayin’.
    (FWIW, freakazoids hope to make a movie deal; superfreaks you read about in new-wave magazines. Now you know.)

  3. > freakazoids hope to make a movie deal
    “Hopes to make a movie deal / freaka-me, freaka-you!”
    Esoteric theme-song references; you’ve got to love them : )

  4. +J.M.J+
    Wouldn’t that qualify as cross-dressing? Didn’t think a Muslim nation would tolerate something like that….
    In Jesu et Maria,

  5. If, as a ‘fairly normal’ parent, I exposed my children to a fraction of the outragously warped way of life that Mr. (or is it Mrs now?) Jackson’s children have to endure,I’d have social workers knocking my door down.
    If those kids weren’t born with the wierd gene, then as sure as I’m sitting here typing this comment, they are going to grow up with one shed load of insecurities.
    I saw a comissioned documentary of Mr/Mrs J last year, wherein J claimed that his children wore masks so that no one would identify them in public…like yeah, dressing your kids up in permanent playwear isn’t going to draw attention to them!
    I think he’s a germ freak, even Monk isn’t that defective, bless his wonderful heart (Series 3 comes out over here in Feb -WHOO-HOO!!!).
    I feel for those children, really I do. When I think of how I worry all the time about making the right decisions for my own children, worrying that I am not the greatest Mum in the world…stuff like this makes me realise that I’m really not doing that bad a job after all..compared to Jacko, I’m relatively normal after all!
    God Bless.

  6. One of the great joys of my life was meeting the strange minds behind Freakazoid and Earthworm Jim.

  7. Did you ever SEE the shows Freakazoid and Earthworm Jim? What wouldn’t be totally AWESOME about getting to meet the minds behind them?

  8. Pray for those poor kids. Their lives are being ruined and not one social worker, doctor or teacher raised a word of warning while they were in the US. Now it’s too late.

  9. I think he has a mental illness, but, because he is so wealthy, like Howard Hughes before him, there are plenty of people willing to enable his condition, rather than get him the help he needs. Jimmy is right – we need to pray for him and his children.

  10. No no no. “Check out Dexter Douglas
    Nerd, computer ace
    Went surfin’ on the internet
    And was zapped to cyberspace
    He turned into the Freakazoid
    He’s strong and super quick
    He drives the villans crazy
    Cause he’s a lunatic!”

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