Bump and Update: We just finished watching the interview. It left us feeling very sad. We totally believe Michael Jackson--from his account of his mistreatment during his arrest to his denial of the current criminal charges. We think the case against him is bogus. He's not charged with sharing a bed with children. He's charged with providing alcohol and sexually molesting one child--a child who is on record as saying nothing untoward every happened. A child whose mother is also on record as saying Michael Jackson was an exemplary person in her child's life.

A mother who now says she became suspicious that Jackson gave her child wine. Where did she take her suspicions? To the police? No. To a lawyer. Which lawyer? Out of the 175,000 practiicing lawyers in California, she chose the one who had obtained a multi-million dollar settlement for another child ten years ago. The lawyer sent the kid to his cherry-picked therapist. Then the lawyer went to the DA in the 1993 case, who has said all along the case against Jackson would be reopened if another accuser came forward. Notwithstanding that the Los Angeles Department of Children & Family Services concluded the charges were unfounded, this prosecutor filed the case.

Michael Jackson will fight this to the bitter end. His fans will be with him. We'll be there too.

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Original Post 12/26/03 3pm

Michael Jackson speaks out Sunday night on 60 minutes in an interview with Ed Bradley.

...he vehemently denies the charges against him. An impassioned Jackson says, "Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists," in reaction to a Bradley question about the charges brought against him that he molested a young boy.

Jackson also says that the police search of Neverland Ranch was overdone and so violated his privacy that his home will never be the same. He tells Bradley, "I won’t live there ever again. It’s a house now. It’s not a home anymore. I’ll only visit."

He also discusses his time in police custody, talking about the injury he says was inflicted on him by the police when they handcuffed him and other details about his arrest.