{"id":2601134,"date":"2026-05-11T09:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-the-michael-jackson-biopic-release-its-long-past-time-to-let-go-of-the-false-allegations\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:35:11","slug":"with-the-michael-jackson-biopic-release-its-long-past-time-to-let-go-of-the-false-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-the-michael-jackson-biopic-release-its-long-past-time-to-let-go-of-the-false-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Time To Let Go Of The False Allegations About Michael Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwith-the-michael-jackson-biopic-release-its-long-past-time-to-let-go-of-the-false-allegations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2601134&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The author argues that declining mainstream media keep circling back to insinuations that Michael Jackson was a pedophile,even decades after his death,despite public judgment and the results of the legal cases.<\/p>\n<p>They say the new biopic *michael* is enjoyable but not definitive for hardcore fans, and also concede that Jackson\u2019s conduct around children was often inappropriate. Though, the author insists the evidence shows Jackson was not a child abuser, framing him rather as the target of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gunmen-kill-11-avocado-farmworkers-in-western-mexico\/\" title=\"Gunmen Kill 11 Avocado Farmworkers in Western Mexico\">extortion schemes<\/a>, including references to the 2005 trial (where Jackson was acquitted) and later accusations from *Leaving neverland* that they claim involve unreliable or dishonest accusers seeking money.<\/p>\n<p>The piece criticizes reviewers for focusing on the film\u2019s supposed refusal to rehash \u201cpedophilia\u201d allegations, portraying that fixation as both unproductive and sensational. The author contrasts the \u201cboring\u201d sexual-abuse narrative the media prefer with what they view as a more compelling story: how <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >opportunistic adults allegedly gained access<\/a> to jackson\u2019s life, later tried to profit through claims, and ultimately accused him of serious crimes.They close by arguing the biopic instead centers on Jackson\u2019s talent and drive, and blames the media for refusing to move on from a rejected narrative.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Probably the most perverse thing about the dying news media is their bottomless capacity to frame what should be an interesting story in a way that\u2019s either boring or so untrue that they must have been so motivated by an intense hatred, or evil, that they would risk their credibility for the sake of telling a brazen lie. The way they talk about Michael Jackson, even nearly 20 years after his death, is some combination of both.<\/p>\n<p>Two things I\u2019ll say from the jump: First, I didn\u2019t love the new <em>Michael<\/em> biopic. I\u2019ve seen it three times, and it\u2019s harmless and enjoyable enough, but not what a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/review-loki-finally-gives-marvel-fans-the-series-theyve-been-waiting-for\/\" title=\"REVIEW: Loki Finally Gives Marvel Fans the Series They...ve Been Waiting For\">die-hard fan<\/a> would hope in what is sure to become accepted as a definitive piece of Jackson\u2019s historical record. Second, Jackson\u2019s relationship with children too often ventured into the inappropriate and indefensible, but at the same time, the overwhelming evidence is that he was not guilty of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-spacey-to-appear-in-movie-about-falsely-accused-pedophile\/\" title=\"Kevin Spacey To Appear In ... About Falsely Accused ...\">sexually abusing children<\/a> and was in fact the victim of multiple extortion schemes.<\/p>\n<p>But even today, when the world has rendered its own judgement, that Michael Jackson remains beloved, the media cannot bring themselves to talk about him without suggesting he was likely a pedophile. They refuse to do it. They refuse to tell the truth and they refuse to acknowledge that their preferred version of his story has been rejected by the public.<\/p>\n<p>The biopic came out last month and despite universally negative reviews by the \u201cexperts,\u201d plus what is known to have been a disastrous production process \u2014\u00a0a substantial portion of the film was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/23\/movies\/michael-jackson-biopic-controversies-production-casting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">canned, rewritten and reshot<\/a>, delaying the release a full year \u2014 the movie has so far grossed close to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/top-grossing-music-biopics-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">half a billion dollars<\/a> and is on a quick path to breaking a record as the best selling music biopic. Yet, it\u2019s impossible to find a professional reviewer who doesn\u2019t grab themselves while whining that the film\u2019s plot has no references to the beaten, reheated and worn out allegations that Jackson sexually abused children.<\/p>\n<p>In The Wall Street Journal, some woman named Maureen Orth opened her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/arts-culture\/film\/michael-jacksons-biopic-blinds-us-from-the-truth-6a41b5a6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">critique<\/a> of the film with the original observation that Jackson \u201cwas a stone cold pedophile.\u201d Wild! The world has never heard that piping hot take before!<\/p>\n<p>New York Times magazine writer Mark Binelli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/08\/podcasts\/the-daily\/michael-jackson-film.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a> the movie \u201ca piece of propaganda.\u201d The Times also ran an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/podcasts\/100000010867924\/michael-is-pure-propaganda.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a> with critic Eric Hynes, who faulted the film for \u201ctrying to undo the truth that a lot of people have suffered.\u201d And if that weren\u2019t enough, the publication\u2019s critic Wesley Morris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/podcasts\/100000010867929\/michael-is-memory-exploitation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called the biopic<\/a> \u201call too happy\u201d and \u201cthe definition of fanfic\u201d (a diminutive of \u201cfan fiction\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they\u2019re all very upset that the movie didn\u2019t indulge their irrepressible urge to talk about pedophilia. What\u2019s it called when a person is preoccupied, for years, with thinking about deviant sexual activity?<\/p>\n<p>I could understand some of the obsession if there were any proof that Jackson did something criminal. He\u2019s been accused and after the one and only time it went to trial, he was acquitted because the jury was introduced to the alleged victim\u2019s wretch of a mother who had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2005-05-24\/jackson-accusers-mother-a-fraudster-court-told\/1577066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proven history<\/a> of theft and fraud\u2014 schemes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2005-aug-24-me-jackson24-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">she used her kids to execute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There was the 2019 <em>Leaving Neverland <\/em>documentary in which another two accusers, now grown men, laid out graphic details of their own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/radical-democrat-raphael-warnock-oversaw-church-camp-that-abused-a-child-threw-urine-on-him\/\" title=\"Radical Democrat Raphael Warnock Oversaw Church Camp that Abused a Child \u2013 Threw Urine on Him\">alleged abuse<\/a>. Both of them are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/michael-jackson-accuser-wade-robsons-224957776.html?guccounter=1&#038;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&#038;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC8vn8gWRlSkMhBXq8PDpYvtX867m9F1DOEER_uL6ymMAdMBJkT5rnUsukI_a7v4Fi9rlUpA4VNEpoFWV2T0lBPW7TQwnvlJgc2gE1x9mQcJ0NUlUYWKZv_9vDvsreJmUMdm9oRbfww0qQyBjEYjRRWXLrSwIWuJaCZj_3vfh8vx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demonstrable liars<\/a> in ways both big and small, and both made their charges only after Jackson was dead and in pursuit of money (they\u2019re both actively suing his estate).<\/p>\n<p>The details of all of these cases are genuinely riveting, just not in the way the media would prefer. They like the story about sexualizing children, even though it\u2019s both untrue and boring. If a child has been abused, the perpetrator deserves to be physically tortured, no matter how talented he is. But however inappropriate it is for an adult man to sleep unsupervised in the same room with children not his own, it\u2019s neither abuse nor a crime. What is interesting, though, is how random people of seedy backgrounds managed to ingratiate themselves to the greatest entertainer of all time, the parents allowing their children to stay nights with him alone, and their attempts to extract money and favors in return, only to ultimately accuse him of the most despicable crimes imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever. That\u2019s not the story they want to tell. And it\u2019s not the story told in the biopic, though not for trying. (Preexisting legal agreement forbade the Jackson estate from dramatizing the original child abuse allegations and their legal settlements.) Instead, the movie is about Jackson, his raw talent, and his calculated determination to be the best. He was phenomenal. There\u2019s never been anyone like him since and there never will be. The public has made up its mind. They\u2019ve moved on from the lies. It\u2019s a tragedy that the dying media refuse to do the same.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party\u2019s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the most perverse thing about dying news media is how it twists an interesting story into something boring or blatantly untrue just to risk their credibility<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2601135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Michael-Biopic.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5609,36362,59086,79458],"class_list":["post-2601134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-allegations","tag-media-literacy","tag-michael-jackson","tag-true-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Michael-Biopic.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601138,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601134\/revisions\/2601138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2601135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}