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Setting aside the issue of Michael Jackson’s guilt or innocence, at the heart of this case is a child. If the allegations are true, he is a victim. If they are not, he likely needs help. Jackson, however, doesn’t seem to get this. His exiting the courthouse after his arraignment to stand atop an SUV and play like Gene Kelly for the crowd was appallingly self-involved. It seemed like nose-thumbing at the law–an even more disrespectful act than his tardiness to the courtroom. A man who truly cared deeply about children, as he professes to do, would not behave so frivolously while a child is claiming to have been wronged.
