I don't like Michael Jackson's music.
I think that he's a freak show that should be avoided.
In my perfect world, I'd never hear his name.
But we don't live in a perfect world.
Rather than decrying the coverage of the Jackson trial, or the threatened blond of the week, we must use this as an opportunity to make statements further our cause.
When a Republican windbag shows up on a show, he talks about current events, and uses them.
Jackson? Evidence of the moral bankruptcy of liberalism.
Run away bride? Evidence that we are destroying our country with soft on crime liberal policies (before she's found), or that Jennifer Wilbanks is evidence of the harm caused by a "liberal upbringing".
We don't have to CARE about the freak. We have to USE the freak to about the freak to put buttress our view.
Michael Jackson got away with pedophilia for years because he was rich, and could buy off witnesses.
Justice was for sale for too long.
(insert Gropinator corollary here)
Our talking points MUST address pop culture, because it speaks to a lot of people.