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Thursday, July 21, 2005

Moonwalking to Berlin?

Posted by on July 21 at 9:04 AM

According to German news reports, the freshly acquitted Michael Jackson is planning to resettle in Berlin.

“No one in Germany ever let him down during the trial,” said Jackson adviser Shawn Andrews to German newspaper, Die Welt. “He feels at home in Berlin.”

Germany, you may recall, is the country that declined to file charges against Jackson after he dangled his infant son from a fourth-floor balcony, so they totally deserve him.

But the line I keep remembering from an old episode of the redneck sitcom King of the Hill when mother Peggy discovers her 12-year-old son Bobby has fallen in love with a female mannequin head. Her solution is sharp and immediate: “We are moving to Berlin. They accept our kind there.”