Viva La Blowhole: The Missing Drudge Link

Sometime yesterday, amidst my usual online wandering, I surfed on over to the Drudge Report to see what kind of 60%-true, bottom-feeding gossip ol’ Matthew had scavenged up that day.

Sho’nuff, The Man I Love to Hate had posted something of interest to Pop Culture Train Wreck Watchers everywhere: a link to The Smoking Gun in which The Case Against Michael Jackson is laid out in greater, more lurid detail than has appeared in the press so far.I skimmed over the five pages in a state of morbid fascination:

If the harrowing and deeply disturbing allegations in these documents are true, Jackson is a textbook pedophile, a 46-year-old predator who plied children with wine, vodka, tequila, Jim Beam whiskey, and Bacardi rum. A man who gave boys nicknames like Doo Doo Head and Blowhole and then quizzed them about whether they masturbated and if "white stuff" came out. A man who conducted drinking games with minors and surfed porn with them on a laptop in his Neverland Ranch bedroom, noting that if anyone asked what they were looking at, the kids should just say they were watching "The Simpsons." A man who frequently talked sex with his little companions and explained that "boys have to masturbate or they go crazy." A man who told one pajama-clad boy that he wanted to show him how to "jack off." When the tipsy child declined the demonstration, Jackson announced, "I'll do it for you," and buried his hand in the boy's Hanes briefs, size small. And a man who emphasized to his little friends that these activities were "their little secret" and should not be disclosed to anyone, even if a gun was at their head.

Less than two hours later, I summoned up the Drudgester again to show Jodi, but lo and behold, the link had been taken down from the main page. Surely this was not due to a lack of interest or page clicks. So just why did Drudge remove the link, I wonder? Did Jackson’s notoriously heavy-handed legal team get to him?

(Note: the link still resides in the Drudge archive, but he generally keeps a hot one like that up on his main page for at least 12-36 hours.)

OK, I admit it, I’m a total geek. So?

N/P Michael Jackson - Off the Wall

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