Barbra Streisand’s been in a bit of hot water for the past day after she gave her two cents on the Michael Jackson documentary, “Leaving Neverland,” in which two men accuse Jackson of sexually molesting them as children.
Barbra Streisand is coming under intense criticism online for telling a British newspaper that two men who say they were molested as children by Michael Jackson were "thrilled to be there" and that the alleged abuse "didn't kill them." https://t.co/BpAfRFYOa6 pic.twitter.com/ZPCs8T3R71
— ABC News (@ABC) March 23, 2019
What?
Barbra Streisand says Michael Jackson’s accusers were ‘thrilled to be there’ and his ‘sexual needs were his sexual needs’
“You can say ‘molested,' but those children…both married and they both have children, so it didn’t kill them," she said.https://t.co/Bt8Rxr5Jq3
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 23, 2019
OK, so they were sexually molested as children, but they were thrilled to be there at the time and have grown up to have families, so it didn’t kill them or anything.
Here is a super fun, mind expanding experiment. Imagine the reaction if Mike Pence said this. https://t.co/dHQNfhlzLO
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) March 23, 2019
Or literally any living human. Jeebers crow.
— Chris Stirewalt (@ChrisStirewalt) March 23, 2019
Man, if Streisand was VP, people would be calling for her to resign right now.
— ?. ???? ????? (@TheAlanNoble) March 23, 2019
Okay, substitute Jerry Falwell Jr or one of the Duck Dynasty guys. My point remains the same. This is Premium level creepy shit and if it came from a Christian who was fashionable to hate, people would see it more clearly.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) March 23, 2019
I think people see it very clearly.
— Far Too Complex Machine (@bdragon74) March 23, 2019
“There’s rape – and then there’s RAPE rape.”@WhoopiGoldberg
— Seton Motley (@SetonMotley) March 23, 2019
I don't get this. Is anyone defending her???
— Maddie (@madbev14) March 23, 2019
Ain't. Nobody. Defending. This.
— Bryan Fyock (@centerfluid) March 23, 2019
Imagine if Streisand said it and literally everyone was disgusted by it.
— LeBron Jeremy (@50megatonFbomb) March 23, 2019
It’s OK now, though … Streisand has issued a statement clarifying her comments.
New statement from @BarbraStreisand after her comments about the men who accused Michael Jackson of sexual abuse in “Leaving Neverland" drew serious backlash https://t.co/khUGAXjXVm pic.twitter.com/AEq1evsJrZ
— Salvador Hernandez (@SalHernandez) March 23, 2019
That sounds nothing whatsoever like her original comments.
swing and a miss
— kate bush stan account (@ashcech) March 23, 2019
Not good enough Barbra. Not even close.
— RMKR (@kidsistah) March 23, 2019
Yeah, no. Pretty clear from her off the earlier comment the effed up position she takes on child molestation. WTAF, Babs. Repugnant.
— Daph (@daph2345) March 23, 2019
Yeahhhhh, still doesn’t help… ??♀️
— JoAnne (@docjuanna) March 23, 2019
Her apology included blaming the parents.
WTF?— Adam Far (@TheAdamFar) March 23, 2019
She’s just….? Yes the parents were negligent. But guess what? They didn’t rape little kids @BarbraStreisand. There is one true villain in this story and you STILL won’t call him out? pic.twitter.com/0nEXfKsdjC
— s. lee (@spopslee) March 23, 2019
That wasn't an apology; it was a clarification. She went from getting dusky to jumping in the mud.
— Jude (@Jxnewton) March 23, 2019
Wow some PR firm probably got paid a lot of money for this crap
— Jack (@Sentinel997) March 23, 2019
That was a carefully crafted PR write up? Yikes. Is the PR rep also a pedophile apologist? Is there a new woke anti-pedophilophobic movement im not aware of?
— s. lee (@spopslee) March 23, 2019
Not cool to now blame the parents more than MJ. They were victims too and MJ used the parents’ shame to keep them quiet after they found out.
— Lynn Ellingwood (@lellingw) March 23, 2019
Two words I don’t see in there: I apologize.
— Michael Ditto (@janus303) March 23, 2019
Okay Barbra but while you're vaguely agreeing child molestation is bad and then blaming the parents, could you take a moment to blame, y'know, the molester, too? His name was Michael Jackson.
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) March 23, 2019
Still steadfast in refusing to blame the perpetrator. You go, Babs. Seriously. Just go.
— PaulJack Horseland (@paulland100) March 23, 2019
Aren’t we supposed to believe survivors?
This is still a horrible take. Way to dig your hole deeper.
— Sara Marie ????♀️ (@Ms_SaraMarie) March 23, 2019
That ain't gonna cut it, Babs. You'll never live this one down, you heinous pig.
— Michael Cordeiro (@methinksright) March 23, 2019
Barbara Streisand is a POS who’s trying to save her own ass, she doesn’t get to walk back what she said! pic.twitter.com/W4k2Tr44rH
— CS Reno ??? (@CinSmith1) March 23, 2019
“Child molestation is bad” pic.twitter.com/UlJ7fItD0K
— rebel millennial (@patriotic_giant) March 23, 2019
Always nice to hear from our moral betters in the entertainment business.
Related:
Why not Mexico? Barbra Streisand might move to Canada if the midterms don’t go her way https://t.co/rFeLnIuwx1
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 30, 2018