| Raiding Neverland & Dr. Murray 
DIMOND: I think everyone would agree with that. Everyone would agree with that. But you know, Elizabeth Taylor is his very dear friend, and I respect her loyalty to him. But I really take umbrage with the fact of the media should eat crow, they've been attacking him unfairly. You know what, Liz? We're just doing our job. What kind of reporter would I be if I knew that the Neverland ranch was going to be raided last Tuesday morning and I didn't do everything to get there and report that to the people? KING: Yes. Chris Pixley, isn't the media doing what the media would do, that's -- - this is a big story? PIXLEY: I think it's inevitable that they're going to report the story in one way, though, Larry, and that's to say that Michael Jackson is guilty of these charges... DIMOND: Oh, BS! PIXLEY: ... before there are even charges. I'm sorry, Diane... DIMOND: Baloney! PIXLEY: ... have you entertained for a moment... VELEZ-MITCHELL: I actually think everybody's pretty fair. PIXLEY: ... the idea that these love letters... DIMOND: Absolutely! PIXLEY: ... that you know nothing about may be just that, nothing? DIMOND: First of all, Chris, I... PIXLEY: We found out over the past 10 months... DIMOND: ... do know about them, and I know about them from high law enforcement sources. But I have always said, I don't know if... PIXLEY: The DA that's playing it close to the chest? DIMOND: ... Michael Jackson is a pedophile. This charge... PIXLEY: You said they play it... DIMOND: ... should go to court. PIXLEY: ... close to the chest. You think this is a... KING: All right... PIXLEY: ... good DA's office that doesn't leak stories, that play it close to the chest. But you know from high-ranking officials exactly what these letters say, or at least... DIMOND: I didn't say I know what they say! PIXLEY: ... what they are likely to say... DIMOND: If you're going to... PIXLEY: ... that they're salacious. DIMOND: And you know what, Chris? Get it right! KING: One at a time! One at a time! DIMOND: I get it right when I quote somebody! KING: One at a time. DIMOND: You get it right when you quote me! VELEZ-MITCHELL: The media has also... PIXLEY: Who are you quoting about the letters, then, Diane, so we can get it right? Who is it that you're quoting? DIMOND: I'm not going to... PIXLEY: You don't have anyone to quote. DIMOND: ... give you my sources! I'm not giving you my sources! PIXLEY: Then why are we talking about this as though it's a fact? KING:All right, let me -- I'm going to get a break... PIXLEY: It's wrong. KING: ... and then Jane will comment. We'll be taking calls in a while. As we go to break, here was Elizabeth Taylor on a similar matter two years ago. We'll be right back. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP - JANUARY 15, 2001) ELIZABETH TAYLOR, MICHAEL JACKSON'S FRIEND: He's so tender. He is so compassionate. He hurts, literally pains for other people's suffering. If there is -- oh, like the starvation of children in this country, in India, in Africa... KING: He feels it. It's not just... TAYLOR: He reaches out. I've been to the Orient with him, and he said, Roll down the window! Roll down the window! And he -- he reaches his hands out and just touches a baby's face. (END VIDEO CLIP) KING: We'll be going to your calls at the bottom of the hour. We'll get the comments of Dr. Ludwig later. It has to be asked, Johnnie. Have you been called back? COCHRAN: I've talked to Michael several times and -- but I can't reveal, you know, anything about the nature of that. But I am not part of the team. I'm not going to be part of the team in this case. I can tell you that. KING: All right. And Jane, you were going to say? VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, I was going to say that everybody's criticizing the media, or some people are, but the media has also been a little tough on Mr. Sneddon when he made comments in the news conference that some considered disparaging toward Michael Jackson's music and seemed too jovial and gleeful during the news conference to some. We reported that. We talked to people. And we set the record straight on that. So we don't decide who we're going to criticize. We just follow the flow. KING: Nancy Grace, as a former prosecutor, was there anything about that press conference -- I think you already said there were things you didn't like, right? GRACE: Yes. You know, Larry, in all the many, many years that I prosecuted high-profile cases in that region, I never, ever gave a pre-trial press conference for this very reason. A, you can't comment on your evidence. You'll be looking right down the wrong end of a barrel of a venue change. VELEZ-MITCHELL: And he did not. GRACE: And B, you don't want to look flip. You don't want to be too, too pleased with yourself. DIMOND: Look at what Michael Jackson's doing when he comes out. He's flipping the peace sign and... KING: But he's the accused, Diane. DIMOND: Right. I know. But he -- these are very -- as he said on his own Web site, Larry, these are very serious charges, and he understands that. But he's being almost as flip and happy and smiley as people are accusing Sneddon of being, no? COCHRAN: Well, Diane, I don't think he's happy and smiling. He's just posted $3 million bail, at that point. He's trying to -- he's getting out. He shows the victory sign. He does that all the time. I think that would be much more appropriate than a DA who comes on and, you know, he's smiling, talking about spending your tax dollars and he's laughing inappropriately and saying he doesn't really think about Michael Jackson. I mean... As you can see, like Michael Jackson before him, Dr. Conrad Murray is targeted by this bizarre collusion between the media and law enforcement. In the previous witch hunt, Michael Jackson was a pedophile and in the current one, he was a drug addict who essentially scripted his own death, despite his perfect health and commitment to his upcoming "This Is It" tour. This is what the media reported on August 19, 2009: Sources say that within two weeks Dr Conrad Murray is to be accused of manslaughter – escaping a more serious charge of second-degree murder. The verdict has been reached, behind closed doors. Needless to say, in 2003, the fickle facts surrounding the verdict of the authorities was equally clear prior to Michael Jackson's trial in 2003, and Christoher Pixley made that quite clear in the following terms:
...I tend to disagree with the statement that Michael's camp may today, which is that they were going to try the case in the courtroom and not in the press, I think that was an admirable thing to say. It will be interesting to see if they're able to do that. We don't even have a charging decision made in this case yet, and yet, we already have leaks of material evidence that has come from the State. And -- or has come from some source. So, you know, when we talk about things like the love letters, it's a reminder to all of us that one approach for the D.A.'s office -- and we've seen it in the Scott Peterson matter for the last ten months -- is to leak all of the evidence they have and to get as many stories out there as they can to kind of penalize the defendant and help potential jurors to make up their minds ahead of time. So it's very damaging.Dr. Murray's recent YouTube appearance evidently "repaired the damage" to the point where the Coroner is now busy revising findings that had been called thorough and conclusive just one week ago. These anti-Jackson/Murray raids have blurred the distinction between the court of public opinion and a court of law, and the verdict is clear -Dr. Murray is innocent because the facts that are necessary to prove otherwise do not exist.
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