-Dave

"Obama's health care 'reform' plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof." - Herman Cain

Cuz I'm dead, I'm dead. Come on.  You know it.

Or who can forget:

Hey pretty baby with the diapers on . . .

Can we declare this site a MJ free zone? I am soooo sick and tired of all this talk about the sicko.

"Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader, an accidental pioneer."

 "Acccedential," My A$$!  Michael Jackson was groomed for performance ever since he 5 years old, when he became the lead singer for the Jackson 5.  Michael Jackson was a product of Motown Records.

 The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court

michael jackson could care less about the black community.  case in point, he bleached his skin white, married a white woman, and has white kids.  he made music to make money, and it's what he wanted to do.  give me a break.  frank sinatra was a true civil rights leader.  getting sammy davis jr. into clubs when it was taboo and could be a career breaker, was far more than jackson ever did.  just because mtv started playing jackson's videos didn't mean mtv would play black entertainers because they were black.  i remember mtv also showing prince vidoes (purple rain)because they were hip and on the charts in the early to mid eighties.

Give me a break!  Jackson was a walking freak show. His adoring fans will hold him high for his musical talents but the rest of us, as Bill O said on "The Factor", do not see him as a hero. 

He will be forever in my mind as someone who lived extravagently, spent money like there was no tomorrow, had a sick perversion toward children, and was nothing short of a narcassitic egomaniac. Jackson did absolutely nothing to even remotely try to improve mankind but the MSM will never admit to that reality.

Hero? Yeah, right. Now - would someone pass the bromo - I think I am going to be nauseous from all this funeral coverage!

"Who am us, anyway?" - Firesign Theatre

The coverage is WAY over the line and anyone with half a brain can see that.  To say that he is a civil rights leader is ridiculous. What did he do to promote civil rights? He was ashamed  of being black and did everything he could to become white. His children are white. He surrounded himself with other people's white, male children.  If he was a true lover of the African American race, why did he have only white children? Why not have his own black children? If he was unable to father a child, that's a different story.. but why not adopt a child of his own race?

He was weird, spooky and dangerous to kids.  If he truly loved all children, why did he focus on boys? Even after his actions were deemed inappropriate, he continued to do whatever he wanted. Just pay off the victims and move on to the next one.  I don't understand accepting payment for your child if they're abused, but no one knows what the families were subjected to by his cronies.  All I know is that if I had been accused of something so horrible, I would have used my extensive fortune to prove my innocence.. not buy more gold furniture.

Lemon suggested there wasn’t much criticism of the overcoverage of Princess Diana’s death (what country was he living in back then?), implying maybe because she was white:

While there was criticism of the over coverage of her death, I don't recall her dirty laundry being aired every time her name was mentioned. The woman was an ADULTEROUS WHORE, who has a strangely red haired son named HARRY that looks like the guy that was schtupping her! In fact here's a link to a USA TODAY article which mentions the doubts about Harry's parentage....TEN YEARS after her death!  http://www.usatoday....       No talk about it during the news broadcasts of  her memorial service to be sure! 

The allegations against Michael Jackson were not only "not proven", they were DISPROVEN in a court of law. The comments by the jurors themselves indicated that they thought the mother and her child, were LYING. Not just that the prosecution "didn't prove" their case, they believed the mother and child to be charlatans.  As for the Jordy Chandler incident, well, none of you are actually in a position to either understand it nor to judge it. You don't have the criteria. I work with people who themselves are "industries" and their concerns are quite different from our concerns, people like Tom Cruise, Michael Keaton, Robert Deniro,  Robin Williams just to name a few. There's a reason you didn't see Denzel Washington "stumping" for Obama even though I believe he supports him. Sure he might have attended a fundraiser or two but that's his right as a citizen, I'm talking about doing the "Oprah" or something. It's because it would harm their bottom line. Once you begin earning upwards of two or three HUNDRED MILLION, you become an "industry", but it's a peculiar industry. It depends solely on public love. Thousands of lives are  connected to yours in ways both seen and unseen. A major star like Washington or Cruise will affect the bottom line of whatever company he's working for, which is why Paramount showed Cruise the door after his couch jumping antics on Oprah.

ANY position taken publicly will piss off those of the opposite opinion.  And we aren't even talking about being on trial for something heinous, we're talking about having an OPINION.  Look at the harm done to Sean Penn's box office because of his stupidity and the public nature thereof. Can there really be any doubt that he is one of the finest actors in the history of the world? To those stuck in "Spiccoli" mode, I'd suggest you see "The Falcon and the Snowman", "Carlito's Way", "I am Sam"  and "Mystic River", before dismissing the notion. That said, when you are Michael Jackson your concerns are even greater.  If you have EVER heard of a case being SETTLED because the negative publicity stemming from a trial would ruin the company involved, there can be no greater case made for that, than Michael Jackson.  He was an "industry" of heretofore unheard of proportions, which required HUNDREDS of  MILLIONS ANNUALLY in order to operate at the same level, WITHOUT PRODUCING A NEW PRODUCT! Solely on public love, people buying CD's that have been out for ages!

MUCH HAS BEEN MADE ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF THE JORDY CHANDLER SETTLEMENT, estimated between 20-25 million dollars.

Sounds like a lot of money. TO ME.  But I'm not worth a BILLION DOLLARS. I know some of the pundits like to say he was only worth 500 mill and most of that was debt. But that's real time money. Michaels money generates in  perpetuity, that's what happens when you own the entire song catalog of a record company. He owned not only the Beatles but many of SONY'S top artists, that's why banks had no problem giving him loans in the hundreds of millions. Sad as it is to say, but , TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS MEANT NOTHING TO MICHAEL JACKSON.  It's like you having 200,000 and somebody says "hey, we can make this nuisance lawsuit go away for like ten grand" if 10 out of 200 allows the 190 you have left, to keep EARNING it sounds like a good deal as opposed to negative pub which would come from fighting it.  The lurid accusations which surfaced in the most recent case stand testament to what people would be willing to say, even if a JURY SUBSEQUENTLY CALLS THEM LIARS. 

ABC once showed a LIVE feed from a store in Vegas where Jackson just happened to pop into the mall to do some "shopping".  The place was an obvious madhouse and the store had to be closed to the public who PACKED THE MALL once word got round. MICHAEL JACKSON SPENT SIX MILLIION DOLLARS IN THIRTY FIVE MINUTES "shopping".   It was both appalling and amazing as he walked around with a scanner "bleeping" items in the three hundred thousand dollar range into his "checkout cart".  The obsequious fawner that was the store owner even had the honesty to remind Michael that he already had two or three of the statues he'd picked, valued at 200,000 each. Michael thanked him and said he liked them so much he wanted a few more.  So when you judge at LEAST use the criteria of a man who would REGULARLY engage in DAY LONG shopping sprees approaching Ten Million dollars a clip. BILL O'REILLY just surmised that he believed Michael to have spent over the years, at least 400 MILLION dollars on HIMSELF. Not counting his enormous charity efforts, he is the NUMBER ONE charity supporter in the history of the Entertainment Industry. So while to you and I, twenty five mil to make a nuisance lawsuit go away might seem like a lot, to Michael it CLEARLY was not. 

BTW, the allegations against Michael Jackson by Jordy Chandler, only surfaced after the child was DRUGGED by his estranged father, a dentist, who gave him anesthesia while extracting a tooth.  He then, while the child was DRUGGED, questioned him about his relationship to Michael Jackson. The father, using methods that our soldiers can't use against terrorists, using methods eerily similar to those used in  those debunked "repressed memory " cases, got this information and then called not the police, but a lawyer. See the POLICE don't drop a child rape investigation because the kid after receiving said settlement, doesn't want to participate.

So in closing, you know nothing. I'm in a much better position to know whether Michael was a child molester than most likely any of you, being friends with Michaels "godfather", Smokey Robinson, and I don't know what went on there so I know danged well, that YOU don't. This was the greatest entertainer in the history of the world. His music inspired BILLIONS of people. I can remember practicing the dance moves, quite successfully I might add. I remember wearing my hair like that! LOL. So while I know many of you would like to judge and make yourselves feel superior when you are anything but, allow those of us who loved his music, to lament the passing of his gift, his talent, from the world.  May the Lord have mercy on his soul. And yours as well. God bless you.