Live Thread: Michael Jackson Memorial Service

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

The Jackson family has decided to bring Michael's body to the memorial service being held today at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, putting off the announced plans for a private internment at Forest Lawn cemetery from 8 a.m. PDT to after the service.

The 10 a.m. PDT service is being broadcast on all the major American broadcast and cable news networks, as well as in theaters across the country, the Times Square jumbotron in New York City and on TV screens around the world.

From Entertainment Weekly, performers and friends expected at the service include: Kobe Bryant, Mariah Carey, Berry Gordy, Jennifer Hudson, Shaheen Jafargholi, Magic Johnson, Martin Luther King III, Bernice A. King, John Mayer, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Brooke Shields, Usher and Stevie Wonder.

Michael's Jackson's close friend Elizabeth Taylor declined an invitation to speak at the service, writing in part on Twitter: "I cannot be part of the public whoopla."

In a strange but fitting twist of fate, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus elephant parade through the streets of Los Angeles is set to take place this morning with the elephants arriving at the Staples Center just hours before the service for the circus' scheduled run at the arena.

FILE - In this July 15, 2008 file photo originally supplied by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, take an early morning stroll en route to the Staples Center in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Stefano Paltera, file) (Stefano Paltera - AP)

[jessduntno]

[KansasGirl]

[The 10 a.m. PDT service is being broadcast on all the major American broadcast and cable news networks, as well as in theaters across the country, the Times Square jumbotron in New York City and on TV screens around the world.]

You have got to be kidding me!

[stinkerpot65]

Pedophile worship.

[a fool in paradise]

Is John Fan Kerry going to drop by and salute the casket as he did when he crashed the Ronald Reagan funeral (cutting the line and bringing his own photographer in tow).

[dfwgator]

If there ever was a memorial service that the Phelps’ Crew would show up to, you’d think it would be this one.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Slouching Towards Gomorrah

[Clara Lou]

The newscaster on the radio said that there is no country in the world that is not carrying the proceedings. My TV is off.

[indylindy]

Maybe MJ is really alive and this is all hype. They will roll that gold plated casket in there, Michael will pop out and start singing Thriller!

ROTFL

[EnquiringMind]

Did the Pope get this much coverage? I think his funeral was cable only, but don’t remember exactly. This is obscene.

[evets]

I CAN HAZ POP CORNZ?

[TCats]

It’s no joke. This dysfunctional (But talented in his way) is a God to many brain dead, Media stoked people.

Says a lot about our New Ordered Society, eh.

Turning the TV/Radio off for the rest of the day!

[halfright]

So its ok to be a pedophile as long as you are a great entertainer?

May this SOB rot in hell! 20 million dollars don’t buy your way into heaven. Hasta La Vista, baby!

[Vaquero]

So the filthy pedophile is STILL dead....

....who gives a rats @$$????

[RummyChick]

There are some great entertainers out there that will never get this kind of coverage. I wonder if some of them with large egos are pissed off.

CNN doing 4 live shots AND facebook entries on the same page

http://www.cnn.com/live/

[gimme1ibertee]

Oh.My.Damn.
Talk about “Derangement Syndrome”!!!!!

[Dallas59]

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog vs. Michael Jackson Supporters

[laotzu]

Michael Jackson died?!!

[Izzy Dunne]

plans for a private internment

I'm going to guess that that should be "interment", i.e., burial.

On the other hand, with Wacko Jacko, it could very well be an "internment".

[gimme1ibertee]

WOW! That's a lotta shoe polish..and applied so well,you'd swear he was....

Ooops,my bad...

[kristinn]

Some guys have all the luck (from the NY Times):

Donte Zierway, 33, who flew to Los Angeles from Buffalo after entering the online lottery on Saturday, moonwalked with joy upon picking up his two tickets.

“I spent $700 to come here,” said Mr. Zierway, who works for a collections agency. “I just came. I entered my name, I prayed, and I got on a plane. Then I found out today that I had a ticket.”

He gave one of his tickets to a stranger he met at the Staples Center, Celine Althaus, 27, who had just arrived after a 30-hour flight from Switzerland and did not win a ticket. “We’re friends now,” Mr. Zierway said. “We had a few drinks last night. We’re both here for the same reason, and we both traveled a distance.”

[gimme1ibertee]

some of them with large egos

ROTFL!!!

[Nashvegas]

I’m waiting for Jackson to jump out of the coffin and say just kidding.

[kristinn]

Thanks for the correction. I had a feeling I using the wrong word.

[justlurking]

An entire nation (and world?) fiddles while Rome burns.

[trisham]

I guess pedophilia is acceptable after all. I'm so not with it.

[Moose4]

This is gonna end up looking like the Ayatollah Khomeini’s funeral, where a huge riotous crowd grabbed his coffin and paraded it around the streets, almost dumping the body out on several occasions.

}:-)4

[TMSuchman]

Enough already, just get him into the ground, & let’s forget about this bozo! We have a lot more pressing issues to deal with, like how congress & the zre0 are send us down the river of socialism!

[Coldwater Creek]

However you say it, Forest Lawn cemetery will never be the same. I was just there a couple of weeks ago, very peaceful and serene.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I really wish that FR wasn’t covering this.

[nmh]

Yes ... it's sad that so many elevate the perverted to god like status.

Will Bubbles the chimp he there too?

MK lived, slept and ate with Bibbles till he had enough of him. God only knows what he did to poor Bubbles.

[wardaddy]

it's one thing to try to be decent about a strange fellow who was accused but not convicted and who lived and died a tragic life but it's quite another to regale the guy like Princess Diana or Magnus or from my memory...back when MacArthur and Churchill died in the 60s

to elevate this weird little man to that level is a sick symbol of how far we've fallen as a peoples

[Puppage]

[VeniVidiVici]

Brains! Brains!!

[nmh]

Heck, we're past that!

We are living the Sodom and Gomorrah lifestyle, by CHOICE!

Those that don't live it are considered PERVERTS.

[stentorian conservative]

Ah, but there lies the beauty. The MSM doesn’t want you paying attention to that.

[TaraP]

Was he a pedophile? he was never convicted of it...

Was he quirky?-Yes
Was he unhappy-Yes
Was he one of the best musical talents in the world-Yes

Is it wrong for a person to worship another human being?-Yes
Does GOD love Michael Jackson?-Yes
Will MJ be in heaven if he accepted Christ as his Saviour?-YES....

Is it right to pray for his family’s healing in loosing a Father, a Son and a Brother?-YES...

[dfwgator]

Like it or not, we comment on what is going on in our society. And this freak show is the perfect illustration of what has happened to America.

[Jewbacca]

The finale will be Elton John singing "Don't Let Your Son Go Down on Me"

[stentorian conservative]

Is he worthy of all this media hype (read idolatry) ? NO.

[Dallas59]

[SE Mom]

OMG- I had that very thought this morning.

I had the thought after seeing the circus is also in town :)

[TaraP]

This world has fallen into Idolatry before Michael Jackson’s death....

Before MJ ws Obama, and I am sure after MJ their will be another one.....

[EyeGuy]

Why aren’t these mentally diminished cretins at work?

[kittymyrib]

Today is also the running of the bulls in Pamplona. It will have more decorum than the circus in CA.

[trisham]

Was he sexually obsessed? -Yes.

Did her have an unusual and abnormal interest in young boys? -Yes.

[Vaquero]

Was he one of the best musical talents in the world-Yes

I guess if you like your ‘pop’ with no bite to it???....his little lame antics and incipid lyrics were at best not repulsive or hateful like (c)RAP. thats the best I can give it....

[a fool in paradise]

Will MJ be in heaven if he accepted Christ as his Saviour?-YES....

He converted to Islam, last year I believe.

[trisham]

Did her have an unusual and abnormal interest in young boys? -Yes.

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Oops! Freudian slip, no doubt!

[TaraP]

Let’s see that Photo could be for:

1. American Idol

2. The Beatles

3. Michael Jackson

4. David Cassidy

5. Elvis Pressley

6. Barack Obama

Take your pick....