[Lisa_from Buckeye Country]

I was very young when Pres. Kennedy was assassinated, but to compare the two?

OK, to anyone who watches the news, even Fox News, this is what we will have to deal with in the next few days. Not Iran. Not the North Koreans who want to blow us off the face of the earth. I will bet my bottom dollar that Obama will make a statement, or in some way be connected with Jackson's funeral/memorial service. When I turn on the TV until this blows over, I'm just going to watch my DVR'd episodes of the Andy Griffith Show.

[classified]

Jackson dies along time ago....

[cripplecreek]

I'm just going to watch my DVR'd episodes of the Andy Griffith Show.

TV worth watching.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Sanford is loving this.

[dfwgator]

Michael, you were no Jack Kennedy.

[Sir_Ed]

It is truly bizarre.

So he died, sad...but so what?

Meanwhile cap-and-trade Marxism is coming on, health insurance with no GOP input and North Korea is rattling sabers...and all we get is stupid Michael Jackson news.

Ed

[The Duke]

"It's like when Kennedy was assassinated"

Are they kiddin'??? I've already forgotten what I was doing earlier today when I heard Michael Jackson had died.

[TrishaSC]

I’m going to watch Bonanza episodes on Youtube. I wasn’t alive for the Kennedy assassination but geesh I can’t imagine the comparison. Oh wait...I did hear that Shephard Smith cried much like Walter Cronkite. 24 hour news channels have led to the death of real journalism.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

We’re unfortunately a pop culture nation. We’ve got a celebrity president and so on. Unfortunately reality might be hitting Hawaii next week.

[combat_boots]

Burn Notice. USA Network. Thursdays. Odd thing about a doc in the Hamptons after Burn Notice, but the scenery’s cool in both shows.

I love Fiona’s character in Burn Notice: “Can we shoot them?” She’s absolutely friggin’ great.

[chris_bdba]

I agree. With all that is going on in the world and the bills that are before Congress could we please go back to the news and not follow the hearse?

[2harddrive]

WHATEVER his faults - at least Michael Jackson had a Birth Certificate! LOL.

[KarinG1]

known for his feverish, crotch-grabbing dance moves and his high-pitched voice punctuated with squeals and titters

I'll always remember him most for his love of children, particularly little boys.

[SamAdams76]

I think the JFK comparison is ridiculous also. A better comparison is with Elvis Presley. Like Jackson, Elvis was a music icon who went to seed in his later years. The last few years of Elvis' life were almost as pathetic as those as Michael Jackson. Although I should point out that Elvis at least never engaged in deviant pedophile behavior (though his obsession with his mother was more than a little odd).

Like Elvis, expect to hear about Michael Jackson sightings at Burger Kings, Walmarts and zoos for about the next 20 years.

[jonrick46]

The question I have been waiting to be asked is what caused Michael Jackson's heart to go into cardiac arrest? Being near 51, there must be an underlying reason for such a physical event. People have been so obsessed with his weird lifestyle that they have missed the real story—the contributing factors.

[therut]

When he started grabbing his priviates is when his popularity started down. I loved Thriller. Actually saw him in concert and it was GREAT. But the grabbing was a little odd and I was a few years older and well it was not!! cool.

[Outland]

Just for the record, I couldn’t give a crap about Michael Jackson, alive or dead. I simply don’t care.

Let’s move on to more meaningful news of the day.

[jonrick46]

Don’t let the recent news diversions take our eyes off the ball. It is time to email or call your congressmen and senators to vote no on the Waxman-Markey climate-energy bill.

Do it!

[parsifal]

Waiting for the funeral procession. Probably zombies jerking around in front of the hearse down Ventura Blvd. Venders selling gloves. F-16s overhead. Guys in astronaut suits moon walking.

parsy, who can’t believe this drivel on fox.

[Mikey_1962]

its like when Pres. Kennedy was assassinated

No its like when Elvis died.

Good career move for Michael seeing as his career was dead already.

[WashStateGirl]

I thought Kennedy got assinated because he was screwing up the country, changing too many things, pandering to the Unions, implimenting the left’s liberal agenda. MJ was just a secret pedo (imho)