A long time ago
Before death:
Posted on 06/30/2009 11:26:00 AM PDT by lewisglad
The second stage of this mourning exercise begins with the arrival of the major-league scam artists. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, have landed and even now are erecting competing circus tents. Rev. Al, always on the scout for the racial slight, says, "Michael Jackson made culture accept a person of color way before Tiger Woods, way before Oprah, way before Barack Obama."
Mr. Jesse hints at what's coming next. "The family has questions ... There is concern about what happened the last 12 hours of Michael's life ... the doctor did not confer with the family ... he was missing in action ... he surfaced with a lawyer ... No one is in a position of accusing the doctor ... There may be plausible answers, but we don't know ... ."
Unanswered questions there may be, but it's not too soon to wake up and smell the money. There's got to be some dollars scattered around here somewhere. What we do know is that the ghouls have just begun. The television camera misleads the masses to think they're buddies with the objects of their fantasies. Princess Diana became "the people's princess" because Londoners imagined that "she's just like us." Hank Williams' widow recalls how the death of the country-music legend became a circus when Nashville twinklies showed up with guitars and "everybody who could croak a note wanted to sing at his funeral."
Timing is everything, and Michael Jackson departs with the bang he couldn't have made with his remaining talent. He leaves behind a mountain of debt, feuding relatives, greedy promoters, angry creditors and the legacy of a bizarre, drug-addled life, of pursuing a walk to the moon with little boys, to what end nobody can be sure.
• Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times
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“Michael Jackson made culture accept a person of color way before Tiger Woods, way before Oprah, way before Barack Obama.”
Interesting point here is that Michael Jackson wanted to be white.
You could see them twitching to gain some benefit from this sad situation.
How about Nat King Cole or Dizzy?
“America’s Princess Di Moment”
Oh, pulllllleeeeeeeeze.
A long time ago
Before death:
Louis Armstrong? Ella Fitzgerald?
Al Sharpton is a convicted felon.
Jesse Jackson is an extortionist.
These were Jackson’s “friends?”
Why do these creeps care about MJ? Money. There’s got to be some money to had around such an addled, dead star.
And always remember what “star” spells backwards.
Hard to imagine those two pictures are of the same person.
...thanks Lewisglad....that’s one of the best editorials I’ve seen in recent memory...the Wash Times is the only paper in America that has the guts to print something like that.
White is a color, I guess.
He was whiter than me.
Sammi Davis Jr. did it before little Michael.
Rodney Allen Rippy was a contemporary of Michael's. Where is he today?
Princess Di never fiddled around with underage boys. Although I bet most postpubescent boys wouldn’t have minded.
Bill Cosby, Hank Arron, Jackie Robinson, Mean Joe Green, Julius Irving, Magic Johnson, Sidney Poiter(sp), Sammy Davis Jr..All chopped liver.
The picture screams for a re-title on the album, Gay, gay gay
Michael Jackson died?
I undertsand Sharpton knew Jackson “back in the day,” but it seems disingenuous that upon his death Michael suddenly becomes black again.
If he was such a trailblazer; if he transcended race before Jordan, Cosby, Oprah, and Tiger; if race didn’t matter to his popularity; why does race matter now? What changed?
Doesn’t it do damage to his reputation of transcendance to pull him back down into the mire of racial politics?
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