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Mandela: Michael Jackson gives me strength (Satire)
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| 3-30-05
| Andy Borowitz
Posted on 03/30/2005 10:34:39 AM PST by FlyLow
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To: FlyLow
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posted on
03/30/2005 10:53:24 AM PST
by
flutters
(God Bless The USA)
To: Wally_Kalbacken
How much did that cost MJ? Nuttin', Wally. The story is a joke, a satire on Michael Jackson's comments in an interview yesterday comparing his current predicament to Nelson Mandela's suffering in prison. He also compared himself to Muhammad Ali.
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posted on
03/30/2005 10:54:06 AM PST
by
Kenton
("Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid" - Damon Runyon)
To: FlyLow
Nelson Mandela is a friggin' Communist. Not that that is ever reported in the US media.
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posted on
03/30/2005 10:58:43 AM PST
by
GianniV
To: cyborg
When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can, President Mandela saidHe was offered freedom many times if only he would denounce the terrorism that his African National Congress was involved in. He wouldn't do it...so in prison he stayed.
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posted on
03/30/2005 10:59:57 AM PST
by
Lekker 1
("There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be attainable"- Albert Einstein)
To: Lekker 1
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:00:38 AM PST
by
cyborg
(Biafran woman, " Starvation is beautiful? This is news to me! ")
To: GianniV
Well since Mandella apprears to worship and admire Michael Jackson, I wouldn't be sad to read the headline that he has AIDS.
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:03:55 AM PST
by
demkicker
(John McCain is a power hungry traitor and proved it on 2/19/05 in Iraq)
To: FlyLow
Mandela has truly lost his mind.
To: Imaverygooddriver
"Is he gay?"I don't know, but he was in jail for a long time and he has/had a strange wife. But, really who cares?
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:06:38 AM PST
by
OldEagle
(Haven't been wrong since 1947, except about Hillary.)
To: FlyLow
It took great courage to leave the Jackson Five and go solo, President Mandela said. I thought to myself, if he had the courage to do that, I, too, must have the will to go on. Are you sure this isn't from SCRAPPLEFACE?
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:07:32 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: FlyLow
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:12:50 AM PST
by
maxter
(I)
To: FlyLow
Mandela draws strength from the travails of a pedophile???
Mandela is nucking futz.
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:13:46 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Cleverly Arranging 1's And 0's Since 11110111011...)
To: FlyLow
I always thought Mandela was an idiot. This confirms it.
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:14:12 AM PST
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: Peach
And since the world has gone so nuts, it sounded just about right :-)I no longer look at improbable headlines and assume satire.
I now look at improbable headlines and assume leftists at work.
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:16:15 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Cleverly Arranging 1's And 0's Since 11110111011...)
To: OldEagle
Well if he`s gay he should come out and dance! Dance silly! Wooee!
To: FlyLow
I thought I was reading Scrappleface.
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:20:13 AM PST
by
sarasota
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To: FlyLow
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So...does this mean Mandela likes to diddle little boys too??? |
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posted on
03/30/2005 12:10:37 PM PST
by
Fintan
(Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.)
To: Kenton
Hardly suspected it. MJ is in an imaginary world and has said so many absurd things - this one had facial credibility. Oops.
Two instances which are true about MJ that just shock the sensibilities:
- He was quoted as saying that Elizabeth Taylor was his "rock" of sound advice and guidance. When you rely on someone as physically, emotionally and pharmaceutically f***ed up as Elizabeth Taylor - you're in trouble!
- Back in the late 80's or early 90's People Magazine published a letter it received from Michael Jackson. They published an image of the handwritten letter n one page and on the facing page they published a transcript for ease or reading - since the handwriting was rather cryptic. The important part of that letter was the fact that it betrayed such a malformed ability to communicate - the sentences were of about 2nd grade complexity and the word choice was bizarre and infantile. My point is that reading this letter you could hardly believe he was capable of writing even the lyrics to his songs. And I have always suspected this was the case. When it all comes down for him, and perhaps soon, we will discover how much ghostwriting and standing in has been done for him and how much of a reduced profile he will have, in the end as an "artist".
To: FlyLow
I had to check to make sure this wasn't posted from ScrappleFace.com
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posted on
03/31/2005 7:16:56 AM PST
by
Mr. K
("All your base are belong to us" (gosh I miss that))
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