Posted on 06/26/2009 7:26:42 AM PDT by Niuhuru
LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson, defined in equal parts as the world’s greatest entertainer and perhaps its most enigmatic figure, was about to attempt one of the greatest comebacks of all time. Then his life was cut shockingly — and so far, mysteriously — short.
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LOL, that’s bad but so true.
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why people post on threads they aren’t interested in.
He was Muslim. He sold his soul to Satan long ago. Now he's keeping "allah" company in hell, which is where allah spends most of his time torturing female muslims for fathering bastards.
There’s a reason Michael never got around to hiring dancers and choreographers, and had done no serious rehearsing. It is because he “knew” the comeback concerts were not going to happen. He unconsciously realized that his end was near.
Come to think of it, they do have the need to be in front of the cameras in common...
Not guilty is different than innocent.
That’s funny. They are screaming now instead of simply skipping over the threads that don’t interest them.
I was totally disgusted that I couldn’t find any news last night. I work many evenings and have little time to watch my favored FNC. I came in and settled down to enjoy Bret Bair and all I could find was this coverage. So I got up and went out to dinner. I found MJ so weird that I could not listen to him or anything about him. I heard one commentator say that he was the most talented entertainer of all time. Hubby and I immediately voted Fred Astaire before MJ. Admittedly, I’m not the person to be assessing MJ and modern entertainment, but I care a lot more about the votes in Congress today than I do the trials and tribulations of MJ.
You know nothing at all about what happened...and neither do I...yet you make the assumption that he is NOT innocent? I believe the accusations, the media, the negative stories, the shakedowns....all destroyed him.
I think this guy was extremely talented. His skills went much deeper than his stage and video presence. In that arena (songwriting, dancing, choreography, and the foresight of the use of music videos that actually tell a story) he is head and shoulders above any of his contemporaries—putting him on the same level as Lenon and McCartney. In terms of postwar artists, Gershwin comes to mind as a peer.
That said, he was one weird dude.
Loved his music. Couldn’t watch him.
As i grew older, I he became a cartoon to me. His pre-1990 stuff is still rated highly on my iPod. And I am a peer of his.
Neither was OJ or Robert Blake.
The presumption of innocence applies to the gov't, not the court of public opinion. Would you let your offspring spend a weekend with MJ? Are you sure OJ was innocent?
At least it gave us a break from BHO 24/7 all the time.
And I believe the little boy that accused MJ of molesting him, who MJ felt he had to pay 18 million dollars to shut up.
If he was innocent, then he had no reason to shut him up with 18 million.
He was guilty as hell, many times over.
Still dead?
When sports stars, movie stars, music stars, and other entertainers die, there is always a media rush to assume the posthumous fellatory position. I understand the media derives a great deal of its viewership (and thus advertising revenue) from excessive coverage of such individuals of dubious consequence, and I understand that this derives largely from the fact that people in general have a sick need to manufacture false heroes, from the stable of vapid performers especially. Which in of itself is a pity, given the plethora of real historical heroes drawn from the ranks of warriors, scientists, great political leaders, philosophers, those martyred (or nearly so) in defense of truth or liberty, and others whose contributions amount to more than base diversion of the unwashed.
A man died, and as when almost any other individual dies, yes that is grounds for sadness. IMO, no individual, in his or her capacity as an entertainer alone, has in history warranted the sort of gratuitous displays of mourning that typically accompany their deaths.
I know the typical responses to what I wrote - apparently it is cold and heartless to afford equal or greater value to celebration of the lives and mourning for the loss of the “nobodies” listed in the local obits. Find better heroes.
Fine...point taken.
That said, it is going to get really wild when his family and debt holders go head to head. Hot damn!
I’m interpreting that as his handlers/doctors speaking to him....
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