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2009-07-08 -Obits-
World bids farewell to icon Michael Jackson
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Posted by Fred 2009-07-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 bread/circus fellow 'burgers. The elites running the clown show in DC love this crap. Remember Cap/Trade aka Cap/Tax passed on the Friday that this whackjob died.

I heard LA was asking for funds to cover this crap - maybe Arnie can just write them an IOU.
Posted by Broadhead6 2009-07-08 01:18||   2009-07-08 01:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Greatest entertainer that ever lived Berry? Pretty sure Elvis will be waiting for you on that one up in that big gig in the sky. Or the Beatles if you consider a group an entertainer.

What a gong show this must've been - glad I didn't watch one min of this dog/pony media circlejerk. Empty suited celebs wailing about some degenerate narcisist w/a thing for juveniles.

Tom Cruise is saying "I told you Brooke Shields was crazy."
Posted by Broadhead6 2009-07-08 01:22||   2009-07-08 01:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Even when you're out of the country, you stll see MJ's face all over the place. Sheesh!
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2009-07-08 02:06||   2009-07-08 02:06|| Front Page Top

#4 And soon we'll be having the MJ impersonators, groan...
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-07-08 02:54||   2009-07-08 02:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh, Gawd... Oh, no... Oh, please no...
Posted by Fred 2009-07-08 05:00||   2009-07-08 05:00|| Front Page Top

#6 I refuse to celebrate the life of ANYONE who dies and leaves his estate $ 400,000,000. in the hole. Not to mention his alleged pedifelic proclivities and strange desire to be made physically white, marry wife, and through male donors 'sire' white children. Farewell to the bizarre freakshow. Now BEAT IT!
Posted by Besoeker 2009-07-08 07:47||   2009-07-08 07:47|| Front Page Top

#7 I've always thought he may have had himself castrated at an early age to avoid the voice change of puberty.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2009-07-08 08:19||   2009-07-08 08:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Michael Jackson was pretty much everything on the news.

That is what the 'news' is. It's entertainment. It's packaging. It's creative without substance except by error chance. It's the Roman Circus in altered form. It's the shadows on the wall. They are celebrating one of their own, one of their own creations.
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-07-08 09:14||   2009-07-08 09:14|| Front Page Top

#9 And soon we'll be having the MJ impersonators, groan...

There's a reason to open yer wrists right now ...
Posted by Steve White 2009-07-08 09:19||   2009-07-08 09:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Second daughter works in a hospital; said that patients yesterday were bored, bored, bored because everything on TV was Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson. In desperation, some of them were watching Animal Planet.
Posted by mom">mom  2009-07-08 10:02||   2009-07-08 10:02|| Front Page Top

#11 ENOUGH!
Posted by Lagom 2009-07-08 10:31||   2009-07-08 10:31|| Front Page Top

#12 ICON?











Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-07-08 12:05||   2009-07-08 12:05|| Front Page Top

#13 To hell with that little freak. And his whole damn family. And Al "The Hustler" Sharpton...
Posted by mojo 2009-07-08 12:29||   2009-07-08 12:29|| Front Page Top

#14 your a bag of shit plus you re stupid when elvis died besides his garbage samples you may call music he was the posterchild for slimfast and no way he to be concidered a king hell his daughter even serviced jackson??? so just take your ass back underthe trailer and do yo meth ya tweaker
Posted by Albert Spert5936 2009-07-08 13:01||   2009-07-08 13:01|| Front Page Top

#15 Even when you're out of the country, you stll see MJ's face all over the place. Sheesh!

You got that right. My friends in India are complaining that it has been all MJ, all the damn time since he croaked. I don't watch TV so it hasn't affected me too much.
Posted by Injun Grinesing9686 2009-07-08 13:06||   2009-07-08 13:06|| Front Page Top

#16 Not to worry AH9418, I think they have to register with the state and knock on your door.

Thank you GolfBravo for the counter-slideshow to the worshiping of the moonwalk. I will maintain every time I hear the song thriller that it is about date-rape. How's that? Or the video of him staring at little boys floating in penis shaped boats? End of an era I say good.

Represents everything bloated and self serving about the hollywood superstar culture, its no wonder Americans are made fun of. And the 'reverends' et al go worship that golden calffin.

Its disgraceful. Guy I know said, "Despite everything he was a musical genius." No, I counter, he was a performer - listen to the music its crap, lyrics and riffs. All he did was sell image.
Posted by swksvolFF 2009-07-08 13:07||   2009-07-08 13:07|| Front Page Top

#17 All he did was sell image.

Shiny stuff. That was what all the big production videos with all the choreography and...yada³ were all about. Visual shiny stuff to distract from the crapy music, lyrics and riffs.
Posted by Injun Grinesing9686 2009-07-08 13:21||   2009-07-08 13:21|| Front Page Top

#18 "your a bag of shit plus you re stupid when elvis died besides his garbage samples you may call music he was the posterchild for slimfast and no way he to be concidered a king hell his daughter even serviced jackson??? so just take your ass back underthe trailer and do yo meth ya tweaker"

-umm, what part of civil, well reasoned discourse don't you understand? I'll go back to the trailer as soon as you realize there's this thing on your computer called "spellcheck."

I agree swksvoIFF. IMHO his music was generally horrible. He wrote a couple catchy tunes prior to 1985. Everything after would've never made the radio had he not had his name attached to it after Thriller. Kind of like McDonalds - he sold a lot of stuff but doesn't mean it was really anything special.

Posted by Andy Ulusoque aka Broadhead6 2009-07-08 14:24||   2009-07-08 14:24|| Front Page Top

#19 One day I hope to move up to having a house trailer myself...
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-07-08 15:44||   2009-07-08 15:44|| Front Page Top

#20 Good to see you posting again Albert. When did you get back from your Molesting Cambodian Children 2009 Tour?
Posted by ed 2009-07-08 15:51||   2009-07-08 15:51|| Front Page Top

#21 Al the MJ coverage is part of a distance learning course called Narcissism 101.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-07-08 20:49||   2009-07-08 20:49|| Front Page Top

#22 I hear there's a support group meeting tonight at the Bush Co. to cleanse our minds of the MJ drivel.
Posted by Besoeker 2009-07-08 20:53||   2009-07-08 20:53|| Front Page Top

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