Michael Jackson Is A Damned ‘Sicko Freak’
MICHAEL Jackson Watch: As macrabre and damning show, a living saint and all other views…
Andre Peyser (NY Post): EXCESS RITES ALL WRONG FOR SICKO FREAK!
You got two for the price of one if you attended Michael Jackson’s spectacular dog-and-pony show yesterday — a memorial as dignified as a Vegas lounge-lizard act combined with the entertainment value of a carnival freak show.
How soon one forgets, given the opportunity to participate in this mass hysteria. From the accolades, prayers and cries of grief, you’d think you were witnessing the death of a saint, not an accused serial pedophile who hated the skin in which he lived.
Gordon Smart (The Sun): “Read Bizarre editor’s damning verdict”
Tasteful stuff.
This wasn’t a memorial for a pop icon or the greatest entertainer the world has ever seen.
It was a reminder of why MICHAEL JACKSON became a deeply unhappy, lonely man living an utterly bizarre existence.
It was a macabre circus.
Paris didn’t look comfortable and more importantly, capable, of doing it… I just couldn’t believe my eyes… Having said that, her few words were deeply touching, bringing a tear to the eye.
So a deeply touching macabre circus featuring a grieving young girl who wasn’t capable but, er, was.
Andrew Gumbel (The Guardian): “Michael Jackson memorial: Showbiz, schmaltz and not a trace of Wacko”
They came not to lay Michael Jackson to rest so much as to ease him gently into a warm bath of adulation, hyperbole and showbiz razzle-dazzle tinged with more than a hint of religious symbolism.
The Jackson celebrated today at the downtown Los Angeles Staples Centre in a two-hour extravaganza of song, sermonising and tears was very far from the headline-grabbing, lawsuit-happy eccentric with the multiple plastic surgeries, the sporadic addiction to painkillers and the endless gossip about prepubescent boys.
Let’s not mention them, Andrew…
Rather, it was Jackson the great entertainer, the musical genius, the gift to the world who has all too suddenly been taken away…
Chris Ayres (The Times):
For the United States it wasn’t so much a “Diana moment” as a made-for-TV special. Afraid that millions of fans would cause havoc, and barely able to afford the overtime for its police officers and emergency services, the city’s leaders made it virtually impossible for the general public to take part in the service.
Much of the adulation, though, had an unfortunate corniness bordering on the trite, not helped by lines spoken or sung by Jackson during his lifetime projected on to a screen behind the stage: “There is nothing that can’t be done if we raise our voice as one“, one read.
As an expression of public grief, it could not have been further removed from the 1997 funeral and cortège of Diana, Princess of Wales, which drew crowds of up to three million people.
When it became clear that only 50,000 people turned up outside the service — a fraction of the million expected — some wondered if the city had gone too far in telling people to stay at home, and that the showing was too small for the biggest day of public mourning in US history since the death of Elvis Presley.
Richard Lawson (Gawker):
Well, that was both horrifying and depressing. The Michael Jackson Public Memorial has lurched to a close and, to paraphrase a commenter, we feel like we’ve been underwater for hours.
Sharon Waxman (Huff Po): “Jackson’s Final Act: Sainthood”
In death, Michael Jackson is suddenly some kind of a saint. A humanitarian. A philanthropist. A civil rights leader.
“Like our father Martin,” said Martin Luther King III before a live television audience of millions around the world at the memorial. “He was indeed a shining light.”
What a difference two weeks and sudden death can make.
While still alive, Michael Jackson was widely considered a weirdo. A presumed child molester. A pills-and-plastic surgery addict. For more than a decade, he’d been relentlessly mocked by the tabloids. He was Wacko Jacko.
The hype lives…
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July 11th, 2009 at 6:35 am
Lyn, sorry left off the link..
http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20287787_20290772,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines
July 11th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Lyn, glad to see you are also a night owl. I was sitting here researching various theories written by psychiatrists, experts, etc. on what contributes from our childhood to how we turn out as adults.
Yes, it is quite interesting Debbie Rowe got that Restraining Order. Below is the link to the story about the delay in the custoday hearing. You’ll read it says the Jackson’s “will fight.” If Debbie Rowe is just sitting back playing poker with them she may well be holding a Royal Flush.
July 11th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Yes, Cheryl, read the bit re custody and also found the article on Debbie’s restraining order appeal against JJsnr. Sounds serious. To think Michael could be buried at Neverland is dreadful, but the thinking behind that idea would be money. Like people paying to go to Diana’s resting place. Tacky. In the “last photo” of Michael, his face seems to have a blotch on it, but his skin colour is caramel coloured. Perhaps he used body makeup to make himself quite white. Hope there will an answer to this question. Thankyou for the link.
July 11th, 2009 at 3:55 am
Lyn, read yet another week’s delay for a cusody hearing granted by the Court. You have to wonder how much the Jackson’s are upping the anty to get her to give them custody. After I read earlier this evening that low life was talking about Paris being able to sing and the one boy dance this is becoming serious. That worthless piece wants to use them to make further millions for the Jackson family on their father’s name. Now I do hope she goes for the whole wad - total custody and asks to be named guardian of the the third one. If she has that trump card hopefully she uses it to get her two and the third one. Surely she would receive financial support to keep them off poverty row as they are beneficiaries of the Trust. Trouble is there is no way to read the Trust to see what is stipulated for support of the children while under age, as it has been kept out of the public documents and thus private.
Did you read about the family fighting over where to bury his body? Worthless piece and Germaine want him at Neverland to make money on him! How greedy and sick can one be to use your dead son and brother in a casket to make money on!
Oh, also ran across the article saying he had Vitiligo! In the workplace I’ve seen some Black people with it and it is like the article I’m linking below says. It can be on one-half of their face, on their hands, arms, etc. If what the article says is true about him then I can understand why he took steps to lighten his skin if it was spreading to his face and other visible parts of his body. He was in the public eye all the time and an entertainer and it would have bothered him to have it and possibly people starring at him.
http://www.popeater.com/music/article/jacksons-glove-hid-disease-pal-says/564471
July 11th, 2009 at 2:24 am
Cheryl, yes agree the children are the victims. No, doubt very much if I had given a man kids, and for all my trouble he left me out of his will - seems Debbie Rowe has been left nothing. She certainly stood by him during the court case and has never been heard to say anything untoward re Michael Jackson. She may have suffered in silence too, due to gagging order. It does seem though that a good lawyer is in control and stopping her too, from speaking to the Press.
July 10th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Dairy, I never heard that but could be she was being paid in yearly installments. Yet, one would think Michael Jackson’s lawyers would not leave any loop-holes for her to come back at him in years to come. His Will stipulates he was not leaving her any monies and further giving his Mother custody of the children. No, I think she probably was paid up years ago.
Lyn, thinking about how she looked and her foul mouth, would we be happy campers to find our ex-multi-millionaire husband didn’t leave us a penny after we stood behind him over the years and spoke out defending him re the charges in 2005 and he turns around and gave our children to his Mother instead of back to us?
The children are the victims in all this mess. I so hope she does have true maternal instincts and does right by them in their best interests. Those children have been around the Jackson famiy more than around her and one could see they are close to the Grandmother. I hope she does the right thing and offers to share the custody with the Grandmother and not tear those children apart emotionally and further causes the youngest one to be separated from his siblings. Lynn, no doubt in my mind or yours she is holding that ‘trump card’ she could play; but I’m hoping if she is pushed to play it it is soley played in the best interest of the children and not to get more millions from the Jacksons..
July 10th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Cheryl, did you see the interivew, don’t know what year, where Debbie Rowe is commenting on MJs face? Debbie seemed to be talking in a Michael Jacson voice (he had two) and then of course we all saw her with the reporters recently, “don’t touch me, etc”. Yes, thought she looked hard! Poor kids!
July 10th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Michael Jackson was the greatest entertainer ever lived.He was the chosen one.He’s the ONE.There will be no other greatest entertainer in this age..He’s the one and last in this iron age.No Great icon like him in this age.
July 10th, 2009 at 8:29 am
I heard a report that said she had only received a small proportion of the promised pay-off for the kids - that could account for her current status….?
July 10th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Not that many loose ends, truly. His Trust is clear and tidy and written by very good lawyers, and I noted the Court has now replaced Mrs. Jackson with them to over see the Trust. He may have left debts but doubt those debts will ever clean out the assets the record-breaking way fans are now cleaning off the shelves in stores buying up his records/albums and that most likely will remain ongoing. There will be ingenuous ways to further increase the fortune he left behind in time to come.
Forget about the fortune really, the most important issue that must be settled is who takes custody of the children. Under CA law Debbie Rowe is to get them back, she is their mother and that is how the law reads custodial father dies they are returned to the mother. I have true mixed feelings re her. Did you see her on TV when she turned on the reporters and got fouled mouthed with them? She looks hard and nasty. Reporters were talking on television last week and saying there are some people questioning what she did with all the millions Michael paid her for the children with the way she is living now. I’m not sure how she is living now so…. I
If she and the Jackson’s don’t reach some type of agreement between them, I think her lawyer will petition the court soon they be returned to her under CA law and the court will order they be returned. Judges as a rule do not like to separate siblings but under CA law only two go to her being their mother; so I hope for the three children’s sake an agreement is reached who takes all three or they reach an agreement to have shared custody and just leave the court out of it.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Cheryl, yes I am thinking what you are thinking for sure. What a way to go out though for MJ, lots of loose ends!
July 10th, 2009 at 5:03 am
Lyn, if you are thinking what I have been thinking I totally agree.
July 10th, 2009 at 12:23 am
Cheryl, yes, to be poor and proud and decent does mean a lot than rich and ashamed and MJs death was used by Jackson Snr to milk the situation for all it was worth IMO.
July 10th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Thanks for the information re Debbie Rowe as haven’t seen that article yet. Well, that says it all doesn’t it! She must know something, really something, to have done that. Actually, it could be a good thing that she has a mouth like that as she can take the lot on! What has Jackson Snr been up to? For a young boy to say that (his father) a human being, makes him sick every time he sees him is very serious a statement. Yes, the termites will be out in force to plunder MJs earnings and don’t you reckon there is more to come out.
July 9th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Let Michael rest in peace now that he is gone lets see to whom the media will torn to denigrate and lie about,to whom the media will make they’re lifes a hell now that Michael is gone
God bless you’re soul Michael
July 9th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Lyn, from what I’ve read and heard on the news, Katherine Jackson and low life have been separated for many years and low life has his residence in Las Vegas. You did see in the paper or hear on the news the other week that Debbie Rowe had filed a petition with the Courts asking that low life not be permitted to be around the children? That I can’t fault her on at all. I presume one of the reasons if not the only reason Jackson’s never got divorced was because of the money made on those boys when growing up. My attitude about when people marry just for money or stay married for money I’d rather be poor and proud than rich and ashamed.
July 9th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Cheryl, the Jackson family have had many feuds. MJ has spoken out about what happened to him when young. What I thought was most sad was one of the brothers saying hwen asked re what MJ said about the abuse, was that “some of us are very sensitive”. What a thing to say. No wonder MJ said he felt sick when he saw Jo Jackson. Jo Jackson apparently lives elsewhere though and do wonder for how long he has been doing so.
July 9th, 2009 at 5:29 am
Lyn, she is not the ’surrogate’. She and Michael Jackson were in a lawful marriage when those two were conceived and born and they are the parents under the law. It doesn’t matter if there were infertility problems and donor eggs or donor sperm was used they are the parents of those children. Under CA law, if a father has custody of a child or children and he dies they go by law to the mother! If she goes for custody there will be a battle unless an agreement between her and the Jackson’s is reached out of court. Those children have been through enough already in their young lives and it would be close to criminal to put them thru a nasty custody battle, if it came to that.
Interesting thought you have, Lyn, re ‘different father’. That would sure explain the physical brutality and emotional abuse he suffered at low life’s hands. That may also explain why he was so close to his Mum and took good care of her. However, he was far more forgiving than I would ever be if my mother stood by and let my father brutalize me and emotionally abuse me to scar me for life. Even mother animals, domesticated pets or in the wild, will fight and even kill to protect their young!
July 9th, 2009 at 4:43 am
Yes, Cheryl, saw Debbie Rowe on TV and what a mouth she has. Wouldn’t like to think the children would go to her - she would kick their butts at any given time. Don’t touch me says Ms Rowe! Nasty peice of work actually she is. Lets hope she is just the surrogate. MJ used to say that his father made fun of his nose and the Jackson boys used to think MJ was very different to the rest of them. Seeing Mr Jackson Snr has an illegitimate child, perhaps MJ has a different father! Just thinking.
July 9th, 2009 at 3:45 am
Lyn, I have had the same thoughts - snakes will be crawling out from underneath many rocks trying to make any type of sicko claims to make some money. Saw Debbie Rowe on the news the other night - nice lady? When she lost her temper at the reporters she was really nasty and I was surprised at how hard looking she has gotten. One would think with the millions paid her she would have lived the good life all these years. I thought wow she will sure ‘charm’ the judge with her nasty attitude! Noted low life kept his hat on during the memorial service, as well as chew gum.. Mrs. Jackson should have reached out in front of everyone and knocked it off his head and slapped him in the mouth for chewing gum at his own son’s memorial service. Michael Jackson is known as a great entertainer, gave multi-millions to charities and also it should be written he was the ‘daddy of three children who loved him dearly.’
July 9th, 2009 at 1:28 am
Now MJ has gone (but not buried yet) accusations will for sure come out of the woodwork. Rumours have not finished yet. Paris seemed to want to speak and feel she did very well. The older boy chewed on his gum. Joe Jackson chewed on his gum. Paris seemed close to the family though and clung to her Aunt Janet.
July 8th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
ur a fukin prik. not guilty until proven otherwise. u r one of the strange people who has mistreated him. ur forgetting he was a mesmerising performer who has the biggest selling album of all time. RIP MJ x
July 8th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
…or should that be, for the estate…..?
July 8th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
My curiosity got the best of me yesterday and I sat and watched the Memorial Service. I wasn’t sure what to expect - a gala performance or a circus of stars - however, I found it a very nice Memorial Service for man who was obviously loved by many who spoke. The music and singing was fitting, I felt, and not some rauckus rock show. The only part that struck me as not quite proper was Mariah Carey’s show of her boobs in a dress not quit fitting for a Memorial Service. It was rather a somber occasion.
Of all the people who talked, relatives, entertainers who knew him throughout the years, some who didn’t know him closely,there were two who made the most impact on me on what they said about Michael Jackson
The Congresswoman from Texas who started off with “Innocent until proven Guilty, under the Constitution a person is innocent until proven guilty” …
The second person to talk who literally brought tears to my eyes was Paris Jackson. She is 11 years old and more than old enough to talk to the public and she spoke from her heart. “I just wanted to say, ever since I was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine! I just wanted to say I love him so much,” a crying Paris said.”
I had an immediate thought go through my mind when I watched Paris in tears speaking of her father. I thought omg is that dear heartbroken child aware of all the nasty rumours that many of us have speculated on, newspapers put in headlines and trying to tell all of us ’stop it’ my daddy wasn’t that way at all “daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine! I just want to say I love him so much.’
July 8th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Death is just sooo good for the career