Comments on: RIP Michael Jackson

By: CCR

CCR — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:00:53 +0000

Michael Jackson's music and showmanship were things of beauty, but his life was not. Perhaps he was seeking to compensate the astonishing beauty and originality of his art with the ugliness in his life. The gods of postmodernism demanded it.

By: Pragmatist

Pragmatist — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:52:37 +0000

On a connected point The Plastic One’s children are patently not genetically his and that means he just BOUGHT them as they were not adopted orphans or anything like that totally unlike those of Madonna and Angelina Jolie. Plastic Jackson’s kids were just PURCHASED because the paedophile wanted playthings.. That being so what distinction is there between a PURCHASED child and a SLAVE because for the life of me I can’t see any. Oh and it matters not a jot that he loved them and protected them as that is what anyone does with prized POSSESSIONS. Also why do his family and parents have any more claim to them than their true genetic parents or are they to be handed over with the rest of their sons POSSESSIONS which if it is so will be just what they are.

By: vanderleun

vanderleun — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:22:53 +0000

Deathless Michael Jackson lyrics from HiStory album: “Jew me, sue me” & “Kick me, kike me”.

http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/2

By: dewey from detroit

dewey from detroit — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:13:38 +0000

My only observation is that his life seemed to be a modern day adaptation (perversion?) of The Picture of Dorian Gray, with his body replacing Dorian’s portrait. His pact with the devil was to keep him forever in the limelight of celebrity, even when disgraced. In return, his “picture” became more and more disfigured and deformed. In the end, he was a mere caricature of himself. Now that’s real irony.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:52:46 +0000

Thousands of people far more worthy than Jackson died that same day.

By: homedetoxgirl

homedetoxgirl — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:25:17 +0000

It is such a great loss that a man with great talent like Michael Jackson dies. RIP King of POP.

By: Oblio

Oblio — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:17:43 +0000

The interesting question is, What does the icon represent in the minds of their, is the right word “admirers?” The image, not the reality, has some powerful meaning in their lives. The concrete achievement of great men like Puller has none.

Bad things happen to people who lose touch with reality.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:40:29 +0000

adagny: Lennon had a history of lifelong drug use of one sort or another. Drugs most definitely did not kill him, but I think it's a bit of a stretch to say he very much had his life together.

By: dane

dane — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:00:12 +0000

Pragmatist,

It just wasn’t the MSM – I was getting the same from FOX News. Now I would expect this from Geraldo and Greta gets into these things from time to time but for the other shows I was surprised how much coverage they gave it.

By: adagny

adagny — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:12:35 +0000

Jackson was to the 80’s-90’s what Lennon was for us in the 60’s-70’s and what Elvis was in the 50’s-60’s: musical/cultural icons.

The difference was Presley and Jackson were drug addicted, faded stars desperately trying to regain their superstardom.

John had never lost what he had and very much had his life together.