Comments on: All the World Was Michael Jackson’s Stage

By: pete

pete — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:15:45 +0000

The party is over now – the good is oft interred with our bones. What we need to decide is whether the party was worth it and was there any good in us to be interred?

So it is with michael – he was his own person and I know of no one who can judge him!

I was a fan of his music and his dancing prowess – exceptional talent – for him I think the party was worth it and may his troubled soul find peace now. I hope the same for the millions of troubled souls on this planet when their time comes, as I do my own.

By: Rapnsum

Rapnsum — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:43:20 +0000

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By: Bruce W.

Bruce W. — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:33:27 +0000

Well said! As a Gen. Xer, my friends and I did the same things (I miss the 80's). Michael Jackson is an Icon who revolutionized the music and entertainment industries worldwide. As a Christian, I'll leave it up to GOD to judge Michael Jackson (who's judgement is the only one that matters) on how he lived his life.

We are a celebrity obsessed culture whether people agree with it or not. They can turn off the TV to tune the coverage off if they don't like it. (I do it for Obama.) He made a huge cultural impact worldwide that nobody today can match or surpass. The last people to do that was Elvis and the Beatles. That's the reason for the coverage.

By: knuckles

knuckles — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:36:19 +0000

This guy was a predator. The day the first allegations came out, I sat and wondered?? Guilty,not guilty. Remember, innocent until proven guilty. Of course this became a pattern and that's all it took for me to come to the conclusion that, yeah, he did it. And so from that point, all that he had achieved DOESN'T mean squat! He was a monster with a lot of fame and money that enabled him to carry out his sick agenda. Just one last thing, I'm no Angel, I've done some bad a$$ in my life, but certainly nothing as heinous as what he was accused of. So go ahead and call me a hypocrite, I'll accept it. But I ain't no child molester.

By: I_Goldstein

I_Goldstein — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:24:28 +0000

Any guesses of when Madonna croaks?

By: Colleen

Colleen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:23:18 +0000

Yes, I am…better than the alternative, though! Although as a Christian that will be OK too…and no wrinkles!

By: Tchristemac

Tchristemac — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:46:19 +0000

Yes, he was talented and even more screwed up in the head! I am flabergasted at the amount of media FLAP….. everywhere I have turned today there has been a story of one extreme to another. The amount of people making statements is like a DEMIGOD or even a PROMINENT politcal figure… PEOPLE he was a MUSICIAN…..I am glad that I was never a fan or ever listen to that type of music….

By: Jack Stack

Jack Stack — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:25:01 +0000

If Jackson had been an average working guy without the money for pay off his victims and high priced lawyers to get him out of trouble he would have been jailed for those "creepy sleepovers" What I find more loathesome than his perversions with young boys is the dementia of his fans and the slavish pandering to celebrity by a warped media.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:51:54 +0000

One is supposed to not think unkindly toward the dead, if not for their sake then for the sake of their loved ones, but this outlandish idol worshipping is making my very angry.

The self proclaimed “King of Pop” was a pedophile. Both sides of his persona HAVE to be taken into consideration when assessing his legacy. The boy-man (as McCartney described Jackson, which in and of itself was a slap I don't think anyone heard) was a great artist, fabulous dancer and philanthropist to many causes dealing with children. He also used these talents to molest children.

It is irrelevant that he gave generously to children’s causes all his life, or used his abilities to entertain children, if at the very same time he was offering the children of others alchohol, drugs and pornography on those "creepy sleepovers." He was a great talent with a very dark and disturbed soul.

Anyway, I can only conclude that the evil this boy-man did far outweighs the good he may have done…because he used this good to conduct the evil.

By: Bill_Brandt

Bill_Brandt — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:45:43 +0000

James Lileks said something on Hugh Hewitt's show yesterday that resonated with me – Jackson was one of the first to use the music video to help his sales – and while Prince was a better musician (and had better demons) Jackson was a better showman.

But the child molestation charges – I think – like OJ – proves you can get away with stuff that would hang the rest of us if you have enough fame. He kind of lost me with that stuff in Santa Maria – and if he weren't guilty of it think he wouldn't have paid that family $20 million to drop charges.

The plastic surgery to the point that his nose looked like it was ready to drop off (and why?), the skin that was turning white (what caused that) – all that and I didn't tune him out until the child molestation charges.