It's amazing how our country has slid into this celebrity worship mentality. MJ was a pretty good entertainer up through the "Thriller" album, but it was all downhill (downhill like a cliff) after that. One of the networks (Fox I think) showed a "documentary" a few years ago, done by a Brittish journalist, which was an amazing look into Jackson's lifestyle, with Jackson's participation. I hope it gets shown again soon, but there is a good description of it in Wikipedia. Jackson later repudiated it. I didn't watch any of the memorial tribute, but here are a few over the top comments which were published over the last two days. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said "He called us into public service". Huh? Reverend Al had this message for his children: "There wasn't anything strange about your daddy". Double huh. And finally, the news shows focused on Brooke Shields at the memorial, giving a weepy testimony about her deep friendship with Michael Jackson, then she later told reporters that she hadn't seen him since Liz Taylor's eighth wedding in 1991. The best line I heard was this - Of all those people who were heaping praise on MJ and who scorned those of us who thought he was (at best) weird, would any one of those people let their son stay overnight with MJ unsupervised? I think not.
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