Let Us Not Mourn
July 7th, 2009 at 9:41 am by Preston Taylor Holmes
Let’s get this out of the way first. Michael Jackson was an alleged pedophile and is now a dead alleged pedophile. It’s a tale of rags-to-riches-to-little-boys that you’ve heard a million times over.
Cara Ellison points us to a commentary at Beyond the Pale that is worth a read.
Why the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth?
These other public reactions I’m seeing, the weeping, the wailing, the sobbing — are, I’m sorry, inappropriate. Weeping and wailing belong to his family and friends. People who actually knew him. Because, let’s be honest, how much of Michael Jackson have any of us really lost? Nothing. I have no less Michael Jackson in my life than I had four days ago and neither does anyone else in the general public. We had his music when he was alive — I worked out to it, as a matter of fact, the day before he died — and we still have his music. We’ve lost nothing more of Michael Jackson than we ever had to begin with. Our personal lives are not affected by his loss. I’m not trying to be callous; I just wish the great sobbing masses could have a more measured response. (Which is a really stupid, Trace. I laugh at you.) What have you lost? What have you lost? The hope of meeting him someday? Not likely. The man was a recluse. A chance to see him in his final concert tour this summer? Well, I guess that’s a loss, but it’s not a weeping-and-wailing loss. Get your money back. Enough with the wailing. Please.
Don’t appropriate grief that doesn’t belong to you.
Read the whole thing for a much more tactful and less vitriolic perpective than you might find here.
Enough with the media coverage and the idiocy. I realize that last November we certified that were are a nation of brain-dead lunatics, but do we have to continue to put our stupidity on display whenever an occasion like this rears its head? In a pathetic nation of reality TV zombies, I guess the answer is yes.
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July 7th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Stupidity on display:
I was watching the news and Meagan Kelly was rolling her eyes in shock (along with the rest of the media) that the heartless Debbie Rowe had announced that she wants to fight for custody of the kids. I guess things were so much better for those kids when they were being raised by a man totally unrelated to them, who was an unapologetic drug addled child molesting monster who dressed them in burkas and hung them out 5th story windows. But we’re not supposed to be talking about that right now.
July 7th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
No kidding on that, michele. Honestly.
****He slept with little boys.****
Anyone who can say that Michael Jackson’s TALENT was so great it overshadows this fact is an IDIOT.
The logical inference from this is that children are property. Michael Jackson was “property” to be used by his father, and the children he supposedly had were “property” and now Debbie Rowe is going to “fight for the property.”
It is disgusting. People who idolize him are empty and superficial asshats.
At least Jim Treacher had the right idea on his website.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
I am embarrassed to be from Houston, the city which that gladhanding, grandstanding Angela Davis wannabe, Congresswoman Shiela Jackson Lee (D., Texas) calls home. I cannot for the life of me understand why she was at MJ’s funeral, other than for the global photo-op it was and also because she authored some House Bill honoring Mikey as some entertainment demigod forever and ever and ever, ad nauseum.
She and Reverend (and I use that term loosely) Al Sharpton politicized an event that for starters, should A) NEVER have been broadcast, and B) should have also displayed a bit more dignity. I don’t know of Michael Jackson’s philanthropy. I never knew him; what he was like when the glittered glove went off. In fact, I only cared about his music for a scant year or when I was in Jr. High and that was an incredibly long time ago. That said, I couldn’t shed a tear for Michael. I wanted to find extremely poignant moments in which to emote but save for the brief comments from his daughter which for the first time, painted him in the portrait of ‘father’, a noun usually not used to describe him generally speaking, that I even felt moved to some degree.
But to the point of crying? No.
Michael wasn’t magic. His talent in terms of singing and dancing was acute, but that’s it…at least it was in my opnion. His music didn’t offer the world’s ills, a gleaming, all-access panacea. His death won’t suddenly meld Black and White into a non-descript “can’t we all just get along” gray; nor will his passing stimulate the economy.
But I digress: based on the incredible spike in post mortim album sells, the total dollar value of his estate will be stimulated.
LK
July 7th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
The Big Wheel and Tri-cycle procession brought me to tears today.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
“A pathetic nation of reality TV zombies”
You sir have a way with words. Dead on.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Maybe Paul McCartney can take rightful possession of the Beatles catalog now.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
For those bent on self-flagellation, see if you can find Shepard Smith’s constant commentary that droned on all through the lunch hour.
He loved Jackson so much that you’d think he had been molested by him. Molested by the gift of song.
July 7th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
What? No Prince? Too bad, he and Lionel could have done a duet of ‘Outraaaaageous’…
July 7th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Shep Smith has had his share of man-to-man molestation, methinks. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
July 8th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
>Michael Jackson was an alleged pedophile
Wait. Wasn’t there a civil verdict? Must we still say alleged?
July 9th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Okay,, if I werne’nt on the brandy again I would say Fu%k Mikey Jack-off-son but since I am I wont’…………. As Clint Eaast Woodk would say, ” a mans goottta know his limitations”
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