Wednesday, July 08, 2009
New theory about Michael Jackson
As a source of humor, Al Sharpton is always reliable. A caller into his radio show speculates that Sarah Palin had Michael Jackson whacked, and the scandal was about to break, so that is why she resigned. The good reverend does nothing to question that speculation and says he will "put it out there." Ah, maybe it was Barzini all along.
My take on this is that it is CNN's fault for doing a "Mash-up" to start their 8:00 PM (eastern time) news cast, thus confusing too many people with how stories of the day are related or not. But, hey, Reverend, way to exercise leadership in your community.
In other news, researchers at Ronald Reagan's Presidential Library found evidence that he had Wilt Chamberlain whacked. When it was pointed out to the researchers that Reagan predeceased Chamberlain by a decade, they replied, "uh, well, he left orders."
UPDATE: Frequent commenter Boludo Tejano wins the prize, undoubtedly exposing me as part of the conspiracy, pointing out that Wilt died 5 years before Reagan (though it was "reported" that Reagan had advanced Alzheimer's by then). The truth is out there. Google it.
CWCID: NewsBusters via Ace
8 Comments:
By 
Christopher Chambers, at
Wed Jul 08, 07:55:00 PM:
Alas Michael died from America's dirty little secret. Not crack, heroin, meth (white people's crack). Nope. Prescription drug abuse.
By JPMcT, at
Wed Jul 08, 09:03:00 PM:
That's even better tha nthe joke I heard about Farrah Fawcett entering heaven and God saying "Farrah, You have had a wonderful career and helped many charities...I will grant you one wish for your former earthbound beings"
Farrah thought and said, in her best beauty pageant voice "I want all the children of the world to be safe and secure".
So God reached down and flicked Michael jackson.
Yeah...dumb...but along the same lines as the Sharpton caller...except, being a Republican supporter, I can tell a bad joke from reality.
By 
, at
Wed Jul 08, 09:13:00 PM:
In other news, researchers at Ronald Reagan's Presidential Library found evidence that he had Wilt Chamberlain whacked. When it was pointed out to the researchers that Reagan predeceased Chamberlain by a decade, they replied, "uh, well, he left orders."
Wilt died in 1999.
Reagan died in 2004.
As Old Case said, you can look it up.
By , at
Wed Jul 08, 11:09:00 PM:
Link,
MJ was a preternatural child star. The only other in the same rank is Shirley Temple, who was the biggest draw in the 1930s when everyone went to the movies.
Few child stars have gone on to later meaningful careers. With Quincy Jones, MJ made the best selling album of all time. Many of us hear MJ's songs in the soundtrack to our lives.
Being a child star has screwed up many. I actually give MJ the benefit of the doubt ... that his deepest perversion was to only want to be a 12-year old forever and that there was nothing sexual about it.
Celebrate the good in the guy. With all the coverage, I couldn't not learn that his kids genuinely loved him ... which says a lot. God help them.
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Nerdish ex-college radio DJ points
I've always especially loved "I Want You Back." Is this most danceable song ever? English quasi-punkers Graham Parker & The Rumour did a great live cover in the late 1970s. Scottish newbie folkie KT Tunstall does a great solo version today. Someone else will be covering it twenty years from now in a style we haven't yet heard.
I've always been fascinated by racial cross-over groups -- they often make the most innovative music. There were several important ones in the 1960s: Booker T & The MGs, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Sly & The Family Stone, Santana, The Allman Brother Band. Sadly, there are few today.
Taking nothing away from MJ, Quincy Jones made Thriller a black-white cross-over. Most of the muscians on Thriller share an affinity with Steely Dan and "Silk Degrees" Boz Scaggs. There's even Eddie Van Halen on guitar, and Sir Paul. There's a lesson in this, I want to believe.
Trivia: Speaking of child stars, who was "Little" Stevie Wonder's first drummer?
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By , at
Wed Jul 08, 11:58:00 PM:
There is a liberal lawyer out here on the West Coast who had a terrible call in radio show. She used the same sort of "well now it's out there" kind of reasoning to pretend that any issue raised by her listeners was worthy of careful analysis. She is good at suing people but she is lousy human being and her show was canceled years ago.
By , at
Thu Jul 09, 11:12:00 AM:
So when will someone start blaming the Jews?
By Noumenon, at
Thu Jul 09, 12:10:00 PM:
A caller into his radio show speculates that Sarah Palin had Michael Jackson whacked
Hell no. Obama had it done to draw headlines away from Waxman/Markey. I heard Michelle beat him to death in his oxygen tent yelling "take that whitey!"
By , at
Thu Jul 09, 06:30:00 PM:
Answer: Marvin Gaye
MG was one of more gifted musical talents, ever.
God you folks are boring.
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