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1. David Thomson:

“Jackson’s death at age 50 caught everyone by surprise”

Everyone? Not me. I always considered this to be very likely. Weird people like Michael Jackson long suspected of using too much “medication” often die an early life. Cap and trade legislation will probably be defeated in the U. S. Senate. Still, the odds are that Jackson’s death is the single most important reason why it survived in the House of Representatives. Fence sitting legislators quickly saw that few American people gave a damn about but the pop singer’s death—and this allowed Nancy Pelosi to submit them to enormous pressure.

Jul 2, 2009 - 3:47 am 2. Maggie:

The obsession with celebrity is a direct result of a liberal media. The media directs our attention. The liberal media cultivates celebrities of their liking, interviews them, reviews their work and sells ads for their products. Our culture is defined by the celebrities chosen by the liberal media. Conservative media is not in the game. Why aren’t The National Review and Weekly Standard on grocery checkout stands? Why don’t conservative media (including PJTV) compete for the ad revenue? As long as the conservative message is “by subscription” it will not be accessible. Until conservative media is accessible, it cannot influence the culture and direct our attention elsewhere.

Jul 2, 2009 - 6:23 am 3. Joe:

There have been a lot of television sets turned off over the last week. I have been so fed up with listening to the clap-trap put out about Jackson that I have looked to the internet for news. Its time people started contacting the sponsors of these awful episodes and informing them of our displeasure. The real crime is that none of the outlets, including Fox saw fit to give enough time to the Cap and Trade bill or to the disaster which awaits us if we allow the government to control health care. In case we ever become a totally socialist country, we can give the media a lot of the credit.

Jul 2, 2009 - 6:37 am 4. chris:

It is our own fault. We tune into the programs..and who are all those people twittering and tweeting to the news sations>> don’t they have a job???

We buy the magazines, listen to the shows etc..quit it …We’re allowing the press to dictate..again..or is that “as usual”..

I agree with the top 3 statements..esp #2

Jul 2, 2009 - 7:29 am 5. Sebastian Shaw:

Read George Orwell’s 1984 & Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. The media turned the people into mindless drones. The future is here. Scary times.

Jul 2, 2009 - 7:41 am 6. Michael:

People look for heroes, someone to look up too. The media has determined that they will never be soldiers, police or citizens taking control under adverse conditions. I don’t know if the press only dispises these kinds of people or that these heros do something that the media knows they personally never could.

They can see themselves as media celebrities however. Indeed many think they are already celebrities and don’t want to be compared.

This is one specific failing among so many that public suffers from at the hands of the media.

Jul 2, 2009 - 8:47 am 7. Strawman:

And don’t forget the moment of silence accorded Michael Jackson by the U.S. House of Representatives — something not accorded to the U.S. soldier murdered on U.S. soil (allegedly) by a U.S. convert to Islam in what was arguably an act of jihad. Priorities ain’t what they used to be.

This is the part that I find unforgivable. The media obsession can be attributed to business dynamics. This says one of two things about the US congress; either that they’re such a bunch of media whores themselves, that they’ll debase the institution in order to look good to the teenyboppers, or that they’re a bunch of teenyboppers themselves. Neither possibility is good.

And don’t forget that the POTUS did this as well. He’s also one or the other.

Jul 2, 2009 - 8:55 am 8. sheesh:

Thank god we have Fox News to keep us informed of the critical issues.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/fox-news-anna-nicole-walter-reed/

Jul 2, 2009 - 9:19 am 9. Delia:

M.J.’s death is now a ‘FEDERAL’ case.

Oyyyyyyyyyy veyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Jul 2, 2009 - 9:40 am 10. David Thomson:

“few American people gave a damn about but the pop singer’s death”

Should be: few American people gave a damn about anything but the pop singer’s death

Michael Jackson’s death provided Barack Obama a little longer lease on his political life. Had he lived for another 24 hours—the president would probably now be a marginalized individual unable to ever get again get serious legislation through the Congress. Cap and trade would be completely off the table. Think about this for a moment. What if I’m wrong and Jackson’s demise actually helped Obama to come roaring back? In that case, there is an outside chance that anthropologists some 500 years hence will conclude our civilization destroyed itself over the death of a pop star.

Jul 2, 2009 - 9:49 am 11. Delia:

10. David Thomson:

“Michael Jackson’s death provided Barack Obama a little longer lease on his political life. Had he lived for another 24 hours—the president would probably now be a marginalized individual unable to ever get again get serious legislation through the Congress. Cap and trade would be completely off the table. Think about this for a moment. What if I’m wrong and Jackson’s demise actually helped Obama to come roaring back? In that case, there is an outside chance that anthropologists some 500 years hence will conclude our civilization destroyed itself over the death of a pop star.”

I think ACORN is behind this.

j/k

Jul 2, 2009 - 10:25 am 12. VT Steve:

Shesh: the best you can do take an off-topic jab at Fox News is to cite a 2 year old story on Walter Reed coverage, where Fox didn’t beat a story to death the way CNBC and CNN did in their relentless attempts to go after Bush? You HAVE TO do better than that. Please.

Jul 2, 2009 - 10:27 am 13. Barry K:

The mainstream media is dying a painful death as their revenue model is under attack by primarily the Internet. In its death throes, its content is getting reduced to base human stuff like reality tv shows, the useless celebrity junk-food, and politically-bought “news” coverage. The mainstream media is an absolute disgrace, and most “journalists” should be ashamed of themselves. Time-strapped average joe’s need to remember not to take 99% of stories at face-value, and that most of it is propaganda.

Jul 2, 2009 - 11:53 am 14. Jenny Greenteeth:

Michael Jackson was a prodict of the media’s celebrity circus and his life was a freak show. Farrah Fawcett enjoyed her fame when her career was at its peak but had the grace to stel unobtrusivly into the background instead of constantly “reinventing” heself (having inappropriate surgery) to try to cling to fame.

It was Michael Jackson’s hunger for adoration and the media’s eagerness to feed that hunger in return for another Whacko Jacko story that made Michael what he was.

We can all help make sure it does not happen again by being objective, admiring entertainers for their talent rather than letting press officers turn very ordinary human beings into icons.

Jul 2, 2009 - 11:53 am 15. Brian:

Its quite retarded the way outlets like CNN are fawning over this guy.I never liked his songs.I was a heavy metal fan all the way through out my youth.But it seems america is worshipping these celebrities like…well gods to be honest.Even more retarded.
In the meantime the cap and trade bill passed in Congress and now is in senate reading.But Michael Jackson is more important!Retards in the MSM.

Jul 2, 2009 - 6:16 pm 16. Brian:

MSM fawns on Michael Jackson and the cap and trade bill merrily passes through congress.No coverage on that.Now it sits with the Senate.I never liked michael Jackson.I was into heavy metal in my youth.But cmon America you all cant be that brain dead can you?Geez theres a reason why its called a republic.Representation ring a bell?
All i heard last year was Bush this and Bush that.Oh Cap and Trade bill?Nah dont need to report that.Retards.

Jul 2, 2009 - 6:29 pm 17. kenny komodo:

I actually thought that Jackson already WAS dead so his death actually did catch me by surprise but then again I’ve never been a Jackson fan and I never followed his “career” or even his trial for child molestation (hard to avoid hearing about it though) or much else. So basically he was so far off my personal radar that I actually thought that he had died at some point and gee I must have missed it. I would like to point out that the death of Jackson could not have come at a better time for our “Dear Leader” who has been losing points over his handling of Iran and Honduras and now has an opportunity to let this latest “crisis” about Jackson override everything and become a distraction from the important issues of the day.

Jul 3, 2009 - 12:40 am 18. Realist:

When Farrah Fawcett died as a good person she naturally went to heaven.

Once there God said to her ‘Farrah you lived a good life so I will grant you one wish”

Farrah being the unselfish person she was asked god to ‘Please make all the children in the World safe’

So God killed Michael Jackson

Jul 3, 2009 - 12:46 am 19. Realist:

On a not too unrelated topic. In the USA 89% of violent crimes are committed by Blacks and Hispanics however if you were an Alien visitor and judged planet earth on the outpourings of Hollywood and TV you would conclude the following:-

1) All violent crimes are committed by American or foreign Whites especially Brits or French.
2) Blacks are the most dominant, intelligent race in America as all Police Chiefs, City Mayors , Heads of Companies, Computer experts, scientists, cookie but extremely intelligent individuals and every hero’s bestest most true friend ever and now the President the LIAR Messiah are INVARIABLY Black.

Think I am joking read this

NBC’s Law & Order:
Entertainment Serving the Elite
By Nicholas Stix

Throughout history elites have used narratives, usually based on actual events, to shape and control the picture of the world they impose on the societies they rule. Sometimes those narratives depict the heroism of ancestors in the hopes that a dramatic retelling of past exploits will motivate young listeners to emulate them in behalf of the elites. In societies ruled by more ideologically inclined elites, those tales often take the form of morality plays that shape and mold the outlook, values, and judgments of the ruled.

Here in the U.S., elites use the corporate entertainment industry and its vast television audiences to shape the outlook of their constituent populations. But instead of using truthful narratives, American elites resort to lies and distortions so that actual events can be twisted and bent to conform to the propaganda needs of their left-wing ideology.

Consider the case of NBC’s Law & Order, an extremely popular television show. L&O’s left-wing producer, Dick Wolf, controls a stable of five crime-oriented shows (also Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, L.A. Dragnet and Crime & Punishment), making him one of the most powerful men in television. For years, Law & Order, which is filmed in Manhattan, advertised its episodes as being “ripped from the headlines,” a claim Wolf and star Jerry Ohrbach still make in interviews. But instead of depicting reality, Wolf’s scriptwriters take high-profile crimes committed by blacks, and replace the bad guys with whites, even inventing white racist criminals that bear no relation to anything seen in New York during the past 100 years.

And so, even though more than 89 percent of suspects in violent crimes are black or Hispanic according to NYPD crime reports, L&O presents a looking-glass world in the grip of a white crime wave. In “Teenage Wasteland,” an episode that originally aired on February 7, 2001, the true case of a group of black teenagers who ordered Chinese food, and murdered the delivery man, is turned into a group of middle-class, white kids. “Myth of Fingerprints” (November 14, 2001) tells of a white, female forensics chief whose years of false testimony has sent many innocent men to jail.

One of those innocents was murdered in prison, resulting in the official’s conviction for manslaughter. “Fingerprints” was loosely based on the real case of former Oklahoma City supervising forensic chemist Joyce Gilchrist, nicknamed “black magic,” for her seeming forensic wizardry. Gilchrist’s lab techniques and court testimony had come under scrutiny by federal and state authorities. Critics charged she gave false testimony causing 23 men to be sentenced to death, eleven of whom were executed. Joyce Gilchrist is black, but unlike the fictional white official, was never prosecuted, though she was fired for alleged “flawed casework” and mismanagement.

Seven months after the October, 2002 Washington, D.C. sniper case was closed with the arrest of suspects John Muhammad and Lee Malvo, L&O dramatized the case, but with the shooter as a white man! (”Sheltered”; May 14, 2003.) “Smoke” (May 21, 2003) opens with the death of a child, whose adoptive father, a famous entertainer, had dropped him, while dangling him from a hotel room window. The detectives eventually discover that the entertainer would also arrange for underage boys to accompany him to his mansion, where he would sexually violate them. When I told a not particularly media-savvy neighbor who is the mother of four small children that story line, she immediately said, “Michael Jackson!” But on L&O, the character was depicted as a white comedian. Remember the Danny Almonte case? Almonte was the 14-year-old Dominican fraud who — through the connivance of his father, Felipe de Jesus Almonte, and Bronx-based, Dominican Little League coach Rolando Paulino — passed himself off as a 12-year-old, in order to play in the 2001 Little League championships. But in “Foul Play” (May 1, 2002), the coach magically becomes a blond-haired, white man, who is somehow convicted of a murder committed by the player’s father.

L&O’s creative team must read some interesting publications, since many of their “ripped from the headlines” stories never happened, but suit any left-winger’s paranoid fantasies quite well. Consider their obsession with non-existent, murderous white supremacists, whom they depict as besieging Manhattan. In “Open Season” (November 20, 2002), a William Kunstler-like defense attorney is murdered while celebrating the acquittal of a guilty-as-hell black defendant for shooting a white policeman. The killer, a member of a white supremacist group, then uses his defense attorney to unwittingly pass along information to his co-conspirators, who murder a prosecutor in another state. The defense attorney is charged with aiding and abetting the supremacists, before she is shot by a female supremacist. The real basis of the episode was the indictment of radical attorney, Lynne Stewart, of consciously aiding and abetting Moslem terrorist Sheik Abdul Rahman, the convicted ringleader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In “Prejudice” (December 12, 2001), a racist, white real estate agent progresses from writing a letter to his co-op board in an effort to keep an interracial couple out of his building, to flashing a gun at a black colleague, to murdering a black man who beat him to a taxi. Such a case would have been fantastic in 1951, let alone in 2001. In “Genius” (April 2, 2003), a white, violence-embracing ex-con-writer stabs a white cabby to death. Viewers are then given mixed messages, as the cab driver turns out to be a fugitive, white supremacist racial murderer.

In another surreal L&O touch, ordinary black New Yorkers are repeatedly shown to be victims powerful white overseers. In “Kid Pro Quo” (April 30, 2003), the dedicated director of admissions at a tony private school is murdered by her corrupt racist boss. The victim sought to get a deserving but poor black girl admitted, but was overridden by the boss, who’d taken a bribe to accept the inferior child of a Jewish pornographer. And then there’s the homophobia angle. In the real world, Manhattan is, like San Francisco, one of the most gay-friendly areas in America. But not in L&O’s alternate universe. In “Girl Most Likely” (March 27, 2002), a private school student murders her lesbian lover, in order to hide the fact that she is gay. Last, but not least, comes xenophobia. In “Patriot” (May 22, 2002), a pale, blonde-haired former special forces officer kills a Moslem immigrant he had surveilled, and whom he suspected of being a terrorist. The prosecutor presents the imaginary patriot as a fire-breathing, chest-thumping, jingoist monster, even as the story suggests that the dead man really was a terrorist.

Now beginning its fourteenth season, Law & Order, a top-rated show and perennial Emmy nominee for Outstanding Drama Series, serves as a willing tool for the elites’ culture war against Middle American whites. No wonder it receives awards and recognition from its corporate masters.

Jul 3, 2009 - 12:57 am

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