Thursday, June 25, 2009

Michael Jackson Dead

An American icon has passed.

We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.

Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.

A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived.

Once at the hospital, the staff tried to resuscitate him but he was completely unresponsive.

Fortunately, more kids will be safer now.

(15) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1715 hrs
Culture

  1. Both ABC’s Charlie Gibson and Drudge refer to him as the king. Drugdge has posted “The King is Dead.”

    First of all….Elvis is the KING….
    AND he is not dead.  No, he’s not.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 25, 2009 at 1756 hrs


  2. Owen- your last statement says it all!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 25, 2009 at 1757 hrs


  3. Unfortunately, MJ is not quite dead yet, or has been dead. Every single news outlet has Twitter as their source.  TMZ is the worst, haha.  Early this morning at 7:56 AM EST MSNBC put an article out outlining his life and times and at the end of the title they labeled him dead. They pulled it very fast. Now how could MSNBC know he was dead early this morning?  They couldn’t.  Unless there’s something more. He’s either been dead for awhile or its a set up.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 25, 2009 at 1814 hrs


  4. Seriously - does this really merit wall to wall coverage? 

    Waxman-Markey is up for a vote tomorrow and all Fox News has on is &@*%$@ Michael Jackson died. 

    Get a grip people.  He was just a singer.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 25, 2009 at 1942 hrs


  5. a bender, that is very interesting.  I would like to think that it would be that he was dead a lot earlier and that it is not some scam, that would just be sick.  I hope everybody just lets him RIP though, and his family, he and they have had enough negative publicity they do not need it anymore.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 25, 2009 at 2048 hrs


  6. Neomom, methinks you might be the one who needs a better sense of perspective.  Michael Jackson was a cultural icon the world over.  Waxman-Markey is a piece of legislation that isn’t even going to get through the Senate without substantial modification.  It’ll have a minor effect on most Americans, and a miniscule effect on the world at large.

    I’d guess you could take a poll, and about 5% of Americans would know what the hell you’re talking about, and 90% of them could name three songs by Michael Jackson.  Go turn on C-SPAN or something.

    Posted by Recess Supervisor on June 25, 2009 at 2137 hrs


  7. a bender:  he died early last evening.  It was all over the web and on TV last night. 

    He was a gifted entertainer but a bizarre person.  For all his talent and wealth, he seemed a sad, lost and lonely boy (which, it seems is not unusual). 

    For my children’s generation, he very much was the King.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 26, 2009 at 0433 hrs


  8. a bender.  My apologies, I thought you wrote this morning (too early to know what day it is I guess).  What you are saying about MSNBC is really strange.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 26, 2009 at 0437 hrs


  9. “Fortunately, more kids will be safer now”

    I’ve long thought the thinking and analysis on this blog was sophomoric and simplistic, but this comment takes the cake.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 26, 2009 at 0833 hrs


  10. RS -

    I understand the cultural icon thing.  I danced to his music in the 80s too. 

    I even understand the “Breaking News” thing - it was a worthy item.  However, 6 hours of wall-to-wall coverage of pictures of people outside the hospital and of Al Sharpton pressers is a bit much.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 26, 2009 at 0856 hrs


  11. Elvis “was just a singer” and had a messed up personal life too, but I can vividly remember the ‘wall to wall’ coverage he recieved when he died…of a drug overdose…on a toilet…with a teenager in his bed. 

    So yes, it does deserve such coverage.  The man was a musical genius and musical geniuses are so hard to come by; especially in an era of Gaga, Rhi-Rhi and JT.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 26, 2009 at 0944 hrs


  12. Seriously - does this really merit wall to wall coverage? 

    Waxman-Markey is up for a vote tomorrow and all Fox News has on is &@*%$@ Michael Jackson died.

    That’s exactly the point.  Get the peoples minds off the true issues and on to the mundane.  Check the 9 Communist Rules for Revolution…straight out of the handbook.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 28, 2009 at 0101 hrs


  13. Another American icon, the “King of ‘as seen on TV’” Billy Mays was fond dead in his Tampa home this morning. I wonder if we will see the same wall-to-wall coverage we got of MJ.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 28, 2009 at 1431 hrs


  14. The OxyClean man is an icon?  Wow.  I guess that word has lost its meaning.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 28, 2009 at 1906 hrs


  15. 3.    a sign or representation that stands for its object by virtue of a resemblance or analogy to it.

    I guess it depends on which definition you are using, but Mays was acknowledged as a leading figure in the infomercial industry. His demeanor, appearance and excitement about the products he sold were genuine. Add to that the fact that he was the host of “Pitchmen”, and yes, I think it is a valid argument to say that he was an icon of the trade.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 29, 2009 at 0555 hrs


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