Here's one of the few sensible things uttered in the last 24 hours.
Beyond the obvious fact that the guy could dance, I was never a fan of Jacko. That said, I think the media have a lot of balls to be exploiting his death to the degree they have been these past 2 days. Yes, he was huge. Yes, people want to know what happened. But for the past 2 decades, they took every opportunity to highlight every freakish event in his life - the dangling baby, the ranch, the monkey, the children, every nose job, every rumor, every sighting, - all for the ratings, of course. And now they're trotting out every fawning cultural mouthpiece to talk about what an "icon" he was, what a legend, what an inspiration, all in those treacly, reverent tones usually employed by Garrison Keillor. How the talking heads can look into a camera and do it without embarrassment is amazing to me.
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