I’ve never put anyone on ignore but many here acting like A-holes towards

[Bushknew]

Michael Jackson & Cynthia McKinney. I can understand how many would put
these people on their ignore list.

[damntexdem]

1. I wouldn't act like an a-hole toward Michael Jackson.

But I surely do, and encourage others to, act like the most-flaming a-holes towards the idiotic news-media obsession with MJ's death.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. +1 - I think the media obsession is driving most people's ire.

I know it's driving mine.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Mine too.

[Confusious]

5. Me three n/t

[backscatter712]

10. Mine too. What we're seeing is the celebrity-death industrial complex at work.

Michael Jackson is worth far more money dead than alive, which is why the cable news stations are now MJ-Is-Dead stations 24/7, why we got his funeral on all the networks, and so on.

There is money in it.

There's enough gossip to put Anna Nicole Smith to shame - MJ will be driving sales of all the grocery store gossip rags for years.

Expect to see new collector's editions of MJ's albums. We'll see a commemorative DVD of the funeral. All his music will be licensed out, and all the pop stars on the radio will be doing covers of his music.

We'll be seeing collectible dinner plates, Michael Jackson coins, coffee table books.

Michael Jackson lunchboxes, Michael Jackson breakfast cereals, Michael Jackson flamethrowers (Kids love 'em!)

All advertised on TV, radio, cable, Internet, etc. - why do you think the cable news stations are hyping him up so much?

So excuse me for being utterly disgusted at the big-money vultures picking at this man's corpse.

[Journeyman]

2. Life's too short to tolerate kiddie scorn. . .

The way I figure it, those who don't use "Ignore" liberally at times must have a surfeit of life. Mine's in too short a supply to waste.

[rurallib]

6. I can't get away from Jackson, no matter where I turn.

I have had enough.

[Catshrink]

7. Word.

I think tomorrow we ask Skinner to start moving the MJ threads to the Entertainment forum or to the Lounge. The worshipers have had their run and now it's time to put the threads in their proper place. Enough!

[Lilyeye]

9. Give me a fucking break. Its the "I don't care about MJ" crowd

who have made just as many threads about him.

[Joe Fields]

11. only in response to the deification of that asshole....

but if you want to adore that pervert, be my guest.

[Lilyeye]

14. Humm you sound like the asshole here.

But you're not alone. That seems to be the goal here for some of the posters today. I guess you will call it "adoring a pervert" but I see it as showing some respect. Esp when I have no clue about whether or not he molested those children. I didn't like Ronald Reagan, but I never danced on his grave or bitched about his coverage. I turned off the damn TV. And I sure as hell didn't come on a site to make countless of post bitching about the coverage he was getting. The grave dancing today is just downright sick and crude. I don't have to adore Michael Jackson to see that.

[Joe Fields]

16. I'd rather plead guilty to being an asshole than an idiot....

Why be a hypocrite and speak well of the asshole, when I couldn't stand the sight of him when he was alive?

[Lilyeye]

18. No one is asking you to speak good of him.

But grave dancing is sickening.

[Catshrink]

13. I doubt it.

But get it out of your system and make sure you know where the Entertainment forum is. I feel so sorry for those who have such dull lives they obsess about entertainers, dead or alive.

[Lilyeye]

17. Is this also directed to the grave dancers who have made many threads about MJ

in GD since he passed? Or did you forget about them in your condescending self-righteous statement?

[Catshrink]

19. No, only at those whose lives as so shallow they engage in celebrity worship.

[Catherine Vincent]

21. And what about the hundreds of other useless threads that are posted here?

Are you going to ask him to move those too?

[LSK]

8. CSPAN, turn off the TV, read a book

:shrug:

[rurallib]

12. I have been working outside and have my faithful radio

and even fucking NPR is carrying the goddamned funeral.

[snooper2]

15. don't be bitter

:)

[Mrs. Overall]

20. Is this because no one believed you that Michael Jackson was *castrated*?

On Edit: Oh darn. I bet I'm on ignore now.