M & M
Today’s round up focused primarily on the death of Michael Jackson and Mark Sanford’s folly. As always, remember the opinions highlighted belong to the blog authors and highlighting a post does not signify agreement with opinions contained therein. Got it? Good.
Whether you’re young, old , a toddler, or an ancient, you should know at least one Michael Jackson tune.
There’s thousands dying on the streets of Iran, the economy is still in shambles, unemployment is at record highs, North Korea wants to nuke Hawaii, and there’s minute-by-minute scrutiny of the final act of a pop-star’s train wreck on every channel.
Viewers were also treated to riveting aerial views of the top of a building, reportedly the hospital where Jackson passed away, but which could have been virtually any large building in any major city in the world.
Coverage of trivial matters, such as the struggling freedom revolution in Iran, was all but forgotten.
Michael Jackson, thanks for recording your life. Â Thanks for making some of the best records ever. Â You truly were Off The Wall.
Somewhere along the line the wheels came off, and the public ate it up. He developed the look, which spurred a lot of comaprisons to the then-woeful Atlanta Braves — both wore one glove and no one was sure why.
He was the true talent in the family. He kept everyone of them in the luxury they felt they deserved. When he would be with other children, he was trying to get his childhood back, I don’t think he liked or trusted adults.
I suppose there is alot to be said. But this is the Michael Jackson that I’ll remember – a young boy with a beautiful voice and amazing talent.
What a week it’s been. First Ed McMahon and now Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. Not to mention the death of mister Mark Sanford’s political career. As for the Sanford thing, I was over it the day it came out. I really don’t care to read the emails or articles about his mistress. Unless something crazy happens; this will be all I have to say about it.
Jackson’s death wiped Sanford off the international television screens – but not off the local radar screen. Indeed as 12:30 looms, the state holds its collective breath. Will he stay or will he fight on?
Sanford was one who voted for impeachment against Clinton. So why’s he still the governor? Not that I dislike the man…he seems quite personable, very friendly. But either he believes what he said or was playing politics.
Of course, my old friend Schuyler Kropf managed to get more out of John O’Connor, and after reading Schuyler’s story this morning it occurs to me that O’Connor should have stuck to his original silence. What The State has revealed about its handling of the Mark-Maria e-mails offers a rare glimpse of the hollow state of the modern American newsroom.
And yet last week, by his own actions, Sanford ended up in the same sort of tawdry, sleazy, and politically predictable place typically reserved for less sincere, less principled and simply, lesser men.
He was wrong. Clinton was wrong. Every other politician or trusted public figure who has committed adultery is wrong. Just because you identify with one or another doesn’t make it acceptable to try to find an excuse for them.