Andrew Breitbart’s Michael Jackson Twitter-rage

@MadamButterfloozy: The result of a juried trial is (at best) the final word about someone's innocence or guilt as far as the American government is concerned, and thus is only the final world in a very limited, contingent sense. In other words, juries can be--and sometimes are--wrong.

I should mention that I'm one of those weirdos who think it is entirely possible MJ committed no crime--and if that sounds wishy-washy, it's supposed to.

Apparently not enough of you are old enough to remember when Elvis Presley died. And Andrew was apparently too drunk/strung out.

What an asshole.

@lawyergay: if you are indeed a lawyer you couldn't be a very good one because you've just stated as a fact that he was a child molester when there is NO EVIDENCE whatsoever of this. In fact, despite the two cases and many, many people deciding he was guilty even before the trial, including immense pressure put on various officials to secure a conviction, the judge and jury found him innocent on ALL CHARGES.

But of course you know better, right?

@lawyergay: Ever heard of the 'off' button? you really should try it some time :)

@Lulupasternak: did he cover this event?  I got
the impression he was watching because everyone else was.  what did he write
about it in non-Twitter form?  I'm curious.

@lawyergay: MJ's story embodied so many of the things we Americans are touchy or self-deceiving about, and to such an extreme degree, that it'll be prompting OMGWTF reactions of all stripes for decades. There is no moving on.

@Lulupasternak: Well, I was more remarking on the drippy sarcastic tone and the overtly hate-filled speech, and less on what the hate was directed at.

@LucilleMcGillicuddy: Only because you don't get paid to do so. Let's not be self-righteous.

Lulupasternak

@seyswho: No he doesn't. Jackson wasn't a gay man trying to get married--he was a pedophile.

Lulupasternak

@Royalpeach: How'd you reckon? Jealous of a child molester who died of a drug overdose?

Lulupasternak

MJ and Madonna are only the two biggest pop acts on the planet, so when one of them dies, it is natural for it to be a deal. get over it.

Adiphyte

Hey, Breitbart,  I am not crazy about the media hype regarding MJ's funeral today,
either.  But you know what I did about it?  I DIDN'T WATCH IT.  Problem solved.

@Dickdogfood: I hear what you're saying. But you know what? Dude was a child molester who fucked up not a few lives and got away with it.

That he was immensely talented is also not in question.

Let's move on.

lawyergay

@Dickdogfood: (Not sure how that ellipsis appeared but I guess I'll have to live with it.)

@lawyergay: I watch enough TV to say definitively that the country wasn't paying sufficient attention to Iraq/Afghanistan and healthcare policy before MJ died and had there been no memorial, TV news would still have been a mad parade. I'm extremely cynical that network and cable news can offer the kind of facts 'n' analysis required for a functioning democracy: if anything, their coverage of Real Issues is the appalling thing, not this. If we're gonna have spectacle and distraction, better a MJ memorial than a "balanced"-to-the-point-of-meaninglessness... Katie Couric issue spotlight or Lou Dobbs paranoiac drool or whatever. At least the memorial had no pretence of informing and englightening.

I do want to say though that MJ was a pretty fucking serious avatar of American culture--pop or otherwise--and as such wasn't just some pleasant toe-tapping sideshow to Real Issues. Dude deserved respect, insight, analysis, too. (But did we get that since MJ died? By and large, nope: generally the same old cliches about fame, madness, race, sex, etc. that keep people from actually THINKING.)

@AndPreciousLittleofThat: Just ask Kirstie Alley.

It was the same way when Anna Nicole died, and the only entertaining video she ever made was that scary clown video.

He's not very good at live-blogging.

Hey Andrew ... don't quit your day job!

The only thing that was "shocking" about Mike's depressingly predictable early demise was that he was still moonwalking as late as June of 2009. When he showed up at the "point to the part on the doll where he touched you" trial in 2005, detachable nose hanging on for dear life and sporting pajamas at the trial commonly found on 11 year olds, I thought the overdose would be in a matter of days, not years.

@Dickdogfood: I don't know how much TV you watch (in my current underemployed state I watch a good bit), but there was not one single broadcast channel or cable news channel that was not covering this grotesque spectacle LIVE.

I don't like being a scold any more than the next guy, but this is fucking ridiculous. We are quite literally fighting two wars in the Middle East right now. Health care's on track to be a fucking lobbyist-defiled disgrace, and Wall Street is raising salaries.

Honestly, don't we have something better to do than watch Mariah Carey serenade Michael Jackson's hideous golden casket?

lawyergay

Breitbart is correct. But does it matter? Being a success excuses a lot things in this country, for whatever reason.

@Conchie Birdie: I think Gawker has a pretty healthy serious-to-silly, profound-to-mundane ratio. That's one of the reasons I keep coming back!

lawyergay

If we all paid attention to the things in the world that really, really mattered, none of us would even be on the internet--we'd all be hairshirted sherpas building wind power generators with scrap metal.

@lawyergay: So that means less Gawker too, right?

@AndPreciousLittleofThat: Very good point.

P.S. [wordsmoker.com]

lawyergay

Good for you, John Cook!

You know what, this crazy motherfucker Breitbart just may be onto something. As a culture, we have a disturbing appetite for the latest sex scandal or celebrity death or Speidi 9/11 conspiracy theory. There was literally not a single broadcast or cable news channel that wasn't covering this grotesque funeralapalooza this afternoon. Aren't we fighting some wars somewhere or something?

Yes, everyone loves a distraction. But distractions are supposed to be, umm, fleeting, right? We've got some serious, serious shit going down in this country and the world right now. More Congressional hypocrisy on health care and less Michael Jackson...Please!

lawyergay

I think the overkill surrounding Jackson's death and funeral is a bit much also (not to mention it's taking away from many more important issues going on in the world), but this guy needs to shut the hell up. He sounds way too much like those fucks at the Westboro Baptist Church for my liking.

A good illustration of one of the downsides of Twitter:

Delivered one by one, none of those statements is completely out of line. But when you string them together, voila, you've got a rant which makes you look more than a little insane.

AndPreciousLittleofThat

@Dickdogfood: Too late! I already gave him an imaginary gold medal. I have a case of them under the bed.
Here, I'm giving one to you right now. Shiny!

What an angry and jealous man!

I don't know. Talking about how annoying it is, is still annoying.

That said, traffic was generally okay unless you were in the immediate Staples Center so I'm not nearly as annoyed by this as I would have been had it effed up my ability to get from Point A to Point B.

@Dickdogfood: Truth.

@Dickdogfood: I mean, c'mon: a sickening display of LOOKATME LOOKATME LOOKATME is no antidote to another, bigger display of LOOKATME LOOKATME LOOKATME.

Just because he's saying the same damn things countless other self-righteous internet douchebags have been saying for nearly two weeks doesn't mean he deserves an imaginary gold medal.

Always with the Iranian protesters with these conservatives? It's all they think about nowadays. Aren't these the same people that snickered to McCain singing "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" on the campaign trail?