Poll: Did you watch any of the Michael Jackson funeral coverage? / LJWorld.com

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Response		Percent	Votes
No		66%	937
Yes		33%	473
Total	1410

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grammaddy (anonymous) says…

All of it! On CNN and cnn.com/live. Very touching. No matter how you feel about him, he was an extremely gifted performer who was loved and will be missed by many. RIP MJ.
July 7, 2009 at 4:20 p.m.
Kontum1972 (anonymous) says…

bye Thriller....
July 7, 2009 at 4:29 p.m.
Practicality (anonymous) says…

No. I refuse to honor, glorify, or in any way support a Pedophile.
July 7, 2009 at 4:33 p.m.
justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…

I am hoping to catch it in replay this evening though.
July 7, 2009 at 4:41 p.m.
GardenMomma (anonymous) says…

You mean there's more coverage? A week and a half hasn't been enough?

I guess if what's-her-name (and I really can't remember her name, the one who died in the Bahamas with the baby. As soon as I post this it will come to me) got three months of coverage, Michael Jackson will get a year's worth. Just in time for the one year anniversary of Michael Jackson's death.
July 7, 2009 at 4:46 p.m.
mommaeffortx2 (anonymous) says…

practicality, he was found not guilty you know right? Of course so was oj and the cops in the rodney king beating. just saying..
July 7, 2009 at 4:46 p.m.
mommaeffortx2 (anonymous) says…

Nicole Smith gardenMomma
July 7, 2009 at 4:48 p.m.
mommaeffortx2 (anonymous) says…

sorry forgot the Anna it is Anna Nicole Smith.
July 7, 2009 at 4:49 p.m.
mommaeffortx2 (anonymous) says…

yes marion it is.
July 7, 2009 at 4:51 p.m.
GardenMomma (anonymous) says…

That's who. Thanks!
July 7, 2009 at 4:58 p.m.
Informed (anonymous) says…

Was that today? Oops. Guess I didn't know it was being shown on TV, and steaming video, and play by play on pretty much every internet news site, and...
July 7, 2009 at 5:10 p.m.
Practicality (anonymous) says…

mommaeffortx2,

If you want to believe that he isn't, thats your perogative. Although, wasn't there two cases that were settled without a trial by a huge cash payment to the victims? Doesn't sound very innocent to me.
July 7, 2009 at 5:12 p.m.
mommaeffortx2 (anonymous) says…

the word sarcasam comes to mind when I read my post but hey to each his own.
July 7, 2009 at 5:23 p.m.
oldvet (anonymous) says…

just bury the pervert and be done with it...

btw, being found "not guilty" does not mean "innocent"...
July 7, 2009 at 5:27 p.m.
mommaeffortx2 (anonymous) says…

again sarcasm comes to mind.
July 7, 2009 at 5:31 p.m.
Irish (Leslie Swearingen) says…

My daughter and I both watched it and talked on the phone about it while we were. She cried and I cried when the oldest daughter started to cry and Janet put her arms around her.
We must remember that this was a human being with a family that cared about him very much, and now they have lost him. We need to respect their loss and their grief.
This is a terrible thing for his children. I lost my father when I was five and I will never get over that pain.
I hope and pray those children are taken care of and loved.
July 7, 2009 at 5:43 p.m.
jumpin_catfish (anonymous) says…

I was working but would not have watched the freak show anyway. This is turning into one bizarro world folks. What would you hope to see???
July 7, 2009 at 6:20 p.m.
snap_pop_no_crackle (anonymous) says…

Didn't watch any of the MJ show. Did read this:
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/thea...
July 7, 2009 at 6:31 p.m.
denak (anonymous) says…

I haven't watched any of it. I did click on some pictures earlier just to see his kids. Still not convinced they are biologically his.

Dena
July 7, 2009 at 7:39 p.m.
snap_pop_no_crackle (anonymous) says…

denak, those kids were MJ's only in the sense that he bought them.
July 7, 2009 at 7:55 p.m.
kidscount (anonymous) says…

There are some year cold hearted people on here to say the least. You dont have to respect him but his children and family deserve to be respected. Hopefully now, all the rumors about MJ will be buried. His children dont need that to continue. RIP MJ!!!!
July 8, 2009 at 12:10 a.m.
Agnostick (anonymous) says…

snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…

"denak, those kids were MJ's only in the sense that he bought them."
_________________________________________________

Unlike the thousands of other people every year who pay big bucks to adopt children...

Agnostick
agnostick@excite.com
July 8, 2009 at 12:55 a.m.
shadowbox66044 (anonymous) says…

Practicality-
If it was your child, and you felt they were harmed sexually in anyway, would you settle out of court for a lump sum amount? Probably not. But two of those parents did and so it makes me wonder if they were only out for money.

oldvet -
I thought this is the United States of America where you are innocent until proven guilty.

snap_pop_no_crackle -
Boring, it's just another opinion.
July 8, 2009 at 3:29 a.m.
yankeevet (anonymous) says…

news coverage of a pedophile? no but i did read about the soldiers who died in battle for a worthless country......
July 8, 2009 at 5:11 a.m.
grammaddy (anonymous) says…

Hey all you haters!! What have YOU done for the world today. Michael was acquitted of all charges, We all know it was the LAPD that screwed themselves in the O.J. case. And the Rodney King beat-down was just another example of LAPD corruption. Now what was it you said you have done for the world??! Al Sharpton said it all yesterday. Go ahead, hate on him, too.
July 8, 2009 at 6:01 a.m.
ksdivakat (anonymous) says…

I think that it was a beautiful service, and if you are between the ages of 35-55 then you know that he was the greatest entertainer of our time.
In 2003 he was aquitted on not 1 but 14 charges, and the accuser had a history of mental illness and welfare fraud, this doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out that it was all in the hopes of a huge payday, that never came to be.
In 1993, the accuser took a payoff....now if this were my child, and I had accused him of molestation, there would have been no amount of money that could have settled my case. In fact, I would have had the opposite reaction, and wanted his butt in prison, and especially since he was Michael Jackson! So the fact that the mother took a payday, tells me that shes just as guilty for "selling" her son out, as Madonna, Angelina Jolie, and many other celebs who "buy" their children.
I dont know if he did the things he was accused of or not, all I can do is look at the facts and make my own conclusion. What I do know, is that no matter what people say about him, no matter what he did, there are 3 children in this world who today, are without their father, biologically or not, and that is what is sad.
Whatever Michael Jackson did or didnt do in the past, is between him and God now.
July 8, 2009 at 6:36 a.m.
topekan7 (anonymous) says…

Marion,
What is the specific MJ reference in the Dire Straits video?
I watched it. There is a brief head in the microwave that somewhat resembles MJ...beyond that I don't know what you are referring to.
July 8, 2009 at 7:27 a.m.
consumer1 (anonymous) says…

sheeple. just sheeple. How sad that so many people are so mystified by someone's death they never knew.
I suppose this offers some kind of validity to the theory of people living vicariously through others, they wish they were...
Sheeple. led to the slaughter.
July 8, 2009 at 7:50 a.m.
beawolf (anonymous) says…

He was a freak show in life, he's a freak show in death. Can't help but watch some of this stuff. It's on every channel. For those that get off on this stuff, enjoy.
July 8, 2009 at 7:55 a.m.
pace (anonymous) says…

No I didn't watch, but I don't watch a lot of pop tv. I did catch some NY wingnut, using another person's death to get attention by trashing a man who had died. He made some point about respecting the troops and working man heroes. I have no idea why he thought people who cared about MJ or had different opinions than the wing nut had, weren't troops or working man heroes. Why are the wing nuts so creepy? I don't know if MJ was a pedophile , my guess is the wing nut had no personal knowledge just his opionion. My opinion was he wasn't. I My impression of MJ was he was an artist and so sweet and silly, that he was a ripe mark for the vultures. My opiniooon was some wing nut made a point of trashing a dead man before his funeral to cash in on
the attention. Wing nuts always trash people. When there is an effort to prevent people beating or raping women, they come on line with their first reaction, that women can beat men, that men can be victims too. The first reaction is not to deal with the issue, but to use it to bear their low road.
July 8, 2009 at 8:06 a.m.
motomom (anonymous) says…

i have a good friend who actually knew michael jackson and his children. when he was at neverland, my friend was often there babysitting and playing with the kids. i remember asking her one time what sorta dad he was. she said he was really great....she said he was a good listener and good hugger.
she told me he used to always make them cheese sandwiches. if ya love him or hate him, ya gotta admit...the guy was extremely talented and loved by many anyway.
July 8, 2009 at 8:08 a.m.
labmonkey (anonymous) says…

Hell no. I am not about to watch Hollywood cockroaches morn another Hollywood cockroach. And a resolution to honor him in Congress? A man, although acquitted of child molestation (OJ was acquitted of murder too), did admit that he slept in the same bed as children. That is still creepy and wrong and should not be honored.

And what is up with Anderson Cooper with no follow-up questions calling the nutbag Al Sharpton out on what he said? I have seen nothing but good coverage on MJ and everyone jokes about fat-bloated Elvis dieing on the pot. Apparently it's only okay to go after a dingbat on the right (Sarah Palin and deservingly so), but God forbid he go after a liberal black man when he goes into a stupid rant.
July 8, 2009 at 9:01 a.m.
mdfraz (anonymous) says…

divakat, do you understand the difference between a civil and a criminal case? If your child was molested, you say you wouldn't "sell out", but that's the civil side of things. If the alleged molester has already been acquitted in a criminal case (like MJ was), it doesn't matter how adamant you are as a parent; nothing you can do in a civil suit will send him to jail. The only thing you can get at that point is money damages. See the OJ case. Acquitted of criminal charges, but paid out the a** in civil case. I have no idea if the plaintiffs had a history of mentall illness or were just trying a quick score, but the fact remains MJ paid them as a result of their allegations. Maybe he figured it was better than trying to win in a trial, or maybe he actually did something wrong. I don't know.

Innocent until proven guilty protects a defendant's rights before a trial. However, as noted by another poster, acquitted of criminal charges in a trial does not necessarily mean he's innocent. It means the case couldn't be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. I don't know if he molested kids; I have my suspicions, but I wasn't there and I don't have proof. Regardless, even if he was a very talented entertainer, which he was, can we just let it go now? He died. It's sad, but let's move on. How many other normal, average mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, etc. die every day that no one pays attention to? How many soldiers die to protect your freedom to obsess over celebrities that may or may not get a short blurb on the news or in the paper?

The celebrity worship is a symptom of a society that would rather watch other people live their lives than take care of problems in their own or their neighborhood. Celebrities are human beings, no more, no less. Spend a few hours you would normally spend watching the MJ coverage or reading the tabloids talking to your kids, or volunteering, or coaching little league or something. You will be a better, and probably a happier, person for it.
July 8, 2009 at 9:05 a.m.
OldEnuf2BYurDad (anonymous) says…

I quite paying attention to MJ when he started grabbing his junk in his music videos.

As far as I'm concerned, he's one of many who died that day and he doesn't warrant a "state funeral" just because he was very good at what he did. Has a school teacher ever been honored so? Most Vice Presidents of the U.S. will die and be buried with less fanfare.
July 8, 2009 at 9:08 a.m.
Irish (Leslie Swearingen) says…

Those children loved their father very much and I hope they are being shielded from these kinds of remarks. He was not a freak he was a human being.
I would take to my kids about why some people are reacting so harshly to his death. About how some judge others without knowing all the facts. About how I would want them to have compassion and understanding.
We would be a better, happier family for it.
July 8, 2009 at 9:14 a.m.
mdfraz (anonymous) says…

Irish, if you are responding to me, wow. I believe I posted that I don't have all the facts, I simply have my suspicions. I did not say he was actually guilty; I said he was acquitted (factually true), but I also noted that acquitted does not necessarily equal innocent. I guess if that constitutes "judging" in your world, then yes, I judged MJ.

I never expressed glee at his family's suffering. I never said his kids didn't love him, or vice versa. My point is simply, how many fathers died the same did MJ did? Are their kids suffering any less, just because their dad wasn't a superstar? You talk about compassion, but you seem to focus it all on one person. Why? How is that compassion? Have you ever watched a funeral for a soldier that was killed defending our country? Thanked a soldier when he/she returned from the Middle East, perhaps missing an arm or leg? How about compassion for those people? They earned it a lot more than a guy that could sing and dance. That's not a dig on MJ, but in my book someone who puts their life on the line, be it soliders, cops, or even firemen and first responders, deserves a lot more respect and adoration than an entertainer. But I guess that's passing judgment too, right?
July 8, 2009 at 9:32 a.m.
ksdivakat (anonymous) says…

mdfraz....I was referring to 2 different cases. I apologize if I miscomminucated that.
In 1993, The accuser dropped the charges, because they recvd a payday, NOT a civil judgement.
In 2003, he was aquitted on 14 charges of child molestation, mostly in part, because there was a history from the accusers mom of welfare fraud, and the boys father testified that the boy suffered from mental illness as well as his ex-wife.
If there was going to be a conviction, it would have been there, as there were 156 witnesses who testified including, a youth minister.
So its 2 seperate trials I am speaking of, and neither time was he ever convicted and neither time was there a civil suit. Sorry for running it all together there and causing the confusion...
July 8, 2009 at 9:58 a.m.
mdfraz (anonymous) says…

Fair enough diva. I was confused by the original post, but it all makes sense now.
July 8, 2009 at 10:11 a.m.
KansasVoter (anonymous) says…

I didn't see any of it live, but I did watch clips of it and some of the replay after I got home from work.
July 8, 2009 at 10:58 a.m.
Godsgift40 (anonymous) says…

MJ will be missed. It is a sad thought to think of where he will spend eternity., since he was not a child of God. I pray for the family & the children he left behind!
July 8, 2009 at 11:03 a.m.
Irish (Leslie Swearingen) says…

We are not born with a finite amount of compassion. I can feel it for MJ's children and still have enough left for others that are suffering.
July 8, 2009 at 11:06 a.m.
kittycatty26 (anonymous) says…

Leave the man alone. He is dead. He has a family who loved him very much. He has children who have lost the only parent they ever knew. It's not Michael Jackson's fault that the MEDIA has covered his death obsessively....he has nothing to do with it. He was a great entertainer and that's all that matters. It's comments from all of you that will hurt his children and family in the end. Like Al Sharpton said, "It's not your daddy who was strange, it's all the things he had to put up with that was strange." He was a human. Stop ridiculing him!
July 8, 2009 at 11:20 a.m.
Agnostick (anonymous) says…

I didn't sleep very well last night, kinda low on energy... I'm thinking maybe a good, strong dose of laughter will get my motor runnin'.

So... it is in that spirit that I ask you, "Godsgift40"... exactly what you mean that Jackson was not "a child of God"...?

Agnostick
agnostick@excite.com
July 8, 2009 at 11:20 a.m.
labmonkey (anonymous) says…

Kitty-

The man admitted to sleeping in the same bed as children. Creepy and wrong. Named his boys Prince Michael. Creepy and wrong. He made his children go out with veils on. Creepy and wrong. The man was wierd and Sharpton should keep his fat annoying a$$ out of it. Just because something is in the news about a black man does not mean he needs to chime in. MJ has been treated with kid gloves by the media since his death, and frankly this coverage needs to go away. There are real news stories out there like the Democrats trying to destroy our future with cap and trade, North Korea trying to become even more of a characture of the portrayal in Team America, protests in China and Iran, and Obama meeting with the president of Russia.

And Godsgift....who is not a child of God? I believe the bible says we all are God's children and we are created in his image.
July 8, 2009 at 11:52 a.m.
gl0ck0wn3r (anonymous) says…

Schmonnnn.
July 8, 2009 at 12:27 p.m.
hipper_than_hip (anonymous) says…

Q: What's the difference between Michael Jackson and a grocery sack?

A: One is white, made of plastic, and dangerous for kids to play with, and the other is used to carry food home from the supermarket.
July 8, 2009 at 12:34 p.m.
HootyWho (anonymous) says…

I didn't want to see Reagan buried either, if he was really concerned for the United States,and its people, being a former president i hope he was, he would have known it was a big waste of money,
MJ's family should know that also,
Sorry he's dead, nobody that young should be dead,
Thats really the only shame here, somebody that young dead, maybe by his own hand
July 8, 2009 at 12:46 p.m.
kitnkat (anonymous) says…

Labmonkey,
Yeah and it was perfectly normal for Nicholas Cage to name his kid Kal-el. (As in Sumperman's Kypton name), or Jason Lee (of My name is Earl fame) to name his kid Pilot Inspektor, or Gwyneth Paltrow to name her kid Apple. (I could go on and on). As for making the kids go out in veils, honestly, that was just a security move. You can't kidnap a celeb kid if you don't know what they look like. (Poor Suri Cruise). As for sleeping with the kids, I saw that interview. He said he slept in the same room, on the floor. Now I'm not saying that he didn't get weird but come on, show a little respect for the dead. No matter who (or what) they were.
July 8, 2009 at 2:07 p.m.
persevering_gal (anonymous) says…

I watched just about all of it. It's sad to see that some look at a person's life and condemn them for something that was not proven. Only he and God know the truth of what truly happened. This man may have been very "odd" in our eyes, but he did so much for charity and always put others before himself. He changed the way music was performed. From what I've learned through watching his memorial service, he seems like he was a very humble man.

"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone" - John 8:7
July 8, 2009 at 3:53 p.m.
grammaddy (anonymous) says…

Al Sharpton said it right"There was nothing strange about Michael. Strange were the things he had to deal with."
Thank you persevering_gal. He opened the doors for many. His good works will surely outweigh the "bad" and unproven. What have any of you haters done for the world today?
July 8, 2009 at 4:18 p.m.
Irish (Leslie Swearingen) says…

hipper_than_hip That was not funny, and it was a cruel, vicious, thoughtless thing to say. God is much more apt to punish someone like you than someone like Michael Jackson. I pray that his children don't learn these things about their father. It would shatter them.
Celebs are humans and their families love each other as do we. Take that into account when you are speaking or writing about them.
July 8, 2009 at 4:35 p.m.
Yeoman2 (anonymous) says…

I am just sick and tired of hearing about it. I am not a fan, I do not have or ever will have any of his "music", and I am just completely sick of hearing about it repeatedly on every news media outlet constantly and unending. Enough already!
July 8, 2009 at 4:42 p.m.
Irish (Leslie Swearingen) says…

It most assuredly was not on every television channel, there were quite a few showing other programs. It wasn't on the SyFy, or Chiller, or FX, Spike, etc.
The reality is that a great many people did love his music and his dancing.
I want him back.
July 8, 2009 at 6:16 p.m.
chuggy23 (anonymous) says…

i watched some of his videos on youtube. famous people always get hated on. you are always going to be a target if you are rich and famous. his music will be missed.
July 8, 2009 at 6:16 p.m.
snap_pop_no_crackle (anonymous) says…

One lesson from Jackson's life is that if you have enough money, you can find plastic surgeons who will horribly disfigure you.
July 8, 2009 at 6:20 p.m.
phenommenom (anonymous) says…

OMG Yes I did! I caught the ending live! It was touching to see him honored as a father. Rev Sharp. and his daughter brought that out. I seen the other peoples bits on numerous playbacks. I loved the music and respect the man. Reguarding the accusations against Michael, I don't believe that he did anything. I think that the families were trying to get money. After the first accusations what kind of sane parent would let their son stay with him alone or if they were there why let your child sleep in the same room! But to answer the question again YES too much of it!
July 8, 2009 at 6:50 p.m.
Freestater456 (anonymous) says…

I love the fact that LA spent 1.4 million dollars on the unnecessarily extravagent funeral and they've gotten 17,000 dollars in donations to cover that cost. Maybe this wasn't such a bright idea!
July 8, 2009 at 7:15 p.m.
labmonkey (anonymous) says…

Benny, I did not say one thing bad about Obama meeting with him. I was naming off news stories that are REAL news stories instead of this constant Michael Jackson coverage. Go ahead, read my post again, did I say anything bad about Obama meeting with the Russian President? You are trying to add words to my post (the only thing I critized in the real news stories was Cap and Trade).

As for Sharpton...most in the black community realize that when he takes up a cause, most people go the other way. If you think he and Wright speak the truth, then you live in a delusional world.
July 8, 2009 at 7:48 p.m.
labmonkey (anonymous) says…

Kit-

Hollywood cockroaches name their kids stupid things and probably shouldn't be parents.
July 8, 2009 at 7:50 p.m.
pace (anonymous) says…

My aunt went through Hollywood once in 1944, she named her kids, George, Wesley, and get this, Homer, WEIRDo, I always thought who would call their kid, George. She should of been forced to have her tubes tied. She was just too different , Calling her kids such crazy name and even going to that crazy state. Everyone who names kids funny names should be spoken of as if they , well , as if they came from the C state. I hate people who call their kids George, It is evil. wrong but mostly just not William enough for decent folk.
July 8, 2009 at 8:04 p.m.
3up3down (anonymous) says…

Who had time? Some of us have to work for a living. Besides, the expense that LA had to put out for a very broke city and state is unreasonable. Private service should have been the norm. On another note, "Innocent until proven guilty." Good grief. Money can buy your way out of just about anything. Just ask O.J.
July 8, 2009 at 9:34 p.m.
snap_pop_no_crackle (anonymous) says…

Imagine the carbon footprint of that shin-dig. I shudder to think.....
July 9, 2009 at 8:29 a.m.