The king is dead?

[derspiess]

Only?
http://news.google.com/news?q=mtv%20color%20barrier&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS232&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn

The way the MSNBC dude described it, yes.  He made it sound like there was an insidious plot by MTV to exclude blacks by limiting the programming to rock music videos.

[Jaron]

Of course not. The world has been perfect and racism free always, right spiess? And when people call out white people on racism, they are clearly overreacting and making up stories, because that sort of thing never happens EVER.

[derspiess]

Of course not. The world has been perfect and racism free always, right spiess? And when people call out white people on racism, they are clearly overreacting and making up stories, because that sort of thing never happens EVER.

Go make me a burrito, Paco.

[Jaron]

[jimmy olsen]

Only?
http://news.google.com/news?q=mtv%20color%20barrier&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS232&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn

The way the MSNBC dude described it, yes.  He made it sound like there was an insidious plot by MTV to exclude blacks by limiting the programming to rock music videos.

Most of the articles I've read seem to be implying that.

[Neil]

Making fun of that show is always good.

I hate all CSNCIS2x12WTFBBQ [insert U.S. city] shows.

See, but that one's the best to make fun of, because David Caruso is super overdramatic.

He went to the same acting school as Glenn Close, Sean Penn, and Al Pacino.

None of them are quite as smarmy.

[Martinus]

Of course not. The world has been perfect and racism free always, right spiess? And when people call out white people on racism, they are clearly overreacting and making up stories, because that sort of thing never happens EVER.

Go make me a burrito, Paco.

You aren't exactly proving you are not a racist here. 

[jimmy olsen]

I've been listening to all of Jackson's music, and the stuff from his heyday is still just amazing to listen to and watch.

However, in a way I think that it's his stuff that he made when a kid that is most interesting for me. First of all, I'd only heard it before, I'd never seen the performances before. Secondly it's interesting seeing such a young person perform at such a high level, especially when you know that his life outside the studio sucked ass what with the abusive father. And it gets you wondering just how this kid on the screen turned into the loon of his later years. What was going through his head?

[CountDeMoney]

What was going through his head?

Not enough bullets.

[Habsburg]

Making fun of that show is always good.

I hate all CSNCIS2x12WTFBBQ [insert U.S. city] shows.

See, but that one's the best to make fun of, because David Caruso is super overdramatic.

He went to the same acting school as Glenn Close, Sean Penn, and Al Pacino.

None of them are quite as smarmy.

The Trotsky Penn?  Quite Smarmy, the other two correct, not so much.

[jimmy olsen]

http://www.blender.com/lists/68125/500-greatest-songs-since-you-were-born-451-500.html?p=13

It was Jackson's dancing, as much as his singing, that propelled the "Billie Jean" phenomenon. On May 16, 1983, more than 50 million viewers watched Jackson debut his famous moonwalk in a mesmerizing performance on the Motown 25 television special. Then there was the "Billie Jean" video, in which Jackson slinks and whirls through a fantasy cityscape, with a sidewalk that lights up like a disco floor underfoot. MTV rarely aired videos by black performers, and when they refused to show "Billie Jean," CBS Records president Walter Yetnikoff went ballistic. "I said to MTV, 'I'm pulling everything we have off the air, all our product. I'm not going to give you any more videos. And I'm going to go public and fucking tell them about the fact you don't want to play music by a black guy.'" "Billie Jean" was promptly put in heavy rotation, and neither Jackson nor MTV ever looked back.

[Jaron]

Good for them. I never knew that about MTV. If they had anything worth watching nowadays, I'd boycott them.

[derspiess]

You aren't exactly proving you are not a racist here. 

Did I rattle your cage, Polack?  Get back to your kielbasa.

[jimmy olsen]

You aren't exactly proving you are not a racist here. 

kielbasa.

[Jaron]

It is amusing how white trash presume superiority based solely upon the color of their skin and the nice, snug fit of that swastika armband.