The king is dead?

[derspiess]

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.

Interesting.  You never talked about your white relatives before.

[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.

Interesting.  You never talked about your white relatives before.

My white stepbrother is a neo nazi.

[CountDeMoney]

Apparently, the coroner's report is in.

He died of choking, on a pair of 12 year old nuts.

[Caliga]

 

[C.C.R.]

Apparently, the coroner's report is in.

He died of choking, on a pair of 12 year old nuts.

I heard it was food poisoning -- eating a ten year old weiner.

In any event he is to be cremated & his ashes spread in a sandbox, just so he can get in one more little boy's shorts...

[DontSayBanana]

I heard it was food poisoning -- eating a ten year old weiner.

In any event he is to be cremated & his ashes spread in a sandbox, just so he can get in one more little boy's shorts...

The one running around here is that there's so much plastic in his body, they're going to melt him down for LEGOs, so that little boys can play with him for a change.

[Monoriu]

Michael Jackson died because of heart failure.
The heart failure was caused by taking drugs to better prepare himself for the upcoming concert.
He needed to do the concert because of financial troubles.
He got into financial trouble because of his excessive spending.

Therefore, he was killed because he spent too much.

[Neil]

Michael Jackson died because of heart failure.
The heart failure was caused by taking drugs to better prepare himself for the upcoming concert.
He needed to do the concert because of financial troubles.
He got into financial trouble because of his excessive spending.

Therefore, he was killed because he spent too much.

You're not going deep enough.  Why did he spend too much?

[Tonitrus]

Aaaaand, Jesse Jackson is already on the case (meaning he probably wants to get his cut).

Pop star's family wants answers, Jesse Jackson says


LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's family suspects that the singer's personal doctor, Conrad Murray, knows more about Jackson's death, but they have been unable to contact him, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told CNN on Saturday.


The parents need to know what happened in the last hours of Michael Jackson's life, Jesse Jackson said. Murray is believed to be the last person to see Michael Jackson alive.

"The routine inquiry is now an investigation," Jesse Jackson said. "They [the Jacksons] didn't know the doctor. ... He should have met with the family, given them comfort on the last hours of their son."

Police, who met briefly with Murray after the singer's death, have been able to reach him and are trying to set up an interview, Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Charlie Beck told the Los Angeles Times on Friday. Police said the doctor has been fully cooperative.

Detectives impounded Murray's car, which was parked at the singer's rented home, because it may contain evidence related to Michael Jackson's death.

Police have released no information on what they may have found.

Michael Jackson died Thursday, and an autopsy was performed the following day. The body was taken to an undisclosed mortuary Friday night.

A spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner's office told reporters Friday that more tests must be conducted before a cause of death can be determined. That could take four to six weeks. Video Watch the coroner's spokesman discuss the autopsy »

Jesse Jackson visited the family compound in Encino, California, on Friday.

"I talked with Mrs. Jackson and with the father, Joe, and she could not fight back the tears. She said, 'My baby is gone. Michael was such a good son. I loved him so much. I miss my baby.'" Video Watch Jesse Jackson detail the family's concerns »

The family wants to hear Murray's account of what happened, but they can't locate him, Jesse Jackson said.

"The doctor's bizarre behavior here is creating all these suspicions," he said. There are lingering questions, such as: 'How long had he stopped breathing? How long had he been unconscious?'"

He said the family may decide to pursue its own inquiry.

"At this point it [the investigation] is very incomplete," he said. "... They need an independent autopsy to get even more answers to questions that are now being driven by the gap between when Michael was last seen alive and [when] he was pronounced dead day before yesterday."

The possibility that Michael Jackson was taking medication that could have contributed to his death at age 50 weighs heavily on people close to the star.

In 2005, after he was cleared on charges of child molestation, Jackson spent a week at a center run by Dr. Deepak Chopra, a physician who focuses on spirituality and the mind-body connection.

During that week, the pop star asked Chopra for a prescription for a narcotic, the doctor told CNN.

"I said, 'What the heck do you want a narcotic prescription for?'" Chopra said. "And it suddenly dawned on me that he was probably taking these and that he had probably a number of doctors who were giving him these prescriptions, so I confronted him with that. At first, he denied it. Then, he said he was in a lot of pain."

Chopra said he told Jackson that there were plenty of other ways to handle his pain, but that Jackson was not convinced.

He blamed Jackson's death on drug abuse, though he offered no direct evidence.

"When you have enough drugs in your system, your heart goes into an arrhythmia and your respiration stops," he said. "I think the drugs killed him."

Brian Oxman, a former lawyer for the Jackson family who was in the emergency room Thursday, also expressed concern about medications the pop star was taking.

"I talked to this family about it, I warned them -- I said that Michael is overmedicating and that I did not want to see this kind of a case develop," Oxman told CNN's "American Morning" on Friday.

He referred to Anna Nicole Smith, the former model and reality television star who died of an overdose in 2007.

"I said, 'If that's what's going to happen to Michael, it's all going to break our hearts.' And my worst fears are here," he said.

Oxman emphasized that he did not know what killed Jackson, and was not making accusations against anyone. Video Watch high-profile guests discuss Jackson »

Jackson was in cardiac arrest when paramedics took him Thursday from his home to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where the music idol was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. (5:26 p.m. ET).

In a 911 call released Friday, an unidentified caller told a dispatcher to send help. He told the dispatcher that Jackson was not breathing and Jackson's doctor was performing CPR on a bed. Video Listen to the 911 call »
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Jackson had been preparing for a comeback tour -- aimed at extending his legendary career and helping him to pay off hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.

Jackson is survived by his three children, Prince Michael I, Paris and Prince Michael II.

[Neil]

What a ghoul of a man Jesse Jackson is.  Not content to rape Martin Luther King's corpse, he's always on the prowl for new victims.

[Caliga]

His death was racidistic. 

[grumbler]

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

You never knew about it because it wasn't true.  Check out the top-playing MTV songs from 1981 and 1982 (Jackson debuted there in 1983).  See names like Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Afrika Bambaataa, Prince, Shannon, Tina Turner, Jimi Hendrix, Donna Summers - all of them "black" performers.

It is true that Jackson caused MTV to exppand heavilt inR&B with the success of "Billy Jean," but that wasn't because he was "black," it was because the song was so phenominally popular amongst MTV viewers.

[Jaron]

Why don't you make me a list of white performers MTV played and let us compare the two. If there were 7-8 black performers being played and dozens of white, then I would say a color barrier existed.

[derspiess]

So J.J. Jackson wasn't an uncle tom then, not that anyone here younger than me will know who that was

[grumbler]

Why don't you make me a list of white performers MTV played and let us compare the two. If there were 7-8 black performers being played and dozens of white, then I would say a color barrier existed.

You would say... poorly.

You want a list, make one!