This is one of many cringe-inducing "I can tell right away this is a white person speaking" moments produced by the online reaction to MJs death and memorial.

But more than that its just generally depressing in its snark and lack of empathy.

A freak show isn't any fun without the freaks. I mentioned in another thread, Jackson was a bad '80's act who surrvived because his nose fell off at regular intervals. It was the endless, ever more grotesque plastic surgeries, the child molestation charges, the burka, the out of control spending, the weird friendships with La Liz and Liza that kept people's attention. Creatively and musically he hadn't been relevant in many years. He held the fascination of a car crash.

The day he died Keith Olbermann was talking to a reporter on the scene at the scene at the medical center. He kept referring to the "crowds" Clearly, there were only a handfull of people. Olbermann finally asked, rather wryly, "Are the crowds in transit?" The media may have over estimated this time. Once everyone got to see Jackson loaded into the van the show was pretty much over. No one cares about his avaricious family and some has-beens trying to push their way back infront of the public. He's dead. His nose isn't going to fall off anymore, he won't look any creepier, no more scandals...Sarah Palin has stepped in as the freak of the moment. Most people I hear mentioning it are just annoyed by the coverage.

Deeply has been trying to watch the news, but the freak is everywhere.

On the news

And in the air

On my TV

Everywhere.

There is no news this evening except for Michael Jackson's death. And this 'entertainer' expired from a drug overdose, or so it sounds (how dumb) over a week ago.

His face was a nightmare and the coverage, unyielding and constant, has been a nightmare too. Get a grip, America, this was not some great musician, at best he sang adequately, and danced superbly. He was an event, the freakish national embarrassment of a face ravaged by self induced plastic surgery.

Before Deeply turned the clicker one last time, and decided to listen to some Mozart, a real prodigy, he caught congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee praising this all to white black man as a 'face for America'. OK, sure, if you like the face of the phantom of the opera.

Nothing, since the election has trouble Deeply's spirit more than the bizarre event made of this troubled, child-man's death. Nothing has made him think even less of the intelligence of man. With crowds and coverage like we have seen for a creature such as Michael Jackson...how can one even imagine a wiser future for mankind?

Slurp at the cup of celebrity, idiots, while the Jackson Family cries tears real and crocodile and sets themselves up to make hundreds of millions. And the parade of celebrity suck ups and hangers on all reaching for a taste, a piece, of this dead man... Such a travesty.

Please Congress No Awards, No accolades, Enough.. Enough.. Enough!

How fortunate for Obama that he is in Russia! He would have been urged to speak, and if he had, all of his gravitas would have been dumped into history's dustbin prematurely. He should count his lucky stars he had scheduled his overseas trip.

PS-If you want a black musician for the face of America, how about Wynton Marsallis, way more talented and far better adjusted.

This sad, middle-aged entertainer was a huge talent who squandered it through self-indulgence. He should RIP once and for all. That won't happen, of course; soon, we shall see the emergence of the conspiracy theories that accompany the untimely death of the famed in our society. He's not really dead, etc....

I know, I am an American. While their imperial government squanders lives and treasure in foreign lands and in rescues for Bank of America and AIG et al., we fools devote time and energy, with media help, to a celebrity, a good person or bad - I don't know or care.

If we had any sense, we would spend our time developing new political parties to replace the Dems and Repubs that are betraying us every day.

Michael Jackson's memorial service was a beautifully done celebration of all that was good in his life. It was a somber moment for his family and all who loved him, not "weird" at all. It was everything a memorial service should be - a reverent, respectful review of the joy and good things the deceased brought to those around him. It was a moment for his family and fans to gather to celebrate him and to grieve their personal loss.

How sad that even at this moment of his life, the press has to continue to attach as many critical disrespectful adjectives as possible to him and to what should have been at least one sacred moment in his life. Truly tragic. I will never understand why common decency cannot be applied here at this moment. Please please leave this man alone.

I might even be there, old and wrinkly and wearing a yellow jumpsuit and big sunglasses in honor of the guy who shaped much of my musical sensibility.

And hey, how come Joey Ramone's funeral didn't get all this press? He was at least as influential as Michael Jackson, but without the baggage.

(Note to Jay Smooth: nice racist letter you got there).

I saw MJ as a beautiful soul too sensitive for this world. From my experience, those individuals...usually artists...end up committing suicide or with some form of addiction to something that lessens the intensity of reality.

He never had a chance.

Being a little guy thrust into the limelight which turned out to be for the duration of his life, gay and vulnerable, he turned all his innocent attention on the plight and joy of children. In an age of acute awareness of pedophilia, he was seen as weird and not just a little twisted.

But there is no denying that others wanted what he had. They came in and took from a generous, naive soul and abandoned him. The press was relentless. I hate when I see a picture of myself unaware...can you fathom seeing your face, your actions, your words splashed all over the internet and media sources all over the world? Twisted and skewed for dramatic effect with no recourse?

Shudder.

I cannot imagine what life must have been like for him.

But he is gone now. The guy that holds the record for most charities supported is gone. And the haters and the basher are still there taking swings at his coffin, his image, his mourners.

How sad.

How sad that we once again must attempt to discount others feelings by saying "well who's mourning those killed in Afghanistan?"

How pathetic. As if the human soul has capacity for only so much love. Only so much sorrow.

Sure a lot of us didn't think about MJ for the last several years. But that doesn't take away from his influence. Give the guy his due. He was loved by millions of people around the world. His music spanned over forty years. He fused pop, rock, R&B and gospel in a way that had never been done. And those dance moves. Amazing.

What is it about an outpouring of love that causes others to balk? To castigate and belittle? Why not allow others to mourn? To be sad at the passing of another human being that mattered to them? I see nothing wrong with a genuine outpouring of grief and love for someone that influenced so many.

Give the people that need to grieve the latitude to grieve as they see fit. And allow the guy to finally rest in peace.