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And telling the Jackson children "wasn't nothing strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with," well, that's simply not true. You can think Jackson was treated badly -- and I do -- without thinking he did nothing to incite doubt and derision. The three Jackson children are going to have to deal with a lot of their poor late father's strangeness over the course of their life. But then again, nobody tells the whole truth at a funeral.
It was a memorial you , what did you expect? Did you think Rev Al was gonna get up and say, "hey kids, your dad was a weirdo, deal with it". No, obviously you didn't think that because as you said: "But then again, nobody tells the whole truth at a funeral". So you're not stupid enough to realize that people don't diss the dead at memorial services (it wasn't a funeral) they celebrate the dead. So why would you even comment on Sharpton's hyperbole in the first place if you already knew the reason?
What does it take to want to literally be sedated, put under, anesthetized to escape life? I realize as I write that that was a forlorn expectation; Jackson got to the point he did because nobody around wanted to be honest about his life; why would they be honest in death? May Jackson find the peace he never found in life. And may we now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
Newsflash Joan, this was a 50 year old man who was preparing for a gruling set of performances in Europe. This wasn't about "escaping life" this was about stoping pain so he could continue to perform, please take your ameture psycho babble and shove it.
