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Joe Jackson was a terrible father. You know it, I know it, Michael Jackson said it all the time. Only, now he's got some new defenders: All of his other kids. Yep, they're coming together to protect their father's good name... Of course, the fact they have a TV show about them being one big united family doesn't have anything to do with it. Nothing at all.
Michael Jackson has previously made many claims about his father, Joe Jackson. But what do the other Jackson men have to say about their dad? Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson found out.
"Do you think the negative things that have been written about your dad have been untrue?" Shaun asked Jermaine, Tito, Jackie and Marlon Jackson, who are promoting their new A&E show, "The Jackson: A Family Dynasty."
"Untrue," Jermaine told Shaun. "He's probably, second to Michael, [one] of the most misunderstood people. And my father is the reason we're sitting her right now. And because of all the discipline - like we didn't understand it [then]... but now we do, very clearly."
The Jackson brothers showed a united front when Shaun sat down to talk about patriarch Joe and his often-criticized discipline of the famous Jackson children in Gary, Indiana.
"Michael talked about how abusive he thought the treatment from your dad was, when he was little," Shaun said.
"But see, him being one of the youngest at the time, he didn't understand," Jermaine said. "My father is no different from any other father that just wanted things a certain way and it was not abuse."
"He knew what he wanted," Tito chimed in. "It wasn't bad what he wanted."
"I look at it this way: You've got six boys in Gary, Indiana, and so I can say that he got those six boys out of Gary, Indiana, and the rest of the family out of Gary and now our name is internationally known throughout the world," Marlon added. (Access Hollywood)
I see, so in this case, the ends justify the means. We're going to ignore the fact that he beat the hell out of you because now you're famous. This is a nice way of thinking. Next time I get arrested for snorting coke and smacking around a hooker, I'll just look at the cop and go, "No officer, it's OK. I'm doing this to bring joy to other people." Can't see anything wrong with that logic.
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Newsflash: Michael Jackson fans are insane. Ok, that's not so much a newsflash as it is news...Ok, not news, but still interesting...Ok, not interesting, but still a little quirky...Ok, not at all quirky, but something appropriate to say during awkward pauses while in an elevator with an acquaintance - and boy, is it ever.
The studded white glove, made famous when Michael Jackson debuted the moonwalk in 1983, was auctioned off for $350,000, according to The Associated Press.
Hoffman Ma of Hong Kong placed the winning bid Saturday on behalf of Ponte 16 Resort Hotel in Macau. With taxes and fees, the resort will pay a total of $420,000 for its piece of Jackson memorabilia.
"It was a fairly good discount," Ma said.
The auction— held in New York by Julien's Auctions — was mostly dominated by Jackson, with more than 80 items on the auction block. The sale, titled "Music Icons," also had items from Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Mariah Carey.
Other items from Jackson, who died at 50 on June 25, included a jacket worn during his 1989 "Bad" tour (sold for $225,000), handwritten lyrics of "Beat It" (sold for $60,000) and a fedora worn for the moonwalk (sold for $22,000). (TV Guide)
Over $400,000 for a glove! Are you serious! The only way I'd spend that money on Michael Jackson's glove is if he personally fondled the Home Alone kid with it while singing a medley of Peter Pan tunes in order to truly own the most disturbing piece of pop-culture in history... What's that? Oh, he did exactly that? Never mind, carry on then.
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Woah, this is kind of nuts. Apparently when Michael Jackson died, he was actually healthy for his age. Hmmmm, I guess he was just messed up mentally, not physically.
Michael Jackson's outward appearance was marred when he died with puncture marks to his arms, surgical scars around his body and cosmetic tattoos on his lips and scalp.
But internally, the pop star was in mostly fine physical shape for a 50-year-old man, according to his autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press.
The Los Angeles County coroner's report shows Jackson's weight of 136 pounds was in the acceptable range for a 5-foot-9 man. His heart was strong with no sign of plaque buildup. His kidneys and most other major organs were normal.
The singer did have health issues, however, including arthritis in the lower spine and some fingers, and mild plaque buildup in his leg arteries. Most serious was the condition of his lungs, which the autopsy report said were chronically inflamed and had reduced capacity that might have left him short of breath.
But the lung condition was not serious enough to be a direct or contributing cause of death, according to the document.
"His overall health was fine," said Dr. Zeev Kain, chairman of the anesthesiology department at the University of California, Irvine, who reviewed a copy of the autopsy report for the AP. "The results are within normal limits."
The coroner's office announced last month that Jackson's death was a homicide caused by "acute propofol intoxication," with the other sedatives listed as a contributing factor. They said the standard of care for administering propofol was not met and the recommended equipment for patient monitoring, precision dosing and resuscitation was missing.(AP)
The findings also revealed that, "Jackson had several tattoos, all of them cosmetic, including dark tattoos in the areas of both eyebrows and under his eyes, and a pink tattoo around his lips." Can you imagine being the tattoo artist who had to try to make Michael Jackson look normal? Swing and a miss on that one buddy.
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Here's your daily dose of creepy. Last week a viral video popped up that people went nuts over. It showed Michael Jackson getting out of the coroner's van he was in after being declared dead. The video has now been officially deemed as a hoax. It was created as a social experiment to see what people would believe. Because nothing says, "Let's insult the tragic death of a national treasure by playing on people's hopes and fears," better than a Youtube experiment.
Oh, the people who created it were German? Well, that explains everything. F&*k the Germans.
The video was posted by RTL on YouTube for a single day a week ago and received 880,000 hits. The broadcaster has since removed the video from YouTube, but it has been picked up by other Web sites around the world.
"We wanted to show how easily users can be manipulated on the Internet with hoax videos," spokesman Heike Schultz of Cologne-based RTL told The Associated Press. "Therefore, we created this video of Michael Jackson being alive, even though everybody knows by now that he is dead and the response was breathtaking."
Jackson died June 25 in Los Angeles.
The video, posted under an "anonymous source", shows a coroner's van entering what seems like a parking garage and the King of Pop getting out of the back with another person. The lighting is bad, the sound muffled and the footage appears amateurish.
"Unfortunately, many people believed it was true," Schultz said. "Even though we tried to create the video in a way that every normal user can see right away that it is a fake."
The RTL spokesman said some Jackson fans were upset by the German broadcaster's actions.
"We didn't want to dishonor Michael Jackson, but we needed a strong name to get this experiment going," Schultz said. "Had we used Britney Spears, then the fans of Britney would have complained."
I don't know, killing Britney now might be the only way to get her dignity back. I mean, look at Marlyn Monroe. A little know fact is that, right before she died, Marlyn started to only wear ballerina outfits, died her hair bright green and demanded everyone call her General Electric. Now, after dying young, she's a legend. Just something to think about Britney, just something to think about.
ps. Did you believe that crap about Marlyn Monroe? Holy hell, people on the Internet will believe anything! Seriously though, it's true...Wait, hold on, ok I changed her Wikipedia page. Now it's true.
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Michal Jackson was murdered! Are you as shocked as I am?! ... Really, so you're not surprised at all since everyone's been saying it since the moment he died. Oh, good then, want to go get a burger?
Pop star Michael Jackson died from a lethal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol given in a cocktail of drugs, leading authorities to suspect his doctor of manslaughter, court documents showed on Monday.
The "Thriller" singer suffered cardiac arrest and died on June 25 at age 50. Since then, an investigation by state and federal agencies have focused on Conrad Murray, Jackson's personal doctor who was at his bedside the day he died.
The findings, contained in a warrant to search Murray's home and offices, paint a picture of an insomniac pop star who could not sleep without heavy medication. Jackson sought out propofol -- routinely used to sedate patients and anesthetize them before surgeries such as a colonoscopy -- and called it his "milk."
Murray, who was with Jackson on June 25 administering drugs to ease the pop star to sleep, gave him a range of medication including a 25-milligram dose of propofol via an intravenous drip at 10:40 a.m. PDT, the state search warrant said.
Jackson was "very familiar" with propofol and referred to it as his "milk" because of its milky appearance, the warrant said. Murray, who had been treating Jackson for about six weeks leading up to his death, was worried that Jackson was addicted to propofol. Murray was trying to wean him off the drug by giving him smaller doses, it said.
In the early hours of June 25, Murray also gave Jackson doses of anti-anxiety medications Valium and Ativan and sedative Versed, the filing said.
Jackson went to sleep after Murray gave him the propofol, and Murray stayed by his side for about 10 minutes, then left "to go to the restroom and relieve himself," the search warrant said. Murray was out of Jackson's room for about 2 minutes and when he returned, Jackson was no longer breathing, the warrant said. (Reuters)
I don't know, being so high on pain killers that your heart gives out? I can think of worse ways to go, like, I don't know, rectal cancer! ... seriously, Farrah, we all miss you a lot.
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Remember when Michael Jackson's physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, said he didn't kill the pop-star but everyone else said that he did. Well guess who was right? (It was you, pat yourself on the back).
Michael Jackson’s personal physician will be charged with manslaughter within the next two weeks, a law enforcement source told FOXNews.com.
The source initially said Dr. Conrad Murray could be arrested as soon as next Wednesday — but investigators have decided to execute one more search warrant, likely at a Los Angeles pharmacy, next week in an attempt to gather more evidence against him. The arrest is now expected the following week.
Murray isn’t the only doctor who faces criminal charges in connection with Jackson's death on June 25. A law enforcement source told FOXNews.com that Jackson’s longtime dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein, will be hit with charges related to medical malpractice. Investigators are still building their case against Klein, and he will not be arrested for at least another two weeks, the source said.
Jane Robison, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, denied that prosecutors had decided to charge Jackson's physicians. “Until police complete their investigation and bring it to our office, there is no way to know what charges may be filed and against whom,” she said.
But the source told FOXNews.com that the DA's office is currently in talks with investigators about whether they will offer Murray the option of surrendering in Los Angeles, or if he will be arrested in Houston, where he is currently staying.
Investigators initially had hoped to charge Murray with a more serious crime than manslaughter — a defendant may be charged with second degree murder in California without the presence of a motive — but prosecutors are concerned that a jury will be unlikely to convict without one, sources said. Unless a "smoking gun" is found in next week’s search, Murray will be charged with manslaughter.
Law enforcement sources previously told FOXNews.com that Murray admitted he gave the King of Pop the intravenous anesthetic propofol to help him sleep just hours before his death — and that propofol was at least a contributing factor in the 50-year-old entertainer's death.
I don't know, that sounds like a weak argument to find someone guilty of manslaughter. I mean, I give my roommate a bottle of gin and sleeping pills each night and tell him it's magic night-night medicine, but I don't think I should be charged with murder if the dude takes to many and overdoses. Oh, did I mention my roommate is a three-year-old child, is that important?
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Oh, come on! A little while ago we heard rumors that Michael Jackson had been buried. Yesterday, his father said Jackson will actually be buried soon. Of course, no one will confirm this statement and Joe Jackson is a raving nutjob, so who knows what's actually going on here.
Michael Jackson's father said his son's body will be buried at a Los Angeles cemetery on August 29, which would have been his 51st birthday, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.
Joe Jackson told a Daily News reporter the plan was finalized in recent days.
Media reports last week said Jackson, who died June 25 of cardiac arrest, was buried in a private ceremony in early August. But those reports were based on unnamed sources and never confirmed by Jackson family representatives.
A Jackson family spokesman did not return calls seeking comment Monday, nor did a spokesman at Los Angeles' Forest Lawn cemetery, where Joe Jackson said his son would be buried.
The reason behind Jackson's cardiac arrest remains a mystery. The Los Angeles County Coroner's office has completed its autopsy report but its findings remain sealed until police conclude their investigation.
Ok, so, we don't know how he died, we don't know where he is, we don't know where he's going to be... that's about all we know. Man, there were all those times I wished Michael Jackson would just go away when he was alive and crazy - I guess I should be careful what I wish for, because it came true. *squints eyes real tight* I wish Jessica Alba will serve me cheesecake in only a thong. Did it work? Grandma, what are you doing here? What do you mean you changed your name to Jessica Alba. GAH! WILL I NEVER LEARN!
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