[PGalt]

Interesting article by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Thanks for posting.

[Northern Yankee]

In many ways his tragedy was to mistake attention for love. I will never forget what he said when we sat down to record 40 hours of conversations where he would finally reveal himself for a book I authored. He turned to me and said these haunting words: "I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame, and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth. I wanted people to love me, truly love me, because I never really felt loved. I said I know I have an ability. Maybe if I sharpened my craft, maybe people will love me more. I just wanted to be loved because I think it is very important to be loved and to tell people that you love them and to look in their eyes and say it."

One cannot read these words without feeling a tremendous sadness for a soul that was so surrounded with hero-worship but remained so utterly alone.

So sad indeed.

[Alex Murphy]

As I told CNN on April 22, 2004, "My great fear, and why I felt I had to be distanced from Michael ... was that he would not live long. My fear was that Michael's life would be cut short. When you have no ingredients of a healthy life, when you are totally detached from that which is normal, and when you are a super-celebrity you, God forbid, end up like Janis Joplin like Elvis... Michael is headed in that direction."

"In many ways his tragedy was to mistake attention for love."

Ping for later

[Varda]

I love Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (usually) but this should be titled “Requiem for a Singing Pervert”.

[ETL]

"The children all remembered Michael fondly."

Yeah, he was real nice to kids, especially boys...

From February, 2003:

"Pop superstar Michael Jackson admitted last night in a television documentary [2003] that he loves to have young boys sleep in his bed.

What's more, everyone should do it, says the 44-year-old Jackson, who was accused of sexually molesting a 13-year-old boy a decade ago, and who admits recently encouraging a 12-year-old cancer sufferer to sleep in his bedroom.

“It's what the whole world should do,” Jackson told interviewer Martin Bashir on the Granada television program, "Living With Michael Jackson," according to a London Times account. Granada is one of the largest independent television companies in the United Kingdom."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30853
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"He said there was nothing sexual involved: "We go to sleep. I put the fireplace on. I give them hot milk, you know, we have cookies. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do."

http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123607&page=1

[count-your-change]

Should the world go into thirty days of mourning or will having the earth stop in its orbit be enough?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

I home that M. J. has finally found the peace that eluded him during his life.

[a real Sheila]

but the most pressing question is this-
What does KING OBAMA think of MJ’s passing?
The world waits for his statement!
We don’t know what to do until we hear from the great one!
</extreme sarcasm>

[Eye of Unk]

I am just a couple of years older than MJ and all my life I was never really impressed with him except on a couple of occasions like when he sang the song “Ben” a thriller movie made when I was a preteen, his act at Disneyland which I never saw and the constant bombardment of his Thriller album on every single radio station on earth.

He had talent but it never turned me on.

A candle burning at both ends burns twice as bright and twice as fast my motto.

[McGruff]

Aw Jeez, not another Michael Jackson thread

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Jackson was a dysfunctional role model for kids during much of his career. A totally sane society would have protected their children from his influence.

[anton]

“Drug addicted sex pervert dead at 50.” Any other news about this is a waste of time.

[pray4liberty]

Michael needed tough love and no one had the balls to give him what he needed most.

May they find comfort in a renewed faith.

[Lady Jag]

Michael Jackson, June 25, 2009

[steve86]

Being in the same place, I hope Tiller somehow manages to give Michael an abortion.