I didn’t watch any of it, but on the news I saw a clip and thought that was Jackson in the front. What the hell was he doing there ?
I guess I missed the part of her life where JJ was a close personal friend deserved to be seated up front where the cameras wouldn’t miss him. Insufferable turd. A friend was at a NBA basketball game and Jackson was a few seats over. Some poor women had a medical emergency and he rushed to assist, once the cameras showed up. It could have been a noble gesture, though he has no medical emergency training I know of, but when he jumped to the other side of the stretcher to insure he was in the camera shot, all suggestions he was just helping flew out the window.
He’s an indecent POS and that story about him rubbing MLK’s blood on his collar to make it look like he was right there when King was killed, I believe every word of it. King didn’t like him and told a number of people he was an opportunist, using the civil rights movement to build a career as much, if not more, than for the cause.
He was there sitting up front in one of the nice hairs facing the audience. He wasn’t a pallbearer and I have no idea why he was given such a prominent seat. Guess the Houston family thinks he’s worth the exposure.
I wondered the same thing about Jesse Jackson being there. I waited for him to speak, but I don’t think he ever did.
But he did look very uncomfortable most of the time. He didn’t applaud when everybody else did. He didn’t smile, either, as far I could tell. Probably the same discomfort unbelievers always have in the presence of true believers and true holiness.