Tuesday, July 7, 2009

The Comeback Tour!

CBS Evening News and Katic Couric (and probably all the rest of them, but this is the one I saw), Be ashamed!

The CBS Evening News led off with Katie Couric, live at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, hours after Michael Jackson's funeral had come and gone. What could there possibly be to say? I can't think of a thing, but then 'nothing to say' has never stopped the new breed of "journalist" from saying it.

Twenty minutes into the 30-minute broadcast, they finally moved past the funeral on to President Obama. First things first, he offered his solemn presidential 2 cents' worth on Michael Jackson, and then, almost as an afterthought, he went on to comment on the current threat posed by Kim Jong-il: There is nothing to fear from North Korea. They are not going to do anything nuclear, because if they do, they know the international community will frown on it.

Whew! What a relief! It's good to know that is all settled. No more worries about being nuked in our sleep. But I'm glad I don't live in Hawaii.

And then back to the Things that Matter: Katie Couric with the post-game analysis and commentary on the Event of the Century.

My observations:

  • MJ's family was out in full force, which is as it should be. But was it necessary for them to be decked out in ridiculous MJ fashion, complete with glittery gloves (one each) and dark glasses in a place that was already dark?
  • One of his celebrity entertainer friends got up to remark on MJ's diaphanous presence, shining blessings down on this idolatrous gathering, from his perch high up on a crescent moon. Well, I admit, the point of a crescent moon would not be too strange a place to find Michael Jackson.
  • Then there were the religious figures, the caricatures of godliness, one of whom declared to Michael Jackson's purported children: "Your daddy was not strange. Strange things happened to your daddy, but there was nothing strange about him." HUH?! Strange things may have happened to MJ, but being strange and having strange things happen are not mutually exclusive, and I guaran-dang-tee, Michael Jackson was STRANGE.
  • And can the politicians ever be far behind? One of them carried on at length, praising MJ's tireless efforts on behalf of the black man, while making the point that the color of one's skin doesn't matter. Well, we all know that race doesn't matter. So why do the lefties keep differentiating among the races? It's almost as if they don't believe their own words. And why did MJ spend half of his life trying to be white and the other half trying to be a woman? Just wondering...
On a related note, has anyone heard about the condition of the economy lately? Particularly the economy in California? I'm not sure where Los Angeles stacks up relative to California in general, but the state is currently paying its bills with IOU's, and now the City of the Angels has been saddled with the $3.8 million bill for this ostentation. I understand the city presently has its hand out via a website, where one may make donations to cover the cost of this extravaganza. Add California to the list of Places I'm Glad I Don't Live.

So whaddya know. Michael Jackson had his Comeback Tour after all. Is there anything beyond obscene? If there is, clue me in. And sign this up at the top of the list.

7 comments:

sterling river said...

Need a funeral fit for a pharaoh but the bank is broke? Have it anyway! Bury now, pay later!

Mary said...

OMG -- I didn't realize california paid for this funeral??!! Wha...?

The funeral was such a worship service. It was like they were expecting mj to leap out of his coffin -- back to life! But, he isn't coming back.

Oh, and whew! Now we know that N.Korea will not to any nuke stuff, because they wouldn't want the world to frown on them. That ought to terrify them. We can sleep at night now.

Marytoo said...

Marina, or don't pay at all. Or, even better, stick it to the taxpayer.

Marytoo said...

Civilla...isn't it crazy?! The city had to provide 3,000 cops and who knows what else. Yeah, I was waiting to see if he jumped out of his coffin, but no, he was perched on the point of a crescent moon. What nonsense.

I'm glad N. Korea was so easy to take care of. We should have done that a long time ago!

Mary said...

I know, Mary, if we would just LEAVE THESE NATIONS ALONE (and it's rude to call them rogue nations) they will see that we don't approve of them and mend their ways. We just need to ignore them. If their regimes don't work, like communist russia, they will just collapse under their own weight. Nobody has to do anything. And, besides, the reason they have nukes in the first place is because they are AFRAID of us because we are such imperialists. If we would just disarm, then the whole world would disarm and we'd have peace. The problems in the world are OUR FAULT!! Can't everybody see that?

Trish said...

good to see you back blogging again, you have been missed. keep the editorials coming.

Marytoo said...

Thank you, Mom. It is soooo nice to be missed! ;-)