I can't fucking stand Al Sharpton, I'm sorry if you like him--if you can like him--but I just can't stand him.
I knew Sharpton would be globbing onto this Michael Jackson death thing, the first thing I thought when MJ died was, "Oh this is going to be huge," and then "Al Sharpton's going to make a bigger fucking deal out of this than it really needs to be." I was right about both.
This is an excerpt from an E! Online post (full post: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b132724 ... stamp.html)
July 5, 2009:
The Rev. Al Sharpton thinks Michael Jackson deserves to be honored commensurate with his star status. That means a postage stamp, a national day of mourning—and deferential treatment from the media.
In advance of Tuesday's memorial, Sharpton appeared Sunday as a guest speaker at Los Angeles' First AME church. He announced to parishioners that he would push for a commemorative Jackson stamp and a waiver of the U.S. Postal Service's five-year waiting period, postdeath. (The only exception so far has been for late presidents.)
Sharpton also took issue with how certain press outlets have covered Jackson's death, saying there was a "disrespectful double standard" between the "Thriller" singer and other fallen icons such as Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley.
"I'm here because of the disgraceful and the despicable way [the media] is trying to destroy the legacy [of Jackson]," Sharpton said.
I can't fucking believe this. We've got North Korea breaking U.N. restrictions, Cap and Trade, immense government spending, political corruption, and this loser thinks the media isn't focused enough on Michael Jackson?
Not only that, he said this as well:[i]During his emotional speech, Sharpton credited Michael for bringing people of all races together. "It was Michael Jackson that brought blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos together. It was Michael Jackson that made us sing 'we are the world,' to feed the hungry long before Live Aid."
"It was that comfort level that kids from Japan and Ghana and France and Iowa and Pennsylvania got comfortable enough with each other so later it wasn't strange to us to watch Oprah on television," the reverend continued.
"Those young kids grew up from being teenage comfortable fans of Jackson to being 40 years old and being comfortable to vote for a person of color to be the president of the United States of America," he continued.
I think this guy's making way too big of a deal out of Michael Jackson, I think people are making too big of a deal out of it.
Luckily over 60% of Americans think the story's been covered too much.Nearly two-thirds of Americans surveyed believe that news organizations have given too much coverage to the death of Michael Jackson, while some still feel the media have given it just the right amount of attention, according to a poll reported on by the Associated Press.
In the Pew Research Center poll published last week, 64 percent of those surveyed said Jackson’s death has received too much coverage, 29 percent said the story received the right amount and 3 percent said the story got too little attention.
Thirty percent said they followed the story very closely, though that number spiked to 80 percent among blacks, according to the independent public opinion research group.
Pew interviewed about 1,000 adults for the poll, which has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.5 percentage points."
I think Sharpton needs to realize Michael Jackson was a great singer, dancer, and entertainer--but not a fucking god.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RmneMDZ ... re=related (Peter King)
