Stomach-turners of the morning
I half-joked grimly the other day on Twitter that Joe Jackson was so crass he’d charge admission to his son’s funeral.
And now this:
Fans who wish to attend Michael Jackson’s star-studded memorial service at Staples Center will have to shell out $25 to sit in the stands, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
Family, friends and VIPS will have seats on the main floor for The Tuesday, July 7th Staples service, first reported by RadarOnline.com, while the general public will be plucking down $25 to sit in the stands.
The memorial service will feel like a concert production featuring guest speakers, a lot of music and video screens inside and outside of Staples, a source close to the planning tells RadarOnline.com.
While we’re on the subject of pimps, how about those Washington Post mack daddies?
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few” — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors.
The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels it’s a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff.”
The offer — which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters — is a new sign of the lengths to which news organizations will go to find revenue at a time when most newspapers are struggling for survival.
And it’s a turn of the times that a lobbyist is scolding The Washington Post for its ethical practices.
“Underwriting Opportunity: An evening with the right people can alter the debate,” says the one-page flier. “Underwrite and participate in this intimate and exclusive Washington Post Salon, an off-the-record dinner and discussion at the home of CEO and Publisher Katharine Weymouth. … Bring your organization’s CEO or executive director literally to the table. Interact with key Obama administration and congressional leaders …
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Twitter quip of the morning from Lindsay Janeway: “[T]he Washington Compost = presstitutes – Now we know the real reason their papers are sold on the corner.”
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Disgusting. All of it.
The guy is trying to make money off of his sons FUNERAL???
WOW
Pimps = everyone of them…absolutely pathetic.
He’s been pimping his son out for decades, why stop now. I totally expected this.
Don’t you know…
*cue music*
“It’s hard out there for a pimp!
…That’s the way the game goes, gotta keep it strictly pimpin.
Gotta have my hustle tight,
makin change off these women (and other idiots), yeah”
Speaking of stomach turners (OT), the McCain camp is busy saying that their defeat was in part due to Palin and her ‘post partum depression’.
McCain, shut up and go back to your sandbox!
WOW. I would say it’s unbelievable about charging admission to a memorial but then it’s Joe “it’s all about fame and fortune” Jackson.
And shame on the Washington Post.
Phone them, fax them, email them:
Main Number: 703.469.2500
Main Fax: 703.469.2995
http://tinyurl.com/n76fah
The Jackson thing, while crass, doesn’t affect me or my family’s finances; but the WaPo thing does – and it should be illegal!
I am sure Mr. Jackson will miss his cash cow, I mean, son.
Watch out – RSS will say you are racist for critizing “black people for acting black.”
So the Post is charging for access to the President????????????????? What???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How does the Post arrange this with BO? Does his campaign get a kickback ? I’m assuming there is already some close relationship with the Post and BO, but this is ridiculous!
Shouldn’t someone in law enforcement look into this??????
we are no longer a nation of laws
As tired as I am of hearing it I always knew there was something terribly wrong there. The Jackson Children put a nice show on Ed Sullivan my kids enjoyed–but when I saw that Joe Jackson my blood ran cold. I did see evil.
Our American Eagle is being replaced by the American Vulture-or the Pimp-both work.
McCain? There are those of us who are trying to deny him the 2010 nomination for Senate. Should that fail I will switch to the Constitutional Party.
Miss Cheryl, I have often wondered about that. I have heard that comment before, “black people acting black”. What I can’t figure out is, what in the world does “acting black” mean?
Is it acting like a thug idiot? A rotton, race baiting piece of filth?
And when people write off behavior as simply “acting black” what are they really saying? “Oh they can’t help it, they’re just acting black.” Is that not among the most racist things you could say? Akin to; “They can’t make it on their own. They need affirmative action to succeed in life.”
I suppose the black men I know wouldn’t be considered to be “keeping it real” since according to the left they don’t “act black”. No, they don’t, they act like men. Men with a strong work ethic and a sense of responsibility. Those are the only kind of men I choose to associate with. Color be d@mned. So all the times I hear the “acting black” thing, I have to wonder if that person knows what they are really saying.
Not to beat a dead horse, but can you imagine how this would have been reported had the Bush administration made this kind of arrangement with say the NY Post?
I just can’t seem to get my head around this Obama/MSM mariiage. It just goes contrary to everything I’ve know these past 50 odd years.
Other than slow dancing with Vicky Peterson to “Ben” and “I’ll be there” in Junior High, Jackson has had absolutely no place in my life.
Sorry for the rant. I am stuck in the truck on a boring stretch of desert road and havent made it through my first pot of coffee for the day.
How much of that money are the Obama Administration officials and members of Congress getting?
They ain’t showing up for free. And I do believe accepting that money is a jail-able offense.
How much more of this is the Eric Holder Conditional Justice Department going to turn a blind eye to?
Dunno, ask RSS.
I’m sure Joe is busy thinking of ways to exploit MJ’s children.
As for McCain, he’s miffed because people voted for Palin.
By the way Miss Cheryl, I was not trying to suggest that was directed at you or that the “acting black” comment came from you. Again, still a bit fuzzy headed. So apologies since that could have been misconstrued. Failure on my part to make plain what I was trying to say.
by the way, this is how the left keep minorities down. They are here to look out after them…baawwaahhaa!!!!
no offense taken.
Since the subject is “Stomach-turners”, here is a good one:
JULY 2, 2009 Congress’s Travel Tab Swells
Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold; From Italy to the GalápagosArticle By BRODY MULLINS and T.W. FARNAM
WASHINGTON — Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands.
The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That’s a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.
The cost of so-called congressional delegations, known among lawmakers as “codels,” has risen nearly 70% since 2005, when an influence-peddling scandal led to a ban on travel funded by lobbyists, according to the data.
Lawmakers say that the trips are a good use of government funds because they allow members of Congress and their staff members to learn more about the world, inspect U.S. assets abroad and forge better working relationships with each other. The travel, for example, includes official visits to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Journal analysis, based on information published in the Congressional Record, also shows that taxpayer-funded travel is a big and growing perk for lawmakers and their families. Some members of Congress have complained in recent months about chief executives of bailed-out banks, insurance companies and car makers who sponsored corporate trips to resorts or used corporate jets for their own travel.
Although complete travel records aren’t yet available for 2009, it appears that such costs continue to rise. The Journal analysis shows that the government has picked up the tab for travel to destinations such as Jamaica, the Virgin Islands and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
Lawmakers frequently bring along spouses on congressional trips. If they take commercial flights, they have to buy tickets for spouses. If they fly on government planes — as they usually do — their spouses can fly free.
Paris Air Show
In mid-June, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D., Hawaii) led a group of a half-dozen senators and their spouses on a four-day trip to France for the biennial Paris Air Show. An itinerary for the event shows that lawmakers flew on the Air Force’s version of the Boeing 737, which costs $5,700 an hour to operate. They stayed at the Intercontinental Paris Le Grand Hotel, which advertises rooms from $460 a night.
The lawmakers were invited to a dinner party at the U.S. Embassy and had cocktails at a private party at the Eiffel Tower. Mr. Inouye attended a dinner sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association, a U.S. trade group. Another senator on the trip, Alabama Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, took a cruise on the River Seine with defense-industry executives and elected officials from Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.
Mr. Inouye and Mr. Shelby declined to comment.
Often, lawmakers combine trips to war zones with visits to more tranquil spots. In February, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a delegation of Democratic lawmakers to visit U.S. troops in Afghanistan for a day. Before landing in Kabul, the eight lawmakers and their entourage of spouses and aides spent eight days in Italy, spending $57,697 on hotels and meals.
A spokesman for Ms. Pelosi says that she was working in Italy, meeting with U.S. troops at Aviano Air Base, laying a wreath at the Florence American Cemetery, giving a speech to Italian lawmakers and visiting the Pope, among other things.
Homeland Security
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D., Miss.), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, led a group to Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Panama. “This trip further solidified the message that homeland security does not begin or end at our borders,” says Mr. Thompson’s spokeswoman.
Many congressional trips have been to Iraq or Afghanistan. In 2008, lawmakers and aides took 113 trips to Iraq, according to the Journal analysis, down slightly from the prior year. Not much money is spent in the war zones. Lawmakers are not allowed to stay overnight in Iraq and receive only minimal spending allowances for their one-day visits.
In mid-February, for example, six House lawmakers traveled to Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain and Afghanistan. Each lawmaker reported spending $1,500 on hotels and meals in Kuwait, $400 in Bahrain, and $25 in Afghanistan. They reported no expenses in Iraq.
Scores of lawmakers are spending this week abroad on taxpayer-funded trips. Congressional offices say they won’t release details of the trips for security reasons. Disclosure rules require lawmakers to print some information about their taxpayer-funded travel in the Congressional Record within 30 days of returning home.
Congressional Fleet
The congressional trips are possible thanks in part to an unlimited fund created by a three-decade old law. Nearly two dozen government officials work full-time organizing the trips. Much of the costs are not made public, including the cost of flying on government jets. The Air Force maintains a fleet of 16 passenger planes for use by lawmakers.
Documents obtained by the Journal show that the cost of flying a small group of lawmakers to the Middle East is about $150,000. Larger trips on the Air Force’s version of the Boeing 757 cost about $12,000 an hour. Two federal agencies pay for most of the travel — the Defense Department and the State Department.
Exotic Locales
In October, Rep. Bud Cramer (R., Ala.) spent two weeks in Europe on government business. Reports show that Mr. Cramer spent $5,700 on hotels, meals and incidentals. Mr. Cramer wasn’t running for re-election and left office just two months later.
“Knowing that I was leaving with my 18 years of seniority, I wanted to conclude some issues that I was working on,” Mr. Cramer said. He now works for a lobbying firm in Washington.
Some of the most expensive travel is to exotic locales.
Last summer, Rep. Brian Baird (D., Wash.) took a four-day trip to the Galápagos Islands with his wife, four other lawmakers and their family members. The lawmakers spent $22,000 on meals and hotels, records show. Mr. Baird, a member of the House Science Committee, said the trip was to learn about global warming.
On the first day, lawmakers toured a breeding center for giant tortoise and land iguanas before dining with scientists, according to an itinerary for the trip. The next morning, lawmakers headed to the Galápagos National Park while their family members had the option of hiking, swimming or shopping. That afternoon, the group boarded a boat to visit a sea-lion colony and search for white-tip sharks.
Mr. Baird didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A1
Kind of like journalistic payola.
Here was a man who endured untold agony to have his African features removed. He bleached his skin to a sickly shade of white. He had his nose narrowed. His ears redone. His cheeks redone. His lips reduced. His chin chiseled – literally. His hair straightened.
And he did it again, and again, and again until pieces were literally falling off of his face due to all of this abuse.
He did everything he possibly could to remove any feature that would make him appear to be of African descent. The only time he seems to have embraced his “heritage” was when it was convenient for him. Whenever the wolf was at the door, like during his pedophile trial, Jackson was all too happy to accept the warm embrace of the very people he worked so hard to disown.
And yet those same people are defiant in “claiming” him as their own.
Does common sense *ever* prevail? At what point is the black community going to realize that they are glorifying someone whose actions openly mocked them?
I suspect Joe Jackson is planning a series of
concerts, services around the nation and around the world. I wonder if they will do annual “reunion”concerts,services? Like Rahm said, never let a crisis go to waste…These people are beyond belief.
Why am I not surprised. Someone remind me that it’ll be ok to watch TV programming after this tawdry circus is over!
First, why are lawmakers making so many trips in the first place? I can understand going to Iraq or Afghanistan. To see first hand how things are proceeding in those countries. Or even just to visit deployed reserve and guard units from their states. That I can understand and even support.
But in the age of the internet and satellite communications, why does a lawmaker need to go to the Great Barrier Reef to “lean more about the world”? That’s a nonsensical excuse that doesn’t stand up to rational thought. And the Paris Air Show? Why?
And then they have the gall to complain about the economy? Here’s an idea, stay home! Stop wasting taxpayers money for what are vacation trips.
Is it any wonder people are very nearly ready to-literally-tar and feather lawmakers?
Frankly, it is the norm for so much of the African-American community to glorify those who mock them.
Obama, Jesse, Al and Farrakhan are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to people who mock the community while being simultaneously glorified because of it…
Errah, interesting current events story, but why the picture of Rep. Wm. Jefferson’s hand??!! Curiouser and curiouser.
Frankly, it is the norm for so much of the African-American community to glorify those who mock them.
Obama, Jesse, Al and F@rr@kh@n are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to people who mock the community while being simultaneously glorified because of it…
There ya go…giving him ideas! I am sick of MJ and that circus of a family.
Strange but Farrakhan seems to get filtered out…
Strange but the world “F@rr@kh@n” seems to get filtered out when I try to post. I wish real life were so simple…
WarEagle82 – technology is great except when it isn’t.
Remember when the NY Slimes and Washington Compost derided the Bush officials for “radio row” after State of the Union addresses? Everything was at the talk-radio shows’ expenses.
Now, the tables are upside-down, and we’re supposed to call this news?
Errah, I was just told it’s the president’s hand. Sorry for the confusion.
Going forward, they could accomplish the same goals by sharing a bus to a McDonalds and reading the newspaper on the way.
those things are for the little people.
nope that’s why we have 20 million illegals squating in our country and employers who essentially get away with hiring them. Just look at congress and the administrations cabinet…
from Foxnews:
The circus continues….
OMG – MJ abuse drugs??? Say it ain’t so!
Joe Jackson will be appointed fatherhood czar tomorrow.
See if this turns your stomach: When the leftist Honduran president tries to defy his country’s laws and supreme court to remain in power despite term limits, Obama is on his side.
But when the president of Niger dissolves his country’s supreme court so he can stay in power despite term limits, Obama says it’s a threat to democracy?
WTF?
MM, PLEASE just stop reporting ANYTHING about this socially non-contributing freakozoid and fueling its warped legacy! How much time and room will media and blogs give YOU on that sad day you pass??
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Like I told my wife the other day, sometime in the future a book will come out, and it will show the proof that M. Jackson DID color his skin, and that M. Jackson DID abuse children, and that M. Jackson DID abuse drugs and so on. The world does not want to accept the fact that this guy tripped a circuit breaker shortly after the Pepsi-fire commercial incident, and never recovered.
Ditto that. And forgive me for my last post as I temporarily forgot that I also am sick of hearing about M. Jackson.
These people make prostitutes appear saintly.
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Well said TWOFOOT #14. Every Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Day I listened to his complete I HAVE A DREAM speech on my 50 mile drive to White Sands Missile Range.
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MLK’s words seemed to come directly from God–a vision of real trust and equality between all persons regardless of race, ethnic background, age, sex, etc. He was the real deal–Satan must of sent the assassin to kill him.
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Then we see the RACE HUSTLERS–of all colors and ethnic backgrounds. They have a view of division and superiority that ill serves America and it’s diverse people.
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The good Black People are the large majority of our people–ditto for us Gringos, Hispanics, Orientals, etc. The liberal press and society fixates on the few percent of losers.
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Most Black People I know advanced their lives through “smarts”, good judgement, strong family, hard work, education, church values, etc. Not through Balkanization of their lives.
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I think it is offensive and racist to claim that only through affirmative action (aka selective discrimination) can people improve themselves. Discrimination is discrimination–regardless of any “good” intentions. Remember MLK’s vision for our future.
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John Bibb
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It’s a total bummer we are going to have to go through this crapola every year on the anniv. of his death. A drugged out pop star bites the dust, just add his name to the list and move on.
Yeah, it is not like this HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE! Drugged out rock stars are not exactly an exclusive list.
Of course there are people who never got over Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain or Jimi Hendrix. Go figure…
For a group of people who are supposedly tired of hearing about Michael Jackson, you guys certainly spend a lot of time reading posts related to him and making comments. If it’s so bothersome, why don’t you just ignore these posts?
I am not surprised Papa Joe wants to charge people to see Michael, even now. If the stories are true, Joe has always put the welfare of his pocketbook above the welfare of his children.
Wasn’t it reported that much of his abuse of Michael was aimed at getting him on stage at the young age of 9 or 10? “Yeah, yeah, I love you, Michael…now get on that stage or I’ll beat yo’ a$$ some mo’!”
Gee, what a guy!
His children made tons of money for him, and they turned out so well adjusted, no?
Do they need to go to TicketMaster and pay their $25.00 to get a ticket??
Maybe next they can Auction off various “Body Parts” for Profit. Everything surrounding Michael Jackson is Sick!!!
You wouldn’t understand, but by all means, take your own advise.
On July 2nd, 2009 at 10:41 am, twofoot wrote:
As a black man who has been accused of trying to “act white” his entire life, I blew my stack back in 1998 when in the thick of the drive to the impeachment of Bill Clinton, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison made her famous remark that Clinton was “America’s first black President” (bold mine):
I was so infuriated that I stayed late after work and pounded out a rant that took me two hours, and posted it on Free Republic. It is re-posted at my blog, and ends thusly:
Some time ago a Black neighbor’s son got beaten by two other black kids for “acting white”; actually did his school work and acted polite and stuff. Those two baggy pants thugs found out that beatings work both ways–the young man’s father violated their civil rights or something. Some damn fool called the police but the Sargent didn’t seem too interested in dad- but that one of the thugs was on parole and in dad’s yard did interest him.
So a word to thugs: if you are going to attack someone in their front yard watch for dad– he might have been around the block a few times himself. Thugs might Act Black but Blacks do not always act like thugs- But they just might hit back.
Ahh, too bad. I was ‘offended’ when Jermaine said ‘Allah bless you’ in his first press conference after MJ died.
Remember that scene in It’s a Wonderful Life when the evil Mr. Potter growls to George Bailey (after having stolen the Bailey Building & Loan’s cash) that he’s worth more dead than alive? That’s the way I think about Joe Jackson.
It’s well-known that Jimi Hendrix’s parents are now being very well rewarded for their years of litigation to gain control of the image and works of their late son. Neither Priscilla nor Lisa Marie Presley will ever have to work again (snicker).
That having been said, if you believe a book written by Jacko’s former publicist Bob Jones (who passed away at 72 last year), behind the pale mask of a tortured, talented manchild was a vindictive control freak whose lust for maintaining his crown as “King of Pop” (an inorganic title the MJJ camp came up with itself) meant crushing competition from not only his siblings, but their children as well. According to Jones, Michael not only felt threatened by the sudden, overwhelming success of younger sister Janet, he pulled strings within the industry to stifle opportunities for a musical group consisting of three of brother Marlon’s children.
Pimped out death
I knew I should’ve copywritten the term “presstitutes”©.
Seriously, when more cash is needed to pay for higher taxes, I’m not surprised that the crassest of ideas get serious consideration.
Maybe The One should have a funeral for capitalism and charge $2500 a pop for cheap seats. Could help pay for BarryCare. Just a thot.
Wasn’t that Inagauration Day….and the final charge is yet to be determined.
Thank you L N
I would gladly pay the $25 if all of it would go to organizations that help victims of pedophiles, and other sexual abusers. Otherwise he, and his family can shove it up their greedy, unconscionably classless a*zzes.
I stand kurrekted. It was a indeed a funeral for free markets. Good point.
On July 2nd, 2009 at 12:20 pm, Misscheryl said:
You wouldn’t understand, ………………
Misscheryl, I’ll tell you what I don’t understand. As you proclaimed:
On July 2nd, 2009 at 11:06 am, Misscheryl said:
I am sick of MJ and that circus of a family.
Then please help me understand why:
1. You don’t ignore stories related to the Jacksons?
2. You comment so frequently on this topic? You represent almost 20% of the comments on this thread.
So what’s that about Misscheryl? I suspect that you are a lot more interested in Michael Jackson and his family than you claim.
This will also turn your stomach: From the readers of AoSHQ — Soul Mates, a Mark Sanford Romance Novel:
I wouldn’t attend this, but don’t they kind of have to charge, to use Staples Center? To cover the rent for the facility?
Commerative Michael Jackson autopsy photos in 6, 5, 4, ……
You wonder if dad extracted any gold or silver that his son may have had in his teeth.
I couldn’t care less what you “suspect.”
On July 2nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm, Misscheryl said:
I couldn’t care less what you “suspect.”
Right, that’s why you’re responded to my questions. I’ll let the facts speak for themselves. You’re up to 12 posts on this one Jackson story. I think we can now safely say you’re obsessed with the Jacksons.
sorry, couldn’t pass it up, OT, besides I’m sick of hearing about MJ…”the McCain camp is busy saying that their defeat was in part due to Palin and her ‘post partum depression’.”
McShame has been suffering from ‘post anal insertion’ for the last 25 years.
Juan’s got his head so far up his butt he can’t see the Gov. was the best thing to happen to his campaign.
les, soooo you are posting here because…? What’s your point? Obsessed with people who you think are obsessed with obssessive people or something.
If someone’s posts here bother you, click off my friend.
Last night, while watching a few minutes of Jackson coverage, I said to my wife that since MJ was broke and his relatives so grasping that “they’ll probably sell tickets to his funeral.”
Does VIP admission get one a “meet and greet” with the corpse? Will there be entertainment provided by Joe Jackson’s new record label? How many corporate sponsorships can they sell? Will ACORN set up a voter registration booth outside? Stay tuned.
I don’t care for the Jacksons, but this is beyond disgusting.
Since MJ was broke, who do you think is going to foot the funeral bill? Appearantly, his family is not putting out much to help. How sad.
At least its not the taxpayers.
les,
People can comment on the media circus and be tired of it without being a fan of the circus’ subject.
Personally, I value Misscheryl’s contributions regardless of the subject.
You, on the other hand, contribute nothing.
According to CNN the tickets are free:
http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/02/organizers-11000-free-tickets-available-for-jackson-service/
I find it all oddly appropriate. A fitting end to MJ’s existence.