‘Just as sad as 9/11′
What Chad said. Except, you know, without the terrorist attacks and national emergency and march to war. Rest in peace, King of Pop.
After the jump, Jackson’s Super Bowl halftime performance.
(Full disclosure: Ochocinco later recanted. I guess some people are still a little touchy about 9/11. But whatever, imagine if Bettie Page and Elvis died on the same day. As sad as the attack on Pearl Harbor, right? Hello?)
Tags: captain caveman, michael jackson, ocho cinco
June 25th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
At least they can take the hospital’s Maternity Ward off of lockdown now.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
He said it’s as sad as 9/11?
Nooooooo, that’s ignorant.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
As I said before, Farrah and MJ were each worth at least 1,500 regular people.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
What will the coroner’s report say?
Black or white?
June 25th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Did Bettie Page or Elvis Presley rape little boys? No? Then no, not as sad.
Condolences to Ms. Fawcett’s family.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Wait, so Hollywood assholes like Oliver Stone and Adam Sandler (amongst many others) can use 9/11 as a plot point in crass mind-numbingly insulting melodramas but OchoCinco can’t?? One of the most iconic entertainers of the 20th century and one of the hottest women to ever grace popular culture just passed away, for crying out loud. The comparison is apt.
I love how people say “get over it” in regards to slavery where millions and millions died but a few thousand die in a tragic attack and we’re supposed to treat it with reverence and hushed tones for the next century.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
I think Ocho meant that these deaths were just as sad as the old Rescue 911 show. All those poor people, rushed to a hospital while Captain Kirk narrated. It was truly the worst tragedy of our age.
Okay, that might have been a bit of a stretch. Bare with me people, I’m just in an emotional state right now.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
@David: I think the more pertinent question is whether it will say “natural causes” or “suicide”.
@Leigh: I’m more tolerant than most of other people’s opinions in comments. With that said, FUCK. YOU.
TWICE.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Poor Mike. Never got a chance to try that 50-show comeback that would have ended after 3 shows due to “exhaustion” and a “twisted ankle.” It’s hard to say how one feels about a probable child abuser who was at the same time such a gifted entertainer, but I think going to a karaoke bar and doing “Rock With You” is tribute enough.
Let me get my coat.
And you think Ochocinco is sad now, wait until someone tells him about Ed McMahon.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Also, it was probably a suicide that his family is going to try to spin as an accidental overdose. Especially since most of the Jacksons are still religious nuts and want to think he’s going to heaven.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Wait, so Hollywood assholes like Oliver Stone and Adam Sandler (amongst many others) can use 9/11 as a plot point in crass mind-numbingly insulting melodramas but OchoCinco can’t?? One of the most iconic entertainers of the 20th century and one of the hottest women to ever grace popular culture just passed away, for crying out loud. The comparison is apt.
You’re insane.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
And you think Ochocinco is sad now, wait until someone tells him about Ed McMahon.
“But he could still be alive, Coach Marvin! He could have turned into a zombie.”
“Zombies don’t exist.”
“Yes they do! Haven’t you seen ‘Shaun of the Dead’? I bet if you hit Ed McMahon in the head with the shovel he’d shout, ‘YOU ARE CORRECT SIR’.”
“Okay, that was a fictional comedy involving actors with make-up to make them look dead. That wasn’t real.”
“But it could be.”
“No it couldn’t.”
“Yes it could.”
“No it couldn’t.”
“Yes it could.”
“No it couldn’t.”
“Yes it could.”
/needs to stop procrastinating at work
June 25th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
u know whose happy, that govenor who cheated on his wife
June 25th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Somehow, I never really thought Michael Jackson would die. I never really imagined that he wouldn’t be out there somewhere in the popular consciousness.
A difficult figure – such an amazing talent, but almost certainly insane, probably a child abuser. Hard to reconcile that.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Well, the parents of young boys can sleep a bit more soundly tonight, knowing that Michael Jackson has gone on to his “reward.”
At least it won’t take long for his worthless corpse to finish rotting.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
@Susie…
Russell Simmons wants you to know that black people have taken that word back. Unless you yourself are black, in which case fire away, it’s your word.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
@Andy: Au contraire, seafood plate. MJ’s body’s got so many friggin’ chemicals in it right now that it’s probably got the half life of a steel-belted radial.
/getting ready for MJ Kareoke Night
June 25th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
It’s sadly funny to see Keith Olbermann trying to stretch out the Jackson coverage so seriously, while in his head you know he’s thinking: “Okay, THIS is the dominant story when Mr. I’m So Ronery just told the U.S. that if we keep following his boats he might launch a nuke that unlike Saddam, he actually has fucking tons of.”
June 25th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Peter King thought this Michael Jackson kid was a real up and comer. Can’t wait to see his tribute…
June 25th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
As a tribute to the death of the King of Pop, K-Mart has announced a week-long “boys pants half off” sale.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
@BB’s Mop- Get over it… even if your “millions & millions” claim were true, each of those was merely a fraction of a person. Everyone who died on 9/11 were real people! How dare you!!
June 25th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
I will draw my personal line in the sand. Pre Neverland: Good entertainer, did things noone else was doing. After Neverland: hmmmm, pretty sure not good things in his personal life and the entertainment factor dropped too.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Really Susie? Jeez, stay classy…
June 25th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
He was smothered by blanket
June 25th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Man, fuck this site.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
And Susie just got a banhammering
June 25th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Susie must be very upset today, with Michael Jackson’s passing. He epitomized her greatest dream: a black man who bleached his skin white.
Now, if you can take off the hood, then go back to strumming your banjo and fucking one of your family members, us adults would like to have a civilized, dick joke-infused conversation. Thank you.
June 25th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
there’s nothing to reconcile… the bastard was fucking child molester and anybody that is the least bit sad at his death is pathetic… i hope he died painfully…. hopefully there’s a special place in hell for pedophiles the sick fuck
June 25th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
I love how people say “get over it” in regards to slavery where millions and millions died but a few thousand die in a tragic attack and we’re supposed to treat it with reverence and hushed tones for the next century.
Who is saying “get over it” in regards to slavery, exactly?
June 25th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
I’m pretty sure the whole concept of slavery was to have as many as you could so they could do more work. Hence, it would not be beneficial to kill them. Maybe Bubby’s Mop has slavery confused with the Holocaust where people were just killed because of their heritage/race.
Hey Bub, “GET OVER IT”!! Unless you are 140 years old and were a slave you really don’t have a personal bitch.
June 25th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
@StuScott well played, well played indeed.
June 25th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
@TTGT
The comment directly below yours. Also, about a million other assholes just like him. I’m sure you’ve noticed this little “discussion” come up anytime a Panther Pride post is put up on KSK.
June 25th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Um, slaves were seen as cattle or subhuman. Many died on ships on the way overseas. Many died on plantations due to sickness or overwork. Do you think slave owners provided top notch medical care to them? They were a meaningless replaceable asset. And any reputable historian will tell you more men died via slavery than the Holocaust and 9/11 COMBINED. Of course, I don’t expect many of your ignorant asses to know that. Read a book or do your homework once in awhile instead of worrying about whether Tom Brady has knocked up Gisele.
Also, last I checked, Michael Jackson was never convicted of anything. NOTHING. In fact, two of the boys he supposedly molested declined to testify because he paid them tons of money. Now if your life were ruined by a horrible monster, would you really accept a buyout? Hmm..maybe they said that TO MAKE MONEY? Anybody think of that???
What MJ did do was contribute countless hours to dying or sick children and contribute millions and millions of dollars to worthy causes. I doubt most of you insulting him have ever so much as tossed a dime in a Salvation Army bucket during Christmas. But please continue to insult him and make fun of his tragic passing because of baseless allegations you read about in the National Enquirer.
I don’t know why I expect better from people but it’s sadly true that Americans really are the most ignorant dumbshits on this planet.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Well this thread is now officially headed on an express train to flawa town. I think I’ll jump off before it hits full spead.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
This sucks. I was a huge jacko fan back in the 80s. It got kinda weird after that, but shit, I was still hoping he’d make some good music again at some point.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
You know, all this racism and slavery talk is detracting from what we really should be doing at this time: paying our heartfelt respects to a legendary entertainer who has tragically passed.
Oh, and hey, I have an idea. There’s no need to cancel those MJ London concerts. You guys have seen “Weekend at Bernie’s,” right? Okay, hear me out…
June 25th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
I know what you’re all thinking. At least it wasn’t Prince. Prince won.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
“Read a book or do your homework once in awhile instead of worrying about whether Tom Brady has knocked up Gisele.”
Isn’t the whole basis of KSK to have fun with NFL related news? Hence making fun of Ocho “can’t catchico” Cinco for comparing today to 911. You brought slavery into the mix. I can’t help it or change that it happened and you were never personally a slave so please stop playing the slavery card. You weren’t a slave, I didn’t own any slaves put down the Haterade and go make fun of Gisele’s baby daddy, Jim Brown slappin’ around his hoes or how hard core the partying at The Cross is.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Congratulations, Bubby Brister’s Mop, you have created the world’s first TragFlaWa.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:09 am
@BB’s Mop- is that you, Tito? You gotta be related to to this sick fuck if you’re getting this upset on a football/dick joke site!! But, just for comedy’s sake, let’s review:
“And any reputable historian will tell you more men died via slavery than the Holocaust and 9/11 COMBINED.”
-If, by “reputable historian” you mean “Ahmadinejad”, then I concede the point. Otherwise, you might just wanna stop talking for a while. Are we talking about ALL slavery since the beginning of time here, or just the comparatively brief period of American slavery?
“In fact, two of the boys he supposedly molested declined to testify because he paid them tons of money. Now if your life were ruined by a horrible monster, would you really accept a buyout? Hmm..maybe they said that TO MAKE MONEY?”
-HolymotherfuckingshitisthisjackassseriousIcan’tbreathe!! Jacko the Wacko payed out over $50 MILLION to keep those kids OUT OF COURT!!! Nothing suspicious about that at all, right? I mean he’s rich as hell but come on, $50 million is still $50 million!!
“But please continue to insult him and make fun of his tragic passing because of baseless allegations you read about in the National Enquirer.”
-If his inability to understand why it is wrong to share a bed with someone else’s child doesn’t give you the fucking willies, then I don’t know what to tell you buddy. His passing isn’t any more “tragic” than the passing of anyone else (in fact, much less so if he really did fuck them boys). Hell, Heath Ledger’s passing may have been tragic since he was in his prime, but the jackals on this site never have a problem cracking jokes about him… or is this your first time visiting this KSK?
“I don’t know why I expect better from people but it’s sadly true that Americans really are the most ignorant dumbshits on this planet.”
-Go back home, ya dagnab fereigner… you just love it or leave it ya hear? If there’s one good thing I can say about that Mikey Jackson it’s this… at least he closed that wide nose of his that was breathing up all the white man’s air!!
June 26th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Listened to today’s deadcast *rimshot* and pretty sure Jim Brown would say everyone from top to bottom in this ordeal is a bunch of pussies “at least that’s what he would say when he was younger, maybe female genitalia, but now, no, he thinks he’ll just look at you all and you know what you are… pussies.”
June 26th, 2009 at 12:21 am
The fickle yet powerful court of public opinion is not limited to American citizens.
Michael Jackson is simply the greatest entertainer we have seen in some time and he will be near impossible to replace. Only John Lennon and a few others rise to that level.
Genius and tortured souls go hand in hand. Mere mortals who think getting a free drink at the local tavern or a sloppy hand job at the company party is an exercise in power should take note of true creative genius.
R.I.P.
/dick joke
June 26th, 2009 at 12:25 am
I’m kind of split on this. On the one hand, he was a talented performer who wrote some of the best music of my childhood. On the other, he was most likely a pederast. A talented and groovy pederast, but a pederast nonetheless. The King of Pop as I remember him died a long time ago. I think his deal with the devil just came due.
/Dick Joke
/Skin Bleaching Joke
June 26th, 2009 at 12:43 am
“Jim Brown would say everyone from top to bottom in this ordeal is a bunch of pussies “
Are we talking about the same Jim Brown who pussied his way out of the NFL and went to Hollywood to make shit awful movies that no one could tolerate from start to finish. The only guy I know who pulls bigger bitch outs is Tomlinson come playoff time.
/I’m Gonna Get You Sucka
June 26th, 2009 at 12:55 am
Boy, this thread turned cruel and tragic.
I do know he was a once-in-a-generation talent, and no one since him has had anything close to the impact he had on popular culture through his music. It holds up to this day, and my future kids will think its good, because it’ll still be good. MJ, Elvis, and The Beatles pretty much stand alone at the top of that mountain.
On the other hand, I don’t know what the hell to make of him as a person. He was obviously conflicted. If he touched kids, would I be surprised? Hell no. But there’s something about him that makes me think he’s just so god damn weird that he really just thought he could be a child for his whole life, and maybe he really didn’t do what they said he did.
Either way, Farrah Fawcett got deathpwned.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:34 am
he made thriller man…thriller
June 26th, 2009 at 2:45 am
No Farrah Fawcett asshole jokes yet?
/dick joke
/anal cancer joke
June 26th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Today sucks, there is no appropriate joke for right now.
“What’s a “pederast”, Walter?”
June 26th, 2009 at 3:40 am
Oh here, let me google that for you
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pederast
Don’t forget about Farrah Fawcett.
MJ will be talked and argued about probably forever. His story is so sad and twisted that the best thing to do is probably just listen to the music.
Racism is a problem at an individual level, BB’s Mop. Framing it as a large-scale, historical, socio-political issue does nothing but harm, ever. You’re painting with broad strokes: precisely what you’re professing to abhor when you speak out against “people who say get over slavery…”. If the problem of bigotry is the association, leading from ignorance, of every member of a particular group with certain negative characteristics, then you can never combat it by lashing out against a group of people AS A GROUP. You’ve just sunk to clayton bigsby’s level.
The solution is individual interaction. Too bad this is the fucking internet…
June 26th, 2009 at 3:44 am
“Elvis Presley rape little boys?”
He fucked a 14 year old girl, close enough.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:38 am
Slavery? last happened in America 144 years ago. (6 generations ago).
Terrorist attacks against the USA on 9/11? Happened ALMOST 8 years ago.
Discrimination against the Irish? Ongoing.
Piss off,
Arm
June 26th, 2009 at 6:06 am
Well, at least he wasn’t the PETER King of pop.
June 26th, 2009 at 7:00 am
@H.C. Prick- SHUT THE FUCK UP DONNY, YOU’RE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT!!
June 26th, 2009 at 7:03 am
(maybe someone should google “The Big Lebowski” for Statutory Grape)
June 26th, 2009 at 8:29 am
a child abusing, drug addicted singer dying is not a tragedy. it is an incident, a notable passing, but nothing more. He impacted Pop Culture, which is tantamount to saying he added noise to the background, he added lights and fireworks to an already crowded and smoky show. so he is dead? so what? fuck him and his silicone nose.
June 26th, 2009 at 8:52 am
“Discrimination against the Irish? Ongoing.”
Not picking a flawa with you arm, but…REALLY!?!??! Unless you’re living in England, but come on guy.
ps. Bubby FTL
June 26th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Boy, this thread turned cruel and tragic.
As cruel and tragic as Farva’s shenanigans?
June 26th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Apparently MJ died of a genetic disease…he had the Billie Gene. *rimshot*
June 26th, 2009 at 10:04 am
…so then I guess he can’t blame this on the boogie.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Now we are persecuting OchoCinco. Thanks a lot Bin Laden!!!!
June 26th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Poor guy commited suicide when he reailsed Boyz 2 Men wasn’t a delivery service
June 26th, 2009 at 10:54 am
I also heard he might have died of food poisoning. Apparently he ate 12 year old nuts. Then the EMTs accidentally rushed him to the children’s ward and he had a stroke.
/I’ll be here all day, people.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Did you guys hear that Farrah Fawcett died yesterday? She went to heaven & she was given one wish. She said, “I just want for children all over the world to be safe”… we know what happened next!!
June 26th, 2009 at 11:44 am
@ Ghost Mutt: You, sir, are going to hell. And I’ll see you there because I just laughed my ass off at “Boyz 2 Men”
June 26th, 2009 at 11:47 am
RE Bubby Brister’s Mop: Really?
What Chad said/wrote was fucking retarded. I’m not one of those “9/11! 9/11! 9/11!” assholes, but comparing the death of a celebrity to any kind of large-scale terrorist attack and implying that they are in any way equally upsetting is the work of a learning-impaired (not to mention perspective-impaired) person.
I’m surprised to see so many black people embracing Michael Jackson in death, seeing as how he went to such great lengths to NOT look like a black man. Seeing the progression of photos of Jackson from when he was younger (black, attractive) to recently (not-black, creepy as fuck) is sad. Also, the fact that all 3 of his kids’ names contain his name, even the girl’s. No self-absorption there.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
ABC…easy as 123… I say, honey,do re me,ABC, that’s how easy kids can be…
/ hope he burns in hell
June 26th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
-Go back home, ya dagnab fereigner… you just love it or leave it ya hear? If there’s one good thing I can say about that Mikey Jackson it’s this… at least he closed that wide nose of his that was breathing up all the white man’s air!!
—————————
White power…
June 26th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
anybody that is defending this creep is fucked up…. if you sent your 10 year old son over to my house so i could babysit him, and the next day you said “so johnny, what did you and uncle stevie do last night”, “oh, we slept under the covers together naked”. you know you’d have the cops on the way and maybe they got there before you shot me!!
come on folks, i don’t care if he wrote the greatest tunes in the world (and he did NOT), he was a fucking pedophile!!!!!!!
June 26th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
“come on folks, i don’t care if he wrote the greatest tunes in the world (and he did NOT), he was a fucking pedophile!!!!!!!”
Amen Brother!
June 26th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
PedoFlaWa!
June 27th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Tito’s gonna get rich selling all of Mikey’s kiddie porn to the Russian Mafia…
June 29th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
The 2006 Bears season was the best year of my life, but 2009 with Wacko Jacko gone?