Orange County Register

 20 Comments

• Paula says:

  June 29, 2009 at 9:17 am

  Is the passing of Michael Jackson the most important thing in the news? I really think the economy, Iran and North Korea are more important! Enough with the Michael Jackson stuff - he wasn’t God or a saint -
• michelle says:

  June 29, 2009 at 9:59 am

  I agree with Paula, why are we celebrating a child molester who in the last 15 years hasn’t done anything other than make a fool of himself and not pay his bills. If he hadn’t had some hit records he would have died in jail.
• Ralph says:

  June 29, 2009 at 1:42 pm

  Well Michelle - how quick you are to label this individual with such distasteful slander. Your opinion of an assumed act was proven false by a jury of 12. Regardless of our opinion regarding his negative past, overall, his legacy has meaning to many world wide. Secondly, theres no indifference from an average family vs a wealthy celebrity when it comes to debt. Every household has experience(d) financial hardship. What Im most appalled by, is how the media star spagled his death, yet Farrahs death, the resulting of anal cancer was washed down the gutter. Its unfortunate how the media selects which stories to cover to raise their viewer ratings.
  • michelle says:

    June 30, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    Rich and famous people get by 12 juror all the time, I think you need to look up and see how many children and their families he paid off. I say again if he wasn’t famous he would have died in Jail.
    • pizza lover says:

      June 30, 2009 at 3:38 pm

      Get a life MIchelle! Who are you to judge. I bet if someone looked into your past,there would be a few things you’d be ashamed of. Dead/alive his life is more important than anything you could do.
• ocwasp says:

  June 29, 2009 at 1:47 pm

  Funny how the media, who lambasted him for years, is now treating him like a saint. Paula has it right.
• Paula says:

  June 29, 2009 at 2:32 pm

  Its hard to tell the “legitimate news” from the tabloids! After watching a special on Farrah Fawcett last Friday night - I have to say, she was a real lady - and I wish I could have gotten to know her. People with cancer wrote to her about their cancer and she actually responded to them - I really hope - and I feel that she is in heaven!
• Me says:

  June 29, 2009 at 3:04 pm

  An American soldier died today (6-24-09).
  I do not know his name.
  His country called him and he answered with his life.
  He did not squander hundreds of millions of dollars
  nor did he sleep with little boys.
  Was he acknowledged on the news?
  Was his picture on national television?

  An American soldier died today.
  I do not know his name.
  He is the one the nation should be mourning,
  I will mourn for him and his family.
  I will remember him and his sacrifice!
• Tyrone says:

  June 29, 2009 at 3:18 pm

  Michael is dead - so the biggest losers come out of the woodwork like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. WTF do they need them for?

  Our country is being destroyed by our politicians, Nancy Pelosi uses more fuel in a week than 60 people use in a year and she wants us to ‘decrease our carbon footprine’, and our economy is unraveling as fast as we throw ‘recovery’ money at it and all we care about is Michael?

  Remember, Obama is a racist communist who hates America, American dreams and ideals, the US Constitution, and American citizens. He especially despises those foolish enough to have voted for him.

  PS - I don’t think MJ had plastic surgery - it was a skin condition.
• Tyrone says:

  June 29, 2009 at 3:19 pm

  sorry - ‘footprint’
• Bluewaterbabies says:

  June 29, 2009 at 3:42 pm

  I think I have heard enough about Michael Jackson. Although I believe every life has value, and sadly no one could help this poor man/boy get his life together, the gift of life he was given is over. Everyone, even Michael Jackson had choices, and he squandered his life for money. It surely proves money bought him nothing of lasting value and important core values were absent. God Bless his soul, but let’s not sensationalize and make a new buck on what is left, a sad legacy and even sadder reason for demise.
• JadedintheOC says:

  June 29, 2009 at 3:50 pm

  Touche’ ! Me -

  Those are the REAL heroes. They are the reason we can say and write our opinions without being prosecuted or shot in the street like they are in Iraq.

  God bless our men and women who defend our freedoms everyday.
• CosmeticSurg says:

  June 29, 2009 at 3:56 pm

  hello Colin,

  There was a very slippery slope in terms of plastic surgery following the Pepsi commercial. MJ was treated by Dr. Hoefflin for the burn injury in the commercial, and then Hoefflin went on to perform multiple nose surgeries during the next few years. Everybody knows the obsession created a awful looking nose, but not many realize that there may have been a function impairment.

  The multiple surgeries probably caused internal valve collapse with associated breathing problems.Dr. Rodriguez will release a video blog on his topic tomorrow.

  Stay tuned at http://www.cosmeticsurg.net/blog

  leeza rodriguez (ms)
• Reese says:

  June 29, 2009 at 6:29 pm

  Americans are stupid. The media gives us what we want to see and hear. The founding fathers would puke if they could see us now.
• VEGAS MAN says:

  June 29, 2009 at 9:19 pm

  DEAR “ME SAYS”

  THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT VERSE, WHO CARES ABOUT MJ FF OR THE OTHERS, LET REALLY PRAY FOR OUR FALLEN SOLDIERS WHO PUT THERE LIVES ON THE LINE SO WE CAN SAY WE LIVE IN THE USA… GOD BLES THE ARM FORCES
• okay says:

  June 30, 2009 at 3:43 pm

  There’s a demand for MJ information. CNN specifically has beeen attacked for airing more stuff on MJ life and death than the whole Iran situation. This is based on when people tune in and tune out. I’ll bet the majority of commenters here are tuning in day and night!!
• Reese says:

  June 30, 2009 at 8:52 pm

  See what I mean!
• Julia says:

  July 2, 2009 at 11:10 am

  I think it’s sad how some people just won’t let anyone rest in peace. Micheal Jackson no matter what was one of the best preformers ever why can’t people just remember that. He was never conficted of anything.Yes he was strange in many way but have any of you wondered what made him the way he was. He was an abused child he never had a childhood, his father ruled his life and the lifes of his brothers and sisters I just think before people judge him they should learn more about the life he lived, It wasn’t a happy one he was very sad and lonely even when he was on stage you could see the sadness in his eyes. I wonder how many of you that jump so quick to judge him would have turned out had you grew up in his shoes I wonder how normal you would be. If you haven’t walked in his shoes then don’t judge him because you have no idea what you would have done if your life was like his was. All I am saying is he was a brillant preformer and that’s what we should all remember right now and let the man rest in peace because he never had peace on earth.
• shahinaz says:

  July 19, 2009 at 8:23 am

  I love micheal jackson sooooo much and i live in the middle east in egypt and we love him sooooooooooo much
• dora says:

  August 1, 2009 at 8:33 pm

  Mike was evryones inspiration,so how can they leave him alone.They wanna know more n more abt him,jst like me.Hey do u ppl know whos the mother of BLANKET?
  RIP=MIKE
  hey isnt it interesting tht he became a muslim.GOD BLESS EM.