JOHN STOSSEL LEAVES 20/20 AFTER 28 YEARS
MICHAEL JACKSON'S SISTER SPEAKS OUT ON 20/20
I have to admit, most of the time I have really enjoyed John
Stossel over the last 28 years on ABC 20/20.
On this day of September 11th 2009, which is also my 67th
birthday, John S. is leaving 20/20.
I've already posted on this Website that I recommend you have his
book "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity" (published 2006). It
blows away many of the myths, lies, and stupidity, of things put
before us. He has over the years been a one man crusade against
myths, lies, and stupidity.
John Stossel is not retiring and putting up his feet, he's just
moving house. He's going over to Fox News, where he will have his
own show, and you can bet he'll dig up and bury many more myths,
lies, and stupidity, that's all around us out there.
So go to it John - get out the shovel - and get digging!!
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She looks like him, her brother Michael Jackson, so much so it is
somewhat "creepy." It was an interesting interview by M.J's
sister.
I have never paid much attention at all, ever, to Michael
Jackson, not as a boy, or as a man. I watched the snippets of old
pictures and film clips that the interview flipped up on the
screen. Michael was really a nice looking black fellow in his
boyhood and young manhood. I well remember Cassias Clay - Ali the
boxing champion, telling us how pretty he was, when he was coming
on the world scene, and yes, he was a fine looking black guy. Ali
did not have to go to some wild extreme to get "closer" to the
white faced population. Personally I think Jackson made himself
freaky ugly in trying to be a "white man." He was much nicer
looking as a black man. Okay, some will say he had this strange
skin disorder that takes the pigment away from black skin, so he
may have become "white" by some act of nature, but even as a white
guy, he painted himself up at times to look far from goodlooking -
well in my opinion.
Jackson and apparently his family were "Jehovah Witnesses" - well
of sorts I guess, so the interview said.
Jackson's sister gave her side and thoughts about the "person"
Jackson was here and there, and okay I'll give the benefit of the
doubt on parts of it, and say it was true, the "good stuff" she
had to say (actually she had nothing bad to say about him, except
she admitted he was a drug addict).
She said, when asked, by Barbara Walters, that the family, and
especially her Dad, did try over and over to get M.J. off drugs,
to no avail it would seem. Yes, she believes he was murdered,
saying Michael once said to her, "They'll try to kill me." She
believes her brother was manipulated by this group or power, or
manager, booking agent, etc.etc.
According to her, and could be well true, his children loved him
deeply, still love him deeply. She claims, could well be so, that
he was a terrific Dad to his children.
Jackson's sister blew me away when she claimed her brother was
the closest to a "god (maybe she was in her mind using a capital
"G") like figure that she ever knew."
Well I'm sure lots more will be written and shown in this book and
that book, this interview and that interview, about Michael
Jackson.
I don't doubt he had insomnia - I have it. But it seems he was on
mighty higher stuff and many more "drugs" of this or that, to combat
insomnia, and whatever else he had to fight in body and mind. When
you hear of all the drugs he was given that night and morning, to get
him to sleep (the last one I think they said was given at 10 am), then
you can see why his heart stopped beating. Will his live in doctor
face "charges" and be given some kind of punishment? Well time will
only tell.
To me Jackson was like Elvis, they both lost their path along the
way, got hooked on various drugs, got twisted up in their mind,
and could not pull themselves out of the maze, would not let
anyone in to help them out of the pit they had dug themselves
into. I guess they both could have been long lasting entertaining
stars into old age, and if they had contained themselves in mind
and body, what a lasting role model of human goodness they could
have been for many generations to come. In the ever corrupt world
today it seems few super-stars have not corrupted themselves in
one way or another.
Talking about music, if you can get your children enjoying say
Disney's "High School Musical" 1, 2, 3, and "High School Musical -
the Concert" maybe they'll enjoy some of the old musical movies of
yesterday, like "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" - "Sound of Music"
- the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movies - some of the great
Roy Rogers/Dale Evans/Sons of the Pioneers movies (the ones with
lots of singing and dancing - go on the RoyRogers.com Website and ask
for the ones with the lots of singing and dancing) of "cowboy fame."
They might enjoy movies like "Son of Paleface" (Bob Hope/Roy
Rogers/Jane Russel/Trigger), a great musical, with great comedy and
second Trigger doing some fancy tricks.
Also there is the classic "Singing in the Rain" with Gene Kelly,
and some fine ones with Marylin Monroe like "Some Like it Hot"
and "There's No Business Like Show Business" and the great one
with Monroe and Jane Russell "Gentlemen Prefer Blones" .....
Oh I cannot forget the more recent "Mr.Holland's Opus" with Richard
Dreyfus - super good also. There's more ... "Prairie Home Companion" -
"Carousel" with Gordon Macrae and Shirley Jones - "Shall we Dance"
with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez - "Dream Girls" the smash hit of
2006 - "The Phantom of the Opera" (2004 Warner Brothers). Oh and yes,
"Selena" with Jennifer Lopez, a 1997 Warner Bros.movie - the true life
story of the rise and death of the famous young Mexican singer.
Well give it a try, at least they'll have some contact with
something other than today's "rapid often profane rap" - "I'm in the
blues again wailing country" - "same sound, one after the other pop"
(I was in the public swimming pool the other night for an hour and a half,
the radio station was pumping out the same beat and same vocal sound
over and over, each song sounding like the previous one - talk about
boring and nerve shattering), and "screaming and shouting heavy metal" -
all of which is going to come at 'em out of here and out of there.
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To be continued from time to time
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