"Jeremy \"UncleHoot\" Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecmo> wrote:
> In June of 2009, Michael Jackson was a complete joke.  He was a pedophile 
> who got away with it, and everyone "knew" it.  All of his musical 
> accomplishments were largely forgotten, or swept under the rug.

  You are seeing only one side of it. The internet and tabloids were full
of MJ jokes (and outright insults), but those were just a vocal minority.

  If *everybody* (or even the majority) had thought he was a complete joke,
his albums wouldn't have sold as much as they did.

> For the next 2 months, he was on TV every single day, often MTV or VH1, but 
> nearly every day, someone was running a special about him on some channel. 
> Someone put together a movie.  You'd hear his songs being played in cars as 
> they drove by.  Suddenly, it was perfectly ok to like Michael Jackson again 
> without being laughed at.  Why?

  Because making jokes about a dead person is considered a faux pas.

  Also, the majority who appreciated MJ are now more vocal than the minority
who laughed at him.

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