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4 Sep 2024 13:20:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Michael Jackson  
From: Neeum Zawan
Date: 26 Jan 2010 17:41:37
Message: <4b5f6fa1$1@news.povray.org>
On 01/26/10 12:07, Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:
> I'm confused.
> 
> 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 must not have been on the newsgroups when it happened. Certainly,
the "everyone knew it" claim is quite questionable.

> 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?

	You do realize he still had a huge number of fans prior to his death,
right?


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