Just call me Whoopi "Sneaker" Goldberg.

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Why MJ Should Be Cut Some Slack.

His philanthropy. Michael Jackson ~ has donated more than USD$300 million to various foundations.  Not content to just write a check, Jackson visited hospitals and orphanages personally. 

Although Jackson holds numerous Guinness World Records including the most Grammy Awards won in a year, most hit singles in the UK charts in a year, best selling album of all time, longest span of No.1 hits by an R&B artist, best selling music video, highest annual earnings ever for a pop star, and most successful pop music family, he is also the highest-donating artist to-date of money to charities and foundations, currently at more than $300 million dollars.

His music, especially in later years, is about peace, harmony, self-accountability, tolerance and love.

His latest tour was not a commercial-glitzy project.  The memorial featured a song from his up-coming tour.  A banner descends on stage which contains the symbols of all religions — and the theme of the song was coexistence.  The lyrics to one of his other newly-written songs were about protecting the Earth for future generations.

He was picked on unmercifully and used as fodder for tabloid stories such as “Jackson Mates with Alien” which is unfair and above the pale.

The Kennedys and others have been judged for their professional achievements and not their personal moral lapses.  Michael Jackson should be granted that same privilege.

The article By GORDON SMART /Bizarre Editor is quite the example of bad taste and poor journalism.  He praises SHAHEEN JAFARGHOLI performance, yet he overlooks the fact that the performance was a COMMERCIAL aspect of the memorial.  Nearly everyone else had a long term, personal relationship with the deceased. Jafargholi just happen to win a singing contest, and, coincidently happened to be from the UK.  He was completely out of place at the memorial!

The old "Hitler" comparison is lame.  That’s what people pull out when they have no legitimate rebuttal.  Nobody has first hand knowledge of what Michael Jackson did.  You are all going by news reports that have been edited in the most salacious fashion possible to provide provocative television and print media, in order to sell advertising.

I saw a program done by a "rebutable" news program when Jon Bene Ramsey was murdered.  They interviewed a female FBI agent who was one of the first to arrive at the crime scene.  She reported that "I knew I was looking into the eyes of the killer" when she was speaking with the father, John Ramsey.  Most people who watched that show believed the father killed his daughter.   It’s time to stop being sheep, led about by the media.   Unless you have first hand knowledge of Michael Jackson’s molesting of a child I suggest you respect the dead.  Unlike your reference to Hitler whose attrocities are documented throughout history books.

It is time for all of us to pondet the idea of whether our idea of MJ as a child molester is something that is based on facts or whether it is based on media reports that have been produced in a manner as to lead us to that conclusion.  I myself have seennews stories about parents that have missing children which make the viewer believe the parents are guilty of killing their own children.  Later on we find out the truth is that the parents are completely innocent.  Think of John and Patsy Ramsey.  Most people who followed the story thought that they were guilty.

MJ was found innocent in a court of law, yet up until his death I had labeled him as guilty.  In fact, when his music came on the radio I would turn the dial.  Now I wonder if he truly was guilty or if I was just a sucker for the machine called the media.