Statement by Grace Rwaramba Regarding Michael Jackson

The following statement is by Grace Rwaramba:

June 30th, 2009

“Michael Jackson was an exceptional Human Being. He was gifted, deeply compassionate and brought joy to the lives of so many. He loved his family dearly, and above all, his beautiful children.

In addition to being my employer over the past 17 years and entrusting the care of his beloved children to me, he was my dear friend. While our friendship had challenges, as do all friendships, he was loyal to the end. I cherish and honor his memory.

I am shocked, hurt and deeply saddened by recent statements the press has attributed to me, in particular, the outrageous and patently false claim that I “routinely pumped his stomach after he had ingested a dangerous combination of drugs". I don’t even know how to pump a stomach!! In addition, I have never spoken to the Times Online, the original source of the story that has now been picked up worldwide. The statements attributed to me confirm the worst in human tendencies to sensationalize tragedy and smear reputations for profit.

I convey my heartfelt and deepest condolences to Prince, Paris, Blanket and the entire Jackson family. The pain and sorrow I feel over the loss of Michael pales in comparison to what has been taken from them forever.”

- Grace Rwaramba

Dr said Michael wanted sleep help. He requested an IV to be inserted to put him to sleep!

http://www.comcast.net/vi...1168692805

Chic35 said:

Even if he did, its the responsibility of the Doctor to say no.

MJ is a stubborn man. They were so many ways to get help for the problems he had and he never wanted to accepted anybody's help.

That's why he's now gone.

Painkillers were not the only way out for his problems

He needed a full-time Personal Counsellor.
[Edited 6/30/09 15:41pm]

I agree with you on that! That was the addict in Michael talking. The Painkiller abuse is on the RISE it is NO JOKE! That would explain some of his outrageous public behavior. Not every doctor was an enabler to Michael, but some were for the almighty dollar.

CLR said:

Its him

http://www.bittenandbound...dy-photos/

Can somebody confirm whether he truly converted to Islam or not? I'm really curious about this.

There were WILD speculations about that when he lived there(between Bahrain & Dubai), nothing was confirmed though. He even seeked Minister Louis Farrakhan's spiritual guidance during the whole fiasco against Sony and even seeked the Nation Of Islam's protection at some point, can't remember why.

Can somebody set the record str8?

Jacko: $48,000 A Month in Prescriptions

Monday, June 29, 2009
Music / By Roger Friedman
Tags: Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson was spending $48,000 a month in prescriptions, according to my sources. The print-outs of the bills are said to come in eye-opening stacks.

The prescriptions were written mostly by his dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein of Beverly Hills. They were mostly filled at his local drug store, Mickey Fine Pharmacy, also of Beverly Hills.

The list of drugs, which was read to me in part, was staggering. Many of the prescriptions were not made out to Jackson but to aides, nurses, other people who worked for him, and, primarily, to a person called Omar Adams. I’ve learned from another source that “Omar Adams” was a name that Jackson made up for a fictitious alter ego.

None of this should come as a surprise. Back in July 2002, I published a story about Jackson’s monthly spending that rocked his world. Included in legal papers for a lawsuit filed against him by an ex-manager was Jackson’s monthly budget for the fall of 2001. The story can be found here.

At the time, Jackson owed Dr.Klein $25,000 and Mickey Fine Pharmacy $10,000. A few years later, the pharmacy sued Jackson for arrears on his account. They said they’d been making his skin-whitening cream and he wasn’t paying for it.

Sources say that the police have now in their possession many vials of various drugs prescribed by Dr. Klein. That should be good news for Jackson’s recent personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, the doctor who was on the scene when Jackson died.

In a story yesterday I quoted a Jackson insider as saying, by the way, that they thought Dr. Murray was introduced to Jackson by his manager of 2008-2009, Tohme R. Tohme. However, Mr. Tohme’s friends insist that he not only didn’t introduce the two, but that he never even met Dr. Murray or had heard of him. So there.

Other doctors may be involved. Back in 2002, another doctor, a lupus specialist named Dr. Allan Metzger was owed $20,000. Jackson suffered from lupus, a chronic inflammatory disease, although he denied it.

More to come, as they say.

A Few Thoughts

- Joe Jackson is a fucking disgusting asshole! WOW you clearly see the depth of why MJ tried to erase his fathers looks from his face with surgey... OMG what an asshole, promoting a bunch of shitty acts that will never hit a couple days after your son dies.

- Jackson Family are only out for money you can see the wheels turning already, yet another clue of why MJ ignored these people. It is just going to get worse.

- MJ so called "talent" was celecrated from Thursday - Sunday... NOW we are seeing that his "jacko" was more important and we will see the "jacko stories" for another 50 years. They were running out of "talent juice" by Saturday morning.

- Just a thought - no proof.. but "maybe" MJ killed himself when he finally realized that he couldn't even dance anymore. Maybe he got it all together for 1 show, realized "fuck I cant do this anymore, sure I have lip synced, but I could still dance in the past... NOW I can't even do that well not for the long haul" and then well killed himself??? He knew they filmed the one show and then like Charles Schultz the creator of Charlie Brown "died" the exact day the last comic strip of peanuts was released to the public. I got a (slight) feeling maybe MJ did the samething when HE realized HE was over!

- It was nice to see Music Videos again!! OMG maybe this will make these "music" shows realize to show MUSIC VIDEOS every weekend! I am so tired of reality tv shows on VH1 & MTV.

- Fix Up Neverland and make it into a Graceland.

- Like I have said for 15+ years on here... The "yes men" would kill MJ. His family, his hanger-on people, his online fans ALL ignore simple easy signs and now the guy is dead at 50 years old. This wasn't hard to call, but it was ignore by all these groups for their own gains. Sometimes you have to say NO and stick by that even if that is the last time your a blood sucker using someone for something.

- The BAD video sucked! No concept, terrible directing and camera movement.Having that video as the first release was a stupid move, the song might be his worst....another thing MJ wanted Prince in the video would have been dumb. Who caught the moment where one of Wesley's friends laughed like Moris Day. MJ clearly bleached himself in 1987 to look like Prince from 1984. That was his downfall wanting to "be" Prince. The mysterous personality, the surgey, the hair, the skin from BAD was well Purple Rain/Prince. The original album cover.

Harlepolis said:

Michael became a born again Christian 3 weeks before he died

Roger Friedman says something about Dr. Klein

http://www.showbiz411.com/

The Real Jackson “Baby Daddy”? The Dermatologist! And Cops Like Him for Prescription Fraud

by Diane on June 30, 2009
Mom and the King of Pop - but not the Pop of the Kids

Those of us who’ve covered the Michael Jackson beat have long known that Michael Jackson’s children are NOT biologically related to him. I’ve been saying that on national television since the death of the King of Pop. I think the kids now deserve to know their true lineage.

A few of us reporters actually knew the identity of the sperm donor who entered into a three way agreement with Jackson and Debbie Rowe to create the two oldest Jackson children. On Entertainment Tonight and the Insider I challenged the sperm donor to come forward and help out the children since biological Mom Debby Rowe seems disinterested in them.

Today the latest bombshell in this fast moving story….Us Weekly Magazine and reporter Ian Drew had the guts to go for it.
Dr. "Baby Daddy" Klein

Dr. "Baby Daddy" Klein

The kids real daddy is Michael Jackson’s long time Dermatologist, Dr. Arnie Klein. Oh, and BTW, the long time nurse at Klein’s office was Debbie Rowe. That’s how all three of them came together in the first place.

Today, US Weekly Magazine and reporter Ian Drew had the guts to go for it and reveal that the REAL baby Daddy of Prince Michael and Paris Katherine is none other than Jacko’s long time dermatologist - the man who invented his favorite skin bleaching cream - Dr. Arnie Klein….

Though Michael Jackson was wed to Prince and Paris’ mother, Debbie Rowe, their biological father is Arnold Klein, Jackson’s L.A.-based dermatologist and Rowe’s former boss, multiple sources confirm to the new issue of Us Weekly.:He is the dad,” says a Jackson insider. “He and Debbie signed an agreement saying they would never reveal the truth.” via News - EXCLUSIVE: Dermatologist Is Father of Michael Jackson’s Kids | Usmagazine.com.

Klein has always had a lucrative Beverly Hills practice - he doesn’t necessarily need the money that would come with custody of the children - and as far as I know he has no connection to the third child known as “Blanket” - but hey, who knows?

But Klein probably isn’t quick to jump into the custody fray for several other reasons. First his gay lifestyle would have to change dramatically if three kids (or even two) suddenly came on the scene. And maybe more immediate in his mind: The cops like him for one of the doctors (if not THE primary doctor) who wrote all those prescriptions for Michael Jackson’s narcotics over the years. Klein lawyered up shortly after Jackson’s death. He’s closed his practice for now and is set to talk to the cops (if he hasn’t already - timing in L.A. L.A. Land is always mercurial)

My sources tell me Klein had devised a whole prescription scheme for his most famous client. Using the random name of Jacko friends, bodyguards or just made up names Klein would call in prescriptions to Mickey Fine’s Pharmacy right there on the premises. All of the prescriptions were then charged to Michael Jackson’s account. Fine sued Jackson back in 2007 for a staggering $100, 000.00 dollar unpaid balance for prescription drugs. Its reported that Jackson paid for 48 thousand dollars in drugs in just one month.

Yep, he may be unmasked as the Baby Daddy now - but Dr. Klein has a whole lot more to worry about than that.

Oh, - and BTW - I don’t think that report on TMZ about Debbie Rowe NOT being the mother is correct.

Something interesting just occurred to me:

Throughout his career, Michael has been produced by a slew of the most popular and/or successful producers of the last 40 years. Think about it:

The Corporation, Hal Davis, Gamble & Huff, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, George Martin, Teddy Riley, Babyface, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, R. Kelly, Rodney Jerkins, Walter Afanasieff, Robin Thicke...

That's a pretty impressive list!

Nutritionist: Michael Jackson begged for sedative

By LYNN ELBER – 8 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson was so distraught over persistent insomnia in recent months that he pleaded for a powerful sedative despite warnings it could be harmful, says a nutritionist who was working with the singer as he prepared his comeback bid.

Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse whose specialty includes nutritional counseling, said Tuesday that she repeatedly rejected his demands for the drug, Diprivan, which is given intravenously.

But a frantic phone call she received from Jackson four days before his death made her fear that he somehow obtained Diprivan or another drug to induce sleep, Lee said.

While in Florida on June 21, Lee was contacted by a member of Jackson's staff.

"He called and was very frantic and said, `Michael needs to see you right away.' I said, 'What's wrong?' And I could hear Michael in the background ..., 'One side of my body is hot, it's hot, and one side of my body is cold. It's very cold,'" Lee said.

"I said, `Tell him he needs to go the hospital. I don't know what's going on, but he needs to go to the hospital ... right away."

"At that point I knew that somebody had given him something that hit the central nervous system," she said, adding, "He was in trouble Sunday and he was crying out."

Jackson did not go to the hospital. He died June 25 after suffering cardiac arrest, his family said. Autopsies have been conducted, but an official cause of death is not expected for several weeks.

"I don't know what happened there. The only thing I can say is he was adamant about this drug," Lee said.

Following Jackson's death, allegations emerged that the 50-year-old King of Pop had been consuming painkillers, sedatives and antidepressants. But Lee said she encountered a man tortured by sleep deprivation and one who expressed opposition to recreational drug use.

"He wasn't looking to get high or feel good and sedated from drugs," she said. "This was a person who was not on drugs. This was a person who was seeking help, desperately, to get some sleep, to get some rest."

Jackson was rehearsing hard for what would have been his big comeback — his "This Is It" tour, a series of performances that would have strained his aging dancer's body. Also, pain had been a part of his life since 1984, when his scalp was severely burned during a Pepsi commercial shoot.

Several months ago, Jackson had begun badgering Lee about Diprivan, also known as Propofol, Lee said. It is an intravenous anesthetic drug widely used in operating rooms to induce unconsciousness. It is generally given through an IV needle in the hand.

Patients given Propofol take less time to regain consciousness than those administered certain other drugs, and they report waking up more clear-headed and refreshed, said University of Chicago psychopharmacologist James Zacny.

It has also been implicated in drug abuse, with people using it to "chill out" or to commit suicide, Zacny said. Accidental deaths linked to abuse have been reported. The powerful drug has a very narrow therapeutic window, meaning it doesn't take doses much larger than the medically recommended amount to stop a person's breathing.

An overdose that stops breathing can result in a buildup of carbon dioxide, causing the heart to beat erratically and leading to cardiac arrest, said Dr. John Dombrowski, a member of the board of directors of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Because it is given intravenously and is not the kind of prescription drug typically available from pharmacists, abuse cases have involved anesthesiologists, nurses and other hospital staffers with easy access to the drug, Zacny said.

In recent months, Lee said, Jackson waved away her warnings about it.

"I had an IV and when it hit my vein, I was sleeping. That's what I want," Lee said Jackson told her.

"I said, 'Michael, the only problem with you taking this medication' — and I had a chill in my body and tears in my eyes three months ago — 'the only problem is you're going to take it and you're not going to wake up," she recalled.

According to Lee, Jackson said it had been given to him before but he didn't want to discuss the circumstances or identify the doctor involved.

The singer also drew his own distinctions when it came to drugs versus prescription medicine.

"He said, `I don't like drugs. I don't want any drugs. My doctor told me this is a safe medicine,'" Lee said. The next day, she said she brought a copy of the Physician's Desk Reference to show him the section on Diprivan.

"He said, 'No, my doctor said it's safe. It works quick and it's safe as long as somebody's here to monitor me and wake me up. It's going be OK,'" Lee said. She said he did not give the doctor's name.

Lee said at one point, she spent the night with Jackson to monitor him while he slept. She said she gave him herbal remedies and stayed in a corner chair in his vast bedroom.

After he settled in bed, Lee told Jackson to turn down the lights and music — he had classical music playing in the house. "He also had a computer on the bed because he loved Walt Disney," she said. "He was watching Donald Duck and it was ongoing. I said, `Maybe if we put on softer music,' and he said, `No, this is how I go to sleep.'"

Three and a half hours later, Jackson jumped up and looked at Lee, eyes wide open, according to Lee. "This is what happens to me," she quoted him as saying. "All I want is to be able to sleep. I want to be able to sleep eight hours. I know I'll feel better the next day."

Lee, 56, is licensed as a registered nurse and nurse practitioner in California, according to the state Board of Registered Nursing's Web site. She attended Los Angeles Southwest College and the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Sciences in Los Angeles.

Comedian Dick Gregory, who knows Lee and her work, said he believes Jackson's insomnia had its roots in the pop star's 2005 trial on child molestation charges. Jackson's health had deteriorated so much that his parents called Gregory, a natural foods proponent, for help.

Gregory said Jackson wasn't eating or drinking at the time, and after he was persuaded by Gregory to undergo testing, ended up hospitalized for severe dehydration.

But Jackson obviously was healthy enough to withstand the level of medical scrutiny needed to insure him for the upcoming high-stakes London concerts, Gregory said. "That you don't trick," he said of the exams.

Lee, who has also worked with Stevie Wonder, Marla Gibbs, Reynaldo Rey and other celebrities, said she was introduced to Jackson by the mother of one of his staff members. Jackson's three children had minor cold symptoms and their pediatrician was out of town.

Lee said she went to the house in January, the first of about 10 visits there through April, and treated the children with vitamins. Michael, intrigued, asked what else she did and took her up on her claim she could boost his energy.

After running blood tests, she devised protein shakes for him and gave him an intravenous vitamin and mineral mixture — known as a "Myers cocktail," after Dr. John Myers — which Lee said she uses routinely in her practice.

"It wasn't that he felt sick," she said. "He just wanted more energy."

Lee said she decided to speak out to protect Jackson's reputation from what she considers unfounded allegations of drug abuse or shortcomings as a parent.

"I think it's so wrong for people to say these things about him," she said. "He was a wonderful, loving father who wanted the best for his children."

AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner in Chicago and AP Television Writer David Bauder in New York contributed to this report.

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MJ clearly bleached himself in 1987 to look like Prince from 1984. That was his downfall wanting to "be" Prince. The mysterous personality, the surgey, the hair, the skin from BAD was well Purple Rain/Prince. The original album cover.

AlexdeParis said:

What did Walter Afanasieff produce for him? :hmm2

When the bulletin that Michael Jackson had died flashed across the screen, I was prepared for TV at it's worst and I wasn't disappointed. The man wasn't cold before the familiar adjectives were rolled out. "Weird, bizarre, eccentric," the traditional language used to disparage artists by the bourgeoisie. Dan Abrams, who made his reputation by convicting O. J. Simpson before the opening arguments of his criminal trial, made a snarky comment about Jackson's weirdness. Mr. Abrams, a higher up at MSNBC, employs a Hitler admirer named Pat Buchanan. Given Abram's background, why isn't that considered weird?

Former Calfornia poet laureate Al Young called to inform me that CNN's Jeffrey Toobin, another O. J. alumni, and a man who said that blacks shouldn't be "patted on the head" or "patronized" for believing in O. J. Simpson's innocence, had made some ugly comments about Jackson. (A star who has had at least a dozen facelifts called into the "Larry King Show" to comment about MJ's altering his appearance).

Also weird was MSBC's Savanah Guthries' air-headed depiction of the trial. (For a list of Ms. Guthries' false reportings see MediaMatters.com). She said that the evidence against Jackson in the trial was "devastating." So devastating that some legal experts said that Jackson should never have been brought to trial and that the aim of the trial was to seek a pound of flesh from Jackson for being uppity and for putting the name of Thomas W. Sneddon Jr., a vindictive District Attorney, into a song. In my opinion it was the prosecution of Jackson by this District Attorney, who, among other things, violated Jackson's fourth amendment rights, and made disparaging remarks about the star during a press conference, and the side-show pro prosecution media coverage that killed Jackson.

In my lengthy examination of the trial printed in my book, "Mixing It Up, Taking on The Media Bullies," I concluded that though millions of Jackson's fans celebrated his acquittal, the District Attorney, who was allowed to squander the California taxpayers' money so that he might humiliate a rich black man, whom he felt had sassed him, was the victor. At the beginning of the trial, Jackson was dancing on top of a van. During the trial he had to be hospitalized. At the end, he was a frail emaciated wreck.

Because of the malicious prosecution of Jackson by Sneddon and Sneddon's claque in the media, Jackson will always be regarded as a pedophile. (When the trial opened, a USA Today / CNN / Gallup Poll found that 72% of whites and 51% of Blacks believed that the charges against Jackson were "Definitely" or "Probably" true.) Wherever "Mad Dog" Sneddon, this hateful man might be in his retirement, he can gloat over the death of the man against whom he waged a vendetta with all of the power of the state at his disposal. Sneddon even tried to introduce photos of Jackson's genitals during the 2005 trial, which proved too much even for the pro prosecution judge.

Of course, none of Sneddon's abuse or the abuse of Jackson by his accusers was mentioned by an old corporate media, out of touch and on life supports. For infotainers like Katie Couric, Jackson's father Joe was MJ's sole abuser. In the eyes of yesterday's media, black fathers are the principal actors in domestic violence.

Guthrie also said that the prosecution "had conducted mini trials within the trial," which brought up "a whole history of prior bad acts of molestation." She was referring to 1994 case in which Jackson was accused of pedophilia by a youngster who, according to writer Mary Fisher, a serious journalist, was used by his father to wrest some cash from Jackson. In"Mixing It Up," I summarized Mary Fisher's serious and thorough investigation that was originally published in GQ, October, 1994, under the title "Was Michael Jackson Framed?" Jackson settled out of court because Johnnie Cochran didn't want him to face one of those all white suburban juries that O. J. faced.

Fisher wrote: "It's a story of greed, ambition, misconceptions of part of police and prosecutors, a lazy and sensation-seeking media and the use of a powerful, hypnotic drug. It may also be a story about how a case was simply invented."

Fisher claimed that the first case arose from the ambitions of the thirteen-year-old accuser's stepfather, Evan Chandler, who exploited Jackson's friendship with his son. At one point, he asked Jackson to build him a house. Fisher said that the child denied being abused by Jackson until he was administered the drug sodium amytal, which is known to induce false memory. Chandler refused to be interviewed for the article and refused to appear on the Today Show, where Fisher repeated her charges before a nationwide audience. She said that the whole scheme was concocted by the child's stepfather to destroy the superstar.

None of the media descriptions of Jackson's career, including a superficial pop-driven survey of the star's career by Anderson Cooper, referred to the 2005 plaintiff's lies and his mother's shabby history of conning individuals and institutions including J. C. Penney's, which she accused of sexual abuse. She claimed that she had been "fondled inappropriately" by store personnel. Documents also hinted that "…the mom rehearsed her children to corroborate her story."

During the 2005 trial, Jackson's Attorney, Tom Mesereau Jr. got the teenage boy to admit that he lied under oath during the J. C. Penny case. USA Today reported on March 1, 2005, that the mother used the boy as a prop to get money from Mike Tyson, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, Jay Leno and others, "even though insurance was paying his bills." Linda Deutsch, one of the last of hard-nosed shoe leather journalists, reporting for the Associated Press on March of 2005. said that Mesereau got the 15 year old to admit that he'd told Jeffrey Alpert, a school official that "nothing happened" between Jackson and him.

Connie Keenan, editor of Mid Valley News, wrote of a hoax that the boy's mother perpetrated on that newspaper. She made a pitch that her son needed medical care and that she had no financial means to provide it. During the first week of the newspaper's appeal, the mother received $965 in donations. It turned out that the boy was being treated at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles with no cost to the family. Connie Keenan concluded that "My gut level, she's a shark. She was after money. My readers were used. My staff was used. It's sickening."

While referring to Jackson as "bizarre" none of the cable reporting about Jackson's death cited the bizarre courtroom testimony of the plaintiff's mother, Janet Arvizo. At one point during her testimony, she said that feared her children would disappear from Neverland, Jackson's ranch, in a hot air balloon.

On Apr 18, 2005, Agence France-Presse reported "The mother of Michael Jackson's young molestation accuser claimed that she feared her children would be spirited away from the star's Neverland Ranch in a hot air balloon. In some of the most bizarre testimony of Jackson's frequently surreal trial, the woman revealed that she told police she feared her three kids would vanish from Neverland into California's blue skies.

"Did you tell the sheriff that you thought your children might disappear in a hot air balloon from Neverland?" Jackson's lead lawyer Thomas Mesereau asked the woman under cross-examination.

"I made them aware," she said.

Finally, in November of 2006, according to TMZ, Janet Arvizo pled no contest to a welfare fraud charge in Los Angeles. She was ordered to 150 hours of community service and to pay $8, 600 in restitution. During Jackson's trial, Arvizo invoked the Fifth regarding welfare fraud. Seems that she applied for welfare even though she'd received a $150, 000 settlement from J. C. Penny's. Even with the mother's behavior and the boys lies, Nancy Grace, commenting on the death of Jackson, said that she was surprised by the not guilty verdict in the Jackson trial. No wonder Ms. Grace has been called" a cheerleader for the prosecution."

Yet, these journalists insist that their news product is superior
to that of bloggers. (Journalistic bottom feeder, Diane Dimond, a Sneddon fan and Jackson stalker was invited by MSNBC to weigh in during which she was allowed to engage in doofus speculation much of it ugly about Jackson's life and death)

G. Q. s Mary Fisher accused her colleagues of lazy journalism of the sort that defamed Jackson in life and in death. Maureen Orth from Vanity Fair didn't read Mary Fisher's findings. She was on the Chris Matthews Show accusing Jackson of "serious felonies" involving pedophilia. Another reporter who seemed to nullify the 2005 Jackson jurie's decision was "Morning Joe's" adjunct bimbo, Courtney Hazlett. She said that there would be no pilgrimage to Neverland and as there was to Graceland, because "bad things happened at Never Land." We are led to believe that Presley and his entourage spent their days at Graceland drinking milk and reading each other passages from the scriptures.

All of these opinions seem to indicate that Cable's talking heads have taken it upon themselves to nullify the judgment of juries whenever they please. This all white electronic jury has placed itself above the law.

But at least Jackson didn't suffer from the kind of hi tech lynching accorded the tragic Patsy Ramsey. For years cable, which now not only calls elections but acts as judge and jury, accused her of murdering her child. Only after her death was it found that she was innocent.

If the reporting on Jackson's death by the media wasn't salacious and ignorant enough, it didn't get any better the next day, June 26.

Ignoring Jackson's philanthropic pursuits and contributions to forty charities, on the "Today Show," it was all about what happened to all of the nigger's money and whether he died from too many drugs and what's to become of his children, questions meant to attract the prurient. Again, Diane Dimod was invited on to spread scurrilous unconfirmed rumors about the dead star. Some of the modern day carnival barkers like Chris Matthews expressed surprise that Jackson's death resulted in such an outpouring of worldwide mourning. This is what happens to people like Matthews who dwell in an insulated white supremacist bubble (that includes the Anglo wannabe and Churchill admiring Irish among them) which holds that a narrow cultural strip between New York and Washington represents the world.

I would like to have seen more independent African-American journalists comment on the passing of Michael Jackson, but, according to Richard Prince, who runs a media blog for the Maynard journalism Institute, hundreds have lost their jobs over the last two years, including Pulitzer Prize winners like Les Payne.

With the absence of black and Latinos from journalism, the media have become a spare all white jury always ready to take down a black celebrity for the entertainment of the types who used to attend those acts created by P. T. Barnum.
Ishmael Reed

Grace is saying that the media made up bullshit about her pumping Jackson's stomach

http://www.mjjcommunity.c...hp?t=66825