Not everybody is checking for the Jacksons like the people on prince.org. Outside of Sherri and Whoopi (because they are fans of the music), why should any of the other ladies have known what each and every sibling's name is?
Joy & Elizabeth not knowing was bad enough.
But Barbara is suppose to be a veteran journalist for f*** sake. It was her responsible to know how to say the name "Rebbie" correctly.
Oh gimme a break; Barbara is a veteran journalist and at her age, she should be allowed to flub once or twice on air. She's 81 and just had heart surgery this year and occasionally stammers or flubs a name- as hard as she works, I give her credit for being able to make it up the stairs let alone keep up her work pace as host and producer of this show (and others on ABC)...
....and by the way, the word you're looking for is the noun responsibility, not the adjective responsible.
But Barbara is suppose to be a veteran journalist for f*** sake. It was her responsible to know how to say the name "Rebbie" correctly.
Oh gimme a break; Barbara is a veteran journalist and at her age, she should be allowed to flub once or twice on air. She's 81 and just had heart surgery this year and occasionally stammers or flubs a name- as hard as she works, I give her credit for being able to make it up the stairs let alone keep up her work pace as host and producer of this show (and others on ABC)...
....and by the way, the word you're looking for is the noun responsibility, not the adjective responsible.
It IS Barbara Walters responsibility to know how to pronounce the guests' names correctly, but you've got to admit that Rebbie looks like it ought to be pronounced REB-bie and her name SHOULD be spelled Reebie. Come on, how many people who weren't really familiar with the Jackson siblings would look at "Rebbie" and, off the top of their heads, pronounce it REEbie?
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Oh gimme a break; Barbara is a veteran journalist and at her age, she should be allowed to flub once or twice on air. She's 81 and just had heart surgery this year and occasionally stammers or flubs a name- as hard as she works, I give her credit for being able to make it up the stairs let alone keep up her work pace as host and producer of this show (and others on ABC)...
....and by the way, the word you're looking for is the noun responsibility, not the adjective responsible.
It IS Barbara Walters responsibility to know how to pronounce the guests' names correctly, but you've got to admit that Rebbie looks like it ought to be pronounced REB-bie and her name SHOULD be spelled Reebie. Come on, how many people who weren't really familiar with the Jackson siblings would look at "Rebbie" and, off the top of their heads, pronounce it REEbie?
Not too many and if you tell them there was a Jackson sister named Rebbie nowadays, their minds go blank. "Who?" I think they nicknamed her that because Maureen was too plain I guess.
It IS Barbara Walters responsibility to know how to pronounce the guests' names correctly, but you've got to admit that Rebbie looks like it ought to be pronounced REB-bie and her name SHOULD be spelled Reebie. Come on, how many people who weren't really familiar with the Jackson siblings would look at "Rebbie" and, off the top of their heads, pronounce it REEbie?
Not too many and if you tell them there was a Jackson sister named Rebbie nowadays, their minds go blank. "Who?" I think they nicknamed her that because Maureen was too plain I guess.
Maureen- Rebbie
Sigmund- Jackie
Toriano- Tito
Steven- Randy
"We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world."
Not too many and if you tell them there was a Jackson sister named Rebbie nowadays, their minds go blank. "Who?" I think they nicknamed her that because Maureen was too plain I guess.
Maureen- Rebbie
Sigmund- Jackie
Toriano- Tito
Steven- Randy
In the case of Jackie & Tito, their original names were too wild lol You can catch a Maureen and Steven in your family but it's hard to locate a Sigmund or a Toriano lol
Oh gimme a break; Barbara is a veteran journalist and at her age, she should be allowed to flub once or twice on air. She's 81 and just had heart surgery this year and occasionally stammers or flubs a name- as hard as she works, I give her credit for being able to make it up the stairs let alone keep up her work pace as host and producer of this show (and others on ABC)...
....and by the way, the word you're looking for is the noun responsibility, not the adjective responsible.
It IS Barbara Walters responsibility to know how to pronounce the guests' names correctly, but you've got to admit that Rebbie looks like it ought to be pronounced REB-bie and her name SHOULD be spelled Reebie. Come on, how many people who weren't really familiar with the Jackson siblings would look at "Rebbie" and, off the top of their heads, pronounce it REEbie?
One thing I want to point out though I never said it wasn't her responsibility: I said that she's old as the Tenessee Mountains, has health issues, and should be allowed a f**k up once in a while which is starting to happen to her on air for the past two years. She's aging. If I were her age I'm not sure that I wouldn't make the occasional mistake myself. So in my view, I figure that since she's not the hard news journalist that she was over the last 50 years, she's not interviewing a Head of State or talking to the power players in the Middle East, just maybe, juuuuuust maaaaybe, we can cut Grandma some slack this once. It's funny to see people get their panties in a twist because she flubbed the name of Michael Jackson's sister; you would think she snubbed a world leader that has nuclear codes or something. Mistakes happen.
As for the spelling of Rebbie's name, I agree that if I hadn't grown up knowing all about the Jacksons, I would have just assumed this obscure sibling's name is pronoounced Reb-bie with a soft e.
Bottom line for me is that I think fans project to many of their expectations onto others as if they have a vested interest in a particular celebrities, when frankly, there are much more biting issues taking place in the world. It makes for entertaining discussion at least...and in any event, it was nice to see Ms. Rebbie out and about.
Not too many and if you tell them there was a Jackson sister named Rebbie nowadays, their minds go blank. "Who?" I think they nicknamed her that because Maureen was too plain I guess.
Maureen- Rebbie
Sigmund- Jackie
Toriano- Tito
Steven- Randy
Well those are all actually very nice, upstanding names ! Toriano is very exotic...kind of makes me wanna go have a drink in Italy on a beach somewhere
In the case of Jackie & Tito, their original names were too wild lol You can catch a Maureen and Steven in your family but it's hard to locate a Sigmund or a Toriano lol
In the case of Jackie & Tito, their original names were too wild lol You can catch a Maureen and Steven in your family but it's hard to locate a Sigmund or a Toriano lol
When I was little, there was a boy down the street named Toriano. On one of the TV shows the J5 was on, Michael introduced his brother as 'Toriano', not 'Tito'. I don't remember which program though. As far as Sigmund goes, maybe they were reading a book about shrinks.
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
First and foremost I wish all of the Jackson family would fall back from the tv and print interviews. If she appeared on the show to set the record straight, we didnt learn anything new from her. Its always going to be the same line of questions regarding Michael. His estate, his kids, Dr. Murray and his alleged drug abuse. Arent they aware they just feeding into the defense of Dr. Murray by saying 'we tried to intervene because we believed Michael was on drugs?'
Trust me I dont think the producers would've allowed her on the show if the first topic wasnt about Michael.
exactly. all of these jacksons, even janet to a smaller extent, know that mj was and remains THE jackson the media wants to know about.
the producers couldn't give a shit what rebbie was there to talk about, as long as mj was part of the package. if she wasn't there to talk about mj, and all the controversy and dirt surrounding him, she would never have been on the show. further, she has no vested interest in 'setting the record straight' even if it means giving dr. murray a defense. remember, her mother has a lawsuit against murray and aeg. they need to insist that others were involved in mj's death by ignoring his (alleged) drug habit and feeding it in order to get a settlement out of the good doc and aeg.
First and foremost I wish all of the Jackson family would fall back from the tv and print interviews. If she appeared on the show to set the record straight, we didnt learn anything new from her. Its always going to be the same line of questions regarding Michael. His estate, his kids, Dr. Murray and his alleged drug abuse. Arent they aware they just feeding into the defense of Dr. Murray by saying 'we tried to intervene because we believed Michael was on drugs?'
Trust me I dont think the producers would've allowed her on the show if the first topic wasnt about Michael.
exactly. all of these jacksons, even janet to a smaller extent, know that mj was and remains THE jackson the media wants to know about.
the producers couldn't give a shit what rebbie was there to talk about, as long as mj was part of the package. if she wasn't there to talk about mj, and all the controversy and dirt surrounding him, she would never have been on the show. further, she has no vested interest in 'setting the record straight' even if it means giving dr. murray a defense. remember, her mother has a lawsuit against murray and aeg. they need to insist that others were involved in mj's death by ignoring his (alleged) drug habit and feeding it in order to get a settlement out of the good doc and aeg.
There you go.
Wait until AEG gets tired of them and rips them to shreds in the courtroom. That will be beautiful. Randy (the originator of the "junkie and alcoholic" image, back in 2007 to justify Michael sueing his acountants), Oxman, Rowe, Joe (the three most interested and invested in the "junkie" image in order to shift the blame to AEG and get a payday) and the rest of the sheepish-and-brainless siblings will be riped to the very last shred.
But heyyyyyy!!!!, the dynasty will continue, allright? Joe will still be keeping them out of gangs while Randy will continue doing interventions! And crashing gates.
In the case of Jackie & Tito, their original names were too wild lol You can catch a Maureen and Steven in your family but it's hard to locate a Sigmund or a Toriano lol
When I was little, there was a boy down the street named Toriano. On one of the TV shows the J5 was on, Michael introduced his brother as 'Toriano', not 'Tito'. I don't remember which program though. As far as Sigmund goes, maybe they were reading a book about shrinks.
That's interesting. I wonder if Tito's addressed, does he answer to "Tito" or his real name. I think the same can be said about Jackie. If one of the siblings or parents were mad, they probably go SIGMUND!
When I was little, there was a boy down the street named Toriano. On one of the TV shows the J5 was on, Michael introduced his brother as 'Toriano', not 'Tito'. I don't remember which program though. As far as Sigmund goes, maybe they were reading a book about shrinks.
That's interesting. I wonder if Tito's addressed, does he answer to "Tito" or his real name. I think the same can be said about Jackie. If one of the siblings or parents were mad, they probably go SIGMUND!
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This funk is a serious joint
That's interesting. I wonder if Tito's addressed, does he answer to "Tito" or his real name. I think the same can be said about Jackie. If one of the siblings or parents were mad, they probably go SIGMUND!
I mean I don't think it's something I can even imagine. Can you just imagine Katherine getting mad at either of them and calling all of the brothers out by their names?
"SIGMUND ESCO, TORIANO ADARYLL, JERMAINE LU JUANE, MARLON DAVID, MICHAEL JOSEPH AND STEVEN RANDALL JACKSON, GET YOUR BLACK BUTTS OUT HERE RAT NOW!!!!!"
And if she got mad at Rebbie: "MAUREEN REILETTE!!!!!"
When I was little, there was a boy down the street named Toriano. On one of the TV shows the J5 was on, Michael introduced his brother as 'Toriano', not 'Tito'. I don't remember which program though. As far as Sigmund goes, maybe they were reading a book about shrinks.
That's interesting. I wonder if Tito's addressed, does he answer to "Tito" or his real name. I think the same can be said about Jackie. If one of the siblings or parents were mad, they probably go SIGMUND!
I don't think Sigmund is that unusual at the time if you were German. But I wonder where Esco came from.
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
That's interesting. I wonder if Tito's addressed, does he answer to "Tito" or his real name. I think the same can be said about Jackie. If one of the siblings or parents were mad, they probably go SIGMUND!
I don't think Sigmund is that unusual at the time if you were German. But I wonder where Esco came from.
It's sure is unusual with black families. I still don't know why they gave him the middle name of Esco.
I mean I don't think it's something I can even imagine. Can you just imagine Katherine getting mad at either of them and calling all of the brothers out by their names?
"SIGMUND ESCO, TORIANO ADARYLL, JERMAINE LU JUANE, MARLON DAVID, MICHAEL JOSEPH AND STEVEN RANDALL JACKSON, GET YOUR BLACK BUTTS OUT HERE RAT NOW!!!!!"
And if she got mad at Rebbie: "MAUREEN REILETTE!!!!!"
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Maureen oh hell to the naw.
Why sister Katherine did them kids like dat.
Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint
I mean I don't think it's something I can even imagine. Can you just imagine Katherine getting mad at either of them and calling all of the brothers out by their names?
"SIGMUND ESCO, TORIANO ADARYLL, JERMAINE LU JUANE, MARLON DAVID, MICHAEL JOSEPH AND STEVEN RANDALL JACKSON, GET YOUR BLACK BUTTS OUT HERE RAT NOW!!!!!"
And if she got mad at Rebbie: "MAUREEN REILETTE!!!!!"
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Maureen oh hell to the naw.
Why sister Katherine did them kids like dat.
I have no idea. I still wonder what convinced her to name her middle daughter La Toya. Did she look like a toy or something? La Toya?
Oh and can't forget her putting Damita Jo in Janet's name.
I have no idea. I still wonder what convinced her to name her middle daughter La Toya. Did she look like a toy or something? La Toya?
Oh and can't forget her putting Damita Jo in Janet's name.
yes, i do believe that is kat's explanation for latoya's name. she apparently thought she looked like a doll, a toy, and voila, latoya was thrust upon her. i'm sure the clip is somewhere on you tube.
i don't know about the damita jo thing; defies explanation. i'm glad to see that by the time they got around to naming the last three boys, kat and joe seemed to have come to their senses.
Oh and can't forget her putting Damita Jo in Janet's name.
I heard she was named after the singer.
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
I have no idea. I still wonder what convinced her to name her middle daughter La Toya. Did she look like a toy or something? La Toya?
Oh and can't forget her putting Damita Jo in Janet's name.
yes, i do believe that is kat's explanation for latoya's name. she apparently thought she looked like a doll, a toy, and voila, latoya was thrust upon her. i'm sure the clip is somewhere on you tube.
i don't know about the damita jo thing; defies explanation. i'm glad to see that by the time they got around to naming the last three boys, kat and joe seemed to have come to their senses.
I spoke too soon on La Toya's name. Someone suggested that Katherine and Joe gave Janet her middle name from the singer of the same name but who knows about that lol Janet herself thinks because her parents are from the South and Jo was taken from her father's name which she said dryly on Damita Jo. And I agree after those three names they gave their three eldest sons, they did come to their senses.
Damita Jo DeBlanc is Katherine's favorite singer, and that's why she gave Janet that middle name. I know that RnB singer Toya said her mother named her that because Latoya Jackson was always her favorite Jackson
Well those are all actually very nice, upstanding names ! Toriano is very exotic...kind of makes me wanna go have a drink in Italy on a beach somewhere
"We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world."
But Barbara is suppose to be a veteran journalist for f*** sake. It was her responsible to know how to say the name "Rebbie" correctly.
Oh gimme a break; Barbara is a veteran journalist and at her age, she should be allowed to flub once or twice on air. She's 81 and just had heart surgery this year and occasionally stammers or flubs a name- as hard as she works, I give her credit for being able to make it up the stairs let alone keep up her work pace as host and producer of this show (and others on ABC)...
....and by the way, the word you're looking for is the noun responsibility, not the adjective responsible.
1. My apologies. I forgot about spell check. Thanks anyway.
2. I still stand by my words that Barbara should have been more responsible. I know the name "Rebbie" might sound a little too black for Barbara & some white women in the audience on The View. But damn!
Not too many and if you tell them there was a Jackson sister named Rebbie nowadays, their minds go blank. "Who?" I think they nicknamed her that because Maureen was too plain I guess.
I mean I don't think it's something I can even imagine. Can you just imagine Katherine getting mad at either of them and calling all of the brothers out by their names?
[i]"SIGMUND ESCO, TORIANO ADARYLL, JERMAINE LU JUANE, MARLON DAVID, MICHAEL JOSEPH AND STEVEN RANDALL JACKSON, GET YOUR BLACK BUTTS OUT HERE RAT NOW!!!!!"[/i]
And if she got mad at Rebbie: "MAUREEN REILETTE!!!!!" :lol:
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I just envisioned that scenario.. ..What baby book did she get these names from?..damn
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I think they nicknamed her that because Maureen was too plain I guess. 
! Toriano is very exotic...kind of makes me wanna go have a drink in Italy on a beach somewhere 
On one of the TV shows the J5 was on, Michael introduced his brother as 'Toriano', not 'Tito'. I don't remember which program though. As far as Sigmund goes, maybe they were reading a book about shrinks. 
But I wonder where Esco came from.
