Death Coverage Snit: Michael Jackson vs. Ted Kennedy, from Fried Green al-Qaedas
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 29, 2009
Satire on a Saturday morning. If only it were a true interview with Joe Jackson, how sweet the ironic, bizarre lambasting of media excesses when it comes to celebrities and those who cling to their coattails. Lampoon away…
Enjoy!
Death Coverage Snit: Michael Jackson vs. Ted Kennedy
From those scamps at Fried Green al-Qaedas, Joe Jackson Livid:
Joe Jackson, aging patriarch of America’s most famous family, is proclaiming disgust with “the media orgy of over the top coverage for some Senator who wasn’t even the King of Pop.”
“Ted Kennedy wasn’t the King of Anything,” groused the cranky old tyrant. “Wasn’t the King of Swing, wasn’t the King of the Senate as far as I can tell, even though some of these so-called news folks make it sound like he was. Wasn’t even King of the Kennedy’s – that was Papa Joe Kennedy, of course. Papa Joe, just like me. And just like me, he wasn’t the most famous Jackson, I mean Kennedy, but it was from his loins that all those other’s sprang – John Fitzgerald, Bobby, Tito, and Teddy. And as far as I can tell, Teddy was just an afterthought, much like my youngest Janet. I mean, she’s a pretty girl and all, but she was always quite disrespectful to her manager.”
“Anyway, I turn on my TV last night, and there ain’t nothing on but Teddy Kennedy. Ted Kennedy this and Ted Kennedy that, and all this coverage for a man who never even had a hit record. Same thing this morning, right up until ‘The Price is Right’. The media is totally obsessed with him. And what about my boy? Poor Michael ain’t even in the ground yet, and already the TV is talking about covering this Kennedy funeral. I’m telling you straight up, it just ain’t right.”
More reading on Kennedy’s and Jackson’s deaths:
Gateway Pundit: Kennedy’s Death a TV Ratings Flop
The American Spectator: Edward M. Kennedy, RIP
The Powers That Be: Chris Matthews is Wrong to Say Obama is the Last Kennedy Brother
Verum Serum: Ted Kennedy: Life of the Party*
Carl Kozlowski, Big Hollywood: ‘This Is It’: A Genuine Thriller
The Substratum: Senator Edward Kennedy Dies And I Can’t Lie, The Champagne Will Be Flowing Tonight At My Place
Ztower: Ol’ Ted could sure tell the knee slappers. Why I remember the one he used to tell about Chappaquiddick…what a hoot!
silent E speaks: Kennedy’s Dying Wish???
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Obligatory Ted Kennedy Motorcade Funeral Route Information… No Mr. Potato Head Balloon? and Heartbreaker: A Daughter’s Love and Grief for Her Deceased Father, Michael Jackson (video) and “KennedyCare” Photo of the Day and Last of the Brothers of Camelot: Edward Kennedy, Rest in Peace
The Anchoress, First Things: Ted Kennedy, Healthcare & Purgatory
Vets On The Watch: And So It Begins
Smart Girl Politics: Mary Jo can finally rest in peace.
Dan Gifford, Big Hollywood: Treasonous Teddy: Chappaquiddick Only the Beginning
The Underground Conservative: The Last Kennedy Brother
Libertarian Humor: Anonymous Blogger on Ted Kennedy
Sister Toldjah: Only hiding out in a cave will save us from all this fawning Kennedy coverage
WSJ Blog, Washington Wire: Kennedy’s Death Spurs Calls to Pass Health Legislation
Gathering of Eagles: NY: They Will Use Any Wretched Event To Try To Pass Obamacare
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Rush Was Right: Dems Call For “The Kennedy Memorial Health Bill”
Clinging to G & G: I opt for Kennedy-care
Bulletproof Diction: The Honorable Sir Edward Moore Kennedy Amendment
Patterico’s Pontifications: Pelosi: Ted Kennedy Died? Great! That Ought to Help Us Pass Health Care! and The Tedward Lovefest: Candidate for Health Care Sainthood Has One Teensy, Weensy Little Blemish on His Health Care Record
The Xtremist: Ted Kennedy’s Ghost Will Be Spotted Asking For ObamaCare
Patterico’s Pontifications: Michael Jackson’s Death Ruled a Homicide
Debbie Schlussel: LIVE BLOG: Funniest Thing About the Michael Jackson Memorial Circus; UPDATED: Complete Cliff’s Notes of Al Sharpton Speech, Other UPDATES
Hot Air Green Room: We Don’t Need Another Hero
Billy Hallowell, Big Hollywood: (We’re Quickly Becoming) A Nation of Idiots
Horiwood’s Blog: MICHAEL JACKSON WAS ONE OF THE THREE MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
Politico: Al Sharpton: Michael Jackson made Barack Obama president
Jeffrey Jena, Big Hollywood: The Media: Wrong on Jackson, Wrong on Palin
Breitbart.tv: O’Reilly vs. Sharpton: Was Michael Jackson Strange?
Jason Killian Meath, Big Hollywood: Michael Jackson and the Supremes
Gold Star Mothers, Big Hollywood: Debbie Lee: Americans Celebrate Michael Jackson, Ignore Troops
Michelle Malkin: The wretched excess begins and Sheila Jackson-Lee hits rock bottom and Stomach-turners of the morning and Check out “backlash” against Rep. King over Jacko comments and Another reason MSM’s Jacko-mania reeks
Chris Arledge, Big Hollywood: The King of Pop, Sir Paul, and the Right to Reclaim Copyrights
Jim Blazsik: Remember Michael, but please remember Iran
Broken Masterpieces: Pondering Michael Jackson
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