Stevie Wonder Show

........you know I love ya Joe.......think you've got your finger on the pulse of society with your editorial gags......AND I love Stevie Wonder........put out some of my favorite music in the 70's and 80's........I thought Michael Jackson  was an exceptional songwriter , dancer , performer , singer......a TRUE superstar.........whose father screwed  him up irrepairably...as well as the some of the other kids......yeah ......Joe got the job done.......they got out of the $10,000 house in Gary , Indiana......and they were famous.......but at what cost?......I jammed to Michael's music in the 80's........and I'm not usually into  pop music.....I have taken the stance in my blog posts of stopping short  of saying "that I KNEW he was a pedophile".......I don't wish ill on anybody.....and normally?....... I don't make a practice of  talking about the dead.....but there's nothing normal about Michael or his life.......he created this media circus.......normally I believe in life that it is better to be positve than negative.......if every subject on the "Examiner Blog " site were to be filtered and "sugar coated"......or just glaringly silent about bad stuff.......in any situation?.....whether it be about city politics or politicians or fireworks or whatever?.........well.......it would be pretty boring on here.......not really a slice of "society's thoughts"....but more of a "Hallmark Card"........we have been bombarded for 5 days on EVERY news channel about this guy.......it;'s one thing that is going on right now.....my information ....as well as everybody elses.....has come from past newspaper articles , Michael's own televised interviews , statements from his family , Associated Press releases on the internet., news reporters and documentarys on CNN , MSNBC , Fox News  , VH1 and a host of others.......so if the blog posts seem to be venomous.........they're based on observations given to us from the media......who got them from Michael's family , friends , life , court proceedings , and whatever.......so maybe the acts which spawned the observations which spawned the opinions which spawned the blog posts..........were venomous in nature.........things rolll downhill.......when a public figure lives their life the way that they do........inciting and using the media.....they have to expect to be scrutinized in the "court of public opinion"......I keep hearing how he wasn't convicted.........Gotti escaped conviction on several trials....from jurors being "bought off"........O'J. was never convicted in crminal court of double murder..........Michael paid 20,000,000 to the first plaintiff........who then refused to testify at the criminal trial........how anybody could construe that an innocent man would pay out 20,000,000 and that it "wasn't  the same thing as buying off a juror?"......is beyond me...........so while we need to mention the positive culture contribution that he made......as arguably  THE biggest superstar ever........bigger than Elvis world wide........sold more albums than ANYBODY........and his music from the 80's WAS pure genius...........I think we're entitled to express our opinions.......negative OR positive..........as this is what "blogs" are all about........it's not my intention to offend Michael  Jackson fans......I was a fan too......of his music......and talent........I almost feel like apologizing for my opinion........but I can't.........keep up the funny gags.......we're lucky to have a talent like yours at our hometown newspaper...........shalom.......