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max000 said:
Don't hold your breath waiting for OPRAH'S apology. She took the cowardly route abandoning MJ. CHRIS ROCK, JON STEWART and other comedians frequented her show saying nasty things about MJ. She laughed, and gave them free rein to abuse MJ. I stop watching fake OPRAH aeons ago.
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But for jon stewart during mj's passing he handled the media coverage with class & integrity.
 
CatherineChicago said:
Her silence when he passed away was thunderous, as I recall. The great queen of child molestation survivors didn't bother to ask whether this had ever happened to him, though all the signs and openings were there. She had the gall to ask who he "rocked with" when Chicago has been trying to figure that out about her for 25 years. Also, take a look at her skin in the 80s. But she never had a word of compassion for him. Too afraid of alienating white suburban mommie$.

Now that Michael is becoming "safe", she is willing to make some money off him and speak wellish of him.

A gross phoney to whom we say good riddance.
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exactly, she and her close friend Obama , do not bother to say anything regarding MJ's death, but when they get the OK from their bosses they shyly talked about him.
 
Oprah, really, don't bother. At least it's only a regurgitation of last years 'tribute' and not fresh BS to deal with.
 
earthlyme said:
A repeat? what a tribute... Smh


L.o.v.e.
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My thoughts exactly!

I think I will be watching old VCR tapes me and my mom recorded through the years, cause it looks like everything on t.v. will be crap. That is so sad :no:
 
The Michael Jackson Interview: Oprah Reflects

On February 10, 1993, Oprah sat down with Michael Jackson for what would be the most-watched interview in television history. Michael, a fiercely private entertainer, had refused to give an interview for 14 years. The unprecedented live event, which took place before any allegations were made about sexual abuse, drew a worldwide audience of 90 million people. "It was the most exciting interview I had ever done," Oprah says. "It certainly was going to be the most watched interview I had ever done."

Sixteen years after that memorable special, and just a few months after Michael's untimely death, Oprah opens up about what she really thought of the candid discussion.



Oprah's done thousands of interviews since she sat down with Michael, but she can still remember her excitement at going to the King of Pop's home. "We are coming in the gates of Neverland, and it's like a moment in The Wizard of Oz," she says. "It was literally like going to see the wizard. We couldn't believe it. I felt like a kid."

During their interview, Michael spoke to Oprah about missing out on a normal childhood. "I remember going to the recording studio, and there was a park across the street, and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry. It would make me sad that I would have to go to work instead," he said. "People wonder why I always have children around. It's because I find the thing that I never had through them. Disneyland, amusement parks, arcade games—I adore all that stuff because when I was little, it was always work, work, work."

Looking back, Oprah says she realized in that moment that she had a fondness for Michael. "He's very likable there, and I can tell you I really, really liked him," she says. "After this interview, I thought I could be his friend, because I felt that he was really honest."


Michael's relationship with his father, Joe Jackson, has made plenty of headlines throughout the years. When Michael spoke with Oprah, he was extremely open about the sensitive subject, saying his father called him ugly, beat him and frightened him. "I love my father, but I don't know him. ... Sometimes I do get angry. I don't know him the way I'd like to know him," he said. "My mother's wonderful. To me, she's perfection. I just wish I could understand my father."

When Oprah asked Michael why Joe beat him, Michael wasn't entirely sure. "I don't know if I was his golden child or whatever it was. Some may call it a strict disciplinarian or whatever, but he was very strict. He was very hard. Just a look would scare you," Michael said. "There's been times when he'd come to see me, and I would get sick. I'd start to regurgitate."

Joe Jackson has repeatedly denied any allegations that he beat Michael.

Oprah says she was surprised that Michael was so candid in his revelations about his father. "Even in saying it, [Michael tried] to temper it by saying, 'Please, don't be mad at me, Joseph.' So obviously you know that he still carried that fear and pain," she says. "Look in his eyes when he starts to talk about his father. His eyes shift."


In 1993, controversy about Michael's skin color was at an all-time high. "He kept getting whiter and whiter and whiter, and nobody understood why," Oprah says. "Anybody who knew Michael Jackson will tell you that when you are up close to him—he had absolutely no pigmentation in his skin—you are looking at his veins when you look at his hand. You are seeing through to the blue veins, and they're very, very apparent. At first that's a starling thing. Nobody ever talks about that, but it takes you aback at first. You're looking at a person who is almost translucent."

In one of the most memorable moments of Oprah's interview, Michael told her he had a skin disorder that destroyed the pigmentation of his skin. The disease, called vitiligo, was in his family, Michael said. "It is something I cannot help. When people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am, it hurts me," he said. "It's a problem for me. I can't control it. But what about all the millions of people who sit in the sun to become darker, to become other than what they are. Nobody says nothing about that."

Michael told Oprah that he used makeup to control blotchiness, but that he had never purposely bleached his skin.

This was one of Michael's most defensive moments of the interview, Oprah says. "You can see he got a little testy there about the skin issue. I think in 1993 nobody understood what it was. Nobody knew anything about vitiligo," she says. "I could see that that was one of the areas that was very sensitive to him, obviously."

Plastic surgery was another much-talked about issue surrounding Michael Jackson in the early 1990s. His appearance had changed so much since he was a child star that there was much speculation about the work he'd had done. When Oprah broached the subject, Michael wouldn't get into specifics but said he'd had less plastic surgery than people thought. "You can count them on two fingers," he said.

Michael did admit to having a nose job, but said most of the cosmetic surgery rumors were false. "I have never had my cheekbones done, never had my eyes done, never had my lips done," he said. Regarding his appearance at the time, Michael said he wasn't pleased. "I try not to look in the mirror," he said. "I'm never happy with what I see."
In 1994, Michael married Lisa Marie Presley. The marriage lasted only two years, but when Michael talked with Oprah a year before his nuptials, everyone was wondering if—and who—he dated. Michael told Oprah that he was in a relationship with Brooke Shields. Then Oprah asked the question even she says was embarrassing: "Are you a virgin?"

Michael never answered. "I'm a gentleman," he said. "That's something that's private, that shouldn't be spoken about openly. You can call me old-fashioned if you want, but to me that's very personal."

Oprah says she hadn't been sure how, or if, she was going to ask Michael about sex, but she knew it was something audiences wanted to know. "There was this sort of mystery about him. At the same time he's holding his crotch and wants to rock with us all night, we don't know who he's rocking with. That's what you really want to know," she says.

If there's one dance move for which Michael will forever be remembered, it's unquestionably the moonwalk. During the interview, Oprah got a private lesson in the signature move. "The moonwalk came from these beautiful black kids who live in the ghettos in the inner cities, who are brilliant. They just have that natural talent for dancing any of the new, hot dances. They come up with these dances," Michael said. "All I did was enhance the dance."

"We all remember when we first saw the Motown 25 special and Michael Jackson moonwalked. There are seminal moments in our life, and that's one of them," Oprah says. "So to be able to see him do that live and experience it, that was a little 'thriller' for me."

Toward the end of her interview with Michael, Oprah talked with him about his life's purpose.

"To give in the best way I can through song and through dance and through music," Michael said. "I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the spiritual and the divine. I believe that that's the reason for the very existence of art, and I feel I was chosen as an instrument to give music and love and harmony to the world."

In the closing moments of the special, Oprah asked Michael what he wanted to be most known for. Though Michael thought she was asking what he wanted to be remembered for, Oprah quickly corrected him. She, like Michael's fans, never imagined he would be gone so soon. "Obviously, if I had known that we'd be sitting here talking about the memory of Michael Jackson, I would have let him finish what he wanted to be remembered for," she says. "What I remember about Michael the most is that he was a person who was passionate about life. He was really passionate about his work … and [passionate about] his desire to try to be a good force in the world."
 
rockstar said:

"What I remember about Michael the most is that he was a person who was passionate about life. He was really passionate about his work … and [passionate about] his desire to try to be a good force in the world."
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Reading this quote from her just makes me want to punch her in the face even more. So only in the wake of his passing does she say this, and even this is back handed "his desire to try to be a good force in the world"? Try? The MAN WAS A GOOD FORCE! He didnt have to put it on display for millions on tv. He not only talked the talk but the man walked the walk, and he was genuine. Hardly a word I could use to describe Ms. Oprah. Michael didnt need awards, he didnt need the attention, the applause to do good for the world, he just did it because he cared. Not saying Oprah hasn't done good for people, she has...but honestly the woman is VERY fake..man...I just...Oprah showed her true colors and showed how truly hypocritical she is. I know she'd prefer people to forget the crap she put on her show in regards to Michael like the hour long bash fest that happened after the Martin Bashir Mocumentary crap and 'The Footage You Were Never Meant To See', the crap she had on with LMP and Mommy Dearest, not to mention the countless shows during the trial about Child Molesters getting "off" etc, but myself and others like me WILL NEVER FORGET. She makes me sick.

I just had to vent and this is not towards any of her fans...I don't need Oprah or anyone else to remember a man I continue to love to this day. A man whom I have and always will look up too. A man who made me feel like I was GOOD ENOUGH, that I was perfect just as I was/am. A man who's entire being, music, life, LIGHT helped me through my darkest hours. A man I stood by along with all my fellow admirers when HE needed us the most, when people like OPRAH and others turned their backs on him and kicked him while he was down. Not to mention the countless other ways in which this man made a mark not only on my life but on millions of others, which continues to this day. So I don't need anyone to help me remember, I was there, I was there when it wasn't the "in" thing to be. I was there while he was still here physically to know and understand it; to know that I and millions of others had his back. I...WE were there...and that is truly all that counts in the end.


She can put that in her pipe and smoke it!

PEACE!
 
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Oprah posted an excerpt from MJ's autobiography, Moonwalker, and of course she picks the part where MJ talks about how a fan feels cheated when a performer dies from an overdose of drugs or liquor. Then everyone had a comment to say about that on her site...oh Oprah, Oprah, Oprah. *sigh

I remember watching an episode she did on headlines in the news and she was talking about the documentary "Living with Michael Jackson," she said something like "A grown 'ass' man should not be sleeping in bed with children," I wanted to lunge at my TV. What I gather from her belief in the allegations is that she went through a traumatic childhood and was molested as a young girl by her uncle, so perhaps she blurs the line when she thinks of a man in bed with a child...thinking that they too will do the same thing. ::shaking my head::
 
I was appalled at how Oprah spoke about Michael after he passed. Absolutely disgusted.

She kinda lost me right then and there.
 
Oprah is appalling period.. The woman is about as fake as they come
 
Yes, Oprah absolutely takes what happen to her as as a child and uses it against MJ! Without looking at the facts and that is a damn shame! A women of her "wisdom" should know better.
 
he was a person who was passionate about life. He was really passionate about his work … and [passionate about] his desire to try to be a good force in the world."
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He was "a force for good", so why did he get p!ssed on by her and her cohorts with their snide remarks for years? Money, ratings? What was it? I think she among others should answer that question. Guilty much? He gave her this interview and that's unfortunate. Soon after this interview aired, they wanted this man to be found guilty of child sex abuse, just so they could report what was going on inside the prison. Labeled him a pedophile over and over which they continue to make reference to even after his death...but Michael is the sick one? Perhaps Oprah Winfrey and her cohorts should look in the mirror ya think? You're right...she should know better. He was passionate about his work, children and the world, but all that he was passionate about in his lifetime WAS USED AGAINST HIM and she knows that more than anyone. Damn shame ain't it?

Maybe Oprah should get together with her "cousin" Lisa and they can hash all of their Michael ish out together themselves instead of airing it for the public to witness.
 
Any one knows, Which came first.? The OPRAH interview with MJ, or the 1993 behind the scenes extortion attempt from EVAN CHANDLER.? My mom is convinced this interview was the cause of MJ'S torment. He became a gigantic target for the media, because of the off the charts ratings. And opened up the eyes of those who thought he was too WEALTHY, too POWERFUL.
 
^ The interview came first, it was Dec of 1992, Chandler followed the next year.
 
KJ777 said:
He was "a force for good", so why did he get p!ssed on by her and her cohorts with their snide remarks for years? Money, ratings? What was it? I think she among others should answer that question. Guilty much? He gave her this interview and that's unfortunate. Soon after this interview aired, they wanted this man to be found guilty of child sex abuse, just so they could report what was going on inside the prison. Labeled him a pedophile over and over which they continue to make reference to even after his death...but Michael is the sick one? Perhaps Oprah Winfrey and her cohorts should look in the mirror ya think? You're right...she should know better. He was passionate about his work, children and the world, but all that he was passionate about in his lifetime WAS USED AGAINST HIM and she knows that more than anyone. Damn shame ain't it?

Maybe Oprah should get together with her "cousin" Lisa and they can hash all of their Michael ish out together themselves instead of airing it for the public to witness.
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thank you.
 
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