To many fans is enough to know Michael through a simple interview or magazines. Or because they´re die hard fans who have known him for many, many years. They seem to forget that Michael had a private life that he could have wanted to keep for himself. So, no, even the die hard fans don´t know him completely.
But the truth is, they´re convinced they do!
They even refute something said about Michael with the exhausting argument "Michael said this or that a thousand times, so otherwise is a lie!"
Interestingly, these are the same people who are always quoting Michael:
The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it...
He´s completely right. Just because something is said a million times that doesn´t mean that´s the truth. But that´s not the point here.
The point is the fans argument: For them, Michael said the same thing many, many times so that´s a disrespect someone believes otherwise. Yet, they´re always saying that a lie repeated many times can be seen as the truth.
So...Michael could have said a complete lie. But fans argue that he said the same a "thousand times". So, if we follow his ever-repeated quote, he lied but he repeated the lie many, many times so the fans saw it as the truth.
This is a hypocrisy, right?
I´m not calling Michael a liar. But fans should give the same possibility to other people. I mean, just because he was Michael Fucking Jackson, that doesn´t mean we have to give him a free pass for repeating the same thing and see it as truth. There are people who repeats the same things about him but they´re seen as liars by the fans if what they claim isn´t good.
The same argument was claimed concerning Lisa Presley. I didn´t read Frank Cascio´s book but according to people who did so, he claimed that Michael only married her and Debbie because of the Nation of Islam or something like that.
Of course fans of the marriage got angry:
Lisa said over and over again the marriage was real. Period. Why people still insist on that?
Again, the same. I´m not calling her a liar as well. But she could have lied. Just because she said that over and over again that doesn´t mean the truth. Isn´t it what fans always say? But she was Michael´s wife. Of course many fans give her a pass. (though there are fans who really hate her, some people are so mean.)
I remember reading in one board a story about Michael and some woman, I think Diana Ross. Someone said:
That wasn´t the first time someone says that story, It should be truth, then.
Again, the fans contradiction . Or better, they liked that story so for them it was convenient it was the truth.
Interestingly, these are the same people who are always quoting Michael:
The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it...
He´s completely right. Just because something is said a million times that doesn´t mean that´s the truth. But that´s not the point here.
The point is the fans argument: For them, Michael said the same thing many, many times so that´s a disrespect someone believes otherwise. Yet, they´re always saying that a lie repeated many times can be seen as the truth.
So...Michael could have said a complete lie. But fans argue that he said the same a "thousand times". So, if we follow his ever-repeated quote, he lied but he repeated the lie many, many times so the fans saw it as the truth.
This is a hypocrisy, right?
I´m not calling Michael a liar. But fans should give the same possibility to other people. I mean, just because he was Michael Fucking Jackson, that doesn´t mean we have to give him a free pass for repeating the same thing and see it as truth. There are people who repeats the same things about him but they´re seen as liars by the fans if what they claim isn´t good.
The same argument was claimed concerning Lisa Presley. I didn´t read Frank Cascio´s book but according to people who did so, he claimed that Michael only married her and Debbie because of the Nation of Islam or something like that.
Of course fans of the marriage got angry:
Lisa said over and over again the marriage was real. Period. Why people still insist on that?
Again, the same. I´m not calling her a liar as well. But she could have lied. Just because she said that over and over again that doesn´t mean the truth. Isn´t it what fans always say? But she was Michael´s wife. Of course many fans give her a pass. (though there are fans who really hate her, some people are so mean.)
I remember reading in one board a story about Michael and some woman, I think Diana Ross. Someone said:
That wasn´t the first time someone says that story, It should be truth, then.
Again, the fans contradiction . Or better, they liked that story so for them it was convenient it was the truth.
Fans are also always claiming they only believe someone who had been in touch with him by some time. But when that person claims something they don´t like, they have their opinion:
Oh he/she didn´t know Michael so well as we think. He/she wasn´t a friend.
They believe more someone who had known Michael for two days and says only positive things about him rather someone who had known him almost a lifetime but had less good things to say.
They can believe some woman had lied about dating Michael but they forgive her because they "cannot blame her" and she was nice for him. But a man could have claim the same and the fans are even able to make death threats.
They threatened Jason Pfeiffer to death because he claimed he and Michael had a relationship but when three women claimed they were the true mothers of Michael´s kids they did nothing at all. And they really lied! Everyone knows the true mother at last of the two older kids is Debbie Rowe! It was a more serious matter, but the fans choose to get angry at Jason instead!
That post shows how even the fans themselves can be more haters and more hypocrites than the press, as they like to say.
Oh he/she didn´t know Michael so well as we think. He/she wasn´t a friend.
They believe more someone who had known Michael for two days and says only positive things about him rather someone who had known him almost a lifetime but had less good things to say.
They can believe some woman had lied about dating Michael but they forgive her because they "cannot blame her" and she was nice for him. But a man could have claim the same and the fans are even able to make death threats.
They threatened Jason Pfeiffer to death because he claimed he and Michael had a relationship but when three women claimed they were the true mothers of Michael´s kids they did nothing at all. And they really lied! Everyone knows the true mother at last of the two older kids is Debbie Rowe! It was a more serious matter, but the fans choose to get angry at Jason instead!
That post shows how even the fans themselves can be more haters and more hypocrites than the press, as they like to say.
For fans everything that MJ said and did is perfect, but in case somebody (anybody!) say smth. that they dislike... This person better hide somewhere! Lol! The most funny thing is that in case someone who has very bad reputation among the fans say smth. that they like, smth. that conforms their beliefs - than they believe this person, they believe the piece they like. I just love their logic!..
ReplyDeleteFrank Cascio wrote that MJ explained to him his marriages to both Lisa Marie and Debbie as smth. made mostly for PR reasons - MJ's business partner Saudi Arabia prince told MJ that marriages would improve his tarnished image. Even Frank Cascio wrote that MJ's marriages didn't look as smth. normal to him. Heh...