How Much Michael Jackson are going to put up with on DU?

[AlabamaYankee]

This is supposed to be a Political board, but I've seen at least four threads on GD, and a couple of LBN about Michael Jackson, most of them complaining about how he's driving out real news.

Are some of our more prolific posters irony challenged?

[Alenne]

1. I think they are

I was just thinking the same thing.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. DU isn't just a political board, it's for whatever we decide it's for.

There may be more politics in the Jackson case than you think. If people want to talk about Jackson, let them.

[wndycty]

3. Hell its on "INSIDE POLITICS"

:kick:

[zeemike]

15. I am about to email CNN

and ask them just what Michael Jackson has to do with politics.

[Walt Starr]

4. I intend to ifgnore anything about Jackson

As far as I'm concerned, I don't need to know aything more other than the verdict when it comes down.

[RobertSeattle]

5. Isn't MJ a Republican?

:evilgrin:

[KFC]

6. This post is about Michael Jackson

Thank you.

[THUNDER HANDS]

7. and you don't see the irony

In starting another Michael Jackson thread?

[AlabamaYankee]

12. Of Course

I just couldn't resist.

But I promise it's the last one of its type from me.

[rucky]

8. There's more threads complaining about MJ than there are MJ threads...

eom

[madrchsod]

9. what i like about all these

threads and posts that i can say any dim whitted thing and run up my post count, see i just got another one by saying pretty much nothing at all and that`s what i think of wacko jacko.....

[DontTreadOnMe]

11. My local Weather Channel...

is now non-stop Jacko. What next? They're even showing the door he went into to be booked! Is this the seventh sign of the end of mankind?

[flamingyouth]

16. LOL - the Weather Channel?

No way! We're doomed!

[roughsatori]

17. The Weather Channel covering MJ: that is so sad it is funny

I wonder if there is a word to describe something so pathetic it is funny. It could be considered lugubrious, but that means more of so ridiculous it if unintentionally funny.

Welcome to DU :)

edited to add this Merriam-Webster correction:

Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin lugubris, from lugEre to mourn; akin to Greek lygros mournful
Date: 1601
1 : MOURNFUL; especially : exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful <dark, dramatic and lugubrious brooding -- V. S. Pritchett>
2 : DISMAL <a lugubrious landscape>
- lu·gu·bri·ous·ly adverb
- lu·gu·bri·ous·ness noun

[La_Serpiente]

10. Well the posts

ARE mainly complaints about how the news is going to cover this instead of everything else that is screwy.

[JailBush]

13. Don't fight Distraction Jackson...

Exploit him!

[el_gato]

14. I feel like I've been fighting against it all day