Perfect Shmerfect

I'm watching the Michael Jackson coverage, right. And they're interviewing this record producer who used to work with Jackson. They asked him, "So, how would you go about describing Michael Jackson as an artist?" The producer responded by saying that Mr. Jackson was a "perfectionist"...........................................................................Well, let's just say that I pretty much lost it at that point. I mean, I know that the poor bastard just frigging died and all but, really, think about it here. If repeating the words, "I'm bad", 80-90 times during the course of some mediocre pop song is somehow perfection, wouldn't you really much prefer to stay imperfect, flawed, etc.? I sure as hell know that I would..........................................................................And the fact that the media itself is doing a one-eighty here - kind of like they did with Richard Nixon. Remember after Nixon died - they were frigging talking about him like he was Washington, Lincoln, and the two Roosevelts combined? Well, that's exactly what they're doing with Michael Jackson. I mean, it was just a couple of years ago, for Christ sakes - he was constantly being made fun of (wacko-Jacko), hit like a pinata with a rush of these child-abuse charges, etc.. This, I'm saying, but, no, now he's suddenly a wonderful man again. Give me a frigging break. Maybe a little real news, too.