Michael Jackson Suffers HEART ATTACK!!

[Beetwasher]

No joke.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3939204

[napi21]

1. Is that any surprise? e's looked terrible for years! n.t

[no_hypocrisy]

2. How ironic. He's a classic germophobe and he's in a hospital which is

a virtual petrie dish of bacteria.

[dgibby]

8. He's in no shape to appreciate the irony.

They were giving him CPR in route. If he collapsed at home, his chances of surving are about zip to zero. Question is was it witnessed and was CPR started immediately? Any other scenario is very bad.

[Mari333]

3. this day has been so weird.

this week has been so weird.

[Mrs. Overall]

4. Sounds very serious--his family has been summoned to the hospital.

[hugo_from_TN]

5. I hope you mean the singer and not the excellent beer critic!

[Left Is Write]

7. Michael Jackson the beer guy passed away almost two years ago.

[Sebastian Doyle]

27. Now that is a true tragedy

I had no idea :evilfrown:

[Happyhippychick]

6. I sure hope he has insurance.

[stray cat]

18. doesn't make much difference if the heart attack itself is fatal

[magellan]

9. KABC in L.A. confirms, Jackson taken to UCLA Medical Center

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/entertainment&id=6884521

[kestrel91316]

10. Cardiac arrest. Not likely a myocardial infarction. My money is on

a drug or alcohol overdose.

[Ezlivin]

11. You've gotta feel that beat, and we can ride the boogie.

C'mon Michael, keep the beat going!

Edited to add complete lyrics else I get dragged to jail by the RIAA or something.

Rock With You

Girl, close your eyes,
let that Rhythm get into you.
Don't try to fight it,
there ain't nothing that you can do.
Relax your mind.
Lay back and groove with mine.
You've gotta feel that beat,
and we can ride the boogie.
Share that beat alone

Chorus
I wanna rock with you all night
Dance you into sun light
I wanna rock with you all night
Were gonna rock the night away
Out on the floor,
there aint nobody there but us.
Girl when you dance,
there's a magic that must be love.
Just take it slow,
cause we got so far to go
You've gotta feel that beat,
and we can ride the boogie.
Share that beat alone

Chorus

And when the groove is dead and gone.
You know that love survives,
so we can rock forever.

[Mari333]

12. breaking: not breathing when paramedics arrived

http://twitter.com/BreakingNews

[Mrs. Overall]

13. Wikipedia says he has died.

But Wikipedia always jumps the gun, so to speak.

[Posteritatis]

23. Wikipedia says a lot of things. (nt)

[Mrs. Overall]

26. No shit. That's why I also posted that they often jump the gun, like with Ted Kennedy--

saying he had died after he collapsed at the Obama luncheon.

[Contrary1]

14. L.A. Times reports the pop star wasn’t breathing when ambulance arrived

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31552029/ns/entertainment-music/

[Beetwasher]

15. Sounds Like We'll Be Hearing About His Death Shortly

Probably waiting until the family is notified first.

[mod mom]

16. family member says "not doing well"

http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-rushed-to-the-hospital/

[MiniMe]

17. Just heard on the news that he has died of a sleeping pill overdose

[Beetwasher]

19. So They're Now Reporting He's Dead??? Anyone Else Hear This?

:shrug:

[MissB]

25. Not on CNN.

[MiniMe]

29. Local news channel

And they took it back.

[MiniMe]

28. The station just changed it, that is unconfirmed

They apparently got it from TMZ at some point and it has now changed. Listening to the local station, really upsets me that the station is getting it's news from TMZ

[Maru Kitteh]

30. Which station?

[MiniMe]

34. It is a local Fox station in DC

And they just changed it again to he died per TMZ. What a day. 2 dozen sleeping pills.

[Left Is Write]

22. MSNBC is just reporting that he is in the hospital - no reports of death from them or from CNN

at this point.

[Sebastian Doyle]

20. From TMZ - doesn't sound good

Michael Jackson -- Cardiac Arrest

Posted Jun 25th 2009 4:30PM by TMZ Staff

We've just learned Michael Jackson was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Los Angeles ... and we're told it was cardiac arrest and that paramedics administered CPR in the ambulance.

He was picked up at his home around 20 minutes ago -- we're told his mother is on the way to visit him.

UPDATE: The 911 call came in at 12:21PM at his Holmby Hills home in L.A.

UPDATE: A Jackson family member tells TMZ Michael is in "really bad shape" and the brothers are headed to UCLA.

UPDATE: We just got off the phone with Joe Jackson, Michael's dad, who says "he is not doing well."

[MiniMe]

21. wrong place

:blush:

[Sebastian Doyle]

24. Tells you something about the corporate media, doesn't it?

Though TMZ is probably a more reliable source than Drudge or the right wing blogs that FAUX uses for their primary sources.

[stray cat]

36. I would rather the corporate media confirm something before announcing it

[Catherine Vincent]

31. I hope he pulls through

When I was 10, I had a huge crush on this guy. When the Jackson 5 came to my town for a concert, I cried because I didn't have a ticket.

[Beetwasher]

32. TMZ REPORTING HE'S DEAD

Take it for what it's worth.

[Mrs. Overall]

33. LBN has a thread saying he has died and that it is confirmed.

[Deja Q]

35. No, HEART ATTACK was Olivia Newton-John's song.