Donny Deutsch: Jackson Mourners "Crying In The Streets That Don't Know Him... Need To Get A Life"

Despite claiming that he didn't want to be a "cold-hearted guy," CNBC's Donny Deutsch came off as just that when he harshly criticized all the media attention that Michael Jackson's death was receiving. Deutsch read off a list of people who had died on the same day as Jackson, a woman who registered tens of thousands to vote, a U.S. military member who died, the implication being that Jackson's impact on society and culture, whom Deutsch called a "wonderful singer and dancer," did not merit the massive amount of attention being paid to his death.

Deutsch also had harsh words for those intensely mourning Jackson's death: "People who are crying in the streets that don't know him, they need to maybe get a little bit of a life."

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Comments

[Adris]

I just sincerely wish you don't find yourselves in a desperate situation with a terminal ill child...... then you would know how it feels that someone without any obligation would care for your child's health to the point of putting all his effort on saving his/her life as MJ did thousands of times in hospitals all around the world, or making the child's last days happy by simply taking him/her to an amusement park or something.... Oh! I forgot... you won't have that chance because that man is gone for good!

I feel sorry for you all.......... but Jesus said "you don't know what you're talking about"

Now go back to your empty lonely miserable lives and always think twice!!

[Adris]

How IGNORANT can thus guy be?? I mean...... by working at a network one would expect him to be more familiar with all sort of affairs. Doesn't he know Michael Jackson, above of being an extraordinary "singer and dancer", he was a HUMANITARIAN !!

Yes!! spell it : H-U-M-A-N-I-T-A-R-I-A-N got it?

All the work he did al around the world sadly was not covered as Princess Diana's but was pretty close to what she did. He even won prizes and Guiness Records awards for the number of charities he sponsored...... How sad it is to find a DONKEY running special reports.....

[claylandg]

Bravo Donny!!! I couldn't have said it any better

[jukesgrrl]

I don't have a problem with Deutsch's opinion (which he's entitled to), and I don't think he's cold-hearted, since he offered sincere condolences to MJ's family and friends and he spent a lot of time empathizing with the children. I do think it's ironic, however, that a person who built a huge career in advertising would criticize what is essentially the success of the advertising industry.

Who would have ever heard of Jackson had it not been for the huge marketing campaign that brought his work to people's attention? Donny was criticizing the very people who consume the messages that his own industry creates. Yes, people get insanely attached to people and things they only know through the media -- including products. You'd have people crying in the streets if marshmallow peeps got taken off the market. So now you have millions crying in the streets because a talented performer died. We have your ilk to thank for it, Donny, so stop yer bi tchin'.

[Carmichael]

I enjoyed what you wrote. And in all fairness, I support everything that you have said. What amazes me though, and continue to amaze me about people as Donny here, is how often many of us see ourselves as example of the world. His expression is one that not only has a different perspective, but would hope that everyone sees it the same way he does. This is a falsie; we live in a pluralistic world, the existence of groups with different ethnic, religious, understanding, political backgrounds...etc.

It's a false image to think that others should be like us, having the same understanding. To conform to such an ideology and to perceive such a notion, constitute a state of ignorance and arrogance for that matter. And though you might have gone to school and ascertained a certain level of education, it also shows a lack of intelligence...not having the ability to reason, will and think.

We could also form the conception, that several white Americans are indeed pissed off because in their minds, a black man shouldn't be getting this much notoriety, as presently, Michael Jackson death and the attention received so far, is the biggest yet in the history of the United States, by the calculation to-date.

[CyndiC]

He's absolutely correct. Very sad time about MJ's passing but Donny is correct.

[LBaby]

who is he, btw? They are all starting to run together on that station...

[franny20]

It is absolutely disgusting that "journalists" (well, some) think that part of their job is to attempt to tell others how they should behave. I mourned Michael Jackson because I'm free, and over 21 and I do have a life. How dare you .

[wavydavy]

Nobody told you you couldn't do anything. What he did do was criticize the things that you and others actually did. Not at all the same thing.

[urbanopolis]

Donny spends 12 hours a day in front of his mirror every day.

[jamie461]

He's not wrong. No disrespect to Michael Jackson, but I have been over-Jacksoned the past couple of weeks. It really shows what a nation of dummies we are turning into, when the death of a pop star overtakes every other important issue (and there are MANY) that the news should be covering. The traditional media are just so starved for readers/ratings that they abandon all principles of good journalism and become all about info-tainment.

[YouCanKeepYourChange]

Donny you nailed it. The media should be ashamed and those people crying need to get a life. It’s absurd.

[Sloane7]

I have to admit, yesterday did seem to be a jump the shark moment.

[alwqb]

Good God Donny! Didn't you have a Jackson 5 album when you were a child. Or are you so cold that music doesn't move you. Michael Jackson was a world star, let the people mourn one of the greatest entertainers of all time.

They complain about the Michael Jackson coverage but are covering him?

[truthyguy]

There is a tendency to mark periods in your life by the celebrity events that were occurring at the time. When a celebrity does things over a long period that are noteworthy - for whatever reason- and then the celebrity suddenly is gone, it makes you realize how transient everything is and how quickly your life is going by. For many people Jackson was always there during his 40 year public life, in his music or notoriety or charity. So it is, contrary to Deutsch's view, not deifying Jackson as much as it is realizing that someone who formed a part of their youth through his music is gone and feeling that because of it they are somehow older than they were a few days ago. It makes them feel older and sorry because the passage of time has changed them and things will always be a little different now that they are older. It is why, for example, we tune in to 50s, or 60s or 70s music or TV show reunions. Some people and some shows are just more significant than others.

[alimal123]

Hey Donny, I wonder if you would of been telling the fans of Kurt Kobane to get a life when they where mourning him....

[Shammie2000]

Question for Donnie D, if his daughter were not white, would you still be heart broken for her also.

[Cockacola]

That is the question I wanted to ask of many commentators who thought that the Paris moment was the most "heart wrenching" I guess they did not see Jermaine singing SMILE through his tears, or Usher breaking down - only the ONE white girl had FEELINGS.
Part of the w***e mans war against us is pretending we don't feel- as if we are not humans.........