Perez Makes Jerk Comments About Michael Jackson, Everyone Gets Mad

Image originally from perezhilton.com

While the world still wasn't sure of the fate of Michael Jackson, Perez Hilton of celebrity blogging and more recently, getting punched in the face fame, was quick to judge the early reports of MJ's condition and...I'll just let you read what he had to say.

The original post:

We knew something like this would happen!!

Michael Jackson was taken by ambulance from his Holmby Hills home to a nearby Los Angeles hospital on Thursday afternoon!!

Supposedly, the singer went into cardiac arrest and the paramedics had to administer CPR!!!

His mother is even on the way to visit him!!!

We are dubious!!

Jacko pulled a similar stunt when he was getting ready for his big HBO special in '95 when he "collapsed" at rehearsal!

He was dragging his heels on that just like his upcoming 50 date London residency at the 02 Arena, of which he already postponed the first few dates!!!

Either he's lying or making himself sick, but we're curious to see if he's able to go on!!!

Get your money back, ticket holders!!!!

If you look for it now (which you can read here) it's been edited with no acknowledgement of being edited. As someone who just got punched in the face for being insensitive, this type of commentary really didn't help his cause for the world to feel bad for him. Even though he soon edited the post, the message of the original entry wasn't let go by the readers of his site, lashing out with a ton of negativity towards him.

Here's just a sampling of the almost 300 hateful comments they had to say on his blog:

What if he's dying?

Seriously, I sort of get your point, but atleast wait with saying stuff like that until we know what the hell is going on…

- Shuyinda

I thought maybe you would have turned over a new leaf after all the negativity directed at you for your recent idiocy, but it appears as you are just the same old fat idiot. Making fun of someone that has had a serious medical emergency.

You are not worthy of being a human being…good thing you look like a pig, cause in the pen is the only place you will be accepted soon.

- KCP1967

Perez, for Christ sake, if he suffered cardiac arrest it means his heart stopped beating. If someone has a cardiac arrest and doctors don't administer whatever needed to restart the heart beating again, the person is DEAD.
My father had a heart arrest, the doctors worked and worked on resuscitation and brought him back to life. Next day in the hospital bed he looked better, and suddenly his heart arrested again, the line on the heart monitor went flat, and the doctors worked and worked on him, but he was dead.

- soccer mom

What happened to your original post on him Perez?!? You know, the one where you were "dubious" and thought he was faking this to get out of his concert tickets? The one where you told ticket holders to get their $$ back? It was mysteriously edited after you posted that he DIED.

YOU COWARD!!! I hope you feel disgusted and ashamed of yourself, you deserve nothing less.

- LOLA BB

What should have Perez done? Well first, not jump to conclusions. He made some very insesitive comments that angered many people, and they all called for him to edit what he said. Second, he shouldn't have tried to edit his post without any sort of apology or acknowledgement that it was edited. You can't sweep anything under the rug on the Internet, and for Perez to think all he had to do was edit the original post and act like nothing happened was really shady and unprofessional.

Once you've gone that far in, I think the only thing left for him to do is to clearly state that he edited the post and apologize for the original comments. He has yet to make it clear that he edited what he said and I don't expect him to now.

I know he's a celebrity tabloid style blogger, but he went too far this time. And the lack of any acknowledgement of his editing makes it even shadier. I hope we as bloggers and posters on the Internet can learn a lesson from this.