‘There was nothing strange about your daddy.’

As we witness the Downfall of American Civilization that is the Michael Jackson memorial service, it is worth remembering that the Democratic Party treated Al Sharpton as a legitimate presidential candidate from January 2003 to March 2004.

UPDATE: A reader sends in this comment from Amelie Gillette of the Onion AV Club: “If you have to say, at a funeral, that there wasn’t anything strange about the deceased, there was definitely something strange about the deceased.”