South Park is tasteless yet again

The infamous Chef Matt Stone and his wife

The creators of South Park have sunk to a new low of tastelessness--I say this as a fan--with their new episode "I See Dead Celebrities." The installment shows recently deceased stars Michael Jackson, Patric Swayze, Farrah Fawcett, and David Carradine dwelling in purgatory while waiting to enter heaven. (Where are Steve McNair and Ed McMahon?) During the episode Michael's spirit inhabits one of the show's regular characters.

Jackson fans are striking back at the show in internet chatrooms and social networking sites. Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone just laughed it off when Isaac "Chef" Hayes quit the show over their mocking of Scientology, but this just may be their counterpart to the banned Boondocks "Hunger Strike" episode about BET.

German magazine admits it faked MJ Coroner Van video

A spokesperson for German television station RTL produced the hoax video for its daily magazine "Explosive" to tell people not to believe everything they see or read on the internet or media. "This was so obviously fake, in the case of Michael Jackson, it just was not possible," Schultz said.

RTL claims some viewers have been happy the station showed how easy it was to fake information online. Many others have commented online that this was completely tasteless to do in the wake of such an important person's death; this was the wrong topic to do this kind of experiment on. The video sparked incredible worldwide interest; more than 880,000 people have viewed the original video on YouTube. I called out this video as a hoax last week; I have posted a link to the annotated video showing why the video is a hoax. Click on the bubble in the upper right hand corner to translate it. I told y'all we're worldwide!