Two train wrecks, the only difference being the magnitude of each.
My daughter was telling me a few days ago that a couple of her 6th-grader friends were arguing with her that Michael Jackson was NEVER black.
I told her to tell her friends to go home and ask their parents about that, since they probably remember quite well the talented little black kid that won the hearts of America... or if they're not as old as me, they surely are old enough to remember when he broke all sorts of records with "Thriller" -- and in the video, was quite clearly black!
Neither Anna Nicole nor Michael Jackson seem "normal" compared to the average person, but the argument can be made that some of the wacky things they do and say are fairly common among people enjoying their level of fame. The moment they became instantly recognizable, the whole concept of "normal" shifted quite a bit in the other direction from what average people would place in the realm of acceptable on a day-to-day basis.
I have no doubt that most average Americans would place pornographers in a group with the likes of Anna Nicole and MJ before they'd consider us "normal" like themselves. Which shows how much the average American knows!
