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Joe Jackson is such a hypocrite and I fully understand why Michael Jackson talked about him with such disdain during his interview with Oprah Winfrey a few years ago.

During a news conference yesterday, the Jackson patriarch, confirmed that the family was planning an enormous memorial service but he couldn't shed much light on that plan.

At the BET Awards over the weekend, Michael Jackson’s father, Joe Jackson, was back in front of the cameras. Wearing a black fedora and oversized sunglasses, he spoke proudly of his son, paid tribute to “a superstar” and promoted his own new record label.

The 79-year-old former steelworker is again fully immersed in the family’s dealings since his son’s death. The return of Joe Jackson — a controversial, sometimes vilified figure who Michael said abused him as a child — is sure to renew questions about his influence on his troubled son.

I made reference to Joe Jackson's shameful comments during his conversation with Don Lemon on the BET Awards red carpet on Sunday, where he dropped hints about his new recording venture. The man was a power-hungry, money-grubbing sleazebag in the early Jackson Five years and he hasn't lost it in his old age.

CNN anchor and former WMAQ-Channel 5 anchor Don Lemon was practically speechless -- and quickly changed the subject back to thoughts of the King of Pop -- after Joe's blatant boost of his new Ranch Records label

Since Michael Jackson died Thursday of what his family has said was cardiac arrest, his father has been vocal about his son and the posthumous arrangements being made. Medical examiners in Los Angeles are perhaps weeks away from officially determining the cause of death, though a second autopsy has been requested at the family’s request.