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LL Cool J Opens Grammys With A Prayer For Whitney Houston

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Grammy host LL Cool J eschewed the conventional joke-laden monologue in favor of offering a somber prayer for Whitney Houston tonight.

“We have a death in our family,” he told those gathered. “And so at least for me, the only thing that feels right is to begin with a prayer.”

RELATED: Whitney Houston Dead At 48

Heavenly Father, we thank You for sharing our sister Whitney with us.
Today our thoughts are with her mother, her daughter, and all of her loved ones.
And although she is gone too soon, we remain truly blessed to have been touched by her beautiful spirit and to have her lasting legacy of music to cherish and share forever.

Amen

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  • Anonymous

    No disrespect, RIP and all, but…god damn it is that a KANGOL HAT WITH A TUXEDO?!?!?!  Why?

  • Anonymous

    Dope…

  • Anonymous

    A thoughtful way to begin the Grammys. 

  • Anonymous
  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    A liberal with a prayer is like a dog with a fire hydrant.

  • Anonymous

     who are you the fashion police?

  • Anonymous

     you republicans are getting desperate.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sorry, but God doesn’t hear your prayers when you mismatch.  I didn’t make the rules.  I think Paul the Apostle said it in one of his letters to the Corinthians.  He was super bitchy.  

  • Anonymous

    “I’m sorry, but God doesn’t hear your prayers when you mismatch.”

    And who made the rules to know which pieces of clothing constitute as matching and not matching is?

  • Anonymous

     And this would be where we remind you that Jesus was a Liberal.  Sorry if all that talking about caring for the poor and not talking about the evils of gay marriage gets in the way of things.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Guess L.L. FoolJ’s family is black. Where’s a prayer for Amy Winehouse, the most talented woman of her generation? Houston don’t fit that bill no matter how much of a voice she had. She didn’t write, arrange and play. By 22 Winehouse already had a better library of music than Houston today.

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    Jesus never pilfered from others nor did he do drugs.
    There goes your “liberal Jesus” theory up in smoke.

  • Anonymous

     Wow, that was an interesting attempt.  God knows that good Republicans never pilfer from others… or do drugs.  Next perhaps you can tell me how good republicans are never unfaithful to their wives, or gay. 

    And I’m not sure where in the bible Matthew, Mark, Luke or John refer to Jesus taking a urine test, so I’m thinking the drug thing is open to question.

  • Anonymous

     And the Grammy for saddest comment by a racist on an issue that had no racial content goes to… No surprise, here: .James.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    shouldn’t you be burning incense at your Ayn Rand altar?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    No clips of the Glen Campbell tribute, Mediate?

  • J M

    you conservatives are lower than pond scum. The whole world knows it, try traveling outside of the country and ask people what they think of Republicans. They actually laugh at you. The right embodies every negative American stereotype outside the confines of your trailer park. Youre made up of older people and idiots and to be honest the sooner you die off the better off our country will be. 

  • J M

    wooo racism!! lol youre a pathetic piece of panty waste James.Try saying that outside the confines of your dialup aol account in your moms basement. You’d get slapped around like the B!tch that you are. 

  • Anonymous

    Amy Inehouse was the most talented woman of her generation? Raspy voice, no range, couldn’t dance, and wasn’t even sexy. She just had a unique style. Whitney Houston has the most amazing voice of all time! Nice job playing the race card where it doesn’t belong.

  • Anonymous

    But Jesus didn’t condemn such people either. Jesus was not like Rush by any means.

  • Anonymous

    God is obviously in the closet then.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    A PRAYER!

    Was there any spontaneous combustion reported amongst the Progressive Democrats in the audience?

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     I can’t figure out if this ad hominem attack is more cliched, bigoted, or just naively stereotyped!

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     (Just talking to myself)

    I saw LL on Morgan’s show and he was his usual classy self.

    Hey, racial and other primitive thinking group-identity indoctrinates, get your head out of your a–, and listen to what this guy is saying!

  • Anonymous

    Don’t get me wrong here, I respect Amy Winehouse as an artist, but realistically, she couldn’t even dream of hitting the chords that Whitney could.

  • Priscilla Vera

    I am a liberal. I am paying my way through college doing my best to take the least amount of government help possible. I have never done any drugs, nor have I ever stolen from anyone. I am also a devout Christian, and yes if you put Jesus in todays context he would be a liberal. He said to help the poor and the widowed, to feed them and clothe them. He was against the corrupted, self serving and prideful establishment of the time and was very open in His dislike of them calling them a “generation of vipers” “whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean” among other things. I don’t believe there is is anything wrong with prayer in a public place. Who is it hurting? Anyway, Jesus preached a gospel of love and acceptance, He hung out with the outcasts of society prostitutes, lepers, tax collectors. Maybe you are not a christian, perhaps you don’t believe in prayer or God, but that is no reason to belittle something that brings comfort to people. If someone truly believes in God and prayer that is none of your business, just as it is not theirs or mine if you don’t, however comments like the one you made are offensive.  

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