Michael Jackson: Adolf Hitler was a 'genius' at showmanship

 

 

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Michael Jackson hailed the showmanship of Adolf Hitler in a bizarre interview with a Jewish scholar, it has been revealed today.

He even went so far as to describe him as a 'genius'.

 

The singer went on to say that he wanted to hug the killers of two-year-old Jamie Bulger.

 

 

 

 

Michael Jackson said Hitler 'was a genius orator'

 

 

The King of Pop made the revelations in recorded conversations with his close friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. He also told the rabbi that he believed he could have got rid of the Nazi leader's evil.

The singer, who died of heart failure in June, said: 'Hitler was a genius orator. To make that many people turn and change and hate, he had to be a showman and he was.'

 

 

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Asked if he had the ability to make Hitler change, Jackson replied: 'Absolutely. You have to help them, give them therapy, teach them that somewhere, something in their life went wrong.'

He also told the rabbi he wanted to date Princess Diana and thought Madonna was in love with him but was jealous of his success.

 

He also said he would have liked to have dated Princess Diana, pictured with here her in 1988. He described her as 'very special - very feminine and classy'

 

The revelations have come to light in more than 30 hours of interviews the late singer recorded with the rabbi.

Jackson, who died aged 50 from a drug-related heart attack, was taped talking to Rabbi Boteach eight years ago for interviews he allegedly knew would be published.

 

The star made the claims to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, seen together here in 2001

 

In another conversation he revealed how his first wife Lisa Marie Presley called him an 'idiot' for wanting to visit Robert Thompson and Jon Venables in jail after they murdered two-year-old James Bulger in 1993.

He said he told her: 'How dare you say that? I bet if you trace their life you can find they didn't have parents around, didn't have any love, nobody there to hold them, look in their eyes and say I love you.

 

'They deserve that, even though they're going to get life. I want to say I love you and hold them.'

Thompson and Venables, who battered James to death before leaving his body on a railway line, were sent to a young offenders' institution indefinitely.

 

But after a series of controversies over how long they should serve they were freed in 2001 and given new identities.

The interviews with Jacko are in a new book, The Michael Jackson Tapes, which goes on sale in America and online today.

 

Rabbi Boteach, 42, who was based at Oxford University, made the recordings at the singer's Neverland ranch.

 

Jackson said he wanted to date Princess Diana, but was too shy to ask her. He said: 'I thought she was very special - very feminine and classy.

'She was my type for sure and I don't like most girls. it takes a very special mould to make me happy and she was one of them.'

 

The singer also claimed supermodel Cindy Crawford flirted with him and he considered dating his friend Elizabeth Taylor, but feared they would be labelled The Odd Couple.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The singer also said he wanted to hug the killers of James Bulger (left), Robert Thompson (centre) and Jon Venables (right)

 

He was convinced Madonna was in love with him, but thought she was jealous of his success, saying of the Material Girl singer: 'I think she was in love with me and I was not in love with her.'

 

But he added: 'We had nothing in common. She is not sexy at all.'

 

Rabbi Boteach said of Jacko: 'He yearned so deeply to do good with his life but was ultimately consumed by indescribable loneliness and pain.'

 

Fans of the late singer queue for tickets for the Michael Jackson's This Is It film in Los Angeles, produced from footage of him in rehearsals for his doomed tour

 

 

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He was though...you can't look at the Nazis and Hitler and not be impressed/

Nathan should know.

Can't say I could blame him for saying this...

Michael Jackson hailed the showmanship of Adolf Hitler in a bizarre interview with a Jewish scholar, it has been revealed today.

Good wording!

OMF, MJ waved like Hitler too!

they need to stop making michael jackson out to be a prophet!

Hitler was brilliant, but obviously for all the wrong reasons. Just think if he had used the power he had for something good. It's a shame he was just out to watch the world burn.

they need to stop making michael jackson out to be a prophet!

 

A profit (for other people) would be far more apt.;)

Oh I would totally agree with Michael Jackson here. Much of statism is about the "letterhead" - that extra artistic touch that emphasizes that THIS is power, and THIS is truth, and there are no alternatives. It's why we have flags and it's why the police wear blue costumes and judges wear black robes.

 

The Nazis did a fantastic job creating a beautiful government letterhead out of virtually nothing - Germany had been decimated in WW1 and their national pride and history was virtually meaningless at the point when Hitler rose to power.

 

It was said that the SS troops were selected from the most handsome German men, and people often joke that this was because the guy in charge of doing it was gay (all Nazis are secretly gay, remember!) but in truth is goes back to the idea that you could create a "master race" and achieve this perfect society. All governments are premised on this, to some degree or another - eliminating poverty via extortion and theft of the middle and upper classes, for instance. Of course, it never works. But we try, and that's what counts!

Michael Jackson may have been the King Of Pop and sung some catchy tunes but in death, I'm starting to think of him as an even bigger wierdo.

Michael Jackson may have been the King Of Pop and sung some catchy tunes but in death, I'm starting to think of him as an even bigger wierdo.

 

Well my point at the time of his death was that he hadn't made any catchy tunes for at least a decade, and therefore had "died" many years before in a sense.;)

It is sad that he had got weirder and weirder, but that's how it was, unfortunately.;)

Sadly all these crazy news stories will come out now because:

1 - To promote his new album/single/film etc

2 - Because he can't sue for libel cos he's hiding up in Alaska with Lord Lucan

if Germany didn't lost the war, Hitler would become a hero, rather being remembered as the evil morbid, dictator. ANYWAYS, Jacko, is Jacko. Its not like l'll gunna like him / join the bandwagon of people who 'sypmathizes' just after the time of Jacko's death--the same people who once despised him. l'm not gunna disrespect his soul either. He should be happy where he is now.

I hate this idea that thinking anything related to the Nazis is in anyway impressive means you support them. Of course the Nazi Party was full of showmen, look at the rallies. Cathedrals of light, hundreds of thousands of adoring followers all there to see one of the best orators of the 20th century.This orator was completely and utterly batshit insane and evil beyond measure... But that still doesn't change the fact he had the rare ability to keep a crowd of millions captivated and then drive them into a complete frenzy.

 

I seem to remember there being a fuss some months when some popular figure said he was fascinated by Nazi architecture. All I remember is thinking; "yeah, it was pretty impressive". Because it was.

 

 

Still, Jackson wasn't quite all there, as we can see from some other comments of his.

I hate this idea that thinking anything related to the Nazis is in anyway impressive means you support them. Of course the Nazi Party was full of showmen, look at the rallies. Cathedrals of light, hundreds of thousands of adoring followers all there to see one of the best orators of the 20th century.This orator was completely and utterly batshit insane and evil beyond measure... But that still doesn't change the fact he had the rare ability to keep a crowd of millions captivated and then drive them into a complete frenzy.

 

I seem to remember there being a fuss some months when some popular figure said he was fascinated by Nazi architecture. All I remember is thinking; "yeah, it was pretty impressive". Because it was.

 

 

Still, Jackson wasn't quite all there, as we can see from some other comments of his.

 

exactly. I was trying to tell work-mate that not everything Hitler has done and promised was bad, esp. for the germans....that's why they chose them---but he didn't get it and probably thought I support him...:sick:

exactly. I was trying to tell work-mate that not everything Hitler has done and promised was bad, esp. for the germans....that's why they chose them---but he didn't get it and probably thought I support him...:sick:

 

That's what I mean about people jumping to the wrong conclusions about stuff.

Criticise what you regard as an "anti-social" piece of clothing and people accuse you of condemning an entire religion, which is totally ludicrous.;)

Hitler was a pretty smart

but a sick twisted evil man.

he manipulated the people, the systems and other leaders to get what he wanted, while killing millions in the process.

It was pretty smart and twisted if you ask me.

MJ point taken.

 

bad media, never.

Good wording!

This got me cracking up. :awesome:

if Germany didn't lost the war, Hitler would become a hero, rather being remembered as the evil morbid, dictator.

 

I suppose we'd all be speaking German too? Don't be ridiculous.

 

I love the nazi uniforms, flags etc They really is beautiful to look at and Watto pretty much got it spot on, he was a brilliant public speaker.

 

But I guess that means I hate jews.

and Watto pretty .

 

Watto?:confused:

I suppose we'd all be speaking German too? Don't be ridiculous.

This could've happened earlier ...

There was a voting in the early US about the "capital language": German vs English.

English won - but it was very very close ...

This could've happened earlier ...

There was a voting in the early US about the "capital language": German vs English.

English won - but it was very very close ...

 

......................but English won on penalties!!:lol:

This could've happened earlier ...

There was a voting in the early US about the "capital language": German vs English.

English won - but it was very very close ...

 

Pretty sure that was French ;) and I doubt the accuracy of that story anyway.

 

also mc_squared, yes a person called Watto posted and I agreed with him, what is confusing?