Michael Jackson Calls Adolf Hitler "Genius"
Posted on Sep 25, 2009 @ 08:32AM
Michael Jackson called Adolf Hitler a genius orator, and praised the German dictator's showmanship in an extended interview conducted with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach that will be published in a forthcoming book, The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate Conversation.
“Hitler was a genius orator; to make that many people turn and change and hate, he had to be a showman and he was,” Jackson told Boteach.
When the rabbi, a close friend of the Thriller singer, asked him if he felt he could impact Hitler for the better if he had an hour with him, the King of Pop replied: "Absolutely; I know I could."
The Man In The Mirror singer told the rabbi, "You have to help them, give them therapy, teach them that somewhere, something in their life went wrong."
Jackson died after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest June 25 in Los Angeles, California.
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Feb 12, 2012 @ 16:00
The film of Bertolucci "1900" explains very well. It would be for us Germans a too easy excuse to say that Hitler was the only evil. The mental terrain was prepared! Does not mean that fascisme is for ever a genuin german problem.
Posted Fri, 09/25/2009 - 5:14pm
Hitler had not so much to change, not so many to manipulate. His gestes, speach and behavior is not that, what Germans use to like so much. He only was the expression of a general sociopathia, a socio-schizophrenia of multiple origines.
Posted Fri, 09/25/2009 - 5:10pm
People having a higher level of education does not mean that you are intelligent ... there is a very big difference btw those two words. Being smart and being education varies as well. Please learn the meanings of the English language.
Posted Fri, 09/25/2009 - 1:35pm
Actually history shows us that Hitler was the furthest thing from a genius, I believe he did poorly in school and was a loser until his 30's. He was CHARISMATIC and MANIPULATIVE and a SOCIOPATH --- a genius? No.
Posted Fri, 09/25/2009 - 10:39am
How many charismatic leaders exists without a good education ... hmmm plenty. Charismatic and great orator goes hand in hand, intelligence has no place here ... go research history and you will find plenty of leaders with your description of Hitler.
Posted Fri, 09/25/2009 - 1:33pm
IDIOT it is the same as being a great orator being a super genius in school does not guarantee that you can control this masses. You must be one of my educated idiots that live under a rock.
Posted Fri, 09/25/2009 - 1:32pm
Of course he was a genius, he manipulated an entire nation into insanity. There are many people who have used their genius for destruction, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao. If you say Hitler was a genius the ignorant call you an anti semite.
Posted Fri, 09/25/2009 - 9:37am
Shmuley is just using Michael to promote himself. He stole money from the Heal the Kids Foundation - that's why MJ dumped him.
Posted Fri, 09/25/2009 - 8:47am
I agree with Michael - Hitler must've been a very persuasive speaker to make so many fall under his spell. Isn't it typical of the press to twist his words.
Posted Fri, 09/25/2009 - 8:46am
I agree with Mike on this one ... it is sad that they crucified Aubrey O'Day for making the same statement when they teach this stuff in college. All politicians and executives as well as ads for companies are based on great oration.
Posted Fri, 09/25/2009 - 8:40am