The internet and news sources were abuzz recently with the rumor that Michael Jackson liked Adolph Hitler and idolized him. Wrong! According to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s novel, The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate Conversation , Michael was never anti-semetic and certainly did not admire Hitler. The rabbi was a mentor and spiritual advisor to Michael. Rabbi Boteach provided the following quote by Michael Jackson:
Hitler was a genius orator. He was [able] to make that many people turn and change and hate. He had to be a showman and he was. Before he would speak, he would pause, drink a bit of water, and then he would clear his throat, and look around. It was what an entertainer would do trying to work out how to play his audience. He would go into this fury of the first words he would say and he would hit them hard. But where did he come from? I know he failed school and he wanted to be an architect. He failed a lot of things. But I think it all happened in prison, the whole Mein Kampf thing, didn’t it?
This sounds more like assessment to me, than admiration. Since when is genius always flattering?
Who of us hasn’t wondered how a failure like Hitler ended up having the influence and power that he did?
Interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: (Warning: Some of the details about his father are very disturbing)
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