Jackson Trial, Quote of the Day …

The strange thing about the Michael Jackson trial is that the supporting actors are more interesting than the star. The weirdness of the King of Pop is so overexposed that no new revelation can shock. Either Jackson is a complete lunatic who slept with young boys and didn’t fondle them or he’s a complete lunatic who slept with young boys and did.

Oh wait. Maybe it’s this one …

“Is it true that your father used to say you had a fat nose?” Jackson theatrically averts his head at the ghastliness of this memory and then says with a half-weeping snicker: “Yeah . . . You want to die. You want to die. . . . God. It’s hard.”

You could argue, I guess, that the Fat Nose memory is the Rosebud in Jackson’s life, inducing him to internalize self-loathing racial stereotypes to the point that he ended up bleaching his skin, straightening his hair like Morticia in “The Addams Family,” and hiding the offending proboscis beneath a surgical mask even after its many surgeries had turned it into a pencil point.

Nope. No, it’s gotta be this one …

An interview with Jackson’s ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley by Chris Heath in Rolling Stone in April 2003 would support the “secretly sane” theory. “I was always saying [to Jackson] people wouldn’t think I was so crazy if they saw who the hell you really are,” Presley told Heath. “That you sit around, and you drink and you curse and you’re [expletive] funny and you have a bad mouth, and you don’t have that high voice all the time. I don’t know why you think that works for you, because it doesn’t anymore.”

Then again …

Ms. Presley, to be sure, has a reason to portray Jackson as less bizarre than people assume. Marrying someone most people regard as an extraterrestrial freak didn’t do a whole lot for her image.

One more …

If this were true, of course, it would also mean Jackson is just a plain old garden-variety ped, albeit one who instead of hanging around public playgrounds built his own at Neverland.

And the winner is …

Harder to figure out is the behavior of the alleged victim’s mother, who handed over her sick kid to sleep in the bedroom of a previously accused child molester.

All of these are found in the Tina Brown piece in today’s Washington Post.

Thanks: Drudge