Michael Jackson: Bashed by His Own Hand?
Just in time to celebrate tomorrow’s one-year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s still-amazing acquittal on child molestation charges, FOX News’ resident Jacko obsessive (every media outlet’s got one, hello) shares his exclusive insider story—with allegedly damning photos!—about Jackson’s post-arrest claims of brutality at the hands of Santa Barbara’s Sheriff’s Department.
As FOX News’ Roger Friedman reports:
Now this column can show you photos obtained exclusively from sources close to Jackson. What the sequence of photos shows is that [Jackson], according to sources, self-inflicted a wound on his arm and caused a rapidly rising welt to form.They also show it turning not black and blue, but a kind of amber color. My sources say this discoloration was caused by makeup.
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“If you look closely at his cheek,” says my source, “you can see the blush on it is the same color as the bruise on the arm.” Even weirder…it’s quite easy to see the tape holding his nose in place. Jackson isn’t wearing his typical whiteface makeup either. It may be one of the few photos that show Michael Jackson exactly as he is, warts and all.
According to Friedman, “His idea was to create sympathy for himself by inventing a race war of some kind. ‘He wanted it to be like O.J., a black vs. white issue,’ says [Friedman’s] source. ‘He wanted the black community to burn down police stations, riot and protest if they [the police and authorities] went against him.’”
As it turns out, Jackson didn’t need such race-baiting machinations to get his acquittal—but it’s damn telling he thought he did. Full story here. Sigh.
Jackson was arrested and held in a cheap Econo-lodge bathroom?