The greatest entertainer in the world

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When Dr. Conrad Murray signed on to treat Michael Jackson, he made a tape of Jackson. And yesterday the prosecution played that tape at Murray’s manslaughter trial, it was six weeks before he died:

The tape was played to to show Jackson was in no condition to receive one more drop of any kind of sedative. Barely intelligible — but intelligible enough…that there’s a transcript. He was talking about the show he was rehearsing:

“We have to be phenomenal… when people leave my show, I want them to say, “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life… I’ve never seen nothing like this… It’s amazing. He’s the greatest entertainer in the world.”

That’s what Jackson is saying. At age 50, he is not only trying to be a superstar, but the greatest superstar that ever lived. [In fact his producer testified Jackson wanted to do 31 shows at London’s O2 arena — a number he picked because it was ten more shows than Prince did there.]

And what would he do with the money?

“I’m taking that money, a million children, children’s hospital, the biggest in the world, Michael Jackson’s Children’s Hospital.”

Now it seems crazy that a doctor, seeing a patient in this state, wouldn’t just immediately take him to a hospital for de-tox. The jury will have to decide that part.

But we also know, courtesy of the prosecution, that the person pushing Michael Jackson’s body to the limit — and even beyond the limit; the person ready to do whatever it took to be the greatest entertainer in the world — was Michael Jackson.

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