This Keith Olbermann interview with doctor and author Deepak Chopra, one of Michael Jackson’s closest friends and confidants, is required viewing for anyone wanting to get past the knee-jerk “a pedophile is dead” stupidity flooding the net, the air waves, etc., in the wake of the entertainer’s untimely demise Thursday. The interview comes on the heels of a Huffington Post op-ed Chopra penned early Friday morning, worth more than any cheap dime-store speculation from misanthropes and uneducated buffoons.
Thankfully the interview briefly gets into the issue of Jackson’s lupus condition, which obviously speaks to the plastic surgery that eventually became an obsession with health that so many are quick to forget or ignore, choosing instead the line that he was attempting to transform himself into a child or some other such nonsense. There is a Wolf Blitzer interview with Chopra that was even longer, which kick-started his many media appearances this weekend. If you can find that, give it a look, too.