Michael Jackson's attire at court today. (pic from my tv)

[Maddy McCall]

I took this and uploaded it for those of you who requested it in the other thread. Please forgive the glare from my window, as well as my shoddy ability to photograph my television.

[Worst Username Ever]

1. It looks like a beautiful day out your window!

:P

[Maddy McCall]

2. Indeed, it is.

And I am headed out to partake in it. :D

[Zuni]

3. bizarre

why Michael jackson pulled this stunt this morning and then came to court in pajamas is utterly beyond me.

Maybe he is hoping for an insanity defense if the case doesn't go his way.

Either that or a desperate plea for sympathy

[soothsayer]

8. he allegedly came from the hospital. back problems.

[radwriter0555]

11. Yes, blatant ploy of distraction on the day of the REAL testimony..

designed to shake up and put off the kid who's tesifying....

Well done!

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

4. I haven't been following this all that much, but I have noticed

on the "evening news" that everytime Jacko gets out of his vehicle, someone is holding an umbrella over his head.

What is that all about?

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. the Jackson estate has never confirmed it

but he does have a skin disease, cannot be exposed to direct sun light

No I don't know this becuase I follow Jackson, but I used to be a Medic, and it made sense when a reporter mentioned it in passing MANY YEARS ago.

[tjdee]

6. He told Oprah himself, so that's kind of confirming it, LOL.

He's got...oh boy, I don't know what the name is, but it's supposedly a skin disease.

I don't know if I believe that or not, but he did indeed tell Ms. Winfrey the news.

[LeftyMom]

12. I don't remember the name of it either

but I had a teacher with the same disease. She said that his claims that he does not lighten his skin were BS because the disease causes very light patches and other parts of the skin have normal pigment. (She had big light patches about the size of a hand on her neck, shoulders and arms but her face was all normally pigmented.) She suspected that if he had the condition at all he was using a lightening treatment of some sort to get all of his skin to the lighter shade.

I don't know if the condition causes photosensitivity, I remember that this woman was very tan except for the areas with no pigmentation.

[Zuni]

14. He doesn't. That disease causes skin lightening in spots

It would not uniformly lighten your skin all over. You would be blotchy.

[Shakespeare]

16. Actually, his own physician refuses to confirm Jackson's claim.

There was a rather lengthy story last week (will go look for the link if you really, really want me to) that even in his court testimony--connected, apparently, with the appearance of Jackson's penis--his physician refused to say he has the skin ailment vitiligo.

Seems this is something Jackson came up with on his own, and is total bullshit.

[CottonBear]

10. He's chemically lightened his skin

and must now stay out of the sun to avoid (more) skin damage.

[Lex]

7. On the day the boy is to testify what happened IN BED with MJ

and MJ comes to court IN PAJAMAS?


Not good.

[Dookus]

13. Maybe

he thought (hoped?) there'd be a re-enactment.

[Maddy McCall]

15. LOL! That's exactly what I thought.

Can you imagine the boy saying, "And when it happened, he was wearing THOSE PAJAMA PANTS RIGHT THERE!!"

[underpants]

9. WOW this Jackson trial coverage is making ScottPeterson look like a nobody

huh?

[Maddy McCall]

20. Peterson is a nobody.

[Tektonik]

17. He has vitiligo

[Shakespeare]

18. No, he doesn't (see other posts in this thread). n/t

[Maddy McCall]

19. No he doesn't. Vitiligo lightens spots on your skin...

It doesn't lighten all of your skin. He has taken chemical baths to lighten his skin, which can now be even more harmed by the sunlight, thus the parasols all the time.

And, as more evidence that he doesn't have vitiligo, the kids who have testified about abuse at his hands have said that his penis has dark circles around it. I won't go into the mechanics of why, but let's just say that more than likely he wasn't erect while he was taking chemical baths.