Monday, August 25, 2008
At least she's consistent
The first show of Madonna's world tour Saturday night made a foray into U.S. politics with a none-too-subtle dig at U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain.
Images of destruction and global warming flashed on to a screen during a video interlude. Those were followed by pictures of Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe's authoritarian ruler Robert Mugabe — and McCain.
A later sequence showed slain Beatle John Lennon, climate activist Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and finally McCain's Democratic rival, Barack Obama.
Once the interlude was over, Madonna threw herself into a rave-inflected rendition of Like a Prayer. She finished off the concert with her thumping Give it 2 Me from her new album I.
If I were to be Godwinized, I'd want it from someone who thinks those songs are actually a contribution to our culture.
4 Comments:
By 
, at
Mon Aug 25, 02:14:00 PM:
While I enjoy Madonna, the series of photos slandering John McCain is over the top and just the series itself is such an outrageous lie that any serious practitioner of Kaballah and anyone with a rational mind would find it objectionable.
Let's remember that Hitler was a socialist supported by the Soviet Union for many years; Mugabe was a socialist supported by all of Madonna's libtard friends and South Africa, but opposed only by McCain, repubs/conservatives; AGW is a socialist power grab, but McCain is a capitalist who supports AGW but McCain vehemently opposed to the second and third photos and there is nothing in his record to support such comparisons.
With respect to the Obamanation's photo series, if repubs had done it the libs would claim that repubs were implying that Obama is a target, since two of the remaiming photos were of people who were gunned down (Lennon and Ghandi). However, to put a man with no accomplishments, Obama in the company of Ghandi is ludicrous, and to put the most self indulgent egotistical politician, Gore in the same company as Ghandi is also hysterically funny. What a laugh.
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Mon Aug 25, 06:57:00 PM:
"Let's remember that Hitler was a socialist supported by the Soviet Union for many years; "
That's, uh, not true.
Socialist, yes, hence the term 'national socialism.' But to Hitler and the Nazis, Communism was the chief political evil of the world, not least because of all the trouble they cause in Germany after WWI.
By Pax Federatica, at
Mon Aug 25, 11:10:00 PM:
Images of destruction and global warming flashed on to a screen during a video interlude. Those were followed by pictures of Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe's authoritarian ruler Robert Mugabe — and McCain.
What happened to "Bush = Hitler"? Evidently Madonna doesn't think out outgoing president is quite so bad after all, as indicated by his absence from that montage.
By K. Pablo, at
Tue Aug 26, 01:34:00 PM:
I do not believe she is at liberty to refer to him as "that old dude"...
