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August 25, 2008 | 1:11 pm

Madonna, McCain & Hitler

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"Cause we are living in a war-mongering world"

Madonna is no stranger to provocation - it’s kinda what she does best.

In her latest stunt, Queen Esther included a video montage in her world tour concert juxtaposing various political dictators: Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe...and John McCain?

That last image ruffled a few feathers in the Jewish community. Well, just two - the usual reactionaries, Abe Foxman and Marvin Hier, who both issued statements condemning Madonna’s choice.

The Jerusalem Post reports:

ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman, himself a Holocaust survivor, asserted that “Comparisons to Hitler have no place in a music concert, or in the presidential campaign.”

In the Monday statement, Foxman called the use of Nazi imagery to describe the Republican candidate “outrageous,” and added that “doing so trivializes the history of the Holocaust and is an insult to the memories of the victims and their families.”

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The dean and founder of the Jewish human rights organization, Rabbi Marvin Hier, said that, “There ought to be no place in the political and social discourse of American culture for such deliberate distortions and lies sure to be viewed by hundreds of thousands of young people around the world.”

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Tags: adl, hitler, holocaust, madonna, material girl, mccain, shoah, weisenthal

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Way to go Madonna.

It’s no wonder Madonna is so criticized by the media-she’s the only one with the guts to call it as she sees it; She’s the only female entertainer who doesn’t hold herself back like every other blonde bimbo in Hollywood. She uses broad and varied peieces of music and art to provoke thoughts that many people obviously find intimidating.

Comment by kanejk on 8/25/08 at 2:39 pm

What’s intimidating about a pornographic pop priestess, a thorough has-been at that, standing up for Democrats making a silly@ss comparison like that?  Nobody’s taken her seriously since that dumb smut book she peddled a few years back, so high-quality I can’t even remember it’s title anymore.

Madonna v. McCain?  No contest, Ms. Ciccone.

Comment by Mark D. Overholser on 8/26/08 at 8:32 am

Foxman misses the obvious, or in order to reiterate what is important, intentionally ignores the obvious.  Rather than trivializing, it is obvious that Madonna is trying to magnify the significance and importance of the Wars and Global Warming.  They are, to her, issues of great importance that are broadly trivialized.  And to her, policy makers who ignore the human impact of these issues are essentially committing atrocities in ways not so unlike the most evil men in history.  To say that this association trivializes the history of the Holocaust is itself a trivialization of the suffering of others represented by Madonna’s messages.  If everyone does their job, what Hilter was will never be forgotten.

Comment by jimw on 8/26/08 at 9:38 am

Are you serious, that Madonna is the only one to “call it as it is?” So you’re saying that McCain can be compared to Hitler? Thankfully, noone would ever take Madonna’s political advice seriously. Just because she does sexual things to get people’s attention in no way means she has any impact at all on society or societal issues/politics. Sadly, it is a shame people have to resort to horrendous and false comparisons to get people’s attention, young people at her concert should not be shown such false and awful claims.

Comment by sarah on 8/26/08 at 10:40 am

Madonna is hands down the dumbest person on the planet, to make such comparisons is utter stupidity on a whole new level. This 50 year old hag should call it quits. Her music sucks and everyone who thinks she has a point is a moron. Sorry but i call it as i see it! Hilter would have never gotten to this point if ppl put him in his place before his war machine got moving. Diplomacy failed then as would today.

Comment by Frank on 8/26/08 at 12:23 pm

Not only all that, but Ms Palin has had virtually no contact with Jewish people in America. In fact, most Alaskans still use the term “to jew someone down” as part of their every day vocabulary when speaking about bargaining at the store....so I guess Ms Palin has a huge storehouse of inherited antiSemitic fixations based not on hatred but on ignornace. Ask her what she thinks of Jewish people someone? I am sure he only knows about 3.

Posted by: allen bean | August 30, 2008 1:11 AM

Comment by allen bean on 8/29/08 at 9:21 pm

This is so depressing and stupid. There is no one less qualified than Madonna to make judgements about Hitler and few more qualified than Foxman and Hier.

If you just want to throw the topic open for discussion, then you blew it with “That last image ruffled a few feathers in the Jewish community. Well, just two - the usual reactionaries”

Who are you trying to impress? I just heard a great line on the Tribe I will reuse elsewhere
“You’re Jewish?
“Wow! You don’t look Jewish
You don’t act Jewish.”
And he says it in this tone, that sounds like he’s complimenting me.
And I say.....And I say....And I say....
Nothing.
I say nothing, which when combined with a flirty smile translates to thank you.
I say nothing because I’m drunk on denial Colodas
I say nothing cause I got a contact high off someone’s anti-semitic crack pip,
I say nothing because somewhere along my life’s graph I’d been swayed to believe that being Jewish is not too sexy, not too cool.
I say nothing cause I’m in a deep sleep
(from The Hebrew Mamita, Vanessa Hidary)

Berrin is a zombie. And Madonna looks like nothing so much as Joel Grey in Cabaret. So jimw, by invoking Hitler ‘Madonna is trying to magnify the significance and importance...’ She will be the first in line to perform in a Nazi cabaret if that becomes cool, and it is because of things like this some people will be conditioned to think it is cool once it just becomes a matter of political opinion.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 9/18/08 at 10:58 am

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