Monday, August 25, 2008

Music and Politics:Madonna, McCain and Hitler

The Associated Press

Even at 50, the queen of pop just can't stop courting controversy.
The singer's latest stage show pairs images of Sen. McCain and Adolf Hitler.

As Madonna kicked off her international "Sticky and Sweet" tour Saturday night, she took a none-too subtle swipe at the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president.

Amid a four-act show at Cardiff's packed Millennium Stadium, a video interlude carried images of destruction, global warming, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe's authoritarian President Robert Mugabe — and U.S. Senator John McCain. Another sequence, shown later, pictured slain Beatle John Lennon, followed by climate activist Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and finally McCain's Democratic rival Barack

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