Bad idea, Madonna

Posted By Carolyn O'Hara Monday, August 25, 2008 - 3:43 PM Share

Madonna, lover of all types of attention, kicked off her world tour on Saturday. Guess we know how she'll be voting in November:

The BBC reported that the two-hour show took a political turn when, in a lead-in to a remixed version of "Like a Prayer," a video sequence showed flashing images of destruction followed by pictures of Hitler, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and then Senator John McCain. Senator Barack Obama popped up in another video interlude, but his montage included Gandhi, John Lennon and Al Gore. The tour arrives in North America on Oct. 4.

In other seriously dumb arts news, Visit London featured a portrait of notorious English murderer Myra Hindley in a promotional video at a London 2012 event in Beijing. Can't wait for those games!

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11:55 AM ET

August 26, 2008

Slideshows are the BEST!

Gore, McCain, and Obama are nowhere near interesting enough to be in the same slideshow as Gandhi, Mugabe, Lennon, or Hitler. Amusingly enough, Gandhi was more pro-religion, pro-life, xenophobic, and anti-education than any modern-day Republican could hope to ever be (in public). Lead one non-violence movement and everyone forgets to read about the rest of your life. But then, Madonna isn't exactly a scholar.
 

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