Madonna blasted for concert crucifixion
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Less than 12 hours after Madonna crucified herself on a mirrored cross, the Catholic League expressed its discontent with the concert stunt. [...]
Oddly enough, not by going on murderous rampages through the streets, burning down concert halls, or record shops.Though [Catholic League president Bill] Donohue said that Madonna "has been spicing up her act with misappropriated Christian imagery for a long time," he thought that her faith in Kabbalah might inspire new respect for religion.
"I guess you really can't teach an old pop star new tricks," he said. "Poor Madonna keeps trying to shock. But all she succeeds in doing is coming across as a boring bigot." [...]
It's sad that Madonna, who I think probably does have creative talent on some level, can't come up with anything more hard-hitting than this to demonstrate her various hatreds. And make no mistake--for all her talk about spirituality and open-mindedness, she is full of vituperation and venom. And, strange as it may seem, for the very nation that has allowed her the unbridled freedom to become a multimillionairess able to say and do anything she pleases. Madonna is able to mock Christianisty (and Judaism, with her embrace of the Kabbalah) and America for the very reason that she knows there aren't goverment agents who will throw her in jail, and that her mansions and possessions will be right where she left them. Something like the flea who thinks he makes the lion roar, or the rooster who thinks his crow makes the sun come up, Madonna's inflated sense of self isn't particularly impressive when you look at the bigger picture.
Eh.
And then, there was this--Maines stages apology recall
The Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines apologized for disrespecting President Bush during a London concert in 2003. But now, she's taking it back.
"I don't feel that way anymore," she told Time magazine for its issue hitting newsstands today. "I don't feel he is owed any respect whatsoever." [...]
Here, Natalie--here's a buck. Go get yourself an ice cream and you'll feel all better.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at May 23, 2006 08:48 AMScott Chaffin suggested Madonna should show some real brass and pull a comparable stunt with a Muslim symbol.
Posted by: Janis at May 23, 2006 08:53 AMI didn't notice any breakout of suicide bombers in the movie theaters and cineplexes voicing their disapproval of The Da Vinci Code this weekend either. Where are all the outraged Christians blowing things up to get their message heard?
Posted by: Nate at May 23, 2006 09:00 AMWell, she COULD do that, Janis, but that would require actual courage--or stupidity. Neither of which she seems to have, being that she appears to be a savvy coward.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 23, 2006 09:02 AMBUT NATE! Haven't you heard about all the people who have disputed the The DaVinci Code!? Why, having a different viewpoint is NOTHING BUT CENSORSHIP!
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 23, 2006 09:04 AMHave no fear, Terry. Madonna is hardly mocking Judaism by taking up Kabbalah. She's just demonstrating what a simpleton she is, taken in by some new age shyster. These characters swapped out Wicca for Kabbalah, and it's all still crap.
The mysticism of Kabbalah is so obscure, the masters of it made clear that one needs to be 40 before attempting its study. And while the skeevy one has passed that age biologically, the true Kabbalists took it for granted that you had a very thorough grounding in advanced Torah study before you attempted to grasp the esoterics of Kabbalah.
Her Kabbalistic practices have as much connection to Judaism as a pig does to an Orthodox Rabbi.
Posted by: Skinnydan at May 23, 2006 09:51 AMSkinnydan--you...why--you're nothing but a part of the patriarchical monotheistic oppressor-group!
And Skillzy is just a mysogynistic, ageist, Yankophobe!
The indignities Madge must suffer for her art...
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 23, 2006 10:13 AMIt is odd indeed because Madonna does have *some* talent--but for some reason she chose to seek attention beyond what that level of talent would have legitimately brought her. And that is why she has been desperately seeking attention by resorting to "shock", I guess. (Not that you folks did not already know that.) But the older she gets the more "shock" it will take to get her the attention she seeks.
Posted by: Stan at May 23, 2006 02:52 PMOne senses a growing Nora Desmond streak in her.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 23, 2006 03:20 PMOoh--that's a great comparison. If Madonna could only see herself the way others see her...
Posted by: Stan at May 24, 2006 12:34 AM