US pop diva Madonna performs in Bucharest late on August 26, 2009, as part of her European "Sticky and Sweet" tour. AFP PHOTO ANDREI PUNGOVSCHI (Photo credit should read ANDREI PUNGOVSCHI/AFP/Getty Images)
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US singer Madonna performs during her concert in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. The concert is part of the artist's Sticky and Sweet Tour. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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U.S. singer Madonna performs during her concert in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. The concert is part of Madonna's Sticky and Sweet Tour. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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U.S. singer Madonna, center, performs during her concert in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. The concert is part of Madonna's Sticky and Sweet Tour. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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U.S. singer Madonna, center, performs during her concert in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. The concert is part of Madonna's Sticky and Sweet Tour. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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U.S. singer Madonna, center, performs during her concert in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. The concert is part of Madonna's Sticky and Sweet Tour. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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US pop singer Madonna performs on stage during her "Sticky and Sweet" tour concert in Bucharest on August 26, 2009. AFP PHOTO DANIEL MIHAILESCU (Photo credit should read DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP/Getty Images)
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US pop singer Madonna performs on stage during her "Sticky and Sweet" tour concert in Bucharest on August 26, 2009. AFP PHOTO DANIEL MIHAILESCU (Photo credit should read DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP/Getty Images)
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US pop singer Madonna performs on stage during her "Sticky and Sweet" tour concert in Bucharest on August 26, 2009. AFP PHOTO DANIEL MIHAILESCU (Photo credit should read DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP/Getty Images)
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US pop singer Madonna performs on stage during her "Sticky and Sweet" tour concert in Bucharest on August 26, 2009. AFP PHOTO DANIEL MIHAILESCU (Photo credit should read DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP/Getty Images)
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Thursday 27 August
By Donna
A singer should sing, shes not in politics. She thinks the world will do, what she tells them to do.
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Thursday 27 August
By Jon
It doesn't matter what her 'job' is. She's trying to make the world a better place - which is obviously more than the haters on this board are doing. Those who can, DO. Those who can't, COMPLAIN. Everyone SHOULD be treated equally and fairly. If you disagree with that you have some personal soul searching to do. If I was at her and had the attention of millions I'd do the same. Nobody deserves to be disrespected because another human being doesn't agree with them. F that!
Tuesday 01 September
By Kint Verbal
Hello... everyone should be treated equally? Well, news flash: everyone IS. Does this mean that if you steal you should not be punished? That if you drive without a license it's ok? That if you stink because you're too lazy to wash yourself you will still be a pleasant company? Well, no. Things that happen to these people would happen to you if you behaved the same way.
But, if you want some bonus, walk around at night in their neighborhoods. Then something extra will happen to you and you will realize they, in real life, seem to have more rights, not less than you.
So much about the discrimination in Romania. Do your homework. Violent crimes against these people - inexistent. Violent crimes by these people - now we're talking. Really, do your f-ing homework and then come back and write sh*t here.
Sunday 30 August
By Frank
All anyone needs to consider is the disastrous outcomes from putting entetainers in office because eveyone knows their name. Arnold Scharzenegger and Jesse Ventura come to mind. Sonny Bono worked out all right because he had a lightweight position, and while I don't agree with Reaganomics, Reagan can't be put in the same class having run the Screenactor's Guild (more political than entertainment) and the Governor's office in Ca, prior to his presidency.
Sunday 30 August
By SpiceMonkey
That is, of course, unless their preaching for some cause you believe in, right, Donna? Funny how hypocritical people can be.
Friday 28 August
By GPE
She has to business to tell epople what to do...Who does she think she is? Some one needs to "bring it to her attention" that she needs to mind her own business and leave other cultures alone. She has never impressed me with her foney causes!
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Thursday 27 August
By Margelatu
I will normally agree with the article. Nobody should be discriminated against the race. Maybe you will come with a solution regarding them. Have them live in your country for a while. Disobedience of the law, criminality, beggars, burglars, everything that a civilized country is rejecting. Ask the Italian government, they are not from Eastern Europe. Ask the German and Austrian government about them. They will remember about them eating the Black Swans in Wien, and other, and other. Travel to Romania to these gipsy villages. Compare them with peasant villages. Richness built on hard working? Ask the people who have lived with. It is easy to blame but hard to deal with.
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Monday 31 August
By j
OK, i am missing something i guess. just because people say they don't want to hear someones opinion doesn't make them a hater. i don't see well those gypsies should be taken out and killed and forget about everyone they should be locked up. What i see is people saying in these less then fun times people just want to be entertained not reminded of all the bad things in the world. So just cause you don't want to hear about something you already know doesn't make you a "hater" whatever that is supposed to mean anyway.
Thursday 27 August
By Mica Elena Fecioru
That's a LIE!
And obviously an article written by Maddona's PR in order to avoid BAD PRESS about her awfull performance in Bucharest.
Almost the entire show was PLAY-BACK. All the Romanians were disappointed. And in the end, Madonna herself was disappointed as people left the concert long before ending.
Madonna wasn't booed by a band of gipsy haters. She was severely booed by the VAST MAJORITY of spectators as Madonna PATRONIZED them with her unrealistic speech.
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Thursday 27 August
By Simon Hensby
Absolutely. Madonna should be thoroughly ashamed of herself. Not only was most of the concert badly mimed but she grossly offended the Romanian people with her arrogant remarks. I am an Englishman living in Bucharest and Romania is the only country in the world where Gypsies are tolerated. They are a nomadic people originally from India and it is an inbuilt part of their culture to beg and steal. Often to the extent of disfiguring themselves or children (often not their own) to gain pity and more money. I have seen this with my own eyes. Poor children begging between moving cars, have to take all the money they receive to the adult gypsy who is controlling them. No charity on earth will ever break this and yet these do gooders believe that it is Romanians who make their lives so poor. Remember, every other European nation has sent thousands of gypsies home to Romania, the only country who will have them. Europe should be grateful to Romania not patronising to them. And as for Madonna, most people paid between a weeks and a months wages to see her perform and she provided them with a mostly recorded performance, including mainly dance which most could not even see. Shame on you.
Sunday 30 August
By phillip picciotti
I know this is a waste of keystrokes..but I'll try. When you line up to see untalented people use shock value to gain attention..like Madonna, Spears, etc etc..you promote STUPIDITY among other unpallatable things. Of course they act like morons. They ARE morons. Come on folks. Jazz LIVES. There is talent, and intelligence, and good feelings out there. Try it. Try a little romance. It doesn't have to be naked pigs, dry humping on stage, flaunted homosexuality. I know that if MIke Tyson agreed to eat a live baby in Yankee Stadium, they would sell every seat. BUT TO WHOM??????? YOU???
Thursday 27 August
By gail
Back way years ago, actors were called gypsies cause they went from place to place seeking work....they couldn't afford much so they lived out of weird things and places...They weren't really glamorous back than..that's probably why she is sticking up for the gypsies so much...LOL LOL LOL
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Thursday 27 August
By usa tourist
Well, Gypsies have a reputation for a reason. I was accosted by them on my visit to Rome and had to beat two off with an umbrella in Vienna. If they would behave as respectable citizens of the country they are in, than I am sure everyone would treat them bettr. They are not exempt from bad behavior just because they are Gypsies and well, we should just understand that is how they are...yeah right.
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Friday 28 August
By Cole
We should round up all the 'gypsies' and put them in camps or something...
Seriously though, I can't help but personally take offense to the comments that have been posted.
My ROMANI grandfather (or 'Opa' as I called him) fought for this country (that doesn't even believe in evolution).
He was born and raised in Anina, but his family is German and he still fought for YOU PEOPLE, even though I'm sure the SS would have taken kindly to a 6ft+ man with blonde hair and German ancestry.
Yeah, he stole, but he was doing what he had to-- to survive considering he had to support his own family at the age of 13.
Christ, you people suck.
Sunday 30 August
By sadgalinsd
My ex also had to support his family when he was 13 but he didn't steal.
Sunday 30 August
By Sarah
I have to agree with the people who are talking about why the gypsies aren't liked in these countries. They might not bother Madonna because they can't take her entire fortune or make her life generally miserable, but she has no right to try to educate those who deal with these losers every day on how to treat them. Maybe she should try educating herself before opening her mouth. In fact, I wish all celebrities could just think before they opened their mouths.
Thursday 27 August
By mike scotto
Who cares what an over rated has been has to say.
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Thursday 27 August
By Boris Is Back
Just keep talkin' you stupid old skank. The sooner you hit the road to oblivion (again), the better.
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Thursday 27 August
By Shot O'Gold
I think Madonna forgot to mention that many people don't like gypsies because they steal unabashedly and train their children early how to go around the room in restaurants swiping hard-working waitresses' tips off the tables. I've watched this happen from behind the bar in total disbelief on several occasions and had to personally intervene.
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Thursday 27 August
By chuckie
I am so glad they booed her, I can't stand her and I would have never ever let her back into my country after the way she dissed the USA. When she did concerts here she made the arena's take down the American flag while she lived in England. Now she don't have her lover anymore she came back where?????? I think she should been band from our US of A for life...piece of garbage.
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