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McCain Camp Rips 'Outrageous' Madonna

By JOEL RYAN
posted: 301 DAYS 9 HOURS AGO
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CARDIFF, Wales (Aug. 24) - Even at 50, the queen of pop just can't stop courting controversy.
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.
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    Madonna kicks off her highly anticipated Sticky & Sweet Tour promoting Number One album Hard Candy at the Millennium Stadium on August 23, 2008 in Cardiff, Wales..Madonna "Sticky and Sweet" Tour Opening.Millennium Stadium.Cardiff, United Kingdom.August 23, 2008.Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com..To license this image (55551345), contact WireImage.com

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    Madonna kicks off her highly anticipated Sticky & Sweet Tour promoting Number One album Hard Candy at the Millennium Stadium on August 23, 2008 in Cardiff, Wales..Madonna "Sticky and Sweet" Tour Opening.Millennium Stadium.Cardiff, United Kingdom.August 23, 2008.Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com..To license this image (55554699), contact WireImage.com

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    Madonna kicks off her highly anticipated Sticky & Sweet Tour promoting Number One album Hard Candy at the Millennium Stadium on August 23, 2008 in Cardiff, Wales..Madonna "Sticky and Sweet" Tour Opening.Millennium Stadium.Cardiff, United Kingdom.August 23, 2008.Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com..To license this image (55554691), contact WireImage.com

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    Madonna kicks off her highly anticipated Sticky & Sweet Tour promoting Number One album Hard Candy at the Millennium Stadium on August 23, 2008 in Cardiff, Wales..Madonna "Sticky and Sweet" Tour Opening.Millennium Stadium.Cardiff, United Kingdom.August 23, 2008.Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com..To license this image (55554681), contact WireImage.com

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    Madonna kicks off her highly anticipated Sticky & Sweet Tour promoting Number One album Hard Candy at the Millennium Stadium on August 23, 2008 in Cardiff, Wales..Madonna "Sticky and Sweet" Tour Opening.Millennium Stadium.Cardiff, United Kingdom.August 23, 2008.Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com..To license this image (55554671), contact WireImage.com

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    Madonna kicks off her highly anticipated Sticky & Sweet Tour promoting Number One album Hard Candy at the Millennium Stadium on August 23, 2008 in Cardiff, Wales..Madonna "Sticky and Sweet" Tour Opening.Millennium Stadium.Cardiff, United Kingdom.August 23, 2008.Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com..To license this image (55554662), contact WireImage.com

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    Madonna kicks off her highly anticipated Sticky & Sweet Tour promoting Number One album Hard Candy at the Millennium Stadium on August 23, 2008 in Cardiff, Wales..Madonna "Sticky and Sweet" Tour Opening.Millennium Stadium.Cardiff, United Kingdom.August 23, 2008.Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com..To license this image (55554651), contact WireImage.com

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    Madonna kicks off her highly anticipated Sticky & Sweet Tour promoting Number One album Hard Candy at the Millennium Stadium on August 23, 2008 in Cardiff, Wales..Madonna "Sticky and Sweet" Tour Opening.Millennium Stadium.Cardiff, United Kingdom.August 23, 2008.Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com..To license this image (55554611), contact WireImage.com

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    Madonna kicks off her highly anticipated Sticky & Sweet Tour promoting Number One album Hard Candy at the Millennium Stadium on August 23, 2008 in Cardiff, Wales..Madonna "Sticky and Sweet" Tour Opening.Millennium Stadium.Cardiff, United Kingdom.August 23, 2008.Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com..To license this image (55554595), contact WireImage.com

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    Madonna kicks off her highly anticipated Sticky & Sweet Tour promoting Number One album Hard Candy at the Millennium Stadium on August 23, 2008 in Cardiff, Wales..Madonna "Sticky and Sweet" Tour Opening.Millennium Stadium.Cardiff, United Kingdom.August 23, 2008.Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com..To license this image (55554414), contact WireImage.com

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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 Obama.
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds condemned the segment.
"The comparisons are outrageous, unacceptable and crudely divisive all at the same time," Bounds said. "It clearly shows that when it comes to supporting Barack Obama, his fellow worldwide celebrities refuse to consider any smear or attack off limits."
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The rest of the show had the usual Madonna fixtures: sequins, fishnets, and bondage-style outfits drawn from the 3,500 items of clothing reportedly whipped together by 36 designers specifically for the tour. Dancers sauntered across stage in top hats and tail coats, and Madonna tried her hand at break-dancing and pole-dancing.
Some 40,000 fans — many in pink cowboy hats and boas — were treated to a heavy metal version of "Borderline," while "La Isla Bonita" served as backdrop for a flamenco routine. The show, billed as a musical mishmash of "gangsta pimp," Romanian folk, rave, and dance — was an homage to Madonna's continuous reinventions over the past three decades.
She took a playful take on her variegated career, mocking dancers dressed as her previous incarnations — including the "Material Girl" and "Blonde Ambition" — before they sank into the stage to the tune of "She's Not Me." Madonna finished off the concert with her thumping "Give it 2 Me" from her new urban-inspired album, "Hard Candy."
If the world's top-selling female recording artist is still writhing, shaking and shimmying with the best of them, her personal life has recently been unsettled. Earlier this summer her brother Christopher Ciccone published a gossipy memoir, and she has faced speculation about her relationship with New York Yankee slugger Alex Rodriquez and rumors that her marriage to British filmmaker Guy Ritchie is on the rocks — which she hotly denies.
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Madonna's tour was eagerly anticipated in Britain, where the pop superstar has made her home, and fans weren't disappointed.
"We enjoyed it to the max," said Ruth Henson, 24, who works in human resources in London. "Madonna, considering she's now 50, is so fit. She did a really good job."
Following Cardiff's opening concert, "Sticky and Sweet" moves across Europe, hitting London's Wembley Stadium on Sept. 11 and Paris on Sept. 20. From there, it goes to North America in October before wrapping up Dec. 18 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
It is Madonna's first tour since striking a deal with concert promoter Live Nation Inc. worth an estimated $120 million over 10 years. The partnership gives Live Nation a stake of future music and music-related business she generates, including touring, merchandising and albums. Madonna's last tour was her 2006 "Confessions" — in which she staged a mock crucifixion only a few miles (kilometers) from the Vatican.
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LORRIEMCC

01:42 AMOct 25 2008

La MADonna, like many other crazed celebrity should be more worried about fixing the mess in their own back yard! MADonna, your children are suffering, they did not know what hit them harder??? Your FAKE british accent or the fact that you have another man & are still married. Morality starts at home! Let us handle politicsPlus How DARE you linki our American Hero with hitler? How DARE YOU. 'WHat would your Mother say? SHAME ON YOU Oh gets better, many of these crazed celebrities vowed to leave the country if Bush won re-election? Well guess what they are still here!!!

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LORRIEMCC

01:38 AMOct 25 2008

La MADonna, like many other crazed celebrity shoull be more worried about fixing the mess in their own back yard! MADonna, your children are suffering, they did not know what hit them harder your FAKE british accent of the fact that you have another man & are still married. Morality starts at hokme! Plus How DARE you linki our American Hero with hitler? How DARE YOU. 'WHat would your Mother say? SHAME ON YOU Oh gets better, many of these crazed celebrities vowed to leave the country if Bush won re-election? Well guess what they are still here!!!

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LOWright

11:28 AMOct 10 2008

HEY MADONNA, DONT FORGET ABOUT WHAT HAPPEN TO THE DIXIE CHICK'S SHE IS ALSO WRITING KIDS BOOK'S . JUST WONDER IF HER KIDS HAVE SEE HER PRON BOOK ? WHAT A GREAT MOM

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Womankll7w1blow

02:20 PMOct 09 2008

Lol Talk about being a communist and OLD. McCain is OLD and friends with a Nazi commie criminal good friends with G. Gordon LIddy.Just google Liddy and McCain. all facts are true and can be documented about John McCain's really close relationship with LIDDY.Google McCain and Liddy and find out the TRUTH about McCain and his criminal friends who help fund his campaigns and support him.

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Womankll7w1blow

02:17 PMOct 09 2008

Just because she is a celebrity does not mean she shouldn't make her opinion known as well? Doesn't Madonna pay taxes? Isn't she American as well? But yet none of you get this pissed when Elisabeth Hasselbitch is disrespectful about Obama? She's is a celebrity too. So if we are saying celebrities should be silent about their political views then maybe you should tell Elisebeth Hasselbitch to shut her smelly pie hole. HEr mouth stinks because there is nothin but shit coming out of it. Why is McCain good friends with Nazi, criminal UN-American G. Gordon LIDDY? You people are so hypocritical it's sickens me. You defend John McCain's relic old ass and yet you call Madonna OLD and outdated? you freaken morons. Madonna could buy any of you a million times and she's an American Citizen therfor entitled to her own opinion too since she also pays taxes just like you and myself.

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SherylA0210

04:33 AMSep 18 2008

Madonna needs to RETIRE in EVERY aspect! Madonna has her NERVE in pointing the finger at ANYONE after her dark past filled with sexual filth and misleading so many of our young people to believe that it was totally acceptable to be so rebellious. If she would take a MOMENT to reflect at her life, she was a sexual tyrant and portrayed herself to be a sexual ****, an "Icon"..if you will! She needs not to point her fingers, unless her own hands are clean! GOD, YES I SAID GOD only knows where your filthy hands and mouth have been! Yeah!! That is a joke. Give it up you washed up hag!

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CTonquest32

07:32 PMSep 15 2008

Although "Madonna" is a ***** and a pig, she is irrelevent in 2008. RyanTBo, I agree with you. In the 80s she was a spectacle and had "wow" factor. Now she's uninteresting at best. She doesn't even live in the US. Evey couple of years she does something to get back in the "news." For example, popping out kids and becoming a fake Jew. Worthless.

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RyanTBo28

05:56 PMSep 12 2008

Beg to differ Hun Been a fan of hers since 84 and I vote every election and I vote smart - Its the right as an American I take very seriously - down to inviting my state rep to lunch to see if he deserves my vote this year. Any other generalizations you care to make??STEWARTSTYLE20 04:58 PMSep 12 2008 if your a fan of the skank then your not smart enough to vote

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STEWARTSTYLE20

04:58 PMSep 12 2008

if your a fan of the skank then your not smart enough to vote

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JIsbellGlobalSME

01:38 PMSep 12 2008

It is amazing that someone could be so absolutely stupid as to make this kind of comparison. Even if you absolutely HATE McCain, how can you justify saying something like this. I know lots of people who would never vote for McCain, but to compare him to Hitler? Honestly, Obama has the buddies that are associated with hate (like Madonna), and terrorism, and no one on the conservative side is comparing him to "Hitler". What is wrong with some people?

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