'Can we just all get out?'
Hey Esther, that sounds like something your concertgoers might say after realizing they'd just un-assed three franklins to see an untalented, middle-aged woman slutting around on a stage for two hours. We all know it's possible to substitute sex appeal for talent in the pop world, but you know what? It doesn't work quite as well when you're like, sixty. Do you think Brittney Spears will still be doing the teen tramp act 30 years from now? I mean, honestly.
Anyway, it looks like Madonna wants our troops out of Iraq.
US pop star Madonna made a rare foray into politics, calling for her home country to withdraw its troops from Iraq during an interview with British radio.
Mrs. Ritchie, did you know we've had an election back home? It was in all the papers. And guess what? Your side lost. Maybe you didn't realize that because you were two busy defiling centuries of Jewish tradition and mysticism by treating it like a Pilates class -- merely the latest in a series of temporary, faddish diversions for bored, spoiled, rich white women.
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Leave it to another racist Democrat for thinking that Arabs don't deserve democracy.
Posted by: Thomas Galvin | November 9, 2004 03:32 PM
Well if Madonna.. er.. Esther calls for the troops to be pulled out, then by God they should be pulled out! Right now. End of story.
I wonder what religious persona she'll take on next year...
Posted by: Amy | November 9, 2004 04:35 PM
We could always make it a choice: Either the troops stay, and attempt to bring peace and security, or the troops go and we send Madonna or Esther (or whatever the pointy-bra'd one wants to be known as) to put on an endless concert tour. The insurgents won't know what hit them.
Posted by: Ian | November 9, 2004 06:18 PM
There's this new show on Pax called "Faith under Fire", at least I think it's called that? Anyway, it seems to be sort of a religious "Crossfire" and I caught a piece of an episode where there was a Kabbalah (are they called rabbis too?), rabbi guy and an orthodox rabbi duking it out over Kabbalah and the rabbi was all like "and how do you expect to be taken seriously when you have Madonna as your spokesperson?!" He was a lot more snarky and rude about it. Funny as heck though...
Seriously, she is still entitled to an opinion. It's not her fault that we as a culture seem celebrity obsessed. And let's face it, do most of us really care what Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh think about anything? What gives them the right to spout off at the mouth? That would be us. We listen to them (well, some of us do anyway) so they can say whatever they want.
So if Esther or Madonna or whatever she is calling herself today wants to give a military critique, why not? And tomorrow, I'll be sure to ask George Clooney if he thinks it's a good idea for me to ever have kids. A perennial bachelor is probably a good person to go to, right? Because, you know, it's always a good idea to get affirmation.
Posted by: Katherine | November 9, 2004 07:18 PM
K, remind me to tell you of my Orthodox Jewish friend who has had rabbinical training, and is planning a big money-making scheme to be a Kabbalah instructor for bored, rich Upper West Siders. ;-)
Posted by: Barry N. Johnson | November 9, 2004 08:37 PM
Hey- She's younger than Cher...
Posted by: Paul Moore | November 10, 2004 12:25 PM