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Jewish Groups Decry Madonna’s Comparison of McCain to Hitler
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
By Julie Stahl

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – Pop diva Madonna, who less than a year ago declared herself an “ambassador for Judaism,” has drawn on the Jewish people’s most painful memory to bash Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz).
 
Jewish groups said Madonna insulted Holocaust victims and all Americans with her comparison of McCain to former German dictator Adolf Hitler as part of her new world tour.
 
Madonna opened world concert tour over the weekend in Wales. While singing a song called “Get Stupid,” a photo montage showed images of destruction and global warming followed by video images of Hitler, Zimbabwe’s ruler Robert Mugabe and McCain, reports said.
 
“I find Madonna’s attempt to compare John McCain with Hitler beyond the pale and an insult to all Americans, Democrats as well as Republicans,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Wiesenthal Center. 
 
Hier also “strongly criticized” attempts to brand Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as a “Muslim extremist.”
 
“There ought to be no place in the political and social discourse of American culture for such deliberate distortions and lies sure to be viewed by hundreds of thousands of young people around the world,” Hier said in a statement.
 
“Comparisons to Hitler have no place in a music concert, or in the presidential campaign,” said Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman.
 
“Whatever Madonna’s political or personal views, it is outrageous to invoke Nazi imagery in the context of John McCain’s candidacy or to make a comment on American political leadership,” said Foxman, who is a Holocaust survivor.
 
Foxman said that it was “inappropriate and offensive” to compare present or former world leaders to a man who was responsible for the death of six million Jews.
 
“Doing so trivializes the history of the Holocaust and is an insult to the memories of the victims and their families,” Foxman said in a statement.
 
McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds was quoted as saying that the comparisons were “outrageous, unacceptable and crudely divisive.”
 
Last September, Madonna, who was raised a Roman Catholic, visited Israel to attend conference on Kabbala (Jewish mysticism).
 
At the time she met with Israeli President Shimon Peres and declared herself an “ambassador for Judaism.”
 
She last performed in Israel in 1993.

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Alright.. so it's really NOT so shocking.   Madonna has built her career on being EXTREMELY controversial in an effort to bring attention to herself.   She thrives on this motto -- "Negative publicity is better than NO publicity".  

So what do you think?  Does she really believe McCain is another Hitler.. or is she simply stirring the pot to sell more CD's?