McCain camp calls Madonna attack “outrageous”
The McCain campaign is pouncing on the latest firestorm ignited by the one and only Madonna at the premiere of her world tour in London Saturday night.
…The first show of Madonna’s world tour made a foray into U.S. politics with a none-too-subtle dig at U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain Saturday night.
Images of destruction and global warming flashed on to a screen during a video interlude. Those were followed by pictures of Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe’s authoritarian ruler Robert Mugabe — and McCain.
A later sequence showed slain Beatle John Lennon, climate activist Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and finally McCain’s democratic rival, Barack Obama…
Campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds returns fire and continues to push the Obama celebrity angle:
“The comparisons are outrageous, unacceptable and crudely divisive all at the same time. It clearly shows that when it comes to supporting Barack Obama, his fellow worldwide celebrities refuse to consider any smear or attack off limits,” Bounds said in a written statement.
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Wow, celebrities should keep their opinion to themselves. Especially nuts like Madonna
Madonna?…..I remenber when Madonna was a so called pop singer!…If I were to have a concert I would feature highlights from Madonnas past shows..You know..the good old fashioned entertainment she
is known for, where she masturbates on stage with a crucifix, and who can forget the show with men in strap on breasts rolling around with her on a bed, another favorite highlight of madonnas career
would be her American classic published book called sex…..Yes. I think of Madonna, and what she thinks when I consider a presidential candidate…..Ha! Madonna…She was like a walking mattress
in the old days..If she is so concerned about American politics, why does she live in England?
Looks like McCain shows his true strips, again. He sure loves to dish it out, but McTemper can’t stand any critique of him. Who really is the elistist and arrogant person. Since he says he admires Senator Clinton, and since he feels Senator Obama snubbed her, perhaps he can nominate her for vice-president on his ticket.
No one ever really listens to celeb’s do they?
I can’t imagine how big someones ego must be to think that THEY have the right to try to sway and election by using their status.
This is the same woman who can’t keep her marriage, family together. First she needs to look at how to unite her own family then worry about world affairs. She may know how to manage her career and sell herself to make a fortune but look at what she has done with her personal life. If she were really as bright as she believes is, she would have a solid family life as well as public life.
She seems to have no respect for the intelligence of the masses because she uses these images to sway their votes.
If anyone is dependent on celeb’s to tell them what is going on in politics… they should not vote.
Celeb’s jump on popular band wagons, they are like the “in” groups in high school. They think they should run the world. Man what a mess we would be in, if we listened to them.
Madonna? Really. I guess it’s true … what goes around comes around McBluster.
oh yeah…i remember her now…she is the one that has a gap in her front teeth you could spit melon seeds through…i didnt know the s l u t was still around…guess so huh?
Oh yeah! Like I would rely on Madonna or for that matter ANY celebrity for political guidance.
McCain is merely keeping the Left wing nuts off-balance and this shows how “out of touch” these people are with the majority of Ameicans.
Wish I were a John McCain adviser…Condolezza Rice as VP would be a dream ticket to many rank and file Republicans in Montana.
Madonna, who cares. She has to become more and more outrageous to maintain what she considers relavency. McCains celebrity add was funny maybe a waste of time, Madonna, is a waste of time.
Gee, I’m disappointed - she forgot Stalin and Mother Theresa! Oh, I forgot - Stalin was a good guy to her… and Mother Theresa was an evil religious person, I’m certain in her twisted thinking.
McCain is just stirring the Left to demonstrate how out of touch the Hollywood people are to the average American.
In Montana, Condolezza Rice as VP would be the dream ticket for many rank-and-file Republicans.
Madonna sounded accurate to me…
Why would anyone expect anything else from Madonna? Why does anyone care what she thinks or her political opinion? For God’s sake people, is she that important that her twisted point of view matters?
it just go’s to show you that old has beens need to have some spotlight action to, roseanne, madonna, mike moore, who eles? any other has-beens need attention. speak up!!
In my opininon Madonna ought to worry about her own disatrous life instead of McCain’s she has no reason to talk or judge anybody, I’m sure she will answer for evil deeds when she leaves this earth she is surely not a real “Madonna” and she insults the word of out blessed mother.
Madonna has her right to speak as she wish, as you recalled the Republicans tore up the Dixie chicks to over their view of Bush! If people knew than of how Bush was going to destroy this country, they would have been praised instead! So maybe we shouldn’t be so fast to criticize Madonna! If we’d listen to the dixie chicks way back when, we wouldn’t be in such dire straights now with this war, gas price’s, economy and america going down the sewer tubes!
So fox where is my Post?
If Madonna is representative of OBAMA supporters, he doesn’t need any detractors! Her support alone has helped me decide to pull the lever for McCain. She’s a nutcase and an amoral disgrace to the female sex.
McCain’s campaign needs to stop the whining, they have just become a campaign of whiner’s. This is all psychological. Do they really care what celebrities think?
Who in their right mind would listen to words that come out of Madonna’s mouth? When are celebrities going to keep their comments on politics to themselves? It only make them look like complete fools.
Suck it up Mr. Tucker, this is yet another war that McCain himself started!
why is it that all of Hollywood and the music industry is convinced that we the “little people” that afford them their fame are interested in hearing or seeing anything from them but their “art”. Why can’t they just do what they get paid for and keep their political views to themselves like everyone else! I cannot let everyone know at my job how I feel about politics!!! And who would care anyway?
Unfortunately, Madonna has never had a great deal of tact. She has her fan base and uses it to her partys advantage. Although having Madonna on my side is not something I would be to incredibly proud of.
Q: Do heroes collaborate with the enemy?
If so, McCain is a Hero’s hero.
The McCain camp is shocked! Shocked! at something going on at a rock concert. Putting images of famous people together. Who would sink so low?
Whatsa matter, McCain. Can’t take your own medicine? You used celebrities in your annoying attack ads. Madonna can pretty much do what she wants. So let it go and conduct a clean campaign.
SJ
MADANNA SHOULD TAKE CARE OF HER BUSINESS….STAY OUT OF POLITICS….HUM???? DOES SHE HAVE ENOUGH SMARTS TO EVEN KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON BEYOND HER MATERIAL GIRL….??????
This a great ticket. I believe that Joe Biden and his entire family will work and support Barack Obama.
I am a lifelong republican mom of 3 who is fired up and ready to go for Barack. I donate, support in every way that I can. We cannot afford 4 more years of this, seeing our hard earned equity dry up, the terrible economic mess and image problem we have, I encourage every-one to work as hard as they can. YES WE CAN and please remember what’s at stake. You guys are all great.
“Off Limits”–McCain camp doesn’t know what those words mean unless they’re on the receiving end. Too bad–John
Well, it is Madonna after all. . .Who pays any “serious” attention to her anyway. It’s to be expected. Obama always gets the kooks. Birds of a feather, flock together.
Funny how McCain doesn’t like a taste of their own medicine. Nice move Madonna.
Madonna… should have put HERSELF on the destructive part of the video. You make people sick Madonna and you look like a freak. Your destructiveness to young women all over the world, your blatant sacreligious shows, your books, your doing anything to SHOCK people show how self absorbed and ONLY self absorbed you are. John McCain believes in serving and doing greater things for people and issues BEYOND his own self. You Madonna are truly ugly and how you could do that to a war Hero and great man who loves his country is beyond belief and imagination. You sure have alot of nerve. Keep your horrible opinions to your self.
So McCain if a brick fell on your head would you blame Obama for that? Don’t you think people such as Madonna can think for themselves? I am not condoning this behavior. But McCain you are again a disappointment after you promised a clean campaign.
The McCain Camp should put out an ad with Madonna, a house of prostitution, a drug addict, a jail inmate and other immoral truths, all of which are accepted and part of the democrat party, and don’t forget to insert the picture of Obama.
Who cares what the Hollywood crowd says, most of them are uneducated fools. And here you were wondering why most of the vote for Democrats.
Is anybody still going to her concerts? Sleep with or say anything just to get noticed. Give it up girl, your 15 minutes expired 10 years ago. Leave it to the media to keep her career alive.
McCain needs to get a sense of humor!
SenMcCain does appears to be too old to have a very finely tuned sense of humor when the attacks are directed at him. He has no reservations about attacking others’ patriotism whithout cause, but is pretty sensitive about anyone challenging him.
He is not the man this country needs; we have had enough of George Bush and do not need another.
Who cares what Madonna thinks. From what I hear she ain’t all that smart.
Madonna? Madonna who? Are you guys talking about that old chick with the fake British accent? C’mon, does anyone really care what’s on her mind?
It sounds to me like Madonna may be a bit miffed that McCain used Brittney and Paris, but didn’t include her in his celebrity Ad.
I guess she is now feeling a bit like Hillary Clinton after Obama dissed her for Joe Biden.
Perhaps, Madonna and Hillary Clinton could join forces and run as an Independent ticket?
Madonna is a fool with a single digit IQ!!! Anyone who has any respect for what she says or does has the brains of a caveman.
I hope all who saw this just chalk it off to another Hollywood bimbo
Wow, McCain is such a whiner!
McBush I mean McCain who cares. Nice going Madonna.
It’s a shame when her words on politics make the news.
Are you serious! The republicans are complaining about Madonna. Let’s take a guess and think who started with the attack ad’s,or better yet the Swift Boat politics. Let’s face it, the old guy, doesn’t really have nothing to say about anything, so, his best bet (the old guy), is to attack someone else’s character.
How about asking him about S&L with his BUDDY Keating
Senator McCain spent about 6 years as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton to defend garbage like Madonna
and her right to free speech. He should take what she says with a grain of salt. Madonna would add onr plus one and get three, that’s how intelligent she is.
hasbeen. trying to be 20 NOT. like a virgin???
Fox only posts articles that favour the Old Guy, McCain) and the religous zealots!
This all happened in Cardiff, Wales….And not London.
I must have missed the outrage, from the Right, over Ted Nugent…When he insulted Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton had it right about Republican women, they should stay home and bake cookies. How about posting this Fox!
mcbush,mcbluster,mccinsane,mclie,mcsame,mcpow, you can’t take it, when you were the target of the slime merchants of the bush machine,you were appalled,now you crawled into bed with these snakes & sullied your reputation forever. you have reduced yourself to the likes of the swift boaters which you decried in 2004. now in the sunset of your life the only thing that remains is the POW CARD that you’ve over played.
If McCain is smart, he should pick Condi Rice for VP. That would be a slam dunk…case closed. Please Mc, do the smart thing.
madonna,, dixie chicks, intertainers as a whole,, who cares, these are fools who make a living by living in fantisy. as for bush destroying america, we were doing fine till we got a democratic congress,, thats when the bogus stuff like oh yea, I’m better then you so I’ll tell you what to do started with lame idea’s like lets pass bills that make fuel prices sore and tout alternitive energy. lets make that manatory soon so prices can go nuts, ( this is when it truly started, any fool can check on this for themselves, just takes a lil diggin into bills over the last 3 yrs. ) as for europians not liking america? hell thats been that way sense we ran them off in the revolution,,,, who cares what they think. and finally, if you kids want to mouth,,, study first, dont just listen to others and decide u like what they say and tout it,,,, study and see if what they say is any way true.
( kids,,,,, ‘ I see ‘ said the blind man and the fools followed him over the cliff )
Another communist who doesn.t even live in the US but wants to bash it just like her presidential hopeful.
the mccain campaign loves to go after obama with this stuff. who started the celebrity card now that it has turned to you, you can’t take it. john you can’t have it both ways. mccain who has been in more moveis? you or obama? you, so who is really the celebrity. the same people that you condemned in 2004 are working for your campaign today. so when you claim to be the straight talker well start acting like the straight talker and quit letting mcbush people take over your campaign like you have. stop whinning!!!!!!!!
Who is Madonna?
We all got to have a sense of humor …
McBush , Chill Out ! …
Madonna is so immoral, I wouldn’t want her endorsement if I were either candidate. She reminds me of these all those silly liberals posting comments here. They are so consumed by their hatred of George Bush, Republicans, and Conservatives that they don’t even realize how little sense they make. Just like the Saddleback Debate, any time the conversation is about real issues instead of Republican Vs. Democrat mudslinging, the truth speaks for itself.
CLINTON-MADONNA ‘08!!!
Did we forget that 7 years ago the same scientist, I say that in wonder, said we were going into another ice age, now it is globale warming and soon we will be back to the ice age. So Madonna jumping on the band wagon of global warming is a real joke. Even as she does half the scientist that said the world was going threw globale warming has back off and said oops. Then you take into the facter that she does not want HER children watching or listening to her music or videos as they are not something she wants to expose them to but it is alright to expose ours. Who listens to such a trashy person who would take a stance like that? Figures she would back Obama.
I don’t care how good she might look, who wants to see a 50 year old menopausal woman jumping all over the stage? Just the idea is yucky. this comment should get all the winged monkeys upset….
I am sure that the YOUNG HIP And Cool Voters wont listen to you Madd onna… You are a fifty year old HAG that destroyed the youthful vigor and purity in minds of America (but only to the ones that LISTENED… ONE HUNDRED years ago)… go to H where you belong and quit making OUR country look bad… perverted. Do something good Madonna and keep your ugly mouth shut… start knitting honey. LOL! You are a has been and a NO good one.
Who cares what Madonna has to say about anything? This just makes McCain’s “Celeb” ad even more true. If Nobama does win the election this year, then America will become more crippled than it already is. That man cannot lead this country. McCain can.
MADONNA>>> Oh… PUHLEASE… Enough of spreading your legs for your disgustingly degrading (to all women) sweet & sticky tour…. don’t you mean dried up and slimy gross tour….? Go TO H… freak woman who has done nothing for this country but degrade it! Your pictures ARE and always have been disgusting… YOU ARE SICK Lady. Get over yourself… old bag hag. Old woman who really wants to be 20 again… you look RIDICULOUS!
I think that the problem McCain has with this video is the fact that he is put in the same category as two very evil people. John McCain voted for the war, he supported the surge, and he has no intention of making the mistake to leave before things are stable enough to do so. When it comes to foreign policy, McCain is better for this country. Joe Biden is also very good for this country in those matters, but he is not the one that is going to be making those decisions.
For those that are calling John McCain a whiner, isn’t the same thing that Sen. Obama has done anytime he has been called out? He doesn’t believe that wives should be brought into this election, but yet he makes a jab at John McCain not knowing how many houses HIS WIFE really owns. John McCain doesn’t own all of those houses. I believe that Sen. Biden trully does understand how the middle and lower classes feel, and their pain. But I trully believe that Sen. Obama doesn’t. He got famous and bought a million dollar home. What has he done for the little people since he has become famous. I am not sure that I would want my picture up there with some a couple of the most left-wing people out there. She did Ghandi a disservice by putting him with the other three.
Every celebrity that endorses Obama is only showing total ignorance. It is very difficult for me to understand why anyone would vote for him. The books and numerous articles that I have read about Obama have not even given me the slightest hint of who he is. All I hear is the word “change” and frankly I do not know what he means, and every supporter of his has not been able to answer any questions about what he will “change”. I am baffled by all this hype.
…madonna who?
Leo Peter- I’m a republican woman of 23, married to a Marine, injured combat veteran, going to school to get my 2ND BACHELORS FOLLOWED BY A MASTERS (Marketing, Nursing, Physicians Assistant), how educated are you? If you’re a dem, probably a high school graduate if lucky. I’m not a stay at home mom making cookies, I work hard and if Obama wins will have to watch the paycheck I worked so hard for go to a crack head who can’t save $50/month for health insurance, probably someone like you.
McCain should pick Hillary Clinton for VP. That would send a big message about crossing party lines and doing away with the old system of partisan politics!
Madonna is a washed up has-been who is looking for attention… since she doesn’t get much anymore. Who cares. She’s just another one of those liberal “celebrities” who thinks the world is interested in her views of America. I’m glad I didn’t pay to see her… and I never will. Who would take her seriously anyway. (I think the person who posted that Madonna felt left out of McCain’s “celebrity” ad was right… and this is her way of getting back at him.)
Whatsamatter John?
Where’s your sense of humor?
McCain can’t take a joke, the juvenile likes to joke about people all the time but does not like it when he is on the other side. This just tells you what people see on McCain’s negative ads, it is coming back to him. Temper , temper, McCain is going out of control, lets see what his aides do about it.
Who cares what that pornographer thinks anyway?
Madonna and Michelle Obama will kiss at DNC…
Celebrity is a weapon of two sides ……..is it good for McCain to attack senator Obama as a celebrity & Madonna attack McCain now it is no good ,who dig a pit for some body fall in it,
be serious hypocrite McCain
To Alan 6:49pm
An idiot is born every minute and you are living proof. By your premise, the repubs are the sign of good moral standards. Well, then check your facts and look at how many republicans have cheated or are morally destitute or are corrupt and then see how high your moral ground stands. Hypocrites no no bounds in claiming the higher ground. McLame has grown into a bitter old wart that is willing to pander and skew the facts to get elected. He is living proof that a so called war ‘hero’ is NOT fit and wise to be President.
SOMEBODY PLEASE GIVE JOHN McSAME/McBUSH CAMP A BOX OF TISSUES. HEY CAMP, I GUESS THAT MEANS YOU CAN’T TAKE WHAT YOU DISH OUT. GO OBAMA!!!
HEY FOX, DO YOU ALL REMEMBER WHEN HILLARY SAID REPUBLICAN WOMEN SHOULD STAY HOME AND BAKE COOKIES? WELL I GUESS YOU CAN BAKE ALL DAY WHEN YOUR CAUGHT STEALING RECIPES. HINT HINT (McCain Wife) GOOD ANSWER PEOPLE, MAYBE FOX WILL RUN THAT DURING THE CAMPAIGN. OH I FORGOT IF IT WAS (OBAMA WIFE) WE WOULD ALL BE SICK OF HEARING IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
Yes, thanks to our wonderful media we know about these political slams… that’s all they seem to report on anyways. I encourage everyone out there to get their news from other sources and to make an INFORMED vote. Madonna’s behavior is no suprise to me. Remember people~she has been pampered her whole adult life and believes what she and her celebrity pals want to believe and they really are in their own world. I’m sure she actually helped McCain’s vote by such radical behavior. (I get such a kick out of reading these blogs!)
Nuclear power is safe. - Source: John McCain
Japan’s foreign ministry says the U.S. Navy has warned it of a possible radioactive leak from a nuclear sub during recent port calls in southern Japan. - Source: The Washington Times (Aug 1, 2008)
When is this old hag going to get off the stage. Since Al Bore can’t tell us how many ice ages there have been, maybe this old hag can. Being that there were at least four ice ages over millions of years completely destroys the THEORY that man is creating some parts of the world to be more warm than others. Liberals get their facts from Madonna and Al, while conservatives get their facts from science.
Here are some ideas for new ads:
1. McBush counting the money he made from the Savings and Loan scandal in the ’80s.
2. McBush signing an anti-American paper as a P.O.W., which HE even says was “dishonorable.”
3. Cindy McBush getting a doctor to write illegal prescriptions or stealing drugs from her own “non-profit organization.” AVMT (American Voluntary Medical Team).
All of these can be found easily for those who are blinded by the large elephant @$$ on their shoulders. These people are deceitful liars only out for themselves.
Madonna, whether you like her of dislike her for who or what you perceive her to be, is a citizen of the United States. A such, she has the right to express her views accordingly and openly. Sadly, the vast majority of those who have commented negatively on Madonna as it relates to this article have likely conveniently left this out. They have chosen to personalize their comments on primarlily if not quite wholly her sexuality, the expression of her art, her career success or personal life. Often powerful, independent people particularly women and those who are pioneers in their fields are scorned by significantly less successful, less independent followers of narrow minded beliefs and even narrower tolerance for difference in all its many forms. That’s sad, pathetic and predictable. It’s even more sad when the Republican candidate for president and his team of advisors spend time focusing on their discontent with Madonna rather than addressing and remedying the failed politics and policies of the most highly disapproved of leader of the US in modern times, Bush. While Bush’s leadership and its execution continues to be a parasite on the sagging health of the US both nationally and internationally, McCain and his team’s priority focuses on criticizing Madonna. So, when Madonna is criticized for not representing America, I have to ask myself the question, is McCain and his advisors’ behavior towards Madonna respectful of her freedoms as a US citizen and in alignment with the best interests of our ailing country, development of solutions to address the multiple complex challenges the country faces and their effective implementation in a difficult and changing world? I don’t think so when their energy is spent criticizing Madonna. That’s also sad, pathetic and predictable.
Looks like Obama will have Bimbo eruptions of a different sort than Bill Clinton use to have.
Thanks for not posting my comment. I didn’t know you are part of the John McBush and Sean Hannidiot deceit.
Don’t worry McCain - you don’t need Madonna’s nasty dances to help win you votes. This is a woman who basically hired her exercise instructor to be her daughters’ daddy. Mr. McCain has much more class than to want someone like Madonna on his side!!
Is Madonna even relevant to anything at all? I dont even think that Obama welcomes the opinions and endorsement of a 50 year old “woman” that still dances around in underwear on stage for money. And even if she didn’t live in England (what a nationalist), I think the majority of people with common sense still wouldn’t really care what she had to say.
TUCKER GET USE TO IT. mc CAIN ATTACKED WITH IMAGES OF SPEARS AND HILTON AND THE PHALLUS SYMBOL TOWER AS A BACKDROP. mc MAIN IS A WARMONGER WHO WANTS TO “FINISH” AND “WIN” WARS THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN STARTED. mc CAIN WANTS TO INTIMIDATE OTHER COUNTRIES WHEN THEY DO NOT FOLLOW USA DIRECTIVES. mc CAIN HAS CROSSED THE LINE WITH HIS CONTINUING ADS. mc CAIN’S ADS HAVE BEEN “OUTRAGEOUS, UNACCEPTABLE, AND CRUDELY DIVISIVE ALL AT THE SAME TIME.” “IT CLEARLY SHOWS THAT WHEN IT COMES TO SUPPORTING” mc CAIN, HIS FRIENDS REFUSE “TO CONSIDER ANY SMEAR OF ATTACK OFF LIMITS.” TUCKER YOUR OWN WORDS ARE QUITE ACCURATE WHEN DESCRIBING mc CAIN’S OUTLANDISH ADS.
Who in the world would care what Madonna thinks? She is trash.