John Lennon was political and brave. Madonna obviously backed down after the boos and walk outs. If you are going to be an entertainer and political-then stand your ground. Don’t whimp out.

Agreed.

FIRST OF ALL SHE SHOULD HAVE RETIRED YEARS AGO, SECOND, SHE IS A HORRIBLE MOM FOR GETTING NAKED AT CONCERTS (HOW AWKWARD THAT MUST BE FOR HER DAUGHTER) THIRD EVERYONE SHOULD KEEP POLITICS TO THEMSELVES. ALL IT DOES IS START ARGUMENTS, PEOPLE LOSE FRIENDS, AND NOW THIS WRINKLED OLD WASHED-UP POP STAR HAS LOST FANS. WHAT’S NEXT? RIOTS IN THE STREETS? THE MC RIB SANDWICH MAKING ANOTHER RETURN? GANGHAM STYLE BECOMES THE OFFICIAL DANCE OF THE UNITED STATES? JUST SAYING. :)

Louisiana is never for democrats. If she says that in the north east she would get a standing ovation

LMAO!! And yet here YOU are!

whats your point? im here for the Madonna article, you dont see me having 3k+ posts.

Did the 10 idiots who left the show not know her political affiliation? Besides, Mitt Romney believes he is an alien from the planet Kolob. Seriously, did you know that? He is a cult member! Look it up. Its so interesting how suddenly religion doesn’t matter to this country.

You’re counting posts — and I don’t have a life? Pfffftt!

She should be boo’d for her stupid music as well. Yuck.

why? bc theryre so stupid they cant talk about something this serious?

DL, leave her be. Don’t read her posts or don’t come here if you don’t like then, cripes…stop your whining.

Unfortunately, those concert goers had no choice to hear what Madonna expounded upon. They paid good money and then were subject to that.

I Would bet the people booing were plants trying to make a point. No biggie probably sent by Mitt supporters.

It’s easy for these celebrities to support Obama since they’re rich and have jobs. Talk to the millions who have lost their jobs the past 4 years and you will get a different opinion.

It is obvious that Hollywood is pro Obama. (no I am not pro Romney, I think we’re screwed) however you’d have to be blind to not notice we are being programmed to be ‘cool’ we must love Obama, and not notice the further dismantling of our constitution. This programming is the most obvious in our children. But when it’s ‘time’ the media will turn and go republican. All you have to do is chech out history. Good cop, bad cop.

Romney is a Mormon cultist. You might think you know what that means but look it up and you will be stunned to learn what it really means…

I think the people who walked out are the stupid ones. I, for sure, wouldn’t walk out of a concert I probably paid a ton of money for just because the performer told me to vote a certain way. I’m sure there are country/western performers telling their audience to vote for Romney. Who cares. It’s not like she spent the whole show touting Obama.

I will never understand why popculture and politics should go together,They just dont belong together.

You got this wrong. It is the Rich that benefit if Mitt gets into office. The celebrities are well paid (yes) but if no one (middle class) comes to support them, then they lose. The middle class and the poor are the one’s that pay to come and support them not the rich. The Rich are not going to the movies or concerts they are to busy going to other countries, private viewing shows, and the theater and they probably pulled some strings to get free admission.

Mitt doesn’t care about the middle class… he even said so amongst his super rich peers. You have got to watch what people say and do behind close doors, they show their true colors when they think no one is watching. Keep in mind this coming from a point of view that has merit, I’m a young single woman in my child bearing years. I have been laid-off 2 xs in the last 4 years and believe me it was NOT Obama’s fault. It happen right after Obama got into office so the lay off was already in the works. I worked for very Republican companies. Believe me the Republicans do not care about the upper middle class, middle class, or the poor. They only care about the super rich…Mitt loses he doesn’t know the strong survive we know how to make things work. We work for what we have nothing is given to us we were born with platinum spoons in our mouth.

Most people don’t like Obama because of his policies is strictly has to do with the color of his skin. I don’t care about that I want someone in office that cares about all people…American Indian, Black, White, whatever rich, poor, gay, straight, male, felmale and that is OBAMA.

Good thing GOVERNOR Romney isn’t a politician. LOL. If I decided to
start a religion tomorrow and say we believe in Christ and read the
Bible only we also….worship dogs and cats. That would be considered a
cult to every Christian that I know. Mormonism is a cult. Next, I am
doing better than I was four years ago, so is my family and so are my
friends. I don’t know anyone who is unemployed and my company has had
openings for over a year, we pay great and we have had very few
applicants. I want to remodel my house and the best construction
companies here in Colorado tell me their next availability is 3 months
out. While my family and I are blessed and prospering, I wouldn’t blame
Obama if I wasn’t. Instead I would go find a job. Trust me, they’re out
there!

Why do celebrities constantly feel they are qualified to preach about politics? As if anyone didn’t know she supported Obama. She can’t stand America, pretends to be British, she flashes her old sagging nipples, she is constantly vulgar and has had zero class in her entire life.

Sounds like a textbook liberal to me.

Exactly! And thank you Chris!

amen, and absolutely…let her do it on her own dime and her own time.

they CAN walk out over her nonsense AND get their money back…as a matter of fact, i am surprised, with all her antics–that she has not been sued..
if she’s there as singer and dancer, then great–that’s what they paid their money for…give them what they pay for..

heard ya! i personally did not know she did this EVERY concert…maybe she should advertize with a disclaimer?!

yeah but we’re talking about a raging asshole with a God complex here, not just any old woman.

LOL

I get sick of celebrities acting like they are the politicians themselves.. Madonna should stick to her day job as should Matt Damon and every other actor or actress who thinks they can influence the public into voting. Voting is not meant to be a high school popularity contest, where all your little friends bully everyone else into voting for you. It’s pathetic. Yes people should exercise their right to vote but they should use their own mind and vote for the person they really want to see running their country. Note to Madonna, people wont take you seriously when you try and make political statements right after you just flashed your granny t!ts and a$s to the crowd. Go back to singing like a virgin.

How dare YOU say “most people don’t like Obama because of the color of his skin”….that’s pretty presumptuous of you. I don’t care for Obama because of his POLICIES!! I am not a fan of Obamacare, I think it will do nothing but cripple this country. I don’t care for his spending habits…..HE has borrowed more and more money. HE lied when he promised to turn the economy around in 3 years, now he is begging for another 4 years to see his plan through……those are just a few of the reasons I don’t care for the man…

So what you’re saying is, Madonna doesn’t have a 1st Amendment right? NO ONE who knows Madonna doesn’t know about her political leanings, and if she wanted to espouse them on HER stage, then as true Americans, we should grant her that right. See, 1st Amendment rights aren’t only for moneyed corporations to buy our elections. It’s actually for us, too.

Bull. You don’t like that Black man in the White House, and unfortunately for you, your candidate’s surrogates have been making the point that it’s about race not policies all last week. You couldn’t tell me WHAT Romney’s policies are if you knew because Romney’s all over the place with his lies.

Oh please! Can you read?! Read the GC story again. This has nothing to do with her 1st amendment right. This is about people paying their hard earned money to hear her sing and getting, “I don’t care who you vote for as long as you vote for Obama.”

Now if she said,”Everyone be sure to vote because it makes a difference and it’s a privilege not all countries share” then that’s one thing. But she’s telling everyone who paid to see her that it’s okay to vote as long as you vote WITH her. It was inappropriate. And obviously some of her fans felt the same way because they walked out of her concert.

And it’s STILL inappropriate for her to tell fans that paid to see her — and probably stood a long time in line — who they can vote for. Jackie Debs is right.

Don’t even go there! Because you’re saying that anyone who does not stand behind Obama is racist. That is inexcusable.

At one of her concerts she told everyone to be sure to vote for the “black muslim”. I think it may have been posted here on GC.

Just saw a Romney commercial where this tool claims “millions of Americans have given up”. Really?? Well if that’s the case, please make way for those who are pursuing and achieving the American Dream everyday just as our immigrant ancestors did. Think they didn’t have it hard? You have no idea!

Very well said Chris. Thank you.

If employers can tell their employees how to vote… well, then I see nothing wrong with Madonna telling her concert-goers who she supports.

People paid to watch her perform, not to hear her talk about politics.

With this logic the concert goers should have told Madonna how to vote, they were paying her, basically her employers.

Employers CAN’T tell their employees how to vote. It is an individual’s right to vote as they choose. And she’s not telling them who she supports — she’s saying it’s okay to vote as long as you vote with me. It’s like saying I respect your opinion as long as it is coincides with mine.

I’m glad she put it out there. Any woman who isn’t voting for Obama is out of their mind.

Except many employers are telling their employees how to vote… something encouraged by Mitt Romney himself… here’s his quote:

“I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in
the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their
future in the upcoming elections. And whether you agree with me or you
agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view, I hope, I
hope you pass those along to your employees.”

Some recent examples of businesses instructing their employees how to vote include: Wynn Casinos,Westgate Resorts, Request Foods, Cintas, Rite-Hite, and ASG Software Solutions…

On a personal note, a family member of mine who works for a major U.S. insurance company recently attended a company-wide, mandatory meeting in which he was told it would be in everyone’s best interest to vote for Romney.

So, it seems many employers are heeding Romney’s advice and instructing their employees how to vote… slippery slope, don’t you agree?

Yeah, I’ll got there because it’s the truth. Fact of the matter is, there is NO reason for any American to vote for Romney since Romney hasn’t produced a single specific on any of his plans. So yeah, using the powers of deduction it comes down to people NOT voting for President Obama ARE RACISTS.

Madonna’s 1st Amendment right, whether you like it or not, is sacred and she can bloody well espouse it wherever she wants to. Next time, you TB*ggers should send her a list of places where she’s not allowed to exercise her 1st Amendment right as an American citizen. People got their entertainment, for what they paid for. You people believe the 1st Amendment Right is only for corporations (Citizens United) and Rightwingers. Sorry, but that ain’t the case. Cry me a river already.

I might have agreed with you except for the quote, “And whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view…”

He’s not telling them HOW to vote but TO vote. That’s quite a difference from telling people they HAVE to vote for a particular person.

I have no idea what the TB term is but I’m betting it’s derogatory.

Oh, please. The point is employers should not tell their employees how to vote… or encourage them to vote for a particular candidate… and that is what is happening.

Romney may have added that caveat about Obama, but to me at least, it’s clear what Romney was saying in that comment. He wasn’t asking corporate heads to simply encourage their employees to vote… he specifically said they should make it clear who to vote for if they want to keep their jobs, and their future livelihood.

But, hey, if you want to believe it’s fine for employers to encourage their workers to vote for a particular candidate, but have a problem with entertainers encouraging their fans to do the same… well, I guess that’s that, huh? I don’t get it… but, well, you’re entitled to your (fucked up) opinion.

Your right Cat, she does have a right to say what ever she wants, but that’s not what this story is about.

People paid money to hear her sing, not to be her captive audience while she forced her political views on them.
Had this been an entertainer telling the crowd to vote Romney or Johnson I’m sure you would be spewing liberal hatred on them without mention of the 1st amendment.
Just as Madonna has her right to free speech, others had the right to boo her and walk out.

Oh BTW, you say teabaggers as if it’s an insult. It’s just another name the the tolerant liberal left *insert eye roll* spews from their hate filled hearts against those that disagree with their agenda. They actually took their name in honor of the Boston Tea Party of 1773, in which angry American colonists dumped tons of tea into Boston’s harbor because they were mad at Britain for putting a tax on imported tea.

You know… those pesky colonists that went on to give you your first amendment right.

Re-read my post. And while you’re at it — stop putting words in my mouth. I wrote he – along with Obama – have been encouraging people TO vote — NOT who to vote FOR. You’re reading something into that statement because you choose to. Not because it’s there. You have an agenda. I get it.

lol… Romney busted Obama for having accounts in the Cayman Islands and investments in the same Chinese Companies that Romney does on National Television! Obama is a scam artist. He got caught in lie after lie. But judging from your arguments, if you aren’t here posting ad nauseam, you are sitting wide eyed in front of the television soaking up every one of Obama’s lies.

A better use of your time would be to fact check the debates, you would be surprised at the lies your fuhrer told

So was I. I just kept talking. Ashamed now.

Yeah lol. Willard Romney didn’t do squat. Willard got OWNED. He was so beat down that he agreed with everything President Obama said in the third debate. Willard got b**ch slapped good for all the lies he’s been trying to sell the American public.

Unlike President Obama, Willard actively loaned money from the government, bankrupted the companies, and sent people’s jobs overseas while making millions in profit for himself. He’s doing it *right now* in Freeport, Illinois. Didn’t Fox “News” Channel tell ya? That’s why Texas Gov. Rick Perry himself called draft-dodging Willard a “vulture capitalist” and by his own actions, he underscores it.

I know the facts, TB*gger. That’s why I’m not a Republican. The only lies I hear are coming in waves from the Rightwing and their misleaders. But you’re too busy sitting wide-eyed in front of Fox “News” Channel soaking up everyone of their Communist and Saudi paid for propaganda to even know you’re alive.

Sure you did.

She made a statement. She didn’t have the doors shut with armed TB*ggers at the door in tricorn hats with teabags dangling from the brim and told them they can’t leave until they pledge to vote for Obama. Get a grip. She was exercising her 1st Amendment right as an American citizen with a simple sentence. A couple of Righties decided to boo her, exercising their 1st Amendment right. That’s it. That’s all.

Could you be a bit more original. Oh and you do know that not everyone that disagrees with you is a Republican right? Did your script not cover that?

If it posts as a Republican, it’s a Republican. The fact that you toss out the “supporting other people” Rightwing myth tells me all I need to know about your TB*gger arse.

Go preach to the families who lost their sons after they begged Obama to help them and he said stand down soldier and went to Vegas! But hey obamas all about Hollywood and going on talk shows and events screw our nation celebrities are more iimportant to him so take your own advice and go check it out ,

You are,soooo wrong the rich create jobs and thats how people support their families moron! When big companies go under then everyone looses their jobs and we end up where we are Obama style looser,

You are a pathetic person, I am married to a black person and I am offended you keep playing the race card, even my husband thinks Obama has done nothing but promote Hollywood, in fact he thinks he has let his own people down the worst, African Americans had the toughest time finding jobs , he created shit for this country not jobs”

I could care less if you’re offended that I point out racism where I see it. Really. Honestly. I promise you I won’t lose any sleep over it.

And just to give you a wake-up call, Heidi, being married to a black person doesn’t give you some special privilege to dictate what is and what isn’t allowed when it comes to pointing out blatant racism where I see it. To believe that is what’s pathetic.

There are 4-star General Blacks like Colin Powell who articulate why President Obama deserves re-election, and sell out TB*gger Allan West black men who spew venom worst than even I can. Considering what your husband thinks – according to you – he belongs in the latter group with the types that have that “Hollywood is eveeel” attitude. And they are a minority in a minority since 95% of Black people are going to cast their vote for President Obama.

Unemployment rates under African-Americans HAVE DROPPED. And just to edumacate you on how our government works, CONGRESS legislates domestic policy, not the president. The president is NOT a dictator, ‘member? Still, he’s put forward a comprehensive jobs bill – a REAL jobs bill entitled, “The American Jobs Act”. And guess what? Boehner and the TeaBaggers in the House shoved it aside. Not much the president can do if the House says NO all the time.

And if you really believe that President Obama hasn’t done anything for this country, you’re more delusional than I gave you credit for. Go edumacate yourself already. You can start by learning how your government functions – knowledge you’re clearly and sorely lacking.

IDGAF what you think.

LMAO! Awesome post!

In China 100% of the poor are Asian. Maybe some of our poor can move over there and try for the Chinese dream?

Liking Obama just because he is black is also racist

Redneck? That is a racist term. You are using a derogatory statement that characterizes someone by the color of their skin. Obama wants everyone treated equal so please treat all derogatory terms the same for each ethnic group. If it is uncool to say the N word, it’s uncool to say the R word.

Didn’t see the study? The one that shows that Fox “News” Channel viewers know LESS than people who don’t even follow politics? To believe, even for a split second, that Fox “News” Channel has any credibility after it’s been debunked and embarrassed by just about every other corporate media, is what’s deranged. So . . .you believe Fox “News” Channel is factual then?

Monkey see. Monkey do. Why am I not surprised?

And what agenda might that be, D?

Then by that noble standard, you disagree wholeheartedly when CEOs, who have seen record-breaking, astronomical profits under President Obama, are now mailing their employees, threatening that if they vote for President Obama THEY’LL LOSE THEIR JOBS, right? RIGHT?

And, of course, you’re vehemently against Coal Mining CEO’s threatening their coal miner employees that if they don’t donate to Willard Romney, or stand as props at his rallies WITHOUT PAY, that they’ll be on the list for being fired, RIGHT?

And you absolutely are against Willard Romney himself, caught on tape, telling his fellow CEOs that they need to remind their employees who to vote for if they want to keep their jobs after November, correct?

So when you pit these unscrupulous who-to-vote-for-tactics in the real world against Madonna’s spontaneous words at HER concert, it kind of puts things in perspective, don’t it?

You’re right! Voting for anyone just because of the color of their skin is racist. And Cat has indicated as much. Guess she’s just racist.

Madonna’s problem right now is that if she had said it 4 years ago when Bush was being replaced, she would have been cheered. Madonna has been on the cutting edge of things for decades, but she now appears very yesterday in her performances. The one in Paris and now this one. She has fallen out of touch wih the world we are living in right now and she doesn’t really know it. It is moving very fast and she doesn’t have a handle on it.

Unfortunately or fortunately you cannot crush with facts. They don’t stick to teflon. They have no effect on beliefs. You can know something to be but if you don’t believe it then it is moot.

Hey D if it is on the news that means it’s a fact. Don’t you know the game? LOL!

You have a point.

No. I’m not calling anyone names. TB*gger was the proud name the misguided Tea Party members chose for themselves. Just keeping it real, D.

After you’re finished yawning, how about answering the question, D?

I watch a lot of news shows. What is your question? Whether Fox News is factual? Any news show can be wrong about something can’t they?

Unfortunately