Madonna Channels Jesus

Here at HazZzMat, we generally refrain from following the script written for the media by the PR flacks who run the careers of today's current and former megastars in the entertainment world. Particularly when it comes to Madonna, whose overinflated ego competes with the likes of Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, and Bono to name a few entertainers who are filled to bursting with themselves.

But it's worth noting that the fading Madonna's current roadshow recycles the Piss Christ and Elephant Dung Virgin motifs in another increasingly tired attempt to get Christians in a rage in order to supply endless publicity for her increasingly puerile attempts to persuade audiences that she is still "cutting-edge" when it comes to torquing-off the always tiresome bourgeoisie.

In case you haven't read it somewhere by now, Madonna's current S&M-drenched roadshow achieves a pinnacle of bad taste when this latter-day religious scholar ascends a huge crucifix sparkling with mirrors. Displaying her stunning grasp of theological nuance and canon law, the aging pop-tart (according to the BBC) informed the New York Daily News that:

"I don't think Jesus would be mad at me and the message I'm trying to send..."

Of course. We should have known. Madonna was merely serving selflessly as a chic, contemporary stand-in for JC and the Apostolic All-Stars. The clue:

Images of poverty in the developing world were shown on video screens, while numbers ticked away to represent the 12 million African children orphaned by Aids.

"Jesus taught that we should love thy neighbour," Madonna told the newspaper.

Subject-verb agreement issues aside, you gotta love these condescending entertainment types like the, ah, Material Girl, who earn megabucks while pushing to make peons like us feel somehow responsible for causing the kind of poverty any one of them could remedy entirely by taking Jesus' advice, selling everything and giving it to the poor. Evidently, Madonna successfully purged her own residual Catholic guilt some time ago.

During her performance, Madonna encountered intellectual cognitive dissonance when she took every opportunity to revile George W. Bush, proving that she "loves" only some of her neighbors. Of course Bush, beyond doubt, along with the American middle class has obviously caused every bit of poverty in the "developing [sic] world." For this reason, W's massive infusion of American taxpayer money to combat AIDS in Africa was probably not worth mention as it conflicts with Madonna's story line. Islamofascists and African kleptocrats could not possibly be responsible for poverty, since they are "authentic" people, unlike ourselves. BTW, how much to the Saudis donate to battle AIDS in Africa? Or Robert Mugabe? Or the Iranians for that matter, when they were not busy designing special arm bands for Iranian Jews and Christians? Just a thought.

Madonna might have impressed more if she had done the Charleston upon a dance floor engraved with a cartoon image of the Prophet Mohammed. Now THAT would have been a real statement of principle, a real scandal, a gesture worthy of being called "daring and provocative." Although it might have made it more difficult for Madonna to retain her cadre of bodyguards on the payroll.

One of the great triumphs of the Stalinist left has been its ability, starting roughly around 1934 and continuing to this day, to convert seemingly the entire entertainment world into a machine promoting its flavor-of-the-month Socialist religion—one that sloppily combines Marxism with pure Euro-nihilism; and then to pass Hollywood's cadre of fourth-rate minds off as "intellectuals." For the most part, today's "stars" have become socialist automatons, reliable propagandists who thoughtlessly spew unadulterated socialist propaganda upon a populace whose intellect has been dumbed down relentlessly by socialist "educators." Repeated often enough and dramatically enough, entertainment propaganda somehow becomes the new "truth." Party discipline has never been stronger or more effective. Or more transparent.

But our fantasy of Madonna doing something genuinely controversial and courageous,like taking on a real evil like Islamofascism is, after all, just a fantasy. A more modest proposal might be for her to flush herself down a giant commode when she's out on tour promoting her next and final album, "Like a Has-Been." This would be a fitting and morally appropriate finale to one of the emptiest careers ever to flow out of the cheap and tawdry parallel seditionist universe that passes for the modern entertainment industry.