Germans everywhere have united in their expressions of disgust and outrage about Madonna’s recent comparison of Republican presidential candidate John McCain to Adolf Hitler. Normally having very little good to say about the Nazi dictator, the nation nevertheless finds it abscheulich (abhorrent) and inakzeptabel (unacceptable) that he be compared to someone as yucky as John McCain.
“Like, what is that?” said one near-speechless German. “Everybody knows that Hitler was an unspeakable monster and megalomaniacal maniac with the blood of millions on his hands, but is that any reason to compare him to the wrong American presidential candidate? Especially when it’s one like, well, you know who. I refuse to even pronounce his name. I’m never going to another Madonna concert again.”
While opening her “Sticky and Sweet” concert tour in the UK, the 50-year-old pop princess, more sticky than sweet as of late, actually had “the cheek” to run a video sequence in which Hitler was provocatively placed along side the unspeakably old and horrid anti-Obama himself. “This is like so totally unfair,” said another seething German upon seeing the unbearable images. “Hitler’s dead and has absolutely no chance in hell to defend himself. And I mean that literally. That Madonna is a real bitch.”
But quite possibly predicting the outrage to come, Madonna then cleverly attempted to cool things back down a bit by following up the first video sequence with one placing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama next to other great world-leader-savior-types like John Lennon and Al Gore. And this seems to have done the trick.
“Well, she is an artist after all,” said another German after seeing the second video. “Albeit a bit old. And we don’t want to start restricting the freedom of speech just because she went a little overboard with her first clip. Then we’d have American conditions or something. Um, can I see that second video again?”
„Abscheulich und inakzeptabel. Ihre Musik, meine ich.“
