that madge is at it again! and everyone gets their name in the papers...........

France's far-right National Front said Sunday that it plans to sue Madonna after the singer showed a video at a Paris concert that contained an image of the party's leader with a swastika on her forehead.

The video has been shown at other concerts on the singer's tour, and the party has expressed its outrage before, warning that it would take action if the video were shown in France. On Saturday night, Madonna played it at the Stade de France.

National Front spokesman Alain Vizier said Sunday that the party would file a complaint in French court next week for "insults."

Party leader Marine Le Pen is briefly pictured in the video during a montage in which famous faces — or parts of faces — morph one into the next. Soon after Le Pen's face flashes up, Madonna's face follows with Hitler's mustache.

Le Pen, who inherited control of the party from her father, Jean-Marie, has tried to shed the National Front's image as racist and anti-Semitic, especially during her recent failed bid for president. But she has maintained a hard line on immigrants, saying France has too many and criticizing many Muslims, in particular, for insufficiently assimilating into French culture.

Meanwhile, anti-racism group SOS Racisme expressed its support for Madonna on Sunday, commending her for her "resolutely anti-racist and feminist discourse."


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  • I agree with many of your assessments of Madonna, but STILL it takes guts to confront racism and chauvinism. I doubt that any of us on this blog have done as much to heighten awareness of the need for social justice.
    rjzip 07/18/2012 11:16 AM
  • Ya know, when it's over, it's over....move on....if she really had talent, at this stage in her career, she'd give up the silly antics and prove she's a good singer. Personally, I find her a talentless waste of time. In fact, music, in general, died in the '80's. No one makes "music" today...just noise and crap.
    kelleysiland 07/17/2012 01:58 AM
  • Heh. Looks like she's getting more and more desperate for attention lately.. Kissing Britney on TV, flashing her nipples at a concert in Turkey, now this..
    Or maybe that's what it takes to survive and keep your name in the media these days.. Sex Tapes, braindead lyrics, scandals, outrageous costumes, cheap controversy..
    aliencubby 07/16/2012 08:36 AM
  • Madonna is a pathetic imitation of a performer... can't believe people pay good money after such crap as I have seen and heard from that individual.

    C'est la vie! Everyone to their own, I guess...
    everysooften 07/15/2012 07:46 PM