(reprinted from MSN Entertainment)
PARIS (AP) — 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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That’s just Madonna trying to stay relevent. It’s just boring and a little annoying now. When the music fails to capture enough attention because your new album sucks (see Madonna’s Album a Failure–Chris Brown Got All the Good Songs: http://music.ninemsn.com.au/blog.aspx?blogentryid=1013792&showcomments=true) you resort to your old bag of tricks: using the most provocative, controversial and offensive symbolism possible to catch headlines. Since the Catholic Church doesn’t get worked up anymore about Madonna (mis)using crosses, well, the swastika still has some mileage in it, right? This was no unwitting accident of course. It put her name and face on news sources and, hence, in front of music fans, as her latest record plummets down the charts.
Anyone’s fair game to take a cheap shot in the interest of furthering the career of a woman desperate to stay on top long past her prime. Madonna is the female Mike Tyson.
Every Moment Has A Song 