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Madonna and the children - Michelle Malkin
TownHall.com ^ | 9/05/03 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 09/04/2003 11:01:49 PM PDT by kattracks

The open-mouthed kisses between aging pop star Madonna and 15th-minute celebrity clingers Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, broadcast on MTV last week, received widespread media attention. The Sapphic spectacle was rightly condemned as vulgar, cynical, and desperately pathetic.

But the commentariat missed the real horror.

Up on stage for the raunchy performance of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" was 6-year-old Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon. Little Lourdes was dressed in First Communion white, decked out in lace gloves, a crucifix, and a studded belt with the words "BOY TOY." Paving the way for the entrance of Madonna and her entourage of sexual exhibitionists, Lourdes tossed flower petals on the dance floor while a mosh pit of fans writhed in front of her and the porno soundtrack throbbed behind her.

Lourdes is Madonna's firstborn child.

What kind of craven, twisted mother enlists her own daughter in such a shameless public orgy? And what about the other grownups in this damaged child's life? Lourdes' father, an ex-boyfriend and former personal trainer, was nowhere to be seen. Lourdes' stepfather, director Guy Ritchie, sat in the audience and apparently approved of his wife's reckless abuse of childhood innocence. He did nothing to rescue Lourdes from the sewer of immorality onstage.

No, Mr. Ritchie sat and gawked with the rest of the world as his wife, gussied up in the latest dominatrix chic, slithered up and down the bodies of two young nymphets old enough to be her daughters (and in so many ways, of course, Britney and Christina are Madonna's creative spawn). So caught up in the performance was Mr. Ritchie that he made no effort to rush backstage to make sure his wife's real daughter's eyes and ears were covered while Mummy tongue-wrestled the two pop vixens.

Over the past few years, the entertainment press has worked slavishly to assist in the rehabilitation of Madonna's image. A fawning People magazine cover story four months ago bore the headline: "Madonna's Real Life: Once a naughty Material Girl, the pop icon has turned into a doting mom and devoted wife." Friends and "spiritual advisers" praised the foul-mouthed, bear-all celebrity for adopting a "laid-back domestic life" focused on motherhood. "Our whole life is based around the children," she boasted of Lourdes and Rocco, her 2-year-old son with Ritchie. "We get up with them in the morning. I get my daughter ready for school. I spend time with my son before he goes off to his daycare. Either Guy or I am always with them at dinner, and we spend evenings together."

"She's definitely a hands-on mother," choreographer James King said. A regular June Cleaver with those hands. "We'd be in the middle of rehearsal on the Drowned World tour and, say, in the middle of doing 'Holiday,' Lourdes would come in and Madonna would stop everything and ask what kind of day she had at school."

Madonna has yet to receive a Mother of the Year award, but corporate pimps looking to cash in on what's left of her fame have come up with something even more outrageous. Next week, she'll launch a line of children's books -- five "morality tales" -- to be hawked on Amazon.com, at GapKids stores, in more than 30 languages and in more than 100 countries. Explaining her noble motive for delving into kiddie lit, she condemned the "vapid and vacant" stories she was reading to her children. "There were, like, no lessons. . . . There's, like, no books about anything."

Uh-huh. Madonna shares the frustrations of normal parents like you and me who are worried about our nihilistic world going to hell in a handbasket. Reacting to lowered standards of decency on television last year, she indignantly exclaimed, "People have no morals, I swear to God."

By purchasing children's tales authored by a freak of Hollyweird willing to employ her own daughter in her obscene and insatiable quest for buzz, the people will prove her right.

©2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

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1 posted on 09/04/2003 11:01:50 PM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
So very true. I didn't see it. I'm glad I didn't and infuriated that a 6 year old child did.
2 posted on 09/04/2003 11:10:52 PM PDT by kimmie7 (Stand up, stand up for Jesus ye soldiers of the Cross! Pray for Terri Schiavo!)
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To: kattracks
I'm glad I missed that freakshow.
3 posted on 09/04/2003 11:12:53 PM PDT by shekkian
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To: kattracks
I don't know about the rest but Michelle loses credibility when she calls Britney a "15th minute celebrity clinger." I am not very familiar with Britney's work and I don't care for what I've seen and heard, but Britney is a phenomenally successful brand in an intensely competitive business. Recorded music, film, books, concerts, videos, dolls, posters, product endorsements, etc. Britney ain't clinging to sheeeeit and she's not going away in a minute either. Somebody is obviously on the ball here as regards Britney Inc.
4 posted on 09/04/2003 11:24:43 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: kattracks
Madonna's daughter: Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, or all three?
5 posted on 09/04/2003 11:54:46 PM PDT by A.J.Armitage
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To: rogue yam
Considering that Britney's main fans (AFAIK) are preteen and young teen girls, I think that Malkin is saying that people aren't going to be listen to Britney's music in, say five years or more. Or even less. A hyped up marketing phenom that gets by on skin isn't that same as serious talent.
6 posted on 09/04/2003 11:59:29 PM PDT by First Amendment
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To: kattracks
I really thought Madonna had changed. She seemed to be pursuing a more spiritual path. She renounced her former materialism. Said she regretted some things in her past. I thought her shock-jock days were over. Then the kiss. The repulsive (there's no other word for it) kiss.* I'll never be fooled by her again.

Can we believe ANYTHING that celebrities say? Britney said for years that she was a virgin. I foolishly believed her. What is wrong with me?

*I actually turned off the MTV video awards show at that point. I had been forewarned about the kiss by FReepers, and when it came to the point when I knew the kiss was about to happen, I didn't watch it. Unfortunately, advance warning by FReepers meant that I had seen a photo of the kiss, and it really was repulsive. So, I figured if I was too repulsed to watch the kiss, the rest of the show would probably be more of the same. So I turned it off. This was the first year I didn't watch the whole show.

7 posted on 09/05/2003 12:34:41 AM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: kattracks
"She's definitely a hands-on mother," choreographer James King said. A regular June Cleaver with those hands. "We'd be in the middle of rehearsal on the Drowned World tour and, say, in the middle of doing 'Holiday,' Lourdes would come in and Madonna would stop everything and ask what kind of day she had at school."

Wow. That is like, so totally awesome. I mean, who would've thought of doing that? That kind of parental dedication is so cool. I wonder if she's going to be giving parenting lessons? I'd like to learn from her, really I would. Where can I sign up?

8 posted on 09/05/2003 1:03:32 AM PDT by Luke Skyfreeper
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To: rogue yam
Spears is already at T minus 13:55. The fact that she was engaging in something so theatrical as sucking face with the old crone Madonna speaks of her desperation. After much hard work at "tarting" herself up over the past year or so Aguilera finally took the lead in the competition between herself and Spears. She accomplished this by doing everything but a stint in the redlight district of Amsterdam.
Somewhere, right now, some fourteen year old is shaking her "moneymaker" in front of a mirror finalizing her plans to depose the Grande Dames of Pop Music, Britney and Christina.
9 posted on 09/05/2003 1:10:11 AM PDT by thegreatbeast (Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
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To: rogue yam
Somebody is obviously on the ball here as regards Britney Inc.

That may be true about Britney the corporation, but Britney the person is an airhead who is losing her youthful good looks.

10 posted on 09/05/2003 1:11:58 AM PDT by Moonman62
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To: rogue yam; pram
Michelle loses credibility when she calls Britney a "15th minute celebrity clinger."

OK, 30 minutes max. Her image and her business has tanked. She's a lot closer to "Britney who?" than to "Britney, pop icon." Her 10-yr-old fans are now 16 and not interested (in her or Madonna.) The kiss may have bought her another 5 minutes, but has she even done anything in the past 3 years? (If she did, I missed it, which is fine by me.)

11 posted on 09/05/2003 1:16:58 AM PDT by Gil4
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To: kattracks
Not that I'm a Madonna fan, but I guess Michelle didn't see the Madonna video of which the MTV performance was a reprisal or understand that the point of the video was that people go to Hollywood looking to become a star and end up prostituting themselves to secure the favor of the powerbrokers. I happened to see the video while on work assignment this summer in a place that had cable. Those who haven't done their homework portray the MTV spot as "Madonna promoting an orgy of lust." Either they weren't aware or they found that characterizing it as such promoted their own agenda.
12 posted on 09/05/2003 1:23:31 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: kimmie7
I saw the pictures in the newspaper, a 5" x 8" spread of Demonic and Britny playing tongue hockey.

Quite clear and quite sickening.

Doesnt anyone blush anymore?
13 posted on 09/05/2003 2:59:37 AM PDT by RaceBannon
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To: kattracks
gussied up in the latest dominatrix chic, slithered up and down the bodies of two young nymphets old enough to be her daughters

Oh, that is rich! I didn't know Michelle Malkin had it in her. Meooooowwwwww!

14 posted on 09/05/2003 4:44:41 AM PDT by shhrubbery!
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To: aruanan
Not that I'm a Madonna fan, but I guess Michelle didn't see the Madonna video of which the MTV performance was a reprisal or understand that the point of the video was that people go to Hollywood looking to become a star and end up prostituting themselves to secure the favor of the powerbrokers. I happened to see the video while on work assignment this summer in a place that had cable. Those who haven't done their homework portray the MTV spot as "Madonna promoting an orgy of lust." Either they weren't aware or they found that characterizing it as such promoted their own agenda.

So kissing on the stage with another chick was fine as long as it was part of the story? Bull.

It was meant to shock. It was meant to raise interest back into the Madonna suck fest.

Am I to assume that Madonna will kiss some chick everytime this song is sung on stage? I wont hold my breath. It was aimed at the large audience that was watching the awards show not for artistic integrity.

15 posted on 09/05/2003 4:56:27 AM PDT by smith288 ("The key to our success will be your execution." -Scott Adams)
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To: kattracks
Over the past few years, the entertainment press has worked slavishly to assist in the rehabilitation of Madonna's image

They're going to have to find, buy up and burn all existing copies of "Sex", then, aren't they?

Yes, Lourdes and Rocco; once upon a time, before Mommie wrote childrens' stories with "lessons" in them, Mommie wrote a biiiiig big book all about her box...

16 posted on 09/05/2003 4:56:46 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: kattracks
I was on the mall in DC last night for the regular NFL season kick off concert. The first thing I notices when Britney came on stage was the noticeable lake of any musicians anywhere to be seen. In a short time it became quite obvious that the performance was being lip-synced. Years ago an entertainer would be laughed off the stage for such a thing.

She danced around and eventually tore off most of her clothes, which I appreciated as a welcome distraction from the God-awful pre-recorded noise passed off as music.

Thankfully she got of the stage and the veterans Arrowsmith were able to put on a demonstration to the youngsters many of whom were probably viewing actual musical instruments for the first time.

It’s our own fault I suppose. Why should the kids have be able to judge good music from cra* when we have cut music education out of school in favor of social engineering.

You can correlate the decline of music education funding with the decline of music in general. It first produced insidious disco and has now resulted in rap. Well I guess that’s the best they can do, after all they don’t know how to play instruments.

Bring back music education PLEASE. Do it for the children, do it for humanity. Do it for my ears.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

17 posted on 09/05/2003 6:21:45 AM PDT by usurper
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To: kattracks
MAÎTRE D:
Ah, good afternoon, sir, and how are we today?
MR. CREOSOTE:
Better.
MAÎTRE D:
Better?
MR. CREOSOTE:
Better get a bucket. I'm going to throw up.

Malkin is a great writer and I bet a better mom than the Material Girl.
18 posted on 09/05/2003 6:29:04 AM PDT by TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa (Foe Hammer!)
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To: kattracks
Michelle hits it out of the park-AGAIN!

And the other little girl with Lourdes was Madonna's former lovers child by way of Ingird Caseras

19 posted on 09/05/2003 6:31:08 AM PDT by meg70
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To: rogue yam
Malkin writes a dead-on article about the (continuing) decline in entertainment and media and you find that she called Britney a 15 minute superstar the more offensive thing?

Yeesh.

20 posted on 09/05/2003 6:37:38 AM PDT by Sam's Army
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