Madonna flirts with controversy and McCain

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
Madonna has always reveled in controversy and with the recent launch of her concert tour,
"Sticky & Sweet," the 50-year-old pop star has kicked up a new fuss
by comparing John McCain to Adolf Hitler in a video.

The dust-up is the latest in a career of risky moves that have paid off handsomely for Madonna,
whose tours and albums have long mixed music with politics, sex and religion.

As her world tour opened in Cardiff, Wales, over the weekend,
Madonna showed a video montage juxtaposing images of Hitler with McCain,
the Republican senator from Arizona running for president against
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama.
The Democrats on Monday launched their nominating convention.


McCain's campaign blasted Madonna with a campaign spokesman telling
media organizations that the video was "outrageous, unacceptable and crudely divisive."