A Taste of Your Own Medicine:
While in South Africa, I meant to comment on how Madonna decried public reaction to her opposition of the war in Iraq. Seeing Reid Scott mention that Susan Sarandon was also whining -about a similar response to her anti-war campaigning - jogged my memory. Speaking about the outrage expressed at the original version of her American Life music video, Madonna said:
“You know, it’s ironic that we were fighting for democracy in Iraq because we ultimately aren’t celebrating democracy here. Anybody who has anything to say against the war or against the president or whatever is punished, and that’s not democracy, it’s people being intolerant. And everyone is entitled to their opinion for or against. That’s what our constitutional rights are supposed to be, that we all have freedoms to express ourselves and to voice our dissent if we have that.”
What kind of naive, self-contradicting, air-headed perspective is that? Seeing that her response defies her argument, i.e. “everyone is entitled to their opinion for or against”, it’s obvious that she knows the words, but doesn’t quite understand them. She thinks democracy means: ‘everyone is entitled to their own opinion for or against, so long as it doesn’t hurt her album sales’.
