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	<title>Observer &#187; Madonna Sued By French Politician Marine Le Pen</title>
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		<title>Madonna Sued By French Politician Marine Le Pen</title>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://observer.com/2012/07/madonna-sued-by-french-politician-marine-le-pen/madonna-associe-marine-le-pen-et-hitler/" rel="attachment wp-att-252020"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-252020" title="Le Pen" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/madonna-associe-marine-le-pen-et-hitler.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="182" /></a>After a relatively tame, family-friendly, and well-regarded Super Bowl halftime show this winter, <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/madonna-faces-lawsuit-le-pen-swastika-349552">Madonna's grabbing for negative attention once more</a>. Her current tour's video sequence, featuring politicians including Sarah Palin (still?), Hu Jintao, and Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's National Front, has prompted a lawsuit from Ms. Le Pen. The politicians' faces are superimposed with swastikas, about which Ms. Le Pen had warned the pop singer: "If she does that in France, we'll be waiting for her.”</p>
<p>Though (or because) the National Front is anti-immigrant, Ms. Le Pen is a popular national figure in France; a fellow member of her party is quoted by the <em>Hollywood Reporter </em>saying: "Marine Le Pen is defending her own honor, but also that of the Front National’s members, its supporters and its millions of voters." Eagle-eyed Madonna watchers will recall that the singer was threatened with arrest by Canadian authorities in the documentary <em>Truth or Dare,</em> but chose to simulate masturbation onstage anyhow (she wasn't arrested). Can't hold this lady down!</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://observer.com/2012/07/madonna-sued-by-french-politician-marine-le-pen/madonna-associe-marine-le-pen-et-hitler/" rel="attachment wp-att-252020"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-252020" title="Le Pen" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/madonna-associe-marine-le-pen-et-hitler.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="182" /></a>After a relatively tame, family-friendly, and well-regarded Super Bowl halftime show this winter, <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/madonna-faces-lawsuit-le-pen-swastika-349552">Madonna's grabbing for negative attention once more</a>. Her current tour's video sequence, featuring politicians including Sarah Palin (still?), Hu Jintao, and Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's National Front, has prompted a lawsuit from Ms. Le Pen. The politicians' faces are superimposed with swastikas, about which Ms. Le Pen had warned the pop singer: "If she does that in France, we'll be waiting for her.”</p>
<p>Though (or because) the National Front is anti-immigrant, Ms. Le Pen is a popular national figure in France; a fellow member of her party is quoted by the <em>Hollywood Reporter </em>saying: "Marine Le Pen is defending her own honor, but also that of the Front National’s members, its supporters and its millions of voters." Eagle-eyed Madonna watchers will recall that the singer was threatened with arrest by Canadian authorities in the documentary <em>Truth or Dare,</em> but chose to simulate masturbation onstage anyhow (she wasn't arrested). Can't hold this lady down!</p>
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