A Letter To Bartcop-

Recently I made the foolish move of expressing my opinion about Madonna to online pundit Bartcop.


It's pretty useless to take this any further, but in my reply email I'm just going to send him the third paragraph below. If it still doesn't make sense to him then, I think it's a lost cause. It's like he thinks I'm either for Madonna or against her, and if I'm against her, I must be defending the media. Whatever!
I've put the whole letter below, just so my ranting and raving will offend both my readers!
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Bart-
Ouch. I made it into my own shame page.


I suppose I'll never sway you from your defending Madonna's right to steal a guys baby, `just because he happens to be dirt poor. Wow, did I say that?
Such heavy handed rhetoric seems appropriate, since with no futher evidence than I have, you've concluded that I somehow support the media in it's quest to "steal the baby's future" or whatever.
The conduct of the media in America is mostly un-acceptable. Period. I'd never imply otherwise.

I was only pointing out that Madonna is a person of questionable ethics in the first place and to believe her "chapter and verse" only on faith is a little hard for me, since she self-admittedly "slept her way to the top" (good for her!). I, for one, think her and her Guy are under no more scrutiny than if anyone else did a similar stunt.

We have laws to keep adoption safe. It’s never as easy as, "who can give the child a better or richer life". Real, legal adoption takes time. Not because the government wants to put adoptive parents through hell, but because the reasons some people have for adoption are less than wholesome. You can’t just give kids away based on the adoptive parents ability to pay for them. You also can’t be sure that wealth will benefit children in the way we want it to. No one can doubt Madonnas ability to pay the childs way, but has anyone from any childcare system evaluated Madonnas reasons for doing this, or is it just a case of stardom opens doors that are closed to everyone else? ( my friend in child protective services would be so proud of me for remembering all this.)

If Madonna wanted to please me? She would have adopted a "real orphan" missing both parents from somewhere like New Orleans. Then any "future" that gets "stolen" from some kid would at least be an American kid. In fact, I see Madonna as the essence of the "too hip" person that you try to paint the "Oprah Haters" out to be. She's globe trotting, new money, who can't bestow herself fast enough on some poor country in order to drum up whatever hype she's after, or save the world. Then she runs as fast as she can to said Oprah to say smirky things like "I knew people would cynical, but Oh- my-". Oh Please!

If we're all so down on the monkey boy for always smirking (and we are), check out Madonna on Oprah. What a fucking smirk. ( I'm just calling it as I see it BTW.)
If Madonna wants to impress me? Take a stand on the Iraq war, not some obviously poverty stricken country. It would be so much easier to help the entire country, and all the kids there, if someone like Madonna put her clout behind an anti-war message, in order to oust the current regime here at home. But since the Dixie Chicks have already proven that it costs real dollars to take a stand here at home, Madonna must go around the world the make her stand (or to save a child I might add !).

No Bart- if it looks, smells, walks, and talks like a cheap stunt, it probably is. If your blind hatred of the media stops you from seeing that, I'm sorry.

BESIDES- if it's your way: Madonna goes adopts a kid with big stars in her eyes, but fails to check out the details (like he has a Father!)- Then we’ve just proven she's an idiot.My way: at least I'm giving her credit for being smart enough to know what she's doing, and to use it in a mult-level media attack to get her point across, help a kid, sell herself, and get what she wants in the process (an adopted baby). The media steps and fetches for Madonna and always has. To think that the media is now treating her any way other than the way she wants to be treated, seems a little naive. After all- rather than stay at home raising baby, she's out on the talk show circuit telling everyone how great she is. POOR MADONNA! (Pity party here)

Still your friend,
the grand wazoo