Madonna should focus on music and leave the politics to the political machine. The '80s are gone and with them, her ability to stimulate and provocate has long passed.

Her McCain/Hitler stunt on her Sticky & Sweet Tour in Wales where her stage video programming portrays John McCain as Hitler just shows how irrelevant her opinion has become and out of touch she is. She's trying to go back to the scandal well that dried up for her many years ago.

Sure, when she effigies herself on a mirrored disco cross, good Christian people in small town America are going to cast stones, and if it's a slow news week, you'll get an evangelist or two condemning her to the gates of hell for blasphemy. But seriously, the disco cross is pretty lame when it comes to bastardizing the crucifix.

Let me state plainly that I don't think any of the current candidates are Hitler.

But, if any of the two candidate were going to be compared to Hitler, I think Obama would be the better comparison. I'm not talking about the old, murderous, deranged old Hitler. I'm talking the the young idealistic, propagandist Hitler. There's a slight difference. It's kind of like comparing the young, svelte Elvis and the old, fat Elvis.

The Hitler that Obama most resembles is the Hitler who wanted to do great things for Germany -- a Germany which, before his rise to power, had gone through war, had a bad economy and was in a generalized, low-level state of turmoil.

You can send hate mail if you want. I am not saying Obama is Hitler. I'm just saying Madonna's McCain/Hitler comparison is also silly and irrelevant. And who knows, there may have been some "Change" and "Hope" signs at the Beer Hall Putsch.

Madonna's music and live shows are still very much relevant and if she focuses in that area, she could still be touring and in demand at 60. But only if she focuses on the music. Well, if she focuses on the music and stops wearing underwear and top hats on stage.

It is the music, after all, in her own words that "makes the people come together."

More is not always better.

In the ever-devolving battle for OSCAR® coverage dominance, media outlets are throwing more hours toward the event.

In the most ridiculous attempt, E! started their coverage at 9AM (PST). This pre-red carpet show ran for six hours until the less disastrous E! red carpet show started with Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancid.

The E! pre-red carpet show was called the "Countdown to the Red Carpet." With this show spanning six torturous hours, E! would have done much better by running six hours of infomercials for The Magic Bullet, the ThunderStick Pro and Time Life's Beautiful Worship.
There were no name hosts and guests sharing no real insight if any significance.

Two poorly dressed women picked Valentino's Top 5 Oscar gowns in honor of his retirement. They picked all one-strap dresses in an obvious bias to try and fit in with a fictional trend Ted Casablanca is trying to shove down our throats.

Stuckey & Murray who one of the E! hosts called "very talented" gave insight into the nominees in top categories by spoofing a song from "Juno." Once wouldn't have been so bad, but they used the same song to spoof so it was the same song with different sets of spoofed lyrics. Really? Couldn't have picked a few other songs to spoof? No let's just do the same song over and over with different lyrics while dressed like a character from "Juno."

The E! True Hollywood Story Spoof on the doll from "Lars & the Real Girl" was inspired and in the attempt to try and find something positive about the day, I'll even forgive the way it dragged on -- a 90 second piece would have been perfect.

The "Live From the Red Carpet Show" with Seacrest and Rancid seemed great in comparison to the "Countdown" show. Maybe that was the E! strategy -- comatize the audience for six hours and then bring in the big guns.

Except for setting up Jennifer Gardner by purposefully unleashing Gary Busey on her, Seacrest wasn't so bad. He noted the red carpet was actually a colour of "Duckhorn Merlot." Rancid was typical although I didn't understand why she started the show with an interview of Federline's lawyer regarding Britney's visitation rights.

The absolutely worse part of the day, even worse than Richard Roeper on ABC's aspirationally named "An Evening at the Academy Awards," was Kimora Lee Simmons.

Kimora is very unfabulous and has no business commenting on fashion. Baby Phat a fashion expert does not make and a tired reality series doesn't mean America is waiting for her commentary.

She is slamming fashion choices of real stars when she's standing there wearing a chiffon drape with way too much, disproportionate jewelry. She claimed she was wearing the "most expensive hairpiece ever made." I'm sure Tyra Banks or Howard Cosell spends more than that for their hair pieces and as far as the head jewelry implication of her term "hairpiece," I'm sure the Queen of England's crown is worth more than $1-million.

And she's going to be on again tomorrow rehashing her obvious lack of fashion sense.

There's always next year.