And everybody seems to care! So Madge's disembodied head hovered into Harpo's Chicago studios yesterday to defend herself against cynics that say she bought her way around Malawi's supposedly complex adoption process (saying "there are no adoption laws in Malawi"), and that she strong-armed the boy's father into giving up her son, telling Oprah that "I looked into that man's eyes ... I believe that the press is manipulating this information out of him." Read the transcript here.
Did ya click? You burning to know? Why do people give a fuck?! Really, that's what we need to know. We're not fascinated with her adoption saga, but we're totally fascinated by the fascination. Just what is so interesting about a pop icon flying to another continent to extend her family while donating money to build orphanages and enraging litigious human rights groups? People gotta have more interesting shit to think about than this, right?
