The international community has let Madonna get away with a lot. Whether it be parading around stage in skin-tight leather at 51, naming her child Rocco, or managing to piss off the Vatican, Israel, and Puerto Rico on three seperate occassions. But last week, Madonna apparently lost an entire crowd in Romania when she started fighting for her new cause: eastern European Gypsies.

Madonna’s in-between-song banter at a concert in Bucharest was meant to draw attention to the plight of Romanian Gypsies. Instead it drew a heavy onslaught of boo’s from the crowd. All of which apparently hate Gypsies and their vagabond lifestyle.

While we won’t comment on our personal feelings towards Gypsies, the boo’s seem rather harsh. How can you buy tickets to a Madonna concert and NOT expect to have some over-the-top political psycho babble between “Like a Virgin” and “Material Girl”.  That’s like Bono doing an interview without mentioning eight charities he’s currently supporting or Angelina Jolie visiting a 3rd World country and not adopting a child. It is bound to happen.