Celebs Ignore Death, Poverty on MTV Enviro Series

CNS News ^ | 4-22-05 | Marc Morano

[SMARTY]

Just what we need, a bunch of over paid, half-educated, substance abusing, moral pygmies telling us how to live. Maybe the big bad US ought to keep its high tech, abundance marred assistance out of war torn and disaster devastated areas in future. Think so?

[AHerald]

Now this is comedy. Scrappleface and The Onion incarnate.

[somerville]

"I thought her career completely flushed with Tom Green's."

Maybe, but at least Green wrote a scathing memoir about Hollywood and Barrymore. He talked about how all the snobbish Hollywood guests at their wedding ignored all of his relatives because they weren't famous.

[dfwgator]

Diaz also criticized the lifestyles of many Americans after visiting an indigenous village in Chile. "It's kinda gotten out of hand how much convenience we think we need," she said.

This coming from the same network that gives us "MTV Cribs."

[Izzy Dunne]

"I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal. It was awesome."

[philsfan24]

i wonder if they would have went there if there were no cameras around. i doubt it.

[KneelBeforeZod]

ah recalls that urban legend about Mariah Carey seeing starving African children. She was misquoted (or it was totally made up) that she said "it would good be to be skinny but not with all those flies and stuff"

[frogjerk]

According to the environmental publication Grist Magazine, the MTV series "purchased carbon credits to offset pollution," which was generated as part of producing the series.

How does paying a tax offset pollution?

[Fintan]

"I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal. It was awesome."

 

I'm sincerely hoping she used Sumac leaves to tidy up afterwards.

[Daus]

If only we could cast Cameron Diaz in the final scenes... :)

[L98Fiero]

"She and her comrades seem to view third world people as quaint zoo specimens to preserve in their squalor and poverty so the "better and more beautiful" people may go and view them."

Dittos. Well said.

[HungarianGypsy]

I do think we should get more back to basics. But, not at the expense of our health. I write this on my computer with my dsl connection after taking a shower, loading the dishwasher, and putting a load of laundry in my washer.

[Maceman]

I've gone on a number of wilderness canoe trips and hikes where sanitation consisted of a roll of toilet paper and a trench shovel, or similarly luxurious facilities.

TOILET PAPER????!! You call that roughing it? You pampered woosie!

[Fintan]

How does paying a tax offset pollution?
 

It doesn't, but if you're one of the braindeads who watch MTV (or Drew Barrymore movies for that matter), you just nod in your marijuana haze and say "Like, wow...far out."

[HungarianGypsy]

I have gone to some of the Middle Ages war re-enactments for SCA. The one thing I always had a problem with was camping because I have this love of modern plumbing.

[texaslil]

"Tanzania..."

Wonderif the idiot Diaz noticed the Massi (sp?) tribesmen and their children? They're the tall lanky cattle herders there that live on mostly a liquid diet of milk and blood. Tetnus (lockjaw) is so rampant among them since they walk barefoot in manure that they knock out their childrens front teeth when they erupt in order they can still eat when they get lockjaw. Suffice it to say, few survive at that.

[KneelBeforeZod]

Barrymore, apparently enthralled by the lack of a modern sanitary facilities, gleefully bragged, "I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal. It was awesome."

Does a Barrymore sh-- in the woods?

[Drew68]

"My favorite thing about Bhutan is they measure their country's wealth, not based on dollar amount but on gross national happiness," Diaz said.

Now that's just funny!

There are far too many priceless quotes from Diaz to keep me laughing for hours. I never took her for an intellectual but, damn!

Here's another gem, "These people (Bhutan) have decided that keeping the cranes in their valley is more important than having the convenience of electricity,"

Electricity isn't really important when one does not posess any electrical appliances.

[dhs12345]

This is typical of the left.

I always snicker when I watch a PC Western, eg, Dances With Wolves. A wonderful production, but a little inaccurate. All of the Indians have perfect teeth, no disease, look well nourished. Heck, I wouldn't mind living that kind of life..... if it were real. But it isn't. Unfortunately, many Americans, including those in Hollywood, don't realize how difficult life could be. That same steak that they shun would be devoured in a second by these same people that they idealize.

Starvation, disease, many deaths of both baby and Mom during childbirth, short life expectancy, wars (think war is bad now?).

No thank you. I like my steak, my SUV, my teeth, and the possibility that I will live to 80 plus years when I might get Cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, heart disease.