[Dr. Eckleburg]

If you think for one minute AJ slept as the poverty-stricken, AIDS-infected Africans sleep, you know nothing about location shoots.

Her trailer was 20 feet from every photo op.

Do you think the film crews who shot her in Africa "roughed it"?

Do you think their cameras were generated by mice on turn wheels or pixie dust?

Africa is dying and the rest of the world sits back and thinks AJ will solve the problem. God forgive us.

[voltaires_zit]

> Her trailer was 20 feet from every photo op.

She insisted on covering all costs related to her missions and shared the same rudimentary working and living conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of her visits.

http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/news/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=3b85044b10

The UN workers don't have trailers, air conditioners, etc.

So, no, she wasn't as bad off as the Africans (or Iraqi refugees, or any of the many groups she's been with), but she wasn't just doing a typical "photo op", either.

> Africa is dying and the rest of the world sits back and
> thinks AJ will solve the problem.

Nobody said that. I only jumped on here because I came across a typically narrow minded, mean spirited, BS filled diatribe against her that implied she's done nothing.

For an individual, she's done quite a lot.

[ishabibble]

Well, I'm about done on the subject of this woman. I really resent the fact that the sheeple ooh and aah over her and don't bother to learn the facts. Cambodia no longer allows their orphans to be adopted because of the AJ/Maddox adoption. Childless couples who've waited years, who had to look into international adoption because they had no choice are now closed out of the Cambodian orphanages. But then again, they are just the peons, so who cares?

Here's just one more. How long is a plane trip to Africa?
To Vietnam? To Haiti? She drags these kids all over the world for her photo ops, why isn't that considered child abuse? A 4 yr. old and a 2 yr. old on a 14 hr. plane ride. Constantly. Yep, that's some real great mothering right there! Now she's got a 5 month old infant, and and and! is already looking around for another kid to show off in front of the cameras with...she's a stone mental case and the stupid people everywhere don't even question it.