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THE HYPOCRISY OF CELEBRITY ENVIRONMENTALISTS
National Post ^ | 2007-08-04 | David Frum

Posted on 08/06/2007 5:53:57 AM PDT by Clive

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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; LucyT; ..

Nothing new — Gwyneth Paltry moved to London in part because she was called on her hypocrisy.


21 posted on 08/06/2007 8:23:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, August 6, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: ClaireSolt
I don’t think this hypocrisy argument gets us very far. ... We would do better to illustrate that they are a bunch of communist inspired totalitarian leaning busybodies who don’t know what they are talking about.

Somewhere between the 50's and the 90's, our celebrity obsessed culture started placing more value on what a hollywood star had to say about a given cause then people who had spent their life working on that issue in the private or public sector. I still often wonder how this happened, but it did. The enviromental cause is the current celebrity fad of the moment to get them more face time, more publicity, more movie offers from their groupthink peers, and helps to inflate their opinion of themselves even higher. This can all be seen when they trip over themselves to rush up to the podium of yet another-self-congratulating-award show to spout off their latest allegience to the enviromental cause.

Thankfully, this rush to go "green" is also leading to the public reevaluating celebrities in general. Their over the top hypocrisy on environmentalism is the key to waking up the masses. People are just now beginning to realize that celebrities really should shut up and sing, and that they are the last people that we want to listen to when it comes to guiding our nation. This is important as it will help to shut down a very successful propaganda channel that the totalitarian busybodies have used on the public in the last few decades to manipulate public opinion. An avalanche of information exposing their hypocrisy on their push to convert us to being "green", will lead to the public being less trusting of their celebrity icons, which is a good thing.
22 posted on 08/06/2007 10:29:14 AM PDT by Gen-X-Dad
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To: torchthemummy

crow is dumber than dumb, and is, in my opinion, one of those celebrities who must have made a deal with, or slept around with a music mogul or something, as she has no discernable talent, any more than say, any one-hit wonder you’ve ever seen profiled on VH-1. What a mediocrity. On top of that, ol’ “one-square” is telling us how to live our lives and fight “global warming”.


23 posted on 08/06/2007 11:13:29 AM PDT by RedCobra
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To: SunkenCiv

“Gwyneth Paltry moved to London in part because she was called on her hypocrisy.”

What were those circumstances?


24 posted on 08/06/2007 1:19:11 PM PDT by ILBBACH
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To: RedCobra

I wonder if “One Square” is using disposable diapers and only ONE baby wipe per stinky diaper..


25 posted on 08/06/2007 1:22:18 PM PDT by pnz1 (Pray for baby Ethan)
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To: gridlock
But is it really true that environmentalism precludes materialism, narcissism and superficiality?

No. Environmentalism IS a symptom of narcissism.

26 posted on 08/06/2007 1:24:36 PM PDT by Red Boots
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To: gridlock
But is it really true that environmentalism precludes materialism, narcissism and superficiality?

No. Environmentalism IS a symptom of narcissism.

27 posted on 08/06/2007 1:24:44 PM PDT by Red Boots
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To: RedCobra
crow is dumber than dumb,

Sheryl Crow and Laurie David have become joined at the hip recently in their anti-global warming crusade, and I doubt that between the two of them, their IQs add up to double digits. For some reason, Laurie David seems to think that she is brilliant enough to tell everyone else in the world how to live, and yet what are her personal accomplishments? She married a comedian who happened to go on to help create "Seinfeld," which made him $250 mil in syndication sales, and another chunk of change for "Curb Your Enthusiasm." Thanks to California's community property laws, she's able to slice off half of that money she had nothing to do with earning and use it to finance Al Gore's pathetic attempts to make his messiah complex a reality. But again, what has Laurie David herself ever DONE that was not completely dependent upon a pile of money supplied by her husband, who probably secretly wished the entire time that she'd just shut up and order the cook to make dinner?

BTW, on a related topic, has anyone seen the reality show that followed Ed Begley Jr? He's one non-hypocrite celebrity who really does live like a monk. What was hilarious is how much his wife hates it. While he's lecturing everyone about composting or reusing coffee filters 20 times, she's grousing about those &$)@^&% dim fluorescent light bulbs that make her face look green so it's impossible to get her makeup looking right. It seems that non-hypocrite celebrities might be just as annoying as hypocrite celebrities.

28 posted on 08/06/2007 2:09:54 PM PDT by HHFi
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To: Clive

the little stalins will eat well while the rest of us scrounge for scraps from their table.

mr. marx was right, but he got the heirarchy wrong; the liberals/communists/progressives (whatever they call themselves) will be the swastika-wearing bullies. (and the “american electorate” will swallow the whole magilla, hook, line and sinker.)


29 posted on 08/06/2007 2:10:23 PM PDT by ripley
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To: ILBBACH

If memory serves, she was one of the celebrities who put their name to a full-page ad scolding the world for not doing something about emissions / US not ratifying Kyoto / etc, meanwhile she had as her personal vehicle an SUV.


30 posted on 08/06/2007 3:16:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, August 6, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Clive

Thanks for the ping.


31 posted on 08/06/2007 9:20:08 PM PDT by GOPJ
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To: Gen-X-Dad

The media really only covers a small slice of life and seeks to make themselves the star of every show. When history writes the story of our time it will reveal that the real movers and shakers in the advancement of science and industry were people we have never heard of.


32 posted on 08/07/2007 12:55:28 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: Clive
Fuel consumption for electricity production is the largest single source of carbon emissions in the United States.

You may wonder: How does a Los Angeles resident like Mrs. David travel between her west coast home and her new east coast summer place? Answer: She charters a Gulfstream jet.

Environmental journalist Gregg Easterbrook calculates that a midsized Gulfstream G200 burns as much fuel on one transcontinental flight as a Hummer monster SUV consumes in an entire year.

Larry David's too smart to be married to this idiot woman - and too authentic.

Good riddance to the puff ...

33 posted on 08/08/2007 8:17:58 AM PDT by GOPJ
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