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July 13, 2006

The Potemkin soul

Josh Trevino recounts - simply, clearly, devestatingly - what it is like to spend some quality time shepherding a Hollywood celeb, Ashley Judd, on her public charity rounds in South Africa.

I asked the YouthAIDS senior person whether maybe Ashley was a bit spoiled, and she told me the story of how Ashley refused to do their first promotional tour to Cambodia unless she was allowed to fly British Airways first class all the way. “That’s quite an expense for us as a humanitarian organization….but we ended up having to do it.”

A profound love for humanity, but no time for humans: the very picture of the narcissist celebrity leftist.

Read the whole thing.

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Posted by Darleen at July 13, 2006 09:35 PM

Comments

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Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at July 14, 2006 08:24 AM

What more would one expect from a southerner?

Posted by: Josh at July 14, 2006 10:25 AM

Josh,

Don't you mean, "What more would one expect from a Hollywoodite?" Because I'm a Southerner and I grew up in the South and live in the South. I've never known anyone who acted as spoiled and flaky as Ashley Judd. I think she would have done better to remember her good Southern manners rather than the bad ones she picked up in Hollywood.

Posted by: Susan B. at July 14, 2006 11:00 AM

If Josh Trevino's account is accurate, a rather doubtful proposition, Judd's personality seems like a combination of Southern ignorance and narrow-mindedness with a Hollywood sense of entitlement and self-absorption. An ugly combination.

Posted by: Josh at July 14, 2006 12:00 PM

Josh

Ashley was born in Granada Hills, CA. My old hometown.

Also, Kentucky has been the home of the Clicks for over 200 years. My mother had never been to the South until she and my dad went there ten years ago and my mom came away impressed with the graciousness and hospitality of my dad's family.

Ashley is more a product of the El-Lay elite mentality and its indulgences. Notice how no one challenges her. She has been so feted she lives her own press on her "humanitarianism".

Posted by: Darleen at July 14, 2006 12:49 PM

But she grew up in Kentucky, did she not? I'm sure your mother was impressed with her in-laws but anecdotes aren't data. Anyway, there are bad people everywhere, celebrities tend to be vapid, and it's typical of Trevino's frivolity that he would try to use it as a club against his political opponents.

Posted by: Josh at July 14, 2006 02:38 PM

Josh

You don't seem to understand the El-Lay celeb mentality. I grew up here. Those that actually work in the industry and keep their sanity and their "centeredness" are ones that come from middle-class backgrounds and struggled AND who treat acting as a job and career not as a LIFE.

I thought it was a telling vignette of what is a common trait among leftist celeb "humanitarians". It's FACE time on someone else's dime. The truly helpful are few and far between only because they don't think THEY are the best thing evah to happen to Charity X.

Contrast her to Sandra Bullock.

Posted by: Darleen at July 14, 2006 05:40 PM