How tired are you of being lectured by celebrities to “go green”?

In the kind of in-your-face article that you can really only get from the British press, the Daily Mail publishes an article dubbing these celebrities “hippy-crites.” They single out several celebrities for the environmental hypocrisy with John Travolta getting a special mention for his solo trans-Atlantic travel in his 707. Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Madonna also merit special attention, but the list certainly doesn’t end with them either.

Especially in this day of instant information, it still shocks me when celebrities act like we can’t see that as they tell us to take shorter showers, use less toilet paper and make all sorts of other sacrifices in our lives; they’re living in houses many times larger than their family will ever need, jetting around the world on exotic vacations, and generally living lifestyles that make whatever sacrifices we make irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

As far as I’m concerned, they made the money and they’re entitled to whatever lifestyle they can afford. But they need to get off their high horses when it comes to telling me that I’m not doing enough to “save the environment.”

As Glenn Reynolds of InstaPundit says, “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people telling me it is start acting like it.”

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Madonna’s taped appearance on Oprah aired yesterday and quite frankly, there was so much smoke in the air that I was looking for the fire.

The reason, of course, that she was on the show was to discuss her recent adoption of a 13-month old boy from Malawi and the controversy that has surrounded it.

A couple of the most priceless moments:

- “What really surprises me is how great my children are with him and how he’s transitioned so easily from living in Africa in an orphanage to living in our house.” First, he’s 13-months old, what sort of problems did you expect in his “transition?” At that age, no child is cognizant of pretty much anything other than does he have enough food, a place to sleep, and someone to change his diapers. Second, he’s been there for what 24-48 hours? To her children, the new baby is still a “new toy.” She has no idea how her children will respond once the concept sinks in that he’s not going away. They may handle it well, they may not. But there’s no way to make that judgment call literally within hours of his arrival. 

- “If only my wealth and my position could have made things go faster,” Faster? Are you kidding me? She tosses a few million dollars around, they line up some kids for her, she points one out and hops back on a plane to London while her entourage sticks around to actually pick him up and bring him to her. Meanwhile, everybody else who wants to adopt in Malawi has to live in the country for 18 months.

This is the absolute height of celebrity hubris. The reason that so many are angry about this situation is that only a Madonna sycophant would claim that she did anything but simply buy herself a baby. When laws are bent to breaking and millions of dollars are exchanged, it’s plainly obvious to even the mildly retarded that - but for her wealth and position - this would never have happened at all. Whether or not what she did is morally reprehensible is not even what I’m talking about. The whopper to me is that she is lying about it with a straight face and flabbergasted that people won’t believe her over their own lying eyes. I’d have more respect for her if she just came out and said, “Yeah, I threw some cash around and got what I wanted. If you don’t like it, too bad because it’s none of your business.”

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For the last quarter-century or so Madonna has made a fortune from generating controversy by tweaking the Catholic Church. This time though, it might very well earn her a trip to the pokey.

A German law prohibits insulting religious beliefs, and it’s hard to see how her “Look at Me, I’m Jesus” stage stunt does anything but that. Would she pretend she was Mohammed?

Her anti-Catholic stunts are tired and get more and more contrived every year. It’s perhaps a measure of how out of gas she is creatively that she has to keep returning to the same old stuff to get attention. It seems these days that her creativity is limited to finding new ways to tweak Catholics. I can almost see her sitting down after cutting an album and trying to decide how to work a brand new anti-Catholic stunt into her promotion. It’s too much of a pattern to be coincidence, and her claims that it’s not anti-Catholic are plainly ridiculous on their face.

The plain truth is that if she was putting out great music she wouldn’t have to rely on generating controversy to get people to buy it. To me, her insistence on this sort of anti-religious stagecraft is an implicit admission that her music needs a gimmick because it won’t sell without it.

We’ll see if she has the courage of her convictions and is prepared to put on her mock crucifixion when she actually has something to lose. It will also be a test to see if the German authorities actually have the backbone to enforce a law which is supposed to apply to everyone to someone of Madonna’s celebrity…

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