Actress Ashley Judd has finally earned her Hollywood stripes and provided award-winning comic relief. With Washington poised to shove a trillion-dollar "stimulus" pork pie down our throats, we need all the distractions we can get. I give Judd's unintentionally entertaining performance in a new Sarah Palin-bashing animal rights ad two diversionary thumbs up.
The Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund sponsored the YouTube video starring Judd. They've dubbed their campaign, launched this week, "Eye on Palin." With all the serious, socially responsible celebrity earnestness she could muster, Judd decried the aerial hunting of wolves in Alaska, the GOP governor's state. "It is time to stop Sarah Palin and stop this senseless savagery," Judd intoned.
Casting herself as an environmental expert, Judd attacked Palin for "casting aside science and championing the slaughter of wildlife." The video shows a wolf being shot, writhing in pain, with an ominous soundtrack throbbing and menacing photos of Palin flashing across the screen. "Riddled with gunshots, biting at their backs in agony, they die (pause for quiver) a brutal death," Judd enunciates slowly as wolf squeals punctuate the video. Defenders of Wildlife assails Gov. Palin for proposing a $150 bounty for every wolf killed by aerial hunters. She's cruel and bloodthirsty, and she must be stopped!
It's a compelling black-and-white storyline. But like the world Judd inhabits, this plot is make-believe.
Fact is, the policy is intended to protect other animals — moose and caribou — from overpopulation of wolves. Alaskans rely on caribou and moose for food. Not all Americans care to live on environmentally correct starlet diets of tofu salad and Pinkberry yogurt.
Neither Palin nor the aerial hunters in those scary low-flying planes that have Judd quivering promote the program out of malice and animal insensitivity.
On the contrary, they are the true compassionate conservationists. The bounty helped state biologists collecting wolf age data and provided incentives to reduce the wolf population when wildlife management efforts had fallen behind. This is about predator control. But to liberal, gun-control zealots thousands of miles away, it's all heartless murder.
Federal law makes specific exceptions to aerial hunting for the protection of "land, water, wildlife, livestock, domesticated animals, human life or crops." Targets are not limited to wolves. And, as Alaska wildlife officials note, the process is tightly controlled and "designed to sustain wolf populations in the future."
No matter. As Judd proclaimed, "It is time to stop Sarah Palin." That is the true aim of left-wing lobbying groups and their allies in Hollywood. Palin is a threat not to Alaska's wolves, but to the liberal establishment's wolves. Defenders of Wildlife isn't targeting the ads in states affected by these policies. They're running the Judd-fronted ads across battleground states. It's about electoral interests, not wildlife interests. The eco-Kabuki theater is just plain laughable.
On a deadly serious note, Judd's selective concern for savagery is not lost on longtime observers of the activist entertainer's political forays. A militant, pro-choice feminist, Judd lashed out at the Republican ticket during the campaign: "[A] woman voting for McCain and Palin is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders." Yet, not a peep has been heard from Judd about the serial predators of Planned Parenthood who have been caught on tape urging young girls to cover up statutory rape to facilitate abortion procedures. And she won't be starring in any YouTube ads decrying grisly late-term abortion procedures.
In a starlet's world, "senseless savagery" only applies to the poster pet of the month.
Michelle Malkin is author of "Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild." Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com.
COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
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What you say here is nothing less than spot-on reporting of the facts Michelle, good for you! Kudos! Hollywood in general has been, for the most part, ignored by myself regarding things political because it seems so out of touch with reality. They are Hollywood! Fantasy is their business, they are a dream making machine, I have no problem being entertained by them. Stars usually pick a cause based on something they feel as opposed to what they learn, which often times means they've been offended in some way. They do very little in the way of investigation of the situation and simply launch! It's even better if they can get the paying public's attention. The fact there are so many people in America who hang on every word from these "celebs" just because they are "celebs" is sad and IMHO, pathetic. My fervent hope is that one day America will begin to think for itself. PS, I'm not holding my breath waiting.
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Posted by: bill s
Fri Feb 6, 2009 7:00 AM
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Michelle Malkin you Go Girl.............The truth always sounds better than Liberal puke. Besides I live in Alaska and the JUDD heads have no clue.
We Americans were so tired of being thought of as dumb, by the rest of the world, that we went to the polls in November and removed all doubt.
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Posted by: Terrylee
Fri Feb 6, 2009 7:52 AM
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Ma'am; ... You are on the right side of this one and the wrong side of reality...To paint that kind of wolf killer as an environmentalist is another distortion of reality...Do I think the republican give a shet???Do I think they care who hunts??? Do I think they care if we can keep our guns??? No, No, and No... They have a hot button issue for nuts just like abortion, and they are not going to lose it... I want to tell you...I used to love to hunt; but it was God awful difficult finding a place to hunt...Anywhere near a city is rented already, and public land is hunted into a desert....It used to be that anyone could go on to private farm land looking for deer... The farmers complained and the state rolled over for them, and made private property absolute....So then the farmers almost everywhere said the deer are eating all our crops, and many got permits to kill deer until it was coming out of their ears, until they would just leave the bodies lie...And the car/deer accidents shot up....And something else happpened...People hunting small woodlots for rent baited the deer until their close proximity began to spread TB, and Chronic Wasting disease...So they made another law...Do you understand???They already had the solution to the fact that there was no big bad wolves around Michigan...Farmers got their absolute property rights, but that was not good for nature or the rest of society... Their messing with the law sends the wrong message, and it is one the republicans always swallow hook line and sinker...That message is that with purchace, the property belongs to its owner... First of all, it is a whole society that stands behind private property...The government holds the ultimate, and first title to real property...Those people who think they owe society nothing should understand that property is a trust...Property owes support to society for the defense society makes for it... I believe in hunting, and in adults teaching their children to hunt...It is expensive, and it should not be made more so by property owners... The deer are public property where ever they reside, and the property owners should not, even with the help of the state, stand in the way of a citizen's rights to public property...Now, it is a special sort of relationship between hunter and prey, sort of like the relationship between employee and employer, except that the deer has more places to hide, and is better at it... But to hunt, to really stalk a deer, to follow a trail, to lay in wait, to do as our primitive ancestors did is making a connection all meat eaters should make, and no republican claiming absolute property rights should stand in the way of it...Like many other things in society, when government aims to serve the powerful and rich, they only screw things up worse...Hunting from an airplane isn't hunting, but poaching...If a governor does it, it only sets a bad example...Thanks...Sweeney
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Fri Feb 6, 2009 2:34 PM
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You are one sick ignorant fool, wolves kill and consume the old and sick, humans kill the best and biggest to prove the size of their dick, which if you had half a brain would realize is what affects the health and size of the herd animals. You might even be more of an idiot than little bushy.
Brian
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Posted by: Brian C. Jones
Sat Feb 7, 2009 9:32 AM
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Malkin is nuts. I have read her garbage for years and the woman is a fool. Palin is nothing but evil. The wolves could not kill all the wildlife if they wanted - COME ON STUPID let's get real. And you abortion nuts have to bring that topic up every time an animal event happens. YAP YAP YAP people don't care for people. BULL i have done as much for people in my life as animals. I damn sure can see an injustice. Murdering wolves from airplanes - what a bunch of low life scum cowards. As they say ETHICAL hunters don't do that. But than the last generation of hunters that were truly ethical have died. The new group of fools just use any excuse to kill things. The wolf is a far more noble creature than Palin or Malkin ever will be. And on top of the abortion crap they bring up every time they haul in the "Hollywood" types. Their theory being if you are a star you have no brains. Well from the average columnist I read the ones with the smallest or non existent brains are COLUMNISTS.
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Posted by: Anne Glock
Mon Feb 9, 2009 11:57 AM
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Re: Anne Glock; And Brian Jones.... I love you folks... The wolves are an essential part of that ecosystem...Perhaps we are too; but we should not rid ourselves, even slightly, of nature's garbage dispossals, or we will be dealing with the garbage, just as with chronic wasting disease...Those so called hunters are not environmentalists... They only wish they had an enviromentalist accidently in their sights... For that matter, If they could get a nickle for it they would shoot the whole environment... Pity the wolves; but Sarah Palin would trade in that whole state and every person in it for a chance at national office... She is just a case of too much ambition carried by too little ability...Thanks...Sweeney
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Mon Feb 9, 2009 3:16 PM
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I loved this article. I felt Ahsley Judd's plea was only interested in earning money. Because anyone who cares about animals would want all the animals to remain. If the she had her way the wolves would be the only animal. A true animal lover would want all animals. Also, I'm sure if there is a better way to deal with this problem it will be found. Ashley Judd's intention is only political in an effort to ruin Palin. Thanks for the article.
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Posted by: Tona Davenport
Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:32 PM
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