It’s been a while since we’ve heard from world-class ecocrites Sting and his lovely wife Trudie Styler. 2008 was a big year for them, in terms of doing one thing and saying another:
- The Police were named “the dirtiest band in the world.” That used to be a good thing when it didn’t refer to your carbon footprint. Which Sting had pledged to reduce the year before, at Live Earth. (Remember that? Of course you don’t, nobody watched it.)
- Trudie, responding to reports that she and her hubby have a carbon footprint 30 times that of the average Briton, openly admitted that they’re hypocrites when it comes to saving the environment. As if that somehow excuses them.
- Sting took two private jet trips in one day while on tour in Europe.
Since then we haven’t heard much from the King & Queen of Piety. Glad to have ‘em back! Per the Daily Mail:
Environmentalist Trudie Styler is being accused of hypocrisy for hiring a private jet just to take her and her stylists to a party at the White House.
Styler — who co-founded the Rainforest Foundation 20 years ago — allegedly took the gas-guzzling jet from New York to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
She was accompanied by an entourage of eight to help her prepare for the event, with those onboard including Manhattan-based hairstylist Antonio Prieto.
That last bit is especially funny if you look at the photo accompanying the article. On the way over, did Antonio earn his keep by shoving her head out the window?
For his part, Sting did take a commercial flight to the event. Well done. (Putting aside the issue of why either of them really needed to be there in the first place.) And he kept his trap shut about it, unlike his wife:
Styler herself added: “Yes, I do take planes. My life is to travel and my life is also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of oil companies.”
This is kind of like Marion Barry exhaling a lungful of crack smoke to pontificate on the evils of the cocaine trade. Even assuming that what you’re saying is true, genius, we don’t really need to hear it from you.
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To be fair, I would hate to be stuck in the next seat to a women like her while traveling in Business Class.
Ugh. I suppose the two of them globetrotting lavishly to preach about the evils of lavish globetrotting sure beats either of them releasing an album or something.
Pfftttt…. you really can’t blame either one for anything they say.
Afterall, it’s hard to be eco-conscious (or hell, to even think clearly) when you’ve been in a constant tantric orgasm for the last 15 years.
Too funny, Minnow!
It took an entourage of eight to create that woman’s “look” for the dinner? Hell, I can get there just by forgetting to blow dry.
Hee hee……don’t they look like they are mid-orgasm in the pic???
And why would Trudie need a stylist? All she did was ride with her head out the window on the way there, and taped her bazoombas into a position to make them look as perky as any 21 year olds.
Y’all, it would take an ARMY of stylists to make her look one iota less like “Madam” of Wayland Flowers fame.
I want to know what all of those celebrity types are doing going to the WH to celebrate a president that now officially condones torture, and is now a war criminal.
For real I’m not kidding.
I really think this president could order the systematic execution of all conservatives and his celebrity supporters would be OK with it.
Stonegrigio, you’re being facetious, but a lot of us think that could be the eventual outcome of the current train of thought. No matter how many times we say “Never again”, I still think that idiotic DHS report was a big step toward creating a suspect class or classes, a focus for the left’s blame and hatred.
Actually, Beige, I was being totally serious, seriously.
And this is how serious I am: After O took office, hubby & I passed our gun test, and I already have my Glock (now just need to stock up on ammo–there’s a shortage). I told him, if I’m going down, I’m going down with a bang, not a whimper.
You have to wonder if they know how incredibly stupid they make themselves look.
Like U2, Sting is getting me to that point where enjoying him or The Police is becoming difficult, and I kind of hate him for that.
If that is what her sylists do to her, I would demand a new stylist. And that dress, seriously? How old is she? It looks as if they are trying to escape the hypocracy themselves.
Instead of getting a new stylist, why don’t they just keep their stupid hair and idiotic remarks and high-flown hypocrisy AT HOME and SHUT UP and STOP REMINDING US that they’re still around? Oh, I know–because getting no attention is a fate worse than death to their sort.
Because beige they obviously dont have enough toadies at Home telling them how good and great they are. It’s about meeting new and exciting people who will tell you the things you pay people every day to whisper in your ear.
Chronic, I am totally with you. Much as I try to separate the art from the artist and enjoy the music even if the musician is a dickweed, it’s gotten harder with Sting and Bono. And not just because their latest musical efforts have been lame. They just don’t know when to stick a sock in it, do they?
A recent article about Africans’ views of Bono and Geldof seems to say the same thing:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090513/people_nm/us_ethiopia_geldof
Good article, MC Mom.
Heck, I still have a lot of their music that I bought on purpose and everything. And if it’s good enough to make me tune out the douches behind the music, I will continue to buy it. But they are getting slowly into Tom Cruise territory, who I refuse to watch in any movies anymore because he’s really crossed that line into being a distraction no matter how well he does. If enough people were to get fed up, we wouldn’t be hearing from these people unless it was a “Where Are They Now?” segment on a blooper show.
Hee! I want to see VH1 do a “Douches Behind the Music” special. I would so totally watch.
Beige, they could fill a whole season with episodes of Douches. MAybe finally replace “The hills” with something I could finally watch.