Last week, Britain’s The Guardian newspaper joined all rational people in mocking Trudie Styler, wife of Sting and savior of Gaia, for flying herself and her entourage all over the place in private jets to tell us how bad oil companies are. A couple of weeks ago, she took a break from telling us WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE FROM GLOBAL WARMING to take a private jet across the Atlantic with her cook and her hairdresser and her hairdresser’s hairdresser and whoever else to go to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. There she rubbed elbows and egos with her fellow celebrities, socialites, and other assorted cultural detritus who have absolutely nothing to do with the White House or its correspondents. The Guardian pointed out her hypocrisy, and it was good.
Well, Trudie ain’t havin’ it. She wrote back to them, and it’s a real beaut:
Given the Guardian’s reputation for a positive stance on the environment, I was angered and saddened by the cheap and scathing tone of your “Lost in showbiz” article about me (Trudie Styler: saving the world one private jet flight at a time, 15 May).
It sought to demolish my credibility as an environmental campaigner by laying charges of hypocrisy against my readily admitted occasional use of private aviation fuel as well as many (less reported) flights on scheduled commercial flights. The article’s gripe extended to a sour attempt to create some sort of faux class envy around me in seeking to “focus … on madam’s most cherished public pose: that of eco warrior”.
The piece turned on the curious assertion that “Trudie’s lifestyle compromises her environmental message so fatally that she can only be a big oil double agent created … with the sole aim of undermining an important message with her rank hypocrisy”. Ironically the publication of this article, with its unsustainable attack on my integrity, actually casts the Guardian in the role of double agent. You have given succour to what I would have assumed was a mutual foe, the Chevron oil company.
For many years much of my work as an environmental campaigner has focused on exposing the devastation caused to large parts of Ecuador by Chevron during its exploitation of drilling rights. The recent documentary, Crude, in which I played a substantial role, has effectively concentrated global opposition to Chevron’s continued refusal to make proper recompense for damage to thousands of lives.
Your article will be invaluable to those working on behalf of Chevron who seek to undermine this 14-year campaign through attacking my reputation.
It goes on from there, but you get the idea: Shut up, peasants. Without me, the rainforests will die! And note the clever use of the ecocrite’s new favorite trick: “Sure, okay, I say one thing and do another. I admit it! So get over it, even though I’m not going to stop.”
Congrats on being in a movie, Trudie. I’ll put that in my Netflix queue right after Brimstone & Treacle.
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Remember, kids – she’s rich so she can do what she wants. She’s also British, or the “rich” part would be frowned upon by The One.
Oh wait, she’s a rich liberal. Never mind – she gets the Moral Authority Card!
Over an over, the same desperation comes up:
The Spoiled Rich don’t hate the poor – hell, they *need* them to feel rich. The Spoiled Rich hate the capitalist middle class that is able to enjoy the amazing luxuries today that was once reserved for the truly privileged.
Homes with… YARDS!
Time allowed for… TRAVEL!
Extra money for… SAVINGS!
Damn, I feel special with my middle-americana job that 99% of history’s populace would die for….
you give some people enough rope and they will hang themselves. She comes off looking like even more of a jackass than she did before she wrote the letter.
Everytime I see her, I am reminded of the phase Sting went through..remember the one where he went on and on and on about his fabulous tantric (sp) sex life that he and Trudy have.
The Chevron in Ecuador legal battle was a recent story on CBS’ “60 Minutes” recently. Funny thing, they never once mentioned Trudie. There were lots of lawyers, engineers, scientists, and politicians interviewed, but not one celebrity poseur.
Such ingrates.
It feels like she wrote that letter with a thesauras at her elbow.
Succour? Recompense? Seriously?
LN
Nutty chick and tantric sex are kind of a package deal. You can’t get one without the other. I’d love to be proven wrong, but I don’t think I am.
I doubt she even wrote it. She probably got her writer’s writer to write it. And everytime I think “tantric”, I think of two naked people standing face-to-face, pressing palms together and moving their hands around in circular gestures, with New Age in the background. How utterly mind-fuckingly boring.
Guess we got told that yes, she has a stick up her bum…and that stick is solid gold.
Like jenn said, her reply made her look even more of a jackass.
“my readily admitted occasional use of private aviation fuel”
A new euphimism for flying aound in luxurious private jets?
Or an admission of some deeper problem?
…”readily admitted occasional use of private aviation fuel as well as many (less reported) flights on scheduled commercial flights.”
Gee I wonder which uses more fuel. A Learjet with two passengers, or a fully loaded 975,000 pound Boeing 747. Either way this sub-moron loses.
No one’s cared about Sting for at least 15 years, I wonder what makes her think anyone would care about his spouse?
By the way, Chevron/Texaco didn’t harm the Ecuadorian rain forest, other than bring civilization to it. ‘Crude’ is a propaganda piece which is meant to aid in the shakedown by environmental klepto-lawyers of a good corporation. I am a witness and unlike the producers of ‘Crude’, I have no monetary incentive to lie.
The difference between a luxury private jet and a commercial flight is that, while a 747 consumes more fuel than a G5 or whatever she uses, the commercial flight was going where it was going anyway, whether she was going there or not. In fact, by taking a commercial flight, the carbon footprint of the 747 per passenger/luggage/cargo would be reduced.
If she truly loved Gaia as she claims, she would take a sailboat, the method of travel with the smallest carbon footprint, from England to U.S. But a commercial flight would be an acceptable compromise. As I said above, the commercial flight was going to fly anyway, so she would not add to the global carbon emissions by using a charter flight.
She is like other Socialist Labor Party British rich celebrities, no f’ing clue or common sense.
You’re right the sailboat is a perfect option. They should all travel like that, then it would be several weeks at least before we had to hear from them again. Or if we’re really lucky, at all.
Did they ever ask her to produce the records of the flights she took on commercial airlines? I bet she can’t produce one legitimate copy.
My favorite part of this lovely letter was at the end, when she practically accuses The Guardian of being an accomplice to environmental devastation by daring to question her activities. I’m not sure “jackass” is a strong enough word, Jenn and Koka.
Trudy’s got a wonky boob job.
I think she should only be allowed to travel whilst stapled to the underbelly of a (sustainable) fire-breathing gryffon. I hear GOOP has a passel of those.
I hate celebrities more every day, and Trudie ain’t helping matters.
Remember, she is rich therefore has meaning in this world. Us lowly people who actually made her rich just need to shut up and never question them.
But the rich are evil! Obama says so, therefore it must be true!
“Trudy’s got a wonky boob job.”
Well, he did tour w/the Police for a long time, and I hear that’s rough on ya. Probably turn anybody wonky, really.
I love how she touts her taking a lot more commercial flights in addition to her several private ones. It’s like the obese person who has three salads with their KFC bucket and acts like they’ve compensated.
CA Dave, you’re forgetting that it’s only certain rich people that Obama says are evil…I think people like Trudie and Oprah get a pass.
Wow.
The dinner conversation in the Styler-Sumner house must be so very enthralling, fervid, fomentous, and perspicacious.
See Trudi, I gots me a thesaurus too.
i’m heartily sick of the “let them eat cake” disconnect demonstrated by people who have the temerity- nay, the stunning audacity! – to lecture others on the evils of consumption whilst consuming in bigger gulps than anyone else!