Report: Sandra Bullock Withdraws Support of BP-Backed Oil Spill PSA
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Today, in Wait-Nobody-Told-Me-That world, Sandra Bullock is backpedaling to condemn a PSA she helped make for the Restore the Gulf campaign. The PSA, called “Be the One,” features Bullock and other celebrities asking viewers to sign a petition to Congress demanding a fully funded restoration plan for the Gulf. Turns out, though, that the campaign is sponsored by an organization called America’s Wetland Foundation, which, despite the nice sounding name, is actually a greenwashing front group for big oil companies likes Shell, American Petroleum and, you guessed it, BP.
From ThinkProgress:
This greenwashing campaign, first uncovered by DeSmogBlog.com’s Brendan Demelle, subtly includes mentions of “safe domestic energy” and oil industry factoids, while implying that American taxpayers, not the unmentioned oil industry, should pay for restoring the region BP has poisoned
ThinkProgress spoke with Bullock’s publicist who said that Bullock was originally contacted by her attorney to be a part of the campaign and that no one had ever made her aware of the campaign’s big oil ties. Bullock’s representatives have demanded that “her participation in the PSA be removed until the facts can be determined.”
Given that the PSA is already a cut and polished video, the likelihood of simply snipping Bullock’s shots out of the PSA is unlikely. It seems that in the BP age, background checks on even supposedly well-meaning organizations wouldn’t be remiss. That or don’t trust your attorney’s suggestions.
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8 comments
….and I’m supposed to care because……
Because this is the Oscar-winning star of All About Steve and Two If By Sea!
Yawn
Wait, there’s more! Hope Floats, Murder By Numbers, and Demolition Man!
Whatever
Her husband pulls one on her and now this….
This woman needs a legal guardian.
called America’s Wetland Foundation, which, despite the nice sounding name, is actually a greenwashing front group for big oil companies likes Shell, American Petroleum and, you guessed it, BP.”
Could have been worse- could have been a front for TNBPP.
I don’t think the article was intended to promote Sandra Bullock as much as it was more to inform people about the foundation being a greenwashing front for the oil companies. That is the point in which you should care. That is if you care about the environment in which we must live in to be able to have such political discourse, as there is here on this site.
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