Coal Fan Uses Topless Ashley Judd Photo Against Her

By PopEater Staff Posted Jul 9th 2010 07:15AM

A topless photo of Ashley Judd is being used against the actress in a poster mocking her comments last month decrying mountaintop coal mining as the "rape of Appalachia."

"Ashley Judd makes a living removing her top, why can't coal miners?" blares the 5-by-3-foot poster, which was displayed at a golf tournament in the eastern Kentucky town of Prestonburg on Wednesday. Beside the bold letters is an image, taken from a 2003 Marie Claire magazine article, showing Judd glaring at the camera with her arms folded across her bare chest.

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Actress Ashley Judd arrives at the National Press Club in Washington, Wednesday, June 9, 2010, prior to discussing the controversial practice of mountain top removal coal mining in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky and West Virginia. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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During a speech last month at the National Press Club, Judd spoke out against mountaintop coal mining, a process of blasting the tops off of mountains to extract coal.

"It is time to retire the cynical and superficial coal company-created argument that we must choose between people, their jobs and our mountains," she said. "That is simply false, fear-based and fear-mongering."

Judd, who grew up in eastern Kentucky and proudly calls herself a "hillbilly," also singled out the creation of golf courses at former mining sites. "I'm not too keen on reinforcing stereotypes about my people, but I don't know a lot of hillbillies who golf," Judd said in the June 9 speech.

Those comments angered individuals associated with the mining industry and the golf courses built on former mine sites, like the StoneCrest Golf Club, where the sign was found.

"She's not an eastern Kentuckian. A real eastern Kentuckian never would have degraded the people here by saying hillbillies don't play golf," David Gooch, president of the Coal Operator's Association, told local TV station WKYT.

Gooch went on to question Judd's credibility as a Hollywood actress due to the adult themes of some of her films.

"Coming from a woman who makes movies most people wouldn't take their children to, I really don't think she has a lot to say about our industry or anything else that's worthwhile," he said.

According to the NSFW website Mr. Skin, which tracks and catalogues the nudity found in mainstream movies, Judd has appeared at least partially naked in four films, beginning with 1996's 'Normal Life,' co-starring Luke Perry. In 'Bug,' released in 2006, the actress used a nude body double. However, she appears completely in the buff in the 1996 Marilyn Monroe biopic 'Norma Jean and Marilyn.'

The locals may not enjoy Judd's films, but they sure liked the sign.

"All the people that was here yesterday, they was all for it," said Paul Hughes, assistant general manager of the StoneCrest Golf Club.

Course officials still don't know who put the sign up, but promised to take it down on Thursday.

Tags: Ashley Judd, mountaintop removal

Comments

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Friday 09 July

By JO

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Some people think they know what is best for every one. Stick to acting. Leave us alone. Now you know why you were kicked oout of Nascar. Can't stay out of other people's business.

By tracy

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Pollution is everyone's business.

And the illness left behind by the practice costs taxpayers money because many of the sick are not insured. This IS all of our business as inhabitants of this planet together.

By William

Republicans love to shift the focus to disdain for a woman's body rather than deal with the issue of keeping the environment clean.

Republicans love jobs that destroy the Earth, and they don't want any regulation doing it.

Dying for dirty coal and an ignorant energy policy is not my idea of intellegence.

By hootie1fan

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shley Judd's toless photo isn't goig to kill anybody or even make their environment unlivable

Wednesday 06 April

By patti

What are you doing to keep the earth and its surroundings a better place?. Lets leave the republicans out of it.

Republican or Democrats lets just all take responsibility.

Saturday 10 July

By dennydorite

So typical of the right wing mentality (?). If you can't rebutt an argument use personal attacks on your opponents. I'm from WV and coal mining jobs are LOST due to moutaintop mining. My answer to those who try to promote it because it creates flat land to build on: "If you want flat land, move to Iowa. We are The Mountain State."

By Chris

Gooch obviously thinks the folks in eastern Kentucky are as dumb as he claims Ashley Judd says they are. His rationale, Judd shows her boobs in films therefore she's a bad person and so her position on mountaintop mining must be bad as well.

We're not that dumb Gooch and the simple fact is that most of us have more pressing needs for our moeny than a round of golf. I'd prefer clean water and mountains that don't look like they've been scalped.

By warcraffl6

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Libs dont do anything or no anything they just run there mouth.

By ALM

At least they can spell and use grammar correctly.

By dyl

It might help to learn your own English language if you want to make a point.

They don't KNOW anything and run THEIR mouth. You must be from Kentucky.

By Jennifer

And warcraffl6 "dont" know how to use apostrophes, plurals or the correct forms of "their" and "know."

By carongirls

I live in Eastern Kentucky and yep Ashley has it right.
People are thinking about the big bucks they can make today they aren't thinking about tomorrow.
Mountain top removal is wrong and needs to stop now

Like people arent already thinking of things like that.Im sure theres a few things she can do though lol

By Morgan

Does warcraff16 "no" anything? If you post on the site and make references to intelligence, it's best to post correct grammar and spelling. Otherwise, one appears to KNOW little about anything. I won't bother to correct "there" to the possessive form or anything else.

I dont think you have much room to talk any more since your boy made the Army bigger lol

We no your good at taking things up the but,will take the gay men they do some thing lol

By Mim

After meeting Ashley working with CART/Indy Car, Although I like her husband I don't care what she has to say. She is rude, treated people like they were dirt and was all around a l3***h. This was over several years, not just one occasion, I wouldn't want her speaking for me or the Mountians.

Monday 12 July

By Betty

Who the heck is Ashley Judd to tell people what to do? That entire Judd family is a bunch of nuts. The mother is a big, fat liar, her sister is a big fat, no singing jerk and now Ashley is trying to take people jobs. People in West Virgina have to work, Ashley, unlike you!

By brooks

well, just can't see why being nude does anything for anything but the actress' own gains

By kilrain8

Dyl, just because some speaks or writes improperly doesn't mean they're from Kentucky. They could be from your home state. Illiteracy and ignorance aren't regional. It's a national problem caused by undereducated teachers with a lack of concern for their students. Oh, by the way. I'm proud to be from Kentucky.

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