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 dorita

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Really? really?? C'mon now. because someone was rude, you feel it is ok to blow the tops off of mountains for the sake of lining someone else's pockets not even yours??? seriously?? can you people be a little more ignorant and true to stereotype??

By TopMah

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True to stereotype? Looks like you fit that description perfectly with your uninformed rhetoric about 'lining someone else's pockets not even yours' about coal mining. Have you checked your latest power bill? Are you happy being screwed by the enviro idiots that've done more harm than good--not just in the USA but all over the world? Their policies, including going after the coal industry, have caused our utility bills to skyrocket, put people out-of-work, & killed millions living in 3rd-world countries, mostly children, with their universal banning of DDT, a chemical NEVER proven to be harmful, EXCEPT to the disease-bearing mosquitos that inflict deadly malaria. You'd better think twice about eliminating coal operations unless you like living without heat & air conditioning...the ignorance is on YOUR side, courtesy of the brainwashing propaganda of the nazi enviros...

By priscilla

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I personally like Judd and if she is in a movie, that might b a deciding factor of whether I want to see it or not..to me she is a great actress and if she opposes mountaintop mining..must b something there to look into ...a bright girl...can't see her taking on something she does not believe in..

By Enough Already

Good for them! The coal miners deal in reality every day. Ashley on the other hand has a made a living by working in "make believe". Just because you repeat the words someone else puts on paper, does not make you an expert or spokesmen.

Saturday 10 July

By ron

topping a mountain wont make that state any less beautiful. but it will save hundreds of lives.

By Terry W. Brookman

Who cares?

Sunday 11 July

By j

Judds cool but those others, once a Hick always a Hick.

By joe

lJudds cool, but the others,,, Once a Hick always a Hick.

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