I Pledge To Not Give These People My Money

There’s some rather nauseating video below the fold, chock full of hypocrites who preach at the church of global warming yet still fly to Cannes and Sundance in private jets. Carbon for me, but not for thee! is their battle cry.  They’re making all sorts of just keen promises about how they’re going to love and serve their country and their fellow man – now that President Obama is in office.

Here’s my completely fearless prediction: aside from a few PSAs where they generously instruct the little people how to spend our free time and excess money, and a slight, temporary uptick in their personal giving (represented by big cardboard Ed McMahon style checks given with press in attendance) that’s as far as this is going to go.  Arthur C. Brooks, author of Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compasionate Conservatism Who Gives, Who Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, explained why in this article:

It’s almost a psychological rule: The more you espouse “compassion” in your politics, the more likely you are to be selfish in your personal behaviour.

The funny thing is, quite a lot of us do that regardless of who is in office. I’m talking primarily about conservatives, who give more in time, money, and even blood than liberals do. I wasn’t a big fan of Bill Clinton but what does that have to do with my charitable giving and volunteer time? Exactly nothing.  Hollywood can only do the right thing when the President has a “D” after his name? These people really do make me sick, and I’m not going to support their narcissism anymore.

Andrew Breitbart acerbically notes that

President Bush was not holding back Moore from “free[ing] one million people from slavery in the next five years.” Nor was he holding back the Obama-biquitous Will.I.Am from “chang[ing] how [he] live[s].” Ditto: Aaron Ekhart (”To be a better person,”) Marisa Tomei (”To integrate into my heart what I already know in my head which is that we are all in this together,”) Kutcher (”To the abolition to 21st century slavery,”) Anthony Kiedis (”To be of service to Barack Obama,”) P. Diddy (” pledge to turn the lights off, cause I used to leave the lights on but we want to conserve energy so I’ma turn the lights off, you turn the lights off,) and all-in-unison (”Because together we can, together we are, and together we will be the change that we seek.”)

and advises us to

Remember this video: It is a instructive relic of the era of celebrity decadence and boutique anti-Republican activism under President Bush. It is a sickening display that they want fast and easy absolution for having comported themselves like ill-behaved children for eight difficult and war-torn years.

Allahpundit sums it up:

If ever you doubted that Obamamania is fundamentally a religious movement, at least among nitwits like this, watch and note how few of their pledges are tied to Obama’s policy agenda. It’s mostly personal pap about smiling more and being a better parent, forms of self-improvement which, it seems, simply couldn’t be undertaken until the GOP was out of the White House.

MySpace Celebrity and Katalyst present The Presidential Pledge