Okay, look...can we all agree that tragedies are tragic? Yes? And terrible? Okay...we agree: nobody likes tragedies. Especially natural disasters, where there’s nobody to blame (except in the case of tragic government incompetence, but let’s not go there).
And can we also agree that many celebrities are vacuous and dimwitted? Okay.
If it please the court, may I further stipulate that dimwitted celebrities (by which I mean dimwits without influential government posts and/or vast congregations of credulous worshippers and/or daily radio shows where they can hammer home the same nonsensical arguments over and over and over again) are likely to say dimwitted things which are, at worst, annoying and insensitive, but not...I repeat NOT...especially newsworthy, in that they don’t actually affect public policy, public opinion, government relief efforts, plate tectonics or anything else?
No? We don’t agree? I may not stipulate? You’re outraged? Or you don't know what the heck I'm talking about? Okay, then...watch the following clip of Sharon Stone talking out her ass at Cannes and be grateful we finally have someone to blame for all the recent sorrow in China (and, uh...Tibet?).