Adding the "schelb" to do-good causes

The Saint is amazed by the way 'celebrities' have such a high regard for their own self-importance?
These self-proclaimed arbituers of public good - and those who choose to promote them - actually believe that 'celebrity' status qualifies these people to tell the rest of us what to buy, who to vote for, and what causes we all have to support.
Just because someone can read an autocue - or once played a lesbian icon in a rather bad TV show; or was the child 'star' of a long-forgotten, tedious, art-house film and is now just another, Maori, teenage solo mother; or made their millions by flooding our country with cheap, third-world imports or overpriced, over-hyped, over marketed booze - does not give them the right to tell the rest of us how we should behave or what to believe in.
Sorry, but remember how 'comedian' Mike King - who let's face it is about as funny as a dose of syphilis - kept telling us for years that NZ pork was great to eat; but after having had a road to Damascus conversion to animals rights - after pocketing $250,000 for his efforts - now lectures us that it is immoral to eat pig meat? The phrase smug, hypocritical, tosser comes to mind.
However, it now appears the latest schelb bandwagon all the wannabes and never weres have signed up to is Greenpeace's latest climate change campaign.
So why has the environmental lobby's infamously mustachioed and rather humourless front lady - Bunny (which is rather ironic because how are we suppose to take someone called 'Bunny' seriously?) McDiarmid recently signed up Lucy Lawless, Stephen Tindall et-el to endorse her organisation's latest attempt to blackmail New Zealanders in to more self-flagellation over supposedly destroying planet earth?
Because she knows that no matter how confusing or controversial this issue actually is, the easiest way to get the general public - read simpleton population - on board; is to sign up a few people who regularly grace the front pages of those bastions of scientific research - ie Woman's Day, New Idea and Woman's Weekly - and voila she has the latest cause celeb and money making venture on her organisation's hands.
And the sad thing is, just because intellectual paragons like Keisha Castle Hughes and Rhys Darby tell us that our Government must act faster on climate change - despite the fact that this could destroy our nation's economic base and allow other producers with less environmentally friendly products and the carbon footprint equivalent to the size of Sasquatch fill the gap left by New Zealand - the public at large will blindly follow these schlebs' recommendations like hapless lemmings and demand action now.
However, the only action they really should be demanding is that Lucy Lawless stick to dressing in scanty, leather outfits and continue delivering cheesy lines in a really bad American accent; or that Stephen Tindall donate a pot of cheap, facial wax he imports from one of his Chinese sweatshops to his, and motherearth's, good friend Bunny McDiarmid.
That would be a whole lot more productive than smugly telling the rest of us how the hell to run our lives!