Res ipsa loquitur

Exactly. Is she's typecast as a selfish idiot, it seems that might be appropriate.

Reminds me of Karen Ryan. The worst thing from her perspective wasn't that taxpayer-funded political propaganda was dressed up as fake 'news' reports; the worst thing was that after she participated in the sham, nobody would take her seriously as a journalist.

How sad. I'm bleeding internally, as Bernie Ohls would say.

Oh, fer crissakes! She's a selfish idiot for wanting her career to succeed? If I understand it right, she's from Texas. Do you really believe that she had any idea who Harold Ford, Jr., was when she took that gig? Some guy in a race several states away? Why should she have? Anyway, it's hard enough getting paying work as an actor without having to meet the moral expectations of some distant after-the-fact critic who doesn't know what the hell he's talking about anyway. In fact, it sounds to me like she already regrets taking the gig, not because it was some moral lapse (it wasn't...it's called "paying work" -- rare enough for an actor), but because of the negative attention it's brought to her.

Slag the ad all you want, as well as those who produced it. This woman is just someone who needed to pay the rent.

I'm wondering why my ratings of "4" for you and the one behind you are not getting into the system.

Jan Knaus

Addendum: Now they are

I rated this highly because it was the first post that injects another serious point of view on this event.

Personally I think she looks far different than the add and she certainly doesn't look like a real blond on her website. But hey I don't feel especially sorry for her at least, no more than any other actor who made a career choice they later regretted--but I have no malice or think she's particularly selfish either.

Who is calling her a selfish idiot? nice strawman you have oh so chivalrously defeated.

The only person making a big issue out of this whole thing is her. She is (shrewdly I might add) keeping herself in the news to generate a little more PR out of her 15 minutes of fame.

No moral necessity to figure out what she was doing? Just go for the bucks? The end justifies the means?

Tom

Ann in AZ

I have only three words for Johanna: Gee, 'ya think?!!

That depends on which of the following possible scenarios you think is more likely:

1) Advertising agency calls casting agent and says, "We need someone who can do a blonde bimbo type." Casting agent calls actress, says, "We have a gig for you." Actress shows up, director says, "Okay...here's the script. Read the whole thing thoroughly. Here's some background on the black Democratic congressional candidate we're targeting with this ad. That's right...he's black. We know this ad has some nasty racial overtones, as well as being pretty degrading toward women. If you have any moral objections to being involved in something like that, that's fine. We'll understand. No problem? Great! Let's get started!"

or

2) Advertising agency calls casting agent and says, "We need someone who can do a blonde bimbo type." Casting agent calls actress, says, "We have a gig for you." Actress shows up, director says, "Okay...here's the couple lines we need from you. We'll be doing the voiceover later, so we don't have the whole script yet. We need it to be kind of bimbo-ish. Who's Harold? Just some political candidate in another state. Pay is $1,500 for the initial run. Ready? Great! Let's get started!"

I'm thinking #2, but who knows?

 "I can be serious," Goldsmith tells the Chronicle. "I can be a mom."

Huh?  Whatever...

I don't think they were too far off with casting her as a bimbo, lol.

Maybe she should call Harold.  I here he likes girls.