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Ashley Judd, actress and native Kentuckian, is more famous these days for her outspoken opposition to mountaintop removal mining than her acting career.  Judd equates the practice of blasting the tops off mountains to extract coal as the “rape of Appalachia.”

In response, the coal mining industry created a billboard at a coal-sponsored golf tournament in Kentucky showing a topless Judd and mocking her concern.  The billboard says:  “Ashley makes a living removing her top.  Why can’t coal miners?”

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