IIRC, he was illiterate at the time he made the PSA’s.
All the more reason to tell people to get an education. If a prisoner tells you “Don’t do crimes, prison sucks” it has some gravitas. If someone who is illiterate tells you “Get an education, being illiterate sucks” it has some gravitas.
Even if he says “Reading is great” he’s being somewhat dishonest, not hypocritical.
I remember seeing a clip of Danny Bonaduce telling his kids, “Don’t do drugs or you’ll end up like me.” Persuasive argument.
Well to argue the other side, celebs do make causes known, that wouldn’t get much help without them.
Everyone is hypocritical to some degree. We all do things that go against our moral code, depending on our jobs, our kids or whatever.
If Cher flies a private jet because she is too bothered by fans to fly first class, I can maybe see that point.
Sometimes people are contractually obligated to do things they don’t believe in.
I recall when Chita Rivera stayed at a hotel I worked in. She came with a 20 person staff and was all like “No, one must know I am staying here.” I felt like saying “Why? No one knows who you are anyway. And the six people in Chicago who DO know who you are don’t care.” 
So I guess it’s a matter of self-opinion for somethings.
He was not doing the PSAs at the time as someone who is illiterate. He was doing them as a sports hero telling them to stay in school and get an education. He was keeping his illiteracy a secret at the time. He got through high school and Oklahoma State University without being able to read.
It peaked pretty heavily at one point, though…
Are you sure she does this, though? I’ve seen a lot of pictures of her and Brad with the kids, and she really does seem to love and care for them from everything I’ve read and heard.
I have no more insight than anyone else, and I can’t pretend to care that much, but I think Angelina Jolie gets an unfair rap because of her wild past. Yeah, ten years ago, she was a weirdo party girl, but she really seems to have grown up and matured, especially since she got together with Brad and started a family. I agree with Sampiro that her charity work has helped her grow into adulthood as well.
Jolie strikes me as one of the success stories in Hollywood. She had a rocky start (Who wouldn’t have with her background?), but she seems to have turned it around.
Well…that’s not the same though, is it? I mean, just because we all do things against our own moral code, doesn’t make us hypocrites.
My dad despised hypocrisy to the point that we would get in trouble for that over almost anything else. But it teaches one not to go around judging others for their failings. We have to all take the planck out of our own eyes, right? Even by being turned off by another’s moral failing of hypocrisy , I condemn myself…because I have my own moral failings.
But when someone says it is hypocritical for Bonoduce to say, “Don’t do drugs…it messed me up bad. I don’t want that to happen to you”, I can’t see how that could be hypocrisy . He is warning those who haven’t been gripped by the addiction yet. I gotta tell you, seeing heroine addicts (my dad included) in my own life sure did deter me from ever wanting to go near a drug. (weed not included. Legalize it!)
Another instance of how a misplaced comma can reverse a sentence’s meaning.
That’s not being hypocritical, just not emphasizing a mistake he made in the past, probably one he found embarrassing. I don’t see why this is a major strike against him.