Decrying psychology and medical treatment while bouncing on Oprah's couch is the wrong use of celebrity. What Clooney did was bring further attention to an under-reported travesty, not only by offering himself up to the media, but by putting himself in harm's way to get the facts firsthand. And not a little of his own funds have found there way to those refuge camps.

If you view his efforts as only 'pompous self-promotion via philanthropy', you certainly lack vision and empathy.