Star, Mississippi native Faith Hill must have lost her common sense in Trashville. She tooled into Gulfport with three truckloads of items she'd purchased, and a convoy of security:
Kevin Titus, a Red Cross spokesman, told the Sun Herald that Hill did not want media attention, because she feared the event would appear too much like a "PR campaign," rather than a relief effort.
Hill was followed by her own camera crew and reporters, instead.
Nah, it won't look like a PR campaign, you regular hometown girl, you. You're just working on the world's most elaborate scrapbook, is all.
Posted by floridacracker at September 5, 2005 06:41 PMI expect to see a celebrity scrapbooking segment on QVC any day now...
Posted by: Jeff H at September 5, 2005 10:20 PMWith a montage of poignant moments from rehab...
Posted by: Donnah at September 5, 2005 10:43 PMI had my doubts about old Faith when I read an interview where she just had to let us know she and old Tim made love on the kitchen table. Good Southern girls do it but they don't go around bragging about it to Good Housekeeping.
Posted by: Salt Lick at September 6, 2005 07:40 AMTack-ee.
Posted by: Donnah at September 6, 2005 08:07 AMI believe the camera crew is from Oprah's show - she's doing a series about the rescue efforts. Chris Rock and some others are also involved.
Posted by: Jackie Danicki at September 6, 2005 08:46 AMIf it's for Oprah, that's even worse.
God forbid a millionairess help the people of her own state without turning it into an Oprah moment for millions of people to watch.
That's an awfully nice PR investment for a mere three truckloads of stuff. My little town got plowed by a hurricane one year ago, and we sent 13. Didn't bring a camera crew, though.
At least she filled up trucks with much-needed supplies that *she" had purchased.
As my sweetie stated about Sean Penn, he would have been more impressed if Penn had acquired a C-130 filled with supplies he'd bought and flown it to the area.
Posted by: Lornkanaga at September 6, 2005 02:07 PMYes, she did, and that's a good thing. Does bringing her own camera crew and reporters diminish things? Yes. You wouldn't bring a camera crew and neither would I. Would I have pointed her to an organization like Convoy of Hope, an outstanding delivery system for disaster regions? You betcha.
http://www.convoyofhope.org/help.html
Posted by: Donnah at September 6, 2005 03:37 PMTo give Ms. Hill her due, she probably goes to the john with a camera crew. That's the equivalent of home movies for her. I suppose she could have brought more trucks, perhaps that would satisfy some...Say, she brought three trucks! The media came and all the refugees got was this lousy Bush Administration Sucks Again T-shirt.
And I bet she didn't ask obnoxious questions or get into people's faces either. Do you want to call her a disaster tourist? It is not unreasonable that she imagined some people would like to look at her pretty face. People do get off on celebrity, and in such a miserable situation, perhaps palliatives are not to be scorned?
PS Assuming she is as misinformed as the MSM would have her (14yo girl, 7yo boy "raped to death" in the Terrordome?), she may have very well expected to descend into the Inferno. I certainly don't begrudge her the security detail, do you? Frankly in that atmosphere, the camera could have provided its own form of security.
If she follows up with exploitive use of the footage, perhaps you can pie her then. But perhaps, to exploit a phrase I do not like, to criticize her without having given in like measure is to chickensamaritan.
Posted by: Nichevo at September 6, 2005 08:22 PMBut who will survive if the Sean Penn entourage has to fight it out with the Faith Hill entourage?
Posted by: erik at September 7, 2005 08:06 AMNichevo- remember the widow's mite. Many people who'll never come within sniffing distance of riches have already given much more than she has.
And none of them brought a camera crew to film it.