Sure, there is a diary about Laura Bush grinning for the Extreme Home Makeover Show, but nowhere is mentioned the actual effect this STUPID Photo-Op had on Hurricane Victims: Her appearance SHUT DOWN a free medical clinic providing care for people who have been ignored for days and weeks by her husband's incompetent administration.
Before Mrs. Bush entered the community center where the show was filming,
a director shooed away both victims and volunteers from the doorway, instructing them on how to react as her entourage entered.
"Act surprised!" he said above the din.
A clinic offering free treatment and medicine at the community center had to shut down...
First, Bush the Junior ignores the plight of thousands, strumming while New Orleans drowns. "Brownie" does a 'heck of a job.' Mean old momma Bush tells the poor how much better they have it sleeping under mercury-vapor lights on the floor of a stadium. And now, the incredibly clueless First Lady mugs for the camera while giving victims the things they do not need (clothes) and denies them what they do need: MEDICAL TREATMENT!
...some of the people who came to see her did so under the mistaken belief that there was to be a drawing for
free appliances.
"That's why people are here. We don't need clothes. We're not walking around naked," said Susie Hightower, 53.
Good Lord, when will we get a break from this pandering self-righteous, disconnected-from-reality, just flat-out-ignorant family!???
First lady offers clothes and a 'Makeover'
(clueless) Laura Bush helps hand out donations in Biloxi as reality cameras roll
09:55 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Associated Press
BILOXI, Miss. - First lady Laura Bush made her reality TV debut Tuesday, helping with a taping of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in a sweltering community building as she toured hurricane relief sites on the Mississippi coast.
If my family members needed medical care and we were "shooed away from the door" and told to "act surprised", the least I'd do is shout back "Go 'Cheney' Yourself!" Actually, I would probably just lose it completely. They'd have to haul me off before I would allow that to happen. The nerve of denying MEDICAL CARE for a photo-op!
Day after day, I honestly think they won't think of anything worse than the latest outrage, and then they simply surpass all base expectations all over again!
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[UPDATED] Idea for Laura's appearance was pitched FROM the White House to the show, not the other way around:
But it could be difficult to discern whose fortunes will be lifted higher — the displaced victims of two hurricanes or the White House, which was widely perceived as slow to understand their pain.
Which is probably why the Bush team contacted the show for a booking instead of the other way around. "EM:HM," as it is known in Hollywood-speak, was ranked among the top 15 shows last season with an average 15.8 million viewers. Airing Sunday nights, it is considered one of the strongest family hours on television.
"We got a call from the White House saying, 'What are you doing and, if you need help, just let us know,' " Forman said. "We said here's what we're doing and if the first lady would like to join us, we'd love to have her."