Hannah Montana and the Essay of Doom

Alright. I made a entry about this only to delete it. If you're not aware of the news story let me give a brief synopsis. Club Libby Lu (or however you spell it) decided to give away a makeover and tickets to a Hannah Montana concert. In order to win you had to enter an essay and the winner would receive the grand prize. Pretty simple huh? Well, not if you're this Mom. She decided to write the essay for her child and stated her father died in the war in Iraq and she was giving her Mommy the necklace her Daddy gave her when her Mommy gave birth to her, or something along those lines. Club Lu picks her, brings her in for the makeover, and what do you know?? News reporters everywhere. It seems a reporter did some homework and the essay was false. The little girls Father was very much alive and not a soldier. Mass anger and chaos ensue.

After I blogged I deleted. I wanted to focus on my daughter and her big day and so I did. Then I came down to check my mail and Youtube subscriptions and wow oh wow. It seems I started a big old shit storm over a comment I made in regard to all of this on a video that was posted.

Basically, what I said about it was this:

"Technically, she didn't break any rules. I don't think the sponsors of the contest should change rules after the fact for a mistake they made when announcing the format. However, I do find what she did to be incredibly immoral and hope that in the future rules are made to prohibit this sort of behavior from others in the future." (I said something close to that, I don't wish to back and forth from Youtube lol).

Boy was that the wrong thing to say. People are telling me things like "come on!" or "She Lied!!" or "how can you defend that" or "how can you say what she didn't isn't wrong??"

Aside from the obvious (did I really ever say I defend this woman and what she did was right? I suppose that's open to interpretation). I'll be honest. I didn't have a ton of time to truly think the matter over. The comment I made was my first instinct and feeling at that particular moment. Some of how I feel has changed but some hasn't.

On one hand, I stand behind what I said in regard to the rules being changed. In a way I find it funny that nothing was in place to stop something like this from happening. Why? Because Hannah Montana tickets are rare due to ticket scalping. People buy them in bulk to make a buck. They know parents will do whatever it takes to get Betty or Jane tickets to see their hero. If you know the tickets are in such demand because of this, why not cover your ass? So that part of me, the mean and evil bitch, thinks it's a bit late to get angry that you were scammed. Because I've gone into Libby Lu and they had no problem marking up costs on a dollar item 100% because it sported a picture of Hannah on it.

However. It really, really eats my goat that the essay stated the girls Father died in Iraq. To me that just isn't funny at all. In fact, it's downright sick. If this wasn't the basis of the essay, I don't think I'd care at all, which got me to thinking.

I don't think anyone would care if this essay weren't about a soldier dying in Iraq. Or at least not for the most part. Maybe that is why people are so angry with me. And I understand that.

In the end what anyone thinks doesn't truly matter. The tickets were taken from the girl and given to another and Hannah Montana is still sold out across the nation. I think the true crime here is that people feel the need to be false and stoop low to keep up with others that have the money to buy those tickets for their children. I have a feeling this Mom regrets what she did (and rightfully so) but I wonder if her actions weren't fueled out of desperation in some way.

This is something I could think over for at least a week and have no definitive answer.