[StBernard] Does Bobby Have Any Shame? but please allow him acallfor a ride home???

[Westley Annis]

I might need to qualify my previous comment.  It is not intended to defend
Bobby Jindal nor be criticism to Walter.  I'm simply stating what
immediately struck me and my wife the very first time we saw the commercial.


I can't help but wonder if anyone with the production team Walter hired
caught it.  When she said about not knowing anything of her brother's status
or whereabouts for weeks, in my mind I spontaneously said "so where the hell
were you during those weeks?"  When the commercial ended my wife said aloud
"shame on you for not checking in on your brother" - and she's right.

That still does not justify what DHH policy did to the gentleman and I'm not
defending DHH's actions, I'm just pointing out what we noticed and thought
the moment she said it.  If I was the commercial's director, I would have
asked her to rephrase what she said so it wouldn't sound like she did not
speak with or did not go to visit her brother for weeks at a time.

John



-----Original Message-----
What I am a little curious about is the lady says either a couple or a few
weeks went by and she knew nothing about her brother's situation.  Can you
guess what I am about to ask next?  How often did she go to visit her
brother?  How often did she ever call her brother or the medical facility to
check in on him.

My wife is a lovely person but even she admits to being a little on the
dense side, yet she picked up on this immediately.  As my wife put it, even
if I lived out of state, which the lady does not, I would be calling the
nursing home every other day to speak with my brother or speak with the
staff on his status.  She basically admits to not checking it on her brother
for long periods of time.  Seems like she really didn't care much about her
brother either.

Did anyone else pick up on this?

John