If we’re STILL talking about #GarthBrooks, how about that time he donated 500k to a hospital then sued them for 1mil? http://t.co/S9RFEjGx38
— The Andy Institute (@ImACultHero) July 9, 2014
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He donated 500,000 on the condition that the ward was named after his mother who died of cancer, hospital. Built the ward, didn’t name it after his mother he sued for 500,000 he won it cost the hospital another 500,000 in costs.
But while we are at it. Donated a million to rebuild Hati, largest financial supporter of LGBT rights in USA, played a week of concerts and donated all proceeds to flood relief? There is a long list
You’re truth and full facts aren’t welcome here.
But there is that 1 million he sued a hospital for.
No he sued the hospital for his original donation of 500,000, because the hospital aggressively defended it it ended up costing them a million by the time they paid legal fees.
… for breaching a contract that he had with them (or so it would appear, not familiar with the case).
If I had a contract with an orphanage and they wilfully breached it, I’d sue them and so would you.
Or, you could try reading the linked article.
“Jurors ruled that the hospital must return a $500,000 donation to Brooks, plus pay him $500,000 in punitive damages in Brooks’ breach-of-contract lawsuit against IntegrisCanadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon.”
Punitive damages =/= costs. He sued them for, and won, $1m. The legal costs of defending themselves would’ve come on top of the, so the actual loss to the hospital is significantly larger than just that $1m.
I really hope he turned around and donated the lot to another hospital instead, because if not, he’s as much of a cock as the tweet makes him out to be.
Nially, do some research apparently one of the most charitable artists in the world! HAITI, LGBT rights, flood relief, & apparently a sizeable donation to Irish charities the last time he played here. But let’s focus on one case were he sued for an original amount he donated and the contract was breached, and a JURY decided he was entitled to double back
Ah yes, because being good in one situation gives you free licence to do whatever you want in another.
But I was mostly responding to you, as is your wont, flat-out making shit up. The second $500k wasn’t “costs”, and if the jury were able to consider damages, it’s because Brooks’ suit included punitive damages. (And considering that punitive damages on breach-of-contract suits are pretty rare, it’d be a fair assumption that his legal team pushed pretty hard for them) The jury may have decided on the amount, but he was the one who sued a hospital and asked for money for his anguish as well. From a hospital. Which is a dick move.
Humans process bad news more thoroughly than good news. One bad things outweighs lots of good stuff.
But one bad story may also reveal a truer picture than 10 good ones.
I’m not sure what it reveals.
I believe its much simpler than all that.
Haters gonna hate and people love to feckin moan.
Just everybody, when you are complaining about Garth Brooks remember one thing. “He is Country and F%&k You.”
I know. It’s like when a priest rapes a boy you never hear the end of it. people forget all the other good things priests do , like…eh… saying mass and getting into people business and …wait..
“One bad thing reveals more about someone. than any amount of good things”
That about sums up the gobshitery on here
postmanpat.
It is not like that at all.
But I am prepared to believe that the sum of your good deeds amounts to more good than the awful comment you just made.
See how this works?
+1 island.
Or…. Austerity, Property Tax, USC, Water Charges…… But phucking cancelled Garth Brooks concerts is where we as a people take our stand?!
I sometimes wonder if we deserve our fate….
and where the Taoiseach intervenes…
…and the Ambassador of Mexico who, according to the Mayor of Dublin on Morning Ireland, has offered to use his pull to get Obama involved.
I thought I was listening to a radio show of The Office when I woke up to that. I didn’t know whether to wince, cringe or laugh.
Heard that too. I’ve found the whole affair amusing up till now but now it’s just turned mental like a spoof disaster movie.
Really???
Yep…
the Mayor was asked by O’Rourke “Are you not embarrassed?” [about the ambassador contact, apparently initiated by the ambassador] and the tone of the question, I thought, was closer to…
‘Will ya ever cop on to yourself?’
Great beard of Zeuz!!! Shocking, I have a friend arriving over for the Gigs huge fan, he is coming regardless of the Gigs.
He will love this and think it is hilarious!
That’s great from O’Rourke!
This really is getting into spinal tap territory
I, for one, welcome the intervention of Pablo Picante.
+1000
This is a pathetic little backwater run by the lowest common denominator for the lowest common denominator.
” Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses” (Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81)
“Irrelevant quotes are often used by dim people to make themselves appear clever”
– Rob G. Esq.
Oh, I don’t mind. That’s a heavy and horrible list we have hanging over us. Nice to have something as daft as it is trivial and overblown to blow off steam over.
racist plank of wood is also a hospital-suing turd. Shock, horror.
Still throwing out that unfounded racist accusation with impunity, eh Helen?
?
Someone who was suing him accused him of racism.
And taking 8 yokes drinking a shitload of whisky and demanding greek from her.
No evidence was presented to support it.
A racist that supports LGBT rights! Nice to see they have let you out of the Central Mental Hospital for the summer Helen!
Well it’s possible to meet such a type, and on the other side of the spectrum you’ve noticed how quickly women and gays will get thrown under the bus by the citizen Smiths of the west, Afghanistan being a prime example.
what the everliving fcuk are you babbling about?
+1
There is no emoticon available for this
Allow me to frame it this way, all that glitters is not gold.
That makes even less sense.
Nevermind so.
I don’t see how the two are connected in any way. You can quite easily be a racist homosexual, or a non-racist homophobe. Your post makes no sense at all.
Dear Mr Barack
Sorry for da hack of us Crokers
but dat Garth has given us a bit of a choker.
Would ya eva hook fat Brooks
And ask him what da fooks
Much as I dislike all the Garth hoopla, I think he was right on this. The hospital took his money on certain conditions and flouted those conditions. He was right to sue.
of course he was right to sue
peoples inabilty to seperate issues never fails
To be honest, I’m quite happy just to judge him on his behaviour regarding the concerts in Dublin. He planned to play three, then it was expanded to 5 (all subject to licence). Licence failed to be granted for two of these, Garth says “all or nothing”, DCC sticks to their guns, Garth then pulls all concerts. I don’t really care if about any other good or bad marks people may wish to put against his character based on his past behaviour. In this instance, he is (in my view) a petulant idiot.
I don’t believe that Garth Brooks even knows half of whats going on here.
This is, to my mind, Aiken and whatever PR company/department they employ playing the whole damn country like a feckin fiddle.
How can you judge him on his behaviour when you don’t even know the public facts of the whole thing?
The original plan was two shows. It possible/probable that behind the scenes, 5 were always planned, who knows though.
Ostensibly, the reason for pulling the shows is that he’s not going to make a profit on 3 based on the cost of the staging for the 5 shows. Could be codology but he he has a history of large stagings so maybe not.
All I know is there are simpleton jobsworths in the GAA and DCC who could have stopped this 6 months ago and sat on their hands. Fault lies with them more than with aiken/brooks
First I’ve heard of this story, but this is how it looks to me.
Brooks purchased $500,000 worth of advertising from a hospital. The hospital reneged on the deal and failed to deliver the purchased advertising space. Brooks asked for his money back, and got a bit extra for his trouble.
There was no donation, there was a business transaction that went bad.
Fair enough, but it makes me wonder about the ‘benevolence of intention’ of all his other charitable efforts. Does he see the misfortune of others as an opportunity to purchase advertising?
I really just can’t stand the faux-cornball jeez-Louise fat bastard.
+1
If honoring his mother who died of cancer is advertising, then you might have a point.
If you were able to disregard your dislike of him enough to look at this objectively then you also might have a point.
He insisted on putting his name on it. He wanted the money back when the hospital reneged on the deal. That’s not charity, that’s advertising.
The fact that his jowly face and vacuum-packed jeans makes my mind itch is beside the point.
Or it’s trying to do something to memorialise his Mum and then getting very irked when they took his money and ignored his wishes. Insisting that it’s just advertising rather creepily dehumanises him by denying the possibility, even probability that there was a real emotional stake in it for him.
Did you bother to read the piece? He gave them money to build a women’s health centre in honour of his mother but they didn’t build it. Demonise him why don’t you.
Give a thing
and take it back
God will ask you
where is that,
You say
You don’t know
God will send you
down below.
Amen.