I agreed to appear at the Red Cross Ball tonight,”Blaming the Red Cross is a nice Hollyweird touch.
He’s not blaming anybody. Contractual obligations are contractual obligations. He got paid to go there, they’ve been paid by people expecting to rub elbow with him, this happens. People miss funerals because they have other obligations, it happens, funerals are short notice things, and smart folks know the living take precedence, the dead can wait until there’s a hole in your schedule.