I would not be at all surprised if the RED Cross leadership would have refused to let him appear at all. Now, Alec Baldwin singing the Internationale, or Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Arafat doing a kissing duet of some "peaceful islamic" song, would be a different story.
As Merle Haggard once sang, "When you're running down my country, hoss, you're walking on the fighting side of me."
Donate to ARC? What, are you nuts? My parents taught me better than that.