Dallas Mom Apologizes

On TV today, the mom of the girl who lied about her daddy dying in Iraq to win Hannah Montana tickets apologized. The tickets are being awarded to another family. Whoo hooo. Here is what one site reports,

Priscilla Ceballos came under the brutal media spotlight on 28 December when it surfaced that the essay written by her 6-year old daughter proclaiming the father had died in Iraq, was indeed false.

Ceballos intially claimed that the rules didn’t say anything about it needing to be a true essay. This is a classic example of the “spirit of the law v. the letter of the law.”

Club Libby Lu has awarded the makeover and Hannah Montana tickets to another child.

Ceballos appeared this morning on NBC’s Today show to apologize publicly for the situation. She said she has told her child the truth about why she won’t be attending the concert.

This is a sad commentary on the shallowness of today’s society when tickets for a tween concert can compel people to act in this nature. I imagine that Ceballos was attempting to give her daughter something that was desperately wanted but the means did not justify the end.