Beth Stern, Howard Stern’s wife, just a few days ago released a seagull on the beach in East Hampton, a bird she had rescued with the help of people from the Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons.
She’d found the seagull while walking on the beach near her Hamptons house and noticed that the bird’s bill was caught in fishing wire, preventing it from being able to eat. She helped save the bird, and then made a short video of its release (you can watch it below).
Then the haters began to arrive. Many bloggers and celebrity writers have had a decidedly negative reaction to the video, saying they think it is self-serving or pointing out how awful the accompanying music and other such comments.
Yes, the video is horrific in terms of how cheesy it is. But if you think this is about Beth Stern’s trying to increase her fame or popularity by showing herself releasing a bird on a beach, you are an idiot. This is about Beth Stern using her celebrity to support and gain attention for the Wild Life Rescue Center of the Hamptons, which is in constant need of donations to keep things going. It’s also about somebody finding joy in rescuing an animal that was in trouble. To try and make some kind of argument that doing something like that is lame or stupid means you are not only likely a pathetically jealous person, but maybe also a bit of a jerk…who should be hoping he never winds up on a beach with his head wrapped up in fishing wire when Beth Stern walks by.
I’m a huge animal lover and appreciate the efforts made here and understand everyone’s heart was in the right place — my only thought is … a seagull? really? I mean survival of the fittest means smartest too doesn’t it? The other gulls didn’t get caught in the fishing line so they survived – am I being horrible here? I just don’t know if the seagull population (much like the deer or tick or flea population) on the East End needs a lot of time or money spent on increasing it’s numbers. However, if this serves to show the wonderful work the Wild Life Rescue Center does than I’ll keep my mouth shut moving forward and Hip Hip Hooray for Beth and the Center – and the gull too.
Each year the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center rehabilitates over 1300 wild animals. Thanks to Beth Stern an Honorary Board member, including Ellen and Chuck Scarborough, Ingrid and Thomas J. Edelman and other supportive board members. Thanks to Virginia Frati, the founder of this Humanitarian Wild life Rescue Center, and the wonderful caring volunteers that give of themselves, their time and energy. Good work is being done here on the East End. A wonderful place and wonderful people live here.
Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons
http://www.wildliferescuecenter.org/
David, is there a celebrity you WON’T suck up to? The music IS cheesy, and seagulls are like cockroaches, and the fact that Howard got involved in this idiocy shows that sometimes we become what we hate. This silly broad needs a hobby.
DrEngine,
As the incredibly beautiful and brilliant Ina Garten once said, “You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can’t be miserable while you are eating a cookie.” And as the eloquent and brilliant Hamptonite P. Diddy, also known as Puff Daddy once said, “Haters wanna stop my lute,they don’t want me wearing Sean John, they want me wearing lawn suits.”
And as the always politically brilliant Alec Baldwin once said….
And as the always truthful Hamptonite Martha Stewart once said…
And as the completely humble, non-ego maniacal Hamptonite Hilary Clinton once said…
And as the perpetually sober Hamptonite Jimmy Buffet once said…
‘ seagulls are like cockroaches… sometimes we become what we hate ‘
Very sad Dr. Engine. You even hate cockroaches.
David, you’re wasting all your good future blog posts!
I don’t remember that quote from Ina Garten. I thought it went: “You can be a decent human being BEFORE you refuse to see a young cancer patient, it’s hard to be a decent human being AFTER refusing to see a young cancer patient, and you’re a self-centered, worthless human being WHEN you refuse to see a young cancer patient.” Wasn’t that the saying?
Dennis, I don’t hate cockroaches. I don’t even hate seagulls. I hate sychophantic, suck-up, celebrity journalism. And if anyone thinks for one second that Beth didn’t do this at least PARTLY to draw attention to herself, you’re insane. After all, she could have easily picked up the bird and brought it to the Wildlife Rescue Center without making a literal production out of it. She gains as much as the Center does; don’t be naive.