Yesterday Mitt Romney turned a previously scheduled campaign event in Ohio into a hurricane relief event. Romney asked supporters to bring canned goods and other supplies to help storm victims recover on the East Coast. He only spoke for ten minutes at the event and quickly jumped in to help load supplies. His campaign bus has been accepting hurricane relief donations since Monday in Northern Virginia. Sounds like a great idea right? Not according to MSNBC. Reporters and anchors at the far-left TV outlet were appalled at Romney's efforts to give back to the community, after all, his charity and generosity doesn't fit with their "Romney is an evil rich guy who doesn't care about regular people" narrative.
Are these people sick? And yes you heard them correctly, they are actually criticizing Romney for trying to help people.
With all due respect to the Red Cross, they do amazing work, but they are also a large bureaucracy set up like the federal government. Andrea Mitchell made the point in the first video that Romney was collecting things "the Red Cross doesn't need" and that the Red Cross wants blood and money (which by the way, people like Mitt Romney are capable of donating large sums of money to organizations like the Red Cross because they are personally wealthy, something MSNBC has continually demonized). Okay, just because the Red Cross doesn't "want or need" the things people brought to the hurricane relief event held by Romney yesterday, doesn't mean people on the ground in areas hit by the storm don't need those things. During Hurricane Katrina, the Red Cross turned away hundreds of citizens in boats ready to help rescue people and guess what? People stranded on their roof tops died as a result. The way to help people affected by the storm doesn't have to come through only the centrally controlled Red Cross and despite what MSNBC thinks, events like the one held by Romney yesterday are very helpful and beneficial to hurricane victims. If you're interested in helping out, you can find more information here.
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