MSNBC Ridicules Romney for Collecting Food and Supplies for Sandy Victims

This one is really hard to believe, even for the most biased so-called "news network" in the nation.

MSNBC on Tuesday totally trashed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for collecting food and supplies at a storm rally event in Ohio to be sent to victims of Hurricane Sandy (video follows with transcript and commentary):

After introducing his Obama-supporting guests Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and Lehigh professor James Peterson, host Martin Bashir played a clip of the President speaking at the Red Cross headquarters in Washington Tuesday.

When the clip concluded, Bashir said, “Mayor Reed, so the Red Cross knows what it’s doing. Did he, did you detect perhaps a subtle dig there on Mr. Romney who spent today going against the guidelines established by the Red Cross and holding a campaign rally in Ohio that was dressed up like a charity drive collecting food and other supplies when the Red Cross expressly asked people not to do that?”

Imagine that. A presidential candidate who gives millions of dollars a year to charity does a storm relief event in Ohio, and an MSNBC anchor is disgusted by it because the Red Cross would prefer people donating cash.

I heard the same stories over and over from my grandfather. One in particular was after clearing the beachheads in Leyti Gulf. Food was sparse, and they were shooting down coconuts and breaking them anyway they could. The Red Cross had some of the GI’s set up a beautiful tent one day. Later he noted they called the officers in first, and he witnessed the officers coming out with coffee and donuts. About late afternoon, after the GI’s were rampantly hungry and angry about watching the officers walk out smiling, smoking, and joking, the Red Cross called everyone else to come on over, they were now open for all!. The GI’s were so excited he said. When they got inside, there were two lines, one for GI’s the other for officers. The officer line was free coffee and donuts, the GI line was “cash and carry”. What was worse, was that he said they were selling sheets of paper for a nickel. He said guys were asking for paper to write home with, and they were charging a nickel a sheet. He said you could get a stack of paper for a nickel anywhere else. He said one guy was very upset about this, and a captain tried to calm him down. The guy was so pissed my grandfather said. Finally, the captain told the red cross lady that there would have no selling of paper, something to the effect of “these boys have been through hell and back, and if they want a sheet of paper, you’ll give it to them, because those amphibious tanks behind the tent, have bad brakes, and one could just roll through here, and if you get these boys mad, they’ll just watch it roll on in”. All the GI’s laughed at the implied threat, and after that, sheets of paper were free.

He never game a dime to the Red Cross, even when the company he worked for told all the employees that they “expected a good donation” from everyone. He told them to shove it.

But he always gave generously to the Salvation Army, and left a good amount to them in his estate when he passed away.

He made sure all of us kids and grand-kids knew how the Red Cross treated them when they were overseas.

I’ve told that story a few times, and someone told me years ago that that was the “international red cross”, not the American Red Cross. I don’t know if that is true or not, maybe someone smarter than me could elaborate.

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