A Little Perspective

Neal Boortz is ticked. Randall Robinson at the Huffington Post wrote the most hate-filled, poverty- and race-pimping article I've seen since Katrina struck. Neal Boortz has a few comments for him, such as this:

You say that you're angry at your country for doing nothing when it mattered. Nothing? Just what country, Mr. Robinson, were those helicopters and rescue swimmers from that I saw on Tuesday morning plucking victims – black victims – from rooftops? Did those helicopters make a supersonic flight across the Atlantic from the African continent to assist in the rescue effort?

For the past three nights my family, my wife and daughter, have been working Red Cross and Salvation Army telephone banks, Mr. Robinson. They were taking donations from Americans to help the victims of Katrina. My wife would have to beg volunteers to go home because there were only so many telephones, and there were more volunteers lined up outside that wanted to help. Did you see any of this, Mr. Robinson? I rather doubt it. You were too busy seething with hatred for America, Mr. Robinson, to have learned of this particular phone bank, and of the tens of thousands of like-minded Americans who were lining up across America looking for a way to help. Since you are so seething with race-based animosity, Mr. Robinson, let me share something else with you. Every single time I walked into that phone room; every single time I saw those volunteers on the phones on television; every single time, Mr. Robinson, the vast majority of those volunteers were white. This phone bank, Mr. Robinson, was deep in the heart of a majority-black city, and the bulk of the volunteers were white. These are the Americans who you said were "doing nothing when it mattered."

The sad thing is, the Bush-haters don't want anyone to see any of the positive that's going on down there, and all across the country. I daresay they care little about the anguish and suffering people are going through in Louisiana and Mississippi. Nope, the more suffering they can show the American people, the more they can bash President Bush. That, in effect, is all they're after. Not more help for the victims. What good is all of this whining and complaining doing those people?

More from Boortz:

Let's talk a bit more about coming to help those in desperate straights, Mr. Robinson. Helicopters show up at New Orleans hospitals to evacuate patients, and they're fired on by black predators in the streets. People show up to help, and blacks try to murder them. They you have the outrageous audacity to claim that America is doing nothing, that nobody is coming to help.

Friday afternoon we heard that blacks showed up outside the BellSouth building in St. Bernard's Parish. Inside that building were BellSouth employees who had been trapped there by the water. Black employees, white employees, who wanted nothing more than to get out. Did the blacks you're so concerned about show up to help rescue the BellSouth workers? No .. they showed up to loot. They showed up to kill. They started firing on the BellSouth building, and on the law enforcement personnel who showed up to help. There is word that one police officer or national guardsman was killed, Mr. Robinson. Are you going to write that they were doing nothing when they met their death?

I'd love to see Robinson answer some of these questions, but of course he won't. He, like his fellow jerks at the Huffington Post, DU, Daily Kos, etc., are after one thing, and one thing only: damage this President and his presidency, and get their power back. That's all this is about. Their compassion is fake, their concern is fake, their patriotism is fake. I think I detect a pattern.