joe klein who is a brighter for at time magazine recently wrote a piece about
the importance of public service when the community comes together
to help in disaster relief
and he was specifically addressing the tornado that occurred in oklahoma last
month
and he said something about that
angered a lot of the eighty s understandably so he said the following
but there was an occupying army of relief workers lead
by local first responders exhausted but still pumping it uh... pumping it uwi
after the storm
is not the right word that i i wouldn't use that word in this context i don't
know if it does mean working but it's an art show it isn't art show is okay
some something else capitalist or
church groups from all over the country
they don't see organized groups of secular humanists giving out hot meals
and they're in the middle of it all with a purposeful military military swagger
were the volunteers from team rubicam
so i don't know why there was this unnecessary chabba at eight years
it was unnecessary and be it wasn't
highly inaccurate and um... i won't
share white was an actor in just a minute but i wanted john spots yes uh...
my first thought is screwed joe klein uh... so but i'm not entirely familiar
with humor become but why were they purposefully swaggering like they were
in the military
that seems like the knob creek will bring up but the last refuge of for a
second
because i think it's actually mislabeled
any of the first the second
it's a joke lang journalist
that's an odd label for him maybe mediocre journalist that best because he
did not look he made this assertion uh... casting aspersions on possibly
something like twenty twenty five percent of the populations country
without doing any research whatsoever to find out if this ridiculous thing he's
saying was actually true as your show and now honey it wasn't true yes allowed
their number graphics uprooting iran let's go to the first one
more than forty three hundred people donated more than one hundred twenty
thousand dollars for the family of a back up its name
uh... she promised to donate to add to charity
whatever money she doesn't need it for those of you who are familiar with bits
men she was a woman who was a viral video out with wolf blitzer
i'm she was unfortunately a victim of the turner tornado and wolf blitzer was
ask your questions about a and he kept asking i did you pray to god and she was
like
uh... i'm actually navy is so i don't pray to god but i don't blame others who
did pray to god yeah uh... and if you back ups community came together and
they donated a significant amount of money to her so she can rebuild your
home on a few other examples are foundation beyond belief raise over
forty five thousand dollars for operation u_s_a_
and other regional food bank uh... oklahoma eight he's giving a tour is
over eighteen thousand dollars that will be given to local relief groups in more
oklahoma and directly to families
that need help
members of free oklahoma it is group
helps families who need wreckage removed from their property locally pews have
such as oklahoma eight the s_p_ peace community of tulsa and locked in the
area secular society
norman naturalism group
and oklahoma state secular organization have organized volunteers are organized
volunteers resources and what drives so there's a lot
you know secularists
coming together trying to help people who are victims of these natural
disasters and i think that it was very irresponsible of joe klein to make that
assertion in his piece
i mean is already get it act
when they shouldn't be attacked and another thing i just want to mention
yes charged groups go to these even i'm not event is not the right with a church
groups go to the sabotage efforts of disasters and and usually they will have
white t-shirts are something promoting the charts they come from
but interests and secularists don't do that they don't they don't go to the
events would like
shirts that say hey i'm an atheist what's going on beaches go there because
they genuinely want to help them out of the labeled as something that is their
standard operating procedure like this is
we're going to go to but this is also a great recruiting opportunity like that
i'm not saying that some of these groups didn't have to show to whatever but that
that's why it was more difficult to identify those groups
um... but yes the we have missiles long list of charities donation drives and
things like that
in job climbed the fence he would have taken minutes of googling to track down
this information
uh... and so i i already reference i don't think he's much of a journalist
for for
uh... attacking addison-wesley knows a good mood who is a journalist
is radley balcom local option vote compiled all this information for so
kajal bradley
but anyway i so it sucks that he felt the need to use this terrible tragedy to
attack the yes but don't mistake wife he's doing it phyllis of socially
acceptable groups the groups that socially acceptable to attack in america
is
becoming a shorter list every year and that's progress
but for whatever reason atheists are still on a group of stock easy to label
them as outsiders
and people will will support you for that am i hope that that will change in
the future i think that we are moving in that that direction but as maybe if i
keep it is so pleasing to do this sort of stuff it is easy but i think it's
becoming increasingly difficult because now when you attack eighty as there are
these court it is a season groups of people that come after you and i did
happy here
you know this as some said that he is happy with morality
is a ridiculous one ac morality is not something that you or we get from
religion and it's something make u
figure out for yourself
be a good person is not necessarily something that religion a teaches you
the golden rule existed long before was included in some form in the bible yeah