MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was in rare form on Saturday night. First he makes the patently absurd statement that, “You’ve got to join the priesthood to help poor people.” He then switches to the problems of the poor in Africa:
The countries are staying poor, they’re going from Third World
to Fourth World, the best people in those countries, the people in
their twenties and thirties with the best educations are dying of AIDS.
It’s not stopping. The drug companies are not helping. Nobody’s
helping. They’re just dying over there by the millions.
After that litany of disaster he then offers this:
I’m not
speaking as a journalist, I guess, for a second, I’m just saying, as an
American, as a person looking at this, I was over there in the Peace
Corps, I tell you, anybody that looks at Africa and doesn’t think
something has to be done is blind.
My question, then, is what good did
Matthews and the thousands of Peace Corps volunteers do? Sure, their
motives were good, their intentions were pure, but what did they
accomplish? Not much, if you listen to Matthews.
