The response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti shows once again how the best of us rise to the top like cream and the worst of us sink to the bottom like sludge.
TV Evangelist Pat Robertson and radio fulminator Rush Limbaugh both responded to the disaster with idiotic statements about its cause and effect.
On the CBN network, Robertson said the earthquake was a “Blessing in disguise.” Then he left sanity behind and jumped into fantasy by saying that Haitians had made a pact with the Devil.
Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people may not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever, and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, 'We will serve you if you get us free from the French.' True story. And so the Devil said, 'Okay, it’s a deal.' …But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other."
Robertson ignored the fact that Haiti gained its independence from France in 1804. That’s 206 years ago, so it is highly unlikely that there is anyone in Haiti who made this fictitious deal with the Devil.
But if Robertson is right, doesn’t this mean that if your ancestors did something sinful in 1804, you’re also going to go to hell for it?
Pat Robertson doesn’t care about the people suffering in Haiti. With his inflated ego, Robertson only cares about himself, and his television ratings.
Rush Limbaugh’s comments about Haiti also totally ignore the reality of the situation. On his radio show, he said the response to the earthquake is all about politics.
This will play right into Obama's hands, humanitarian, compassionate. They'll use this burnish, shall we say, creditability with the black community, both the light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country. It's made the order form - that's why it could not wait to get out there.”
Limbaugh, with the lack of logic that’s become his trademark, thinks that every move the President Obama makes is politically calculated. Limbaugh doesn’t talk about the relief effort as a humanitarian task that we are morally obligated to undertake.
To Limbaugh, the relief effort is just more left-wing politics. But as usual, Rush is wrong.
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