Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh and televangelist Pat Robertson are in hot water today, over comments they made in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti that has killed tens of thousands. Critics from all sides are denouncing their remarks as insensitive to the disaster and say each man is attempting to score political points off human tragedy.
On his radio show Wednesday, Limbaugh said the earthquake has played into Obama’s hands, allowing the president to look “compassionate” and “humanitarian” while at the same time bolstering his standing in both the “light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country.” He added: “We’ve already donated to Haiti. It’s called the U.S. income tax.”
Speaking about the disaster during his program The 700 Club on the Christian Broadcasting Network, Robertson believes that when Haiti was still a French colony its leaders “swore a pact to the devil” so as to escape control by the French. “They said, ‘we will serve you if you will get us free from the French.’ True story. And so, the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal,’” Robertson claimed. “But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other,” he continued. “That island of Hispaniola is one island. It is cut down the middle on the one side is Haiti the other is the Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etc. Haiti is in desperate poverty.”
Well, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has had it up to here with the antics of both men, and took to the airwaves this week to denounce both of them. WATCH:
I've already come to expect this type ignorance from Rush Limbaugh. But how does Pat Roberson still call himself a Christian?