Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh...When, Oh When, Will God 'Call Them Home'?

Unless you've been off the planet recently, you may have heard of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Thousands dead or hurt, many missing, massive damage...and, as often happens, America, even when facing some pretty major problems of her own, steps up to help. In fact, I've heard that George Clooney is gearing up for another helping Marathon to raise cash for the cause, much like the 9/11 he did (hopefully, Bill O'Reilly's head will have been surgically removed from his ass, and he won't be a tool about this one).

Well, guess what? Some people in the States seem to think otherwise, that help from us might not be a good thing. I'm speaking of Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh.
Robertson (I haven't called this THING a 'Reverend' for quite some time) says that Haiti is simply reaping what it had sown in the past, because it "Make a pact with the Devil" to overthrow the French during its Colonial period.
Limbaugh has a different tact: he says that Obama is trying to politicize and capitalize on the disaster, because why else would he wait three days before talking about the UnderPants Bomber in Detroit, yet speak about Haiti THE VERY NEXT DAY?!?! (emphasis mine).

God, I don't even know where to start....
So, I'll just have this quote from Keith Olbermann's January 13th show speak for me. It's far more eloquent than anything I could come up with.

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OLBERMANN: Back to Haiti in a moment, and reports now that quake victims in Haiti from the United States have been evacuated to, of all places, Guantanamo Bay. The first subject of the quick comment tonight is still the matter of Haiti, but relating to back here.

Even the worst of us in this political mosh pit of the early 21st century can stop, on occasion, in grief and in human sympathy, in mourning, or just in self-preservation. Not Rush Limbaugh and not Pat Robertson. We‘ll explore this at length later.

But Mr. Robertson, it is laughable now to try to call him reverend, explained today that this earthquake was part of a, quote, “deal with the devil,” that he claims the nation made in the 19th century to gain its freedom from France. “True story,” Robertson says.

Sir, because of your tone deafness, and your delight in human misery, and your dripping, self-satisfied, holier than thou, senile crap, I am now likelier to believe that you are the devil.

Limbaugh, meantime, did not know just when to shut up. Today he blamed communism for the poverty of Haiti, blamed President Obama for holding a news conference the day after this cataclysm, when he did not hold one after the failed, half assed attempt in Detroit, and said that Obama would, quote, “use Haiti to,” quote, “burnish their, shall we say, credibility with the black community in the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country.”

Mr. Robertson, Mr. Limbaugh, your lives are not worth those of the lowest, meanest, poorest of those victims still lying under that rubble in Haiti tonight. You serve no good. You serve no God. You inspire only stupidity and hatred. And I would wish you to hell. But knowing how empty your souls must be for you to be able to say such things in a time of such pain, I suspect the vacant, purposeless lives you both live now are hell enough already.
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Thank you, Keith.