In case you haven’t heard, televangelist Pat Robertson has said that the Haitian people have 
bad things happen to them because they made a pact with the Devil in exchange with getting the French out of their country many years ago. Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh has been spouting all sorts of ludicrous vitriol regarding President Obama using this tragedy to curry favor with the Black community and also taking him to task for holding a press conference the day after the earthquake but not the day after the failed bombing in Detroit. Limbaugh also has said, “We already donated to Haiti. It’s called the U.S. income tax.” What does that even mean?/Andrea Reiher, Zap 2 News. More here.
Question: Do you believe the comments by Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh reflect the sentiments of their constituencies? Or are they being individually clueless?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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