Pat Robertson is playing God, saying those infidels in Haiti are just getting what they've deserved ever since their alleged pact with the devil, oh, 200-some years ago. Rush Limbaugh is playing politics, saying Obama is just too damn compassionate toward those thousands of dead furriners and wasn't anywhere near enough upset by the underwear bomber. (Video after the jump.)
Meanwhile, the president is doing what it would be nice to think all Americans expect their president to do: offering help to the victims of one of the worst natural disasters in history. And adding, in his remarks this morning, what sounded like a direct rebuke to Robertson's fire and brimstone:
This article appears in Jan 13-19, 2010.