Class in the Face of the Crass: Responding to Idiotic and Insensitive Representatives from the Right

Let me begin by stating that I think Rush Limbaugh is vile. In the face of obvious devastation in the poorest nation of the Western Hemisphere, Limbaugh decides that the American response to the disaster is not based on charity and good will. No, our response is allegedly based on the President's desire to shore up his street cred with American Negroes of all hues. And, Limbaugh added, because of Obama's overwhelming desire to (what?) keep it real with the black folk, he responded to the Haitian disaster more swiftly than he did to the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas. Add Pat Robertson's Christianist perspective of why Haiti suffered this natural disaster, and you have to wonder who made the pact with the devil. That there are perhaps millions of Americans who actually agree with either of these men is more pitiful and shameful still.

On The Rachel Maddow Show last night, the Haitian Ambassador to the U.S. with his anger sufficiently restrained, offered genuine Christian charity, as well as a history lesson, to Pat Robertson:

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Meanwhile, Keith Olbermann offered a pitch perfect response to the madness emanating from the representatives of the right. Again, it was a pitch perfect response.

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And to see the face of Pras Michel (from the Fugees), after Olbermann responded to his question of what Limbaugh had to say, was to see the face of a person who could not believe that someone would "go there."

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May God have mercy on the souls of Limbaugh and Robertson, as well as those crazy enough actually to agree with their positions on virtually anything.