Guess who made stupid comments about the Haitian Earthquake

[synkr0nized]

Originally Posted by Mirai Gen

Woman listener called him up and challenged his moral compass. Limbaugh's response: "You have tampons in your ears."

His adversarial tone and... bad choice of what to say aside, without knowing anything about Limbaugh the full transcript of the conversation makes the caller look really uninformed and stupid and Limbaugh happily smug, in my opinion. Good thing his true nature shows through in how he answers her.

[Amake]

Originally Posted by Premonitions

I need a word for religious sterotyping and such.

From now on, the word for prejudice against a given religion and/or its practitioners is "blasphemy".

Glad I could help.

[Lyaer]

Originally Posted by Premonitions

Cool, also, vaguely... racist? anti-Voodoo, Religion.. ist? I need a word for religious sterotyping and such. My sense of humor loves the hell out of it though, Hope it goes for a lot for Haiti's sake.

Hmm. Point. It is very pop-culture Voodoo, and popular portrayals of minority religions are almost never a good thing. And clearly whoever did this doesn't take the perceived supernatural beliefs of that religion very seriously, or this would really count as attempted murder. I would argue that this is probably the best use of a popular portrayal of voodoo I have ever seen, especially given the clear intended irony, but I'll grant given the circumstances that, in retrospect, it probably isn't in the best taste.

I hear the term "religious bigotry" bandied about in the same context as racism etc. Though bigoted might be too strong a term to apply to this instance.

EDIT: I'll take blasphemy.

[Mirai Gen]

Originally Posted by synkr0nized

His adversarial tone and... bad choice of what to say aside, without knowing anything about Limbaugh the full transcript of the conversation makes the caller look really uninformed and stupid and Limbaugh happily smug, in my opinion. Good thing his true nature shows through in how he answers her.

Well everything that Limbaugh does is to make people act or seem uninformed on his show using logical fallacies. My personal favorite is comparing the urgency behind Haiti's destructive earthquakes and people in need to the Christmas Day bomber who was caught and detained. The fact that he uses such inane, pointlessly misogynistic terms to do it just solidifies how batshit crazy he really is.

I love how the caller demands to know why he said 'don't donate,' but then when he says 'Obama's office will steal money' she doesn't bat an eyelash.

EDIT: Oh the whole "messing with the media" and "I love people who flip out" is most certainly backpedaling. It's Limbaugh's 'I meant to do that.'

[Archbio]

From now on, the word for prejudice against a given religion and/or its practitioners is "blasphemy".

But that just means that we don't have a word for "not giving religion the respect its authorities say it's entitled to" anymore!

[Kepor]

On a different note, response to the quake has been rather impressive.

[Viridis]

Originally Posted by Kepor

On a different note, response to the quake has been rather impressive.

I've heard it's topping the response to that tsunami a few years back, which really buoyed my faith in people when it happened.



The most pertinent thing applied to Pat Robertson:

Originally Posted by Frederick Douglass

Between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest, possible difference–so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.

That describes Robertson. Also, some blog post I also think makes good points in analyzing Robertson's motivations.

Sorry, I know we don't usually discuss religion, but I just wanted to show why no sensible person should confuse most of Christianity with Robertson's brand of it.

[Mirai Gen]

Whenever inexplicable tragedy occurs, Robertson rushes in to make his unique sort of sense out of the senselessness and to reassure his listeners that they will never have to suffer.

It's like an even more Bible-whipped Jack Thompson.

[TheSparrow]

I can't believe that entire thread, and seven pages of bashing Robertson and Rush, but not a single mention of Danny Glover, who was probably just as stupid as those two?

Mr. Glover blamed the earthquake on Global Warming and our failure to act on it.

"What happened in Haiti could happen to anywhere in the Caribbean because all these island nations are in peril because of global warming. When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I'm sayin'?"

[Viridis]

But... wah?

Okay, I don't think he meant to say "Global warming leads to earthquakes" but more like... "Other places could end up like Haiti is right now because global warming leads to disasters (floods, hurricanes, I guess?)."

It's still weird, though. Especially given the second sentence.