Pat Robertson, Haiti and The Pact with the Devil

So Pat Robertson blames the earthquake in Haiti on the Devil. That's silly, stupid and offensive. The Haitian Amabassador goes on the Rachel Meadow show and comments on what Robertson said. The sad thing about the ambassador's response was that he NEVER refuted Pat Robertson. He goes into irrelevant tangents about the Louisiana Purchase and Simon Bolivar leading the revolutions against Spain; that the expansion of the US and the freedom of Latin America are results from the Haitian Revolution.




I looked around and almost without exception I see condemnation of Pat Robertson, well deserved by the way, and little comment regarding the Haitian's ambassador non-response. Rachel Maddow, with all her sass and snark, missed it as she described the Haitian ambassador, Raymond Joseph, as having "extreme exception" with the Pat Robertson comment.

She also purposely misrepresented Pat Robertson by saying that he blamed the earthquake on their slave revolt in the 1700s. He didn't blame it on the slave revolt -- he blamed it on their Pact with the Devil. A not so subtle difference for so "sophisticated" a commentator such as Rachel Maddow.

Looking around at blogs I found this: Balk writing at The Awlwrote the

"response by Haitian ambassador Raymond Joseph is so perfect—direct, intelligent, filled with more history in one minute than pretty much anything you see on most news programs all evening—that it deserves as much currency as it can get. It's a shame that we live in a world where something like this is both necessary and remarkable, but there you are."

You've seen the video. You decide. Did the ambassador address the remark by Pat Robertson?

Pat Robertson and Danny Glover, Who is Crazier?

Pat Robertson blames the earthquake on the Haitians making a pact with the devil to get rid of the French (a surprising number of Haitians agree with this!?!) and Danny Glover blames it on George Bush. 

I must say that these Pat Robertson pronouncements have become ordinary and have an internal logic. God sees all and knows all "not a single sparrow can fall to the ground" without God so knowing (Matthew 10:29). As an atheist I obviously disagree with God knowing anything and making a pact with the Devil and yet, as crazy as the previous two propositions are Danny Glover's rant is even crazier.

The earthquake in Haiti happened, according to Danny Glover,

because of global warming
because of climate change
climate summit in Copenhagen (lack of progress)

this is the response to
this is what happened
we have to act now

see 1:55



Obviously both are incorrect. All educated people know that this is all George W. Bush's fault.