Fatso and Fatwa

Rush and Pat – one needs to get off drugs and the other needs his medication adjusted. Pat Robertson, who does business as a Christian minister, issued a fatwa encouraging the killing of an elected leader of a democratic country. Fortunately, Pat finally apologized. I'm not a professional, preacher, but may I suggest ministering or praying instead of killing? Rush Limbagh is supposed to have characterized Katrina's destruction of New Orleans as God's vengeance for sin – Sodom and Gemorrah updated. [In the Bible story, God agreed to spare S&G if Abraham could find even a handful of decent people in the city (Abe bargains respectfully with God: initially 50, finally only 10 innocents would have saved the city. Genesis 18).] I exposed myself to the big lies on his site for as long as I could take (although I happen to also think attributing Katrina to global warming is stupid - but not because there isn't global warming). However, I cannot find anything explicit in the transcripts. Plenty of pompous, arrogant, dangerous stupidity, but no explicit gloating.

Insensitive is insufficient to describe these two. Self absorbed stupidity is more accurate. Maybe they don't have any real friends left in their entourages - just a bunch of hangers-on, all dependent on the status quo. Hangers-on can help a famous person deny any problem, even if the problem is obvious to most independent observers. These people need their real friends or religious leaders or someone to tell them to take a breath - without expelling it through their vocal cords.