The politicizing of Haiti

I would say this of very few people, very few. Coulter is a sick bitch!

Rush Limbaugh – many words, little said

Pat Robertson – just called the U.S. the devil, after all the U.S. wanted Haiti to start importing rice instead of making it and Haiti got real poor, real quick as a result

Ann Coulter – ummm, yeah, you just go off topic over there where you won't influence anybody but yourself

Taylor Momsen – let's face it, you should deal with your own stuff first, sure her stuff isn't all the important but ya gotta have priorities

The Spearhead – because male pigs need a place to congregate and say really, really, really stupid things

Glenn Beck – I bet he sews and reads women liberation journals while at home

Rachel Maddow – good try, but you might have wanted a bit more 'bleeding heart' and a little less 'analyst', and lose the smile…it's scaring the children

Danny Glover – because actors always know what's best, or in this case, don't

Hugo Chavez – we already knew he was nuts, and he doesn't seem all that much so when compared to Ann Coulter

I'm not sure how stating factually accurate information and making logical arguments based on said info is "politicizing". I see Maclean's is doing the ol' "quote uncontentious stuff right wing people say and not say anything else as if the words they speak are damning in themselves" schtick; for example, the Spearhead is critical of feminist groups who are, um. politicizing this by gender targeting aid. That's not exactly an outlandish criticism.

You should be including these feminist groups here as people who are politicizing this, not the men's groups who are, rightly, critical of said politicization. What if, for example, a black aid group (is there such a thing, btw?) targeted blacks over mullatos for aid, or, heaven forbid, a white group were to target their aid for whites? You'd surely be critical of that, yes? Then why the free pass for the misandrous feminist groups?

frenchie LOL, so true. Wouldn't it be nice if people actually got some history under their belts?
Here is a blogpost I read today that is just chock full of great links to help.
http://paulsgraham.ca/index.php/2010/01/19/haiti-…

Of course we the people didn't politicize first, nor even the media (who are stupid) it was our very own governments who want the oil and minerals. Yes, sad, it's always about the oil.

Catastrophe is political; so, it ought not surprise anyone that a humanitarian crisis such as Haiti brings political perspective to the fore.

I just read Michael Petrou's report from Port-au-Prince in Maclean's. Was he "politicizing Haiti" with his observations about big aid organizations, the approach they take to disaster, and how slowly help comes through them? Was his ever-so-slight suggestion that these organizations might be wasting millions in resources a political comment?

You know they could be right about all the retribution stuff…bolts of lightning from the sky…swarms of locusts…the almighty…Zeus…or whomever smacking the sinners around…

…but if they are right, they better watch their sorry asses.

…sorry to hear about the poor service at the resort in Haiti…see what happens when you piss off tourists who have no idea what it is like to live on $2 a day. Guess they had it comming.

Oh, and I just read that comment by Coulter. How is that politicizing the disaster? She made a joke about Clinton. Big whoop. Even Limbaugh. He speaks for three hours a day. Says on thing about Haiti and taxes, and the left-wing jumps all over the guy. Just like they smeared him with false accusations of making racist comments a few weeks back. Man. This is all you guys have? No wonder they're so successful, and why you get so mad at them.

As much as Pat Robertson has said some dumb things in the past, yes, I consider him a Christian. He and his organization have helped countless millions around the world lift their lives from poverty and other ailments of the human condition. But he's against homosexuality, abortion, and other things that secularists and leftists champion, so why not obsess on his every word and call him every name in the book?