Michael Seitzman: You Have To Be Cruel To Be Their Kind
First Glenn Beck glibly tells his cult that the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is God's wrath, "There's a message being sent and that is, 'Hey, you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well.'" Then yesterday Rush Limbaugh mocks the Japanese victims, laughing as he taunts, ""If these are the people that invented the Prius, have mastered public transportation, recycling, why did Mother Earth, Gaia if you will, hit them with this disaster? Even now refugees are recycling their garbage and yet Gaia levels them! Just wipes them out!" [...]
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See, this is what I think we get when we're no longer allowed to use satire and parody, is just outright cruelty. The thing of it is, why do Glenn, Rush, and their ilk feel the need to denigrate these peoples' systems of belief when they're in the midst of this? It's one thing to poke good-natured fun when things are fine and everybody's essentially happy and healthy (not that what's being said here is either good-natured or fun), but this is just kickin' people who are already down.
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