It's weird how some figures on the right -- Limbaugh, Robertson, Brooks -- have seemed eager to turn this act of God against Haiti into some kind of "See, I told you so"/teachable moment.
It's shades of post-Katrina: instead of, "You only drowned if you deserved it," it's "That building only fell on your head because you didn't fully embrace capitalism."
My prediction is that we'll continue to hear such sanctimonious sermons from The Rich to The Poor whenever a natural disaster strikes a country that is not sufficiently Christian and/or doing its sweaty best to live out the received wisdom of neo-liberal globalist agenda.
URL: http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2010/01/18/translating-david-brooks-haiti/
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