Roger Ebert to Rush Limbaugh: "You should be horse-whipped ..."

Chicago Sun-Times movie critic legend Roger Ebert is, well, a legend for his movie criticism, not his politics. But he makes occasional forays into the political arena, and when he does, he displays both an intelligence and an intensity that does him credit.

He has an open letter to talk show big-head Rush Limbaugh on his web site. I urge you to read it. It is in reference to Limbaugh's suggestion that Obama is out to use the Haiti tragedy for cynical political ends.

Ebert's first sentence: "You should be horse-whipped for the insult you have paid to the highest office of our nation." (If only David Broder could start a column like that.) And it gets better from there.

Limbaugh won't care, of course; having a liberal midwestern media elite criticize him is fodder for his fame. But good people should not let the moral indifference of the Limbaughs of the world prevent them from pointing out the moral indifference of the Limbaughs.

Pat Robertson Speaks to the People of Earth Once Again

Yes, the man who agreed that homosexuals, pro-choicers, and constitutional scholars had caused the 9/11 attacks has spoken again. Pat Robertson, the oracle of oddity, says -- DURING A FUNDRAISING BROADCAST FOR THE PEOPLE OF HAITI following the devastating earthquake there -- that Haiti has been suffering because it made a pact with a devil. And he wasn't speaking metaphorically, like the pact with the devil that is made by everyone who watches this wingnut. No, according to this transcript provided by Media Matters, the Haitians made a literal pact with Darth Maul himself:

And, you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, "We will serve you if you will get us free from the French." True story. And so, the devil said, "OK, it's a deal."

While it's obvious he's politicking to get a spot on a future national ticket with Sarah Palin, he probably has sunk their chances by turning off the large Satan crowd that currently supports them.