Pat Robertson Is the Worst Person Alive

We can't say it's unexpected, but it's also true. When you blame Haiti for that earthquake, you're pretty much the biggest dick on the planet.

"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," Robertson said on his Christian Broadcasting Network show. "They were under the heel of the French . . . and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, 'We will serve you if you'll get us free from the French.'

"True story. And the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal,' " Robertson said. "Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another."

So one of the worst natural disasters to hit the Western hemisphere in the past 100 years is due to an alleged pact with the devil? Are you kidding?

No amount of backtracking will take back those comments. We'd like to point out that not only is Robertson a giant dick, he's also a heartless, hypocritical dick: He struck up a tight friendship with Mobutu Sese Seko, the totalitarian President of Zaire responsible for one of the most brutal regimes in modern African history. So, there's that. We're guessing Robertson has some justification for being friends with mass murderers?

Haiti's Ambassador to the US Raymond Joseph offered a scathing rebuttal to Mr. Robertson. The fact that he was willing to respond to Robertson at all is remarkable in itself. His response is so direct, so smart, and so obviously based in facts that it makes Roberts look like the most miserably stupid person on TV today. Cartoon rabbits have more credibility than Robertson at this point.

We've got nothing more to add, except that if you'd prefer not to live in a vengeful Old Testament universe like that of Pat Robertson, act compassionately: Donate to Haiti relief efforts.