Pitts: Some conservatives without conscience

As babies were being pulled, crushed and broken, from the rubble.

As people lay writhing on cardboard mats, gashed and moaning under the sun.

As families placed their loved ones out at the curb for pickup, like garbage.

As Haiti reeled and staggered and the rest of the world rushed to the aid of a humble, beleaguered people, two icons of American conservatism reared up recently and offered analyses of the earthquake that has devastated the impoverished island nation.

The Rev. Pat Robertson opined on his program, "The 700 Club," that Haiti's woes stem from the fact that it made a deal with the devil two centuries ago and now is "cursed."

Rush Limbaugh suggested the relief effort would "play right into" President Obama's hands, allowing him to appear "humanitarian, compassionate" and thus, "burnish" his standing within the African-American community.

It left me wondering, just for the briefest of seconds, whether conservatism has a conscience, whether conservatism has a soul.

Yes, you're right. It is a fundamentally unfair question, if only because conservatives like columnist Kathleen Parker and TV personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck of "The View" promptly took the men to task.

And yet, by the same token, this is hardly the first time this has happened. To the contrary, it has become routine that after disasters both natural and human, icons of conservatism spout hateful, hurtful, cynical words, words that belittle the victims and trivialize the suffering.

As in Neal Boortz blaming the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina on the "worthless parasites" who lived in New Orleans.

As in Michael Savage reportedly saying the United States should not send "one nickel" of aid to South Asia when a tsunami killed 226,000 people because it is "a hotbed of radical Islam."

As in Jerry Falwell blaming the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that took 3,000 lives on gays, feminism, abortion and the ACLU.

And if it is un

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