Lend Me Your Ears

By GAIL COLLINS
NYT

This just in from the Christian Broadcasting Network: The Rev. Pat Robertson did not say that the earthquake in Haiti was the result of God’s wrath at the Haitians for making a pact with the devil to get out from under French colonial rule.

A spokesman, Chris Roslan explained that all Mr. Robertson was saying is that Haiti is cursed. I hope that clears everything up.

By the way, our topic for today is failure to communicate.

This weekend, all eyes are on Massachusetts, where voters appear to be trying to send a message, although we’re not quite clear on what it is.

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