The Seven Dumbest Things People Have Said (So Far) About The Japan Disaster
Larry Kudlow
"The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that. And the human toll is a tragedy, we know that, but these markets, all these markets, right, stocks, commodities, oil, gold, there is no major breakout or breakdown and I have to look at that positively."
Berita Harian
The Malaysia paper printed a cartoon depicting Japanese cartoon superhero Ultraman attempting to outrun the tsunami.
Cappie Pondexter
"What if God was tired of the way they treated their own people in there own country! Idk guys he makes no mistakes,"
"u just never knw! They did pearl harbor so u can't expect anything less."
Gilbert Gottfried
"Japan called me. They said maybe those jokes are a hit in the U.S., but over here, they're all sinking."
"I was talking to my Japanese real estate agent. I said is there a school in this area.She said not now, but just wait."
Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara
"Japanese politics is tainted with egoism and populism. We need to use the tsunami to wipe out egoism, which has attached itself like rust to the mentality of the Japanese people over a long period of time."
“I think [the disaster] is tembatsu (divine punishment), although I feel sorry for disaster victims,
Glenn Beck
Plenty of people were upset that the Fox News host called the tsunami a "message" from God: "I'm not saying God is, you know, causing earthquakes – well I'm not not saying that either! What God does is God's business, I have no idea. But I'll tell you this – whether you call it Gaia or whether you call it Jesus, there's a message being sent.”
Rush Limbaugh
After a caller asked "If these are the people that invented the Prius, have mastered public transportation, recycling, why did Mother Earth, Gaia if you will, hit them with this disaster?" Limbaugh responded: "He's right. They've given us the Prius. Even now, refugees are recycling their garbage and yet, Gaia levels them! Just wipes them out!"
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