Funny, no one has applied the same scrutiny to what Danny Glover has said about Haiti.
That's because Glover's remark is simply stupid beyond stupid and totally unanchored in reality.
Robertson's remark is stupid in a more interesting way: he is taking the easy way out on the problem of theodicy. Remember that the Lisbon earthquake figured prominently in Voltaire's attacks on Christianity and Leibniz. In, perhaps trying to fight his own unbelief, Robertson ends up not even like the uncomprehending disciples in John's Gospel asking about whose sin was the cause of the man being born blind, but like the Pharisees who denounce him after the blind man's healing, "you were born in utter sin and would you teach us?.
Although his remarks were beyond stupid I doubt we will ever see the Liberal establishment eat one of their own...especially a mouthpiece like Glover.