Sometimes rhetoric is just about identification, and I hope that subject line identifies me properly. Robertson probably doesn’t warrant any more analysis than what Olbermann provided, but Scott McLemee over at Crooked Timber has an interesting piece that examines the relationship between Haiti’s revolutionary Toussaint and Voodoo. The only lines you really need:
Naturally this god—like any of the loas presumably also invoked before the uprising began—would not count as a “devil” in the eyes of the believers. But then you can’t exactly expect Rev. Pat to be that interested in the nuances of Voodoo theology.
Ill Doctrine offers a brief nod to America’s debt to Toussaint and our responsibilities.
