Two days after terrorists flew hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Jerry Falwell said God allowed the attacks “to give us probably what we deserve.” He said, “The ACLU’s got to take a lot of blame for this,” and went on to assign blame to People for the American Way, federal courts, feminists, gays and abortion rights supporters, “all of them who tried to secularize America.” (Listen to him here.)

Today, Falwell is in serious condition at Lynchburg General Hospital. The Washington Post reports that doctors have upgraded him from critical to “serious but stable.” We must hope that he recovers, so he can tell us why God is punishing him.

That, religious right, is what a low blow feels like.

Saudi columnist Dr. Sulaiman Al Hattlan, on the PBS program Frontline:

I think the whole culture of education in Saudi Arabia gave people dangerous tools—tools to teach people how to hate, tools of hatreds, tools of anger—not tools of understanding the reality of the world.

That sounds a lot like Fox News.