I was not going to bother to mention the pope's visit to the US. Who cares?...Well, do I care? No. I had a good laugh at the special banner and music MSNBC has created for the visit and coverage. Which does make me wonder, they usually make those things for war, disaster, or national elections, which relates to Mr. Pontiff?
But I turned on cable news this afternoon to see that papal plane had arrived, and the networks were giving live and continuous coverage of it sitting there.
But the networks will stare slack jaw at a standoff or car chase.
But the talk of the pundits...YEESCH! Really it is as if the pope was a once mythic creature, or some holy groundhog popping his head once every millennium.
And the words used to describe the trip, he is here to heal, to being faiths together...eh. I thought for a moment it was some cardinal talking, but it was a biographer. Such stupid flowery over the top gibberish.
They say he wants to help, but he has been attacking secular society and dogma first.
And as was noted on One Good Move,
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Two questions for the pope. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
So journalists and reporters who can manage to get off their knees might want to ask the pope if he is conducting his own foreign policy and, if so, in consultation with whom? Then there is another question, which also raises a matter of diplomatic propriety: Why is the Vatican continuing to shelter Cardinal Bernard Law?
The way the media was talking this afternoon, I bet his farts smell like potpourri.
Oh shoot, and we missed an "spontaneous" rendition of Happy Birthday...really.
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