Pope Francis
President’s Papal Prank Precedes Pious Périodiste’s Pontification
Ladies and gentlemen, it is our solemn duty to inform you that CBS’s John Dickerson is at it again, delivering yet another pretentious editorial bloviation with which to close out CBS Evening News Plus. This Time, Dickerson was spurred to righteous action by President Donald Trump’s viral pope meme.
CBS Warns an African Pope May Disappoint LGBTQ Activists
Ahead of next week’s papal conclave, Friday’s edition of CBS Evening News was caught in a tough situation. On one hand, being the diversity-conscious liberal show that it is, Africa correspondent Debora Patta lamented Africans are not reflected in the Vatican’s halls of power despite Catholicism growing in the area. On the other, Patta warned that an African pope would not be the pro-…
CBS’s Trump Derangement Crashout Continues in Catholic Charities Story
A weird and borderline incoherent introduction to a report on Catholic Charities reveals the extent of CBS’s Trump derangement. Additionally, it displays for all to see the extent to which the former Tiffany Network has been broken by President Donald Trump ahead of a potential settlement with Paramount.
John Kerry Gets UPSET When MSNBC Host Noted Who Let Putin Take Crimea
Every once in a while, an MSNBC host briefly messes up and upsets a famous Democrat. It happened on Friday in Rome during an otherwise typical softball pitch. Former Secretary of State John Kerry is used to interviews like Jen Psaki going out for an ice cream cone with him. After a gushfest over the late Pope Francis on the "climate crisis," anchor Chris Jansing noted under Obama and Kerry,…
When Popes Demonstrate They're Savvy About the Secular Press
The recent passing of his Holiness Pope Francis and the looming election of a successor has, already, launched a media frenzy.
Ode to Joe: MSNBC Remembers Pope Francis By Gushing Over Biden
Anchoring from the Vatican for her Friday show ahead of Pope Francis’s Saturday funeral, MSNBC’s Chris Jansing was not just content to portray Francis as a pope of the people; she had to mix in former President Joe Biden as well by praising his “empathy” and love of Amtrak. The fact that Francis would rebuke Biden for his abortion beliefs, to her, just made their relationship even better.
Pompous CBS Seems to Use Pope’s Passing to Make Subtle Jab at Trump
Reporting live Thursday from the Vatican ahead of Saturday’s funeral mass for Pope Francis, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson ended the show with a veiled hit on President Trump as a contrast to Pope Francis and other Catholic leaders as the former (using the catch-all phrase “American politics”) embraces “flash and hubris” while the other show humility and love.
PolitiFact Uses Pope Francis's Death To Defend Its Existence
PolitiFact editor-in-chief Katie Sanders is still decrying Meta Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to break up with the fact-checking companies, so, on Thursday, she wrote an article using the death of Pope Francis to argue he supported their work.
NYT A1: Pope Pushed Against ‘Xenophobia,’ Aided ‘Demonized Migrants'
Jason Horowitz, the New York Times’ Rome bureau chief and passionate fan of the late Pope Francis (he loved to cast opponents of the late pontiff’s political proclamations into the outer darkness as “archconservatives” or “ultraconservatives”) made Wednesday’s front page off-lead slot with another story to accompany his official obituary for Pope Francis: “As Ears Closed, Pope…
‘Crisis of Empathy’: The View Uses Pope’s Death to Push Open Borders
Back from their spring break on Tuesday, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were as hypocritical as ever. While they usually shrieked about the “separation of church and state” on issues like abortion, the cast (only one of which was supposedly a practicing Catholic) jumped at the opportunity to use Pope Francis’s death to push for their far-left open borders policy. Interestingly…
Ruhle Seeks to 'Juxtapose' Francis With 'Anti-Immigrant Movement'
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle marked the passing of Pope Francis on Monday’s The 11th Hour by welcoming historian Jon Meacham to “juxtapose” how “this anti-immigrant movement has risen up” during Francis’s pontificate.
CBS, Like the Rest of the Media, Project Ideology on Pope Francis
The death of Pope Francis serves as a refresher in the perils of media projection. Mourning the loss of a perceived fellow traveler, the media have chosen to project their narrow leftwing culture and ideology on to Pope Francis.
NY Times Hails Pope's 'Inclusion' vs. 'Doctrinaire' Conservatism
After Pope Francis died Monday morning, the New York Times started rolling out tributes to the pontiff at nytimes.com, plus a standard 7,000-word obituary by Jason Horowitz and Jim Yardley, current and former Rome bureau chiefs for the Times. Horowitz adored Francis as pontiff, and predictably hailed the left’s favorite pope as a force for “inclusion” against “doctrinaire”…
ABC Boasts: Pope Francis Bashed Conservatives, ‘Embraced Controversy’
ABC’s Good Morning America made Pope Francis into one of their own — a cultural progressive — on Monday by boasting “he often clashed with conservatives” over his “compassion for the LGBTQ community” and “wave of optimism” for everyone from immigrants to the poor to even Palestinians. And, of course, they made it about themselves too.
