Leftist Media: Pope Getting 'Reagan Treatment'

NewsMax ^ | 4/6/05 | Carl Limbacher

[wagglebee]

"Many critics argue that the media are doing now what they did when former President Ronald Reagan died in June: reducing a deeply controversial figure to a warm, grandfatherly caricature," according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The left will never understand that most people never considered the Pope or President Reagan to be "controversial," they actually did seem "grandfatherly" to most of us. Besides, we stood by while the media lamented the death of the mass-murdering terrorist Arafat, we had to hear about how he was the biggest peacenik of all time.

[Puppage]

"This was a very conservative pope. Most of his Western flock was not with his program."

SHUT YOUR GODLESS PIE HOLE!

[WarPaint]

It's just amazing to me how these people want the Catholic Church to bend to their views. Catholicism is Catholcism and has been pretty much the same for 2000 years.

The culture of MEEEEEEEEEEE is so pathetic.

[mainepatsfan]

The left went through hell during Reagan's funeral last summer. They don't want to go through it again for the Pope's.

[Puppage]

The culture of MEEEEEEEEEEE is so pathetic

Disgusting, isn't it?

[Spktyr]

Agreed - that is part of why we elected and loved Reagan, and why so many loved John Paul II. They completely miss the point - witness their absolute astonishment at the turnout for Reagan's state funeral.

[TASMANIANRED]

Rule #5. Since liberals all want deviancy defined down. Anyone who stands for truth, justice, and morality must be characterized as controversial.

[Spktyr]

Too bad - for them. It's going to be worse this time, because they can't dismiss it as "just an American misconception" - not when a significant portion of the civilized world is in mourning, and a not insignificant number are travelling to Rome to pay their respects.

[Publius6961]

One critic peddled the current - and dubious - media line that the pope was out step with members of the Church in the West.

Does anyone besides me see this as perfectly fitting the definition of insanity?

If a church has by definition a concept of itself that defines the determination of truth, reality and its circumscribing universe, and "some" members disagree, who is out of step?

That's like buying a pre-cut house, ignoring the assemby instructions and then complaining that the results looks like a 60-year-old Arkansas single-wide ...

[thoughtomator]

I thought it was the "Nixon treatment"... when he died, one would have thought from the coverage that he was an uncontroversial figure.

[Spktyr]

And if you don't agree with it, there are many other options - one doesn't have to listen to them.

[mainepatsfan]

Let them pout.

[Publius6961]

It's just amazing to me how these people want the Catholic Church to bend to their views. Catholicism is Catholcism and has been pretty much the same for 2000 years. For the life of me I fail to find a single significant new expectation of Catholics that has not existed for more than a millenium.

What is it exactly that would trigger a nut-job to call this kind man a "neanderthal"?

[dead]

"This was a very conservative pope. Most of his Western flock was not with his program."
- Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Shame the pope didn’t live long enough for Kathleen Hall Jamieson to impart her lessons on how to be a better Catholic upon him.

[GSWarrior]

It makes my day when the lefties are mad. I laugh at them.....

[stm]

"This was a very conservative pope. Most of his Western flock was not with his program."

This woman cannot be Catholic or if she is she cannot be a practicing one. Because this is total falsehood. President Bush used the word "Shepherd" to describe Pope John Paul II. I cannot think of a more appropriate word to describe him. A shepherd's job is to keep track of and tend to his his flock. When a member of the flock strays, he tries to bring him back into the fold. Sometimes he is successful and sometimes he is not. Sometimes the wayward sheep falls prey to the wolves. The same can be said of Christians. We all stray every single day of our lives. But the leadership of the Holy Father, our undertanding of the teachings of the Bible and of Jesus help to bring us back. Sometimes people stray for a while but find their way back. Others do not and are lost to the wolves. The sheep that did not "stay with his program" are the ones that want to be able to pick and choose from the teachings of God and the Pope like a smorgesbord. It does not work that way. It is all or none. The ones that bail and do not come back often are the ones that will accept the easy stuff but do not want to accept the hard things as well.

From this woman's statement it is obvious that not only is she oblivious to what the Pope was about but to what Catholicism is about as well.

[GovernmentShrinker]

The leftists just aren't comfortable with the idea of routine civility. A nice old man, who meant well, and did his best, just died. Civility decrees that we not turn the occasion into a loud and vicious debate of whatever shortcomings anybody can find in his life. Yeah, he should have cracked down harder on the priests-molesting-little-boys-and-bishops-covering-it-up stuff. We can talk about it some other time.

[Old Grumpy]

I can't believe they have the nerve to actually print something like that. Down here, we say a paper like that is only good for wrapping mullet in.

[monday]

lol...