Since when is speaking truthfully a 'blunder'?!?!?
The Pope's real message was a nuanced and correct one.
"By unwittingly angering Muslims with his comments on Islam" ... BS. Just as harmless cartoons wre the excuse for Arab muslim outrage, so too the reasoned and truthful questioning of Islam's violence issue.
" Pope Benedict XVI has shown that he has yet to shake off his academic theological roots and master the global media machine with the same deftness as his predecessor."
... who is, who? Bill Clinton?
Of course that's exactly what a POPE should do! This doesn't pass the laugh test. In fact, you couldn't write comedy better than this intentionally!