web] Every now and then, you get to see a reporter gently suggest that a major religious leader - take Pope Benedict XVI, example - has tried to pull a fast one. That may be what's happening in this story earlier this week by New York Times reporter Ian Fisher about the pope's complicated address on faith and reason, which included a highly significant illustration linked to Islam. Actually, I think that Fisher did a good job of getting at the heart of this one.
Let's face it: Popes are not sound-bite-friendly speakers. They have been known to float a policy balloon or two in the midst of a doctrinal tidal wave (how's that for a mixed metaphor). I have seen bishops, in a debate here in America, lapse into Italian or Latin during public remarks so that journalists cannot quote them. It's a nice trick.
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Isn't it the Dems and media always preaching it is not right to assume or tried to read anothers mind.
These reporters are playing with others lives with their OPINIONS their carelessness could continue this rif and even get the POPE killed and the Vatican bombed!
[Isn't it the Dems and media always preaching it is not right to assume or tried to read anothers mind.
These reporters are playing with others lives with their OPINIONS their carelessness could continue this rif and even get the POPE killed and the Vatican bombed!]
Oh, but the NY Times is a friendly paper, don't you know.
NYT reporter to GWB: We're a friendly paper.
GWB: Yeah. Right.
GWB: I'd hate to see an unfriendly paper. (Much laughter)
(See POTUS press conference on Fri for full context).