Viva il Papa's Got a Brand New Bag!

Well,...it didn't take long for the MSM to stomp on Pope Benedict XVI, did it?

Today, Katie Couric and Co. interviewed a man who registered the URL www.popebenedictxvi.com. This guy compared seeing the smoke and awaiting the new Pope's name to watching the Kentucky Derby!

Now, mind you, I'm not a prude, but do we really need to cheapen the Papacy with who won lotteries and bets???

And speaking of cheap shots and Miss Couric (no,..that isn't a coincidence):

From MediaResearch.org:


On Monday morning, Katie Couric asserted that Ratzinger is "known to be quite conservative. He's been called 'God's rottweiler' because of his strict adherence to Catholic doctrine and 'The Enforcer' as well."

and,..

3. Couric Distorts Poll to Say Most Want "Less Conservative" Church
NBC's Katie Couric asserted on Monday morning that "according to a recent poll, 78 percent of American Catholics would like the Catholic Church to be less conservative," but the only current poll the MRC could locate with such a finding was an early April CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey of Catholics which found 78 percent said the next Pope should "allow Catholics to use birth control." But Couric cherry-picked the number she liked since the poll also determined that when asked if the next Pope should "make church doctrine on abortion less strict," only 37 percent said he should compared to 59 percent who responded that he should not. And, contradicting Couric's thesis, asked directly if the next Pope should be "more conservative than John Paul II, about the same, or more liberal than John Paul II?", 59 percent endorsed the conservative status quo.



Also,..the Nazi references have started to rear their ugly heads:

On Sunday, NBC's Jim Maceda referred to "the ultraconservative Ratzinger" and reported that "he was briefly a member of Hitler's youth group in Nazi Germany."

and,...

Couric reminded Greeley that "Ratzinger's past includes a brief membership in the Hitler Youth movement" and service "with the German army in World War II" and demanded: "Given his past associations do you think that will create a rift between Christians and Jews and what can he do to fix that?"

Ignoring, of course, that MOST German teens were MANDATED to join the HJ! And while in the Army, Cardinal Ratzinger went AWOL, surrendered and spent the balance of WWII in an American POW camp.

Funny how the MSM gets selective amnesia, huh?