So the Pope is a marxist.... (wait for it)

[kandrathe]

... I've seen Republicans...

As if they had the monopoly on doing and saying stupid stuff? I'm not implying Libertarians or any aggregated mass of humanity are more brilliant either. Limbaugh is one shock jock for about 14 million weekly like minded rightists. That's about 14/230 or 6% of terrestrial radio listeners. Impressive, but still a slim minority. He intentionally goes out of his way to dance on the boundaries of acceptable and be controversial -- its good for ratings, and good for his bottom line. He's not good for Republicans, or their cause -- and tends to "eat his own". Meaning, he's more likely to impact who the far right Republicans choose, than to sway anyone left of Dick Cheney.

I'd say the Pope is being Christian -- the Pope was asking government leaders to take heed, and "broaden their horizons, working to ensure that all citizens have dignified work, education and health care" His message is not to politicians, but the rank and file of his Christian flock. He's not espousing Marx, from my interpretation, but he's certainly a 99%er. Not news. CNN is also perhaps also making hay from controversy.

Evangelii Gaudium

It is in fact ironic that within the document the Pope says (page 30-31), "If we attempt to put all things in a missionary key, this will also affect the way we communicate the message. In today's world of instant communication and occasionally biased media coverage, the message we preach runs a greater risk of being distorted or reduced to some of its secondary aspects. In this way certain issues which are part of the Church’s moral teaching are taken out of the context which gives them their meaning. The biggest problem is when the message we preach then seems identified with those secondary aspects which, important as they are, do not in and of themselves convey the heart of Christ’s message. We need to be realistic and not assume that our audience understands the full background to what we are saying, or is capable of relating what we say to the very heart of the Gospel which gives it meaning, beauty and attractiveness."

I'm just saying... if you cast a broad net on humanity, your gonna come up with stupid -- and in this day and age, it'll most likely end up on the Internet for posterity. In this case, my vote for stupid is... Daniel Burke who should have left the manure in the manure pile, and not reacted to the shock jocks shock.