***where it always was.
So the U.S. is closing its Vatican embassy and relocating it outside Vatican City, where it always was, and guess what?
The right wing blosphere and punditry went viral with its misinformation, lies, and outrage.
See, this is how they operate. Half-assedly learn something the Obama Administration is going to do, take that half-assed information and apply a nefarious motive to it because OBUMMER! Spread the misinformation and lies to every corner of the rightwing blogsphere. Get all paliny over it.
Rinse. Repeat.
It's wearying. It really is. The U.S. Embassy's Vatican move? There is no there there. But apparently it's the default reaction to anything the Obama Administration does. So the best thing to do is let them have their tantrum, close the door, and quietly walk away.
From Time Magazine website:
"...[F]irst you find all the FACTS, things like: Who, What Where When and Why. Then you report those facts.
WHAT: The US embassy to the Vatican is moving.
WHERE: It is moving from what was a private residence to better secured building that is adjacent to the US Embassy to Italy, - the two will maintain separate entrances on separate streets. Oh, and the new embassy is a tenth of a mile CLOSER to the Vatican than the old one was. (and please note that no country has an embassy inside the Vatican City walls - there isn't room.)
WHY: Because the new location offers more in place security and we will save 1.4 million a year in lease and operating costs.
WHEN: the move will occur in 2015. The buildings were purchased several years ago during a different administration.
WHO: Well, since the buildings were purchased under the Bush 2 administration - you should be able to figure out when the plan to move began and whose State Department initiated it.
What you don't do is try to blame the current president for closing an embassy that isn't closing or imply that the current embassy is inside the Vatican walls when NO country has an embassy inside those walls.
Idjits!
16 comments:
Wow, a whopping 1.4 million a year in savings. As if that is somehow even worth mention. As we spend in minutes that amount doing unnecessary BS everyday on the taxpayer dime.
Yeah, it seems the wingdings are low on both info and brains.
multiply that 1.4 million by the number of years we support an embassy @Vatican.
Multiply the millions spent on unnecessary ill advised BS by the number of years we will continue doing it.
A sensible administrative move that lowers costs, increases security and has no apparent negative is anathema to the right.
And months from now the portion of the right wing who believes we should have contact with the papists will still believe we closed the embassy.
Has Bill Donahue and the Catholic league checked in on this?
You betcha
And he even manages to mention Benghazi!
Sarah can't be far behind.
Pope Francis has already made Bill Donahue irrelevant. He's been relegated to the ash-heap of religious haters. No one cares about what he says.
Good for Il Papa Francesco!
“And now would be a good time for the Vatican to have one of ITS spokesmen to visit FoxNoise and provide the official Vatican view (which is, “Hey, the new place meets our requirement—it’s all cool”) and tell the FoxLiars that the next time the network wants to act offended on behalf of Catholics, it speak to Catholics who have a stake in the matter.”
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I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for this to happen. Much less to ever see the Pope himself on FNC. He’s far too much of a caring humanist for the likes of that crowd. They’re far more comfortable getting the Catholic point of view from homophobic, ultra-conservative clergy like Timothy “Chuckles the Cardinal” Dolan…
… oh wait. His Eminence won’t be available for a while, as he deflates from his Thursday stint floating down Broadway at the end of 50-foot ropes. Maybe Dolan’s spokesman Bill Donahue can fill in?"
Keep adding fuel via sarcasm and virtuous feelings of righteousness because tit for tat is after all the human way. How many millennium has it been going on?
Popcorn ans beer anyone?
Bill Donahue? A tool. And about as "religious" as a bag of tonsils.
Pope Francis has made him look like a slobbering jackass, y'know, like the people who comment on those moronic blogs that get everything wrong...
Closing the Vatican Embassy is the worst thing since ... wait for it ... BENGHAZZIEEE!1!
If it's pissing the pissers off, then it's done the job!!!!!
You Go Pope Frank!
Who-ahh, lets piss the pissers off. Never was there a nobler cause.
If the news came from Fox, it has to be half-assed or whole=assed. Fox is the propaganda arm of the GOP. Surveys over the years have shown that the most uninformed people watch Fox News. It is the most watched, btw, of all CABLE news stations. And it's done a great job of keeping its viewers dumb and dumber.
MSNBC always there as the counter, albeit equally biased network. The race to the bottom continues.
MSNBC doesn't have the influence that FOX has. FOX is #1 in cable news; MSNBC is nowhere near that. So there's really no balance. Also, the few times I've watched MSNBC and Rachel Maddow, I've witnessed her correct any mistakes she may have made in her reporting of a story. I don't know if FAUX NOOZ does that. It probably does not.
Also, the several polls taken from people who constantly watch FAUX have shown that FAUX NOOZ viewers are THE LEAST INFORMED.
Guess MSNBC needs to do a better job of marketing its product.
Alas. So many selections. So few real authentic choices.
The Media Is Forced to Admit That The Obamacare Website is Fixed
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There is an onslaught of mainstream media hand wringing coming, but the truth is that people are getting and liking their Obamacare. The Republican Party and our disgraceful mainstream press were both wrong."
We knew their bawling about it was nothing more than Obamahate. The website is fixed, it's enrolling people, and that will ensure its success.
Suck it up all you naysayers.
truc de fou!
Yeah, LMAO! Great thing about setting your sights low is it makes it easier to declare success.
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