Limbaugh on Pope Francis

CNN Blog: Limbaugh calls Pope a Marxist

When I first say the above story, it was a banner headline on the CNN website.

My first reaction was: Give me a flipping break!

First, who cares what Rush Limbaugh says? Granted he has roughly 15 million listeners to his daily radio monologue but so what?

You may not agree with me, but the guy takes pains to point of that he is a political commentator and entertainer. He deals in opinions … his opinions … and if your don’t like his opinions, then don’t listen to him.

Limbaugh doesn’t like the thrust of a portion of the English translation of a 50-000 word letter Pope Francis wrote in Spanish on the joy of spreading the faith. According to the Vatican translation, the pontiff took some shots at modern capitalism, which as far as I am concerned he is perfectly free to do … even if his billion followers (and Limbaugh has only 15 million?) as members of the Catholic Church are supposed to take his words as gospel (except in this case not as infallible).

Just because the Pope said something that makes liberal progressives have tingles running up and down their legs, it doesn’t necessarily mean poopy. Well, at least in my humble opinion.

One can find a whole lot to like about the new Pope, but one has to remember that he doesn’t walk on water. He is merely a priest, a very high ranking priest but a priest just the same, of a very large religious group.

So, if Rush Limbaugh, a person who liberals and progressives in the United States seem to hate almost as much as they hate Sarah Palin (which I will never understand), decides to criticize and poke fun at the pontiff, it really shouldn’t matter.

Actually, I find it terribly ironic that CNN, not known for being a bastion of the Catholic faith – much less any other Judeo-Christian-based religion, would be so up in arms about something a syndicated AM-radio talk show host has to say. It is not like Limbaugh is a god or something.

As for liberals and progressives taking umbrage at Limbaugh’s riposte, I find that even richer considering how much effort they spend to discredit the efforts of the religious to stand by their religious principles in the political arena.

Yes, a lot of people find Limbaugh’s commentary enlightening and entertaining, as well as informative and persuasive, which drives those on the left absolutely bonkers and has for the last two decades.

I wish the latest generation of “journalists” would stop trying to promote their own ideologies and just report what happens. I know, that is unfair. They are supposed to tell us what it means as well … but that is where this old newspaper editor parts company with his cable and broadcast posterity … they ain’t even close to being my posterior.

Please, producers and web editors, give people credit for being a bit smarter than you think they are and understand that not everybody agrees with your political, social and economic world views.

Footnote: I don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh and never really have. I found him too full of himself to listen to for any length of time.