2015 The Year That Fox News Kept Bashing The Most Popular Pope In History

Wow 25 percent of Fox News Viewers are Catholic, with Fox News losing 12 percent of their viewers per year  to due mortality they really should not be pissing off any viewers  

Fox's Andrew Napolitano: Pope Francis Is A "Communist" And A "Marxist." On the September 15 edition of Fox Business' Varney & Co., Fox's senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano called Pope Francis a "communist" and a "Marxist" for linking the Syrian refugee crisis to global poverty:

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: I am sighing because the Holy Father is a challenge for traditionalist Roman Catholics, of which I am one. Particularly, traditionalists who came of age under John Paul II and then under Benedict XVI. Who, though they had impulses that were not exactly Ayn Rand on capitalism, were far more into philosophy and theology, and far less into the economy ... This particular Pope, who has proclaimed himself a Peronist, is somewhere between a communist with a lowercase "c" and a Marxist with an uppercase "M." At the same time he is trying to be a Roman Catholic -- uppercase "R," uppercase "C."

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The Pope is infallible on faith in morals. Thank God it is just limited to faith and morals because he is, he is -- he sounds like a left-wing professor at the London School of Economics when he blames the mass migration on economic inequality. [Fox Business, Varney & Co.,9/15/15]

Fox's Brian Kilmeade Thought Pope Francis Shouldn't Visit The United States: "He's In The Wrong Country." On the September 17 edition of Fox News Radio's Kilmeade & Friends, host Brian Kilmeade said that Pope Francis "could stay home" because "[s]ome of his comments just have no place. He's in the wrong country":

BRIAN KILMEADE: Yeah, I'm Catholic and he could stay home. Some of his comments just have no place. He's in the wrong country. But I tell you what --

CHRIS WALLACE (Fox News Sunday host): What? He's in the wrong country? What does that mean?

KILMEADE: He doesn't like capitalism. He blames us and money for what's going on in the Middle East. He says that global warming -- we've got to do more to have global warming -- we've doing more than anybody else. Get on China, show some courage. He's never visited our country before, now he gets around to it and he's critical going in? I have enough, you know -- take on, take on Islam, then talk to me.

WALLACE: The preceding comments were those, and all emails should be sent to Brian Kilmeade.

KILMEADE: Absolutely.

WALLACE: Kilmeade, Brian, bashes pope.

KILMEADE: Exactly. Bring it on.

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KILMEADE: Tired of the pope. [Fox News Radio, Kilmeade & Friends, 9/17/15]

Wash. Post's George Will: "Americans Cannot Simultaneously Honor [The Pope] And Celebrate Their Nation's Premises." In a September 18 opinion piece in The Washington Post, conservative columnist George Will criticized Pope Francis for his progressive positions, writing, "[H]e embraces ideas impeccably fashionable, demonstrably false and deeply reactionary." Will called the pope's "policy prescriptions ... as implausible as his social diagnoses are shrill" and argued that "Americans cannot simultaneously honor him and celebrate their nation's premises":

Pope Francis embodies sanctity but comes trailing clouds of sanctimony. With a convert's indiscriminate zeal, he embraces ideas impeccably fashionable, demonstrably false and deeply reactionary. They would devastate the poor on whose behalf he purports to speak -- if his policy prescriptions were not as implausible as his social diagnoses are shrill.

Supporters of Francis have bought newspaper and broadcast advertisements to disseminate some of his woolly sentiments that have the intellectual tone of fortune cookies. One example: "People occasionally forgive, but nature never does." The Vatican's majesty does not disguise the vacuity of this. Is Francis intimating that environmental damage is irreversible? He neglects what technology has accomplished regarding London's air (see Page 1 of Dickens's "Bleak House") and other matters.

And the Earth is becoming "an immense pile of filth"? Hyperbole is a predictable precursor of yet another U.N. Climate Change Conference -- the 21st since 1995. Fortunately, rhetorical exhibitionism increases as its effectiveness diminishes. In his June encyclical and elsewhere, Francis lectures about our responsibilities, but neglects the duty to be as intelligent as one can be. This man who says "the Church does not presume to settle scientific questions" proceeds as though everything about which he declaims is settled, from imperiled plankton to air conditioning being among humanity's "harmful habits." The church that thought it was settled science that Galileo was heretical should be attentive to all evidence.

Francis deplores "compulsive consumerism," a sin to which the 1.3 billion persons without even electricity can only aspire. He leaves the Vatican to jet around praising subsistence farming, a romance best enjoyed from 30,000 feet above the realities that such farmers yearn to escape.

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Secular people with anti-Catholic agendas drain his prestige, a dwindling asset, into promotion of policies inimical to the most vulnerable people and unrelated to what once was the papacy's very different salvific mission.

He stands against modernity, rationality, science and, ultimately, the spontaneous creativity of open societies in which people and their desires are not problems but precious resources. Americans cannot simultaneously honor him and celebrate their nation's premises. [Washington Post, 9/18/15]

Limbaugh Called The Pope A "Clown" For Criticizing "Unfettered Capitalism." On the July 10 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show, Limbaugh mocked the Pope's criticism of "unfettered capitalism," calling him a clown:

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Pope Francis is in Bolivia, and he's come out with another one of his anti-capitalism remarks. He said -- did you hear this, Don? Okay, well then you better be -- the Pope, Il Papa, the Vicar of Christ, said that unfettered capitalism is the devil's dung. Now, in the first place, would somebody find for me anywhere on this planet where there is, at this very moment, unfettered capitalism taking place? You can't because there isn't. And I would go so far as to say that the United States doesn't even have half-baked capitalism going on right now. But unfettered? What is unfettered? Have you ever heard of unfettered socialism? Have you ever heard of unfettered communism? Have you ever heard of unfettered Marxism? What is this unfettered capitalism?

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LIMBAUGH: The closest we've had to what the Pope and these clowns are talking about his the Reagan years, and look what happened. Look at the economic boom that lasted practically 20 years. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 7/10/15]

Accusing Amy Schumer Of Opportunism After She Spoke Out Against Gun Violence

Breitbart News Writer: Amy Schumer Spoke Out Against Gun Violence To "Advance Her Career."Breitbart News' John Nolte attacked comedian Amy Schumer for promoting gun violence prevention legislation after a shooting in a Louisiana movie theater during a screen of her movie Trainwreck. During the August 3 edition of the National Rifle Association's radio show Cam & Company, Nolte slammed Schumer's call for gun safety measures, calling it "an opportunity ... to maybe increase her box office over the weekend" that indicates a lack of "moral courage":

JOHN NOLTE: The thing that's really happening here is that, she got in trouble because of some politically incorrect jokes that she made. And now she has got to take that movie star step of showing that she is part of the collective. So, going after guns is a very easy and cheap way for her to do that. It doesn't help that her cousin is a major U.S. senator, probably the next leader of the Democrats. And that's all that's going on here. I mean this isn't going to go anywhere. It's Hollywood politics coming together and slapping each other on the back to take away our rights.

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NOLTE: I just see her exploiting it. I think she saw it as a great opportunity. You know, this occurred at my movie, now the focus is on me and what can I do to enhance my career.

CAM EDWARDS: I'm not - Look, I'm always willing to give someone the benefit of the doubt. And I wouldn't necessarily see this as just a reason to further your career. I would just hope that the -- the thinking here needs to be - I always get concerned when it's, we need to do something as opposed to we need to do something that works.

NOLTE: That's all it is. She's not putting any thought into it. If she had any moral courage and she actually cared about what happened, she would come out and she would say, listen putting a sign in a movie theater that says no one inside is armed, that this is a gun free zone, is stupid. She has the power to do that. She could make jokes about how stupid these gun free zones are. And where this terrible shooting occurred was in a gun free zone. But she doesn't have the moral courage to do that, so she's just towing the line, and she's dressing up like she's a grown up, and she's just exploiting the situation because it's an opportunity for her to maybe increase her box office over the weekend. I just, to me it is cowardly, it is trite, it is clichéd. There is obviously a real solution to solve these problems. Even if she wanted to do what the NRA did and say, maybe, you know we've had two movie theater shootings, maybe we need to put armed guards in these places. Something like that. But it's just the same clichéd nonsense that's not going to do any good, attached to background checks. She's not thinking, she's just trying to please the right people to enhance her career. And she also, there's a lot of Oscar talk around her movie, and that probably has something to do with it too. You go to Angelina Jolie route so everybody suddenly starts to take you seriously. I just, all I see is cynicism behind it. [NRA News, Cam & Company, 8/3/15]

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