MSM uses PJII's death to attack his church

If you don’t get CNN International (CNNI), send your cable company a thank you note for not exposing you and your children to CNNI’s incredible anti-American, anti-conservative drivel. Living here in Germany, we get CNNI 24-7. If that’s not bad enough, the brilliant programming minds at the Armed Forces Network (AFN) have bombarded us with 23 hours-a-day of American Ted TV since the Pope died. The bigs at AFN decided on this colossally stupid programming option in the face of CNN’s death spiral in the ratings. At any given point in the day, FOX garners about twice as many viewers as CNN. However being entrenched government bureaucrats and not responsible to turn a profit, the hacks at AFN can pretty much make the dumbest programming decisions possible without being held accountable.

If you thought it impossible for any human being to be more arrogant and pompous than the face of American CNN, Aaron Brown, check out Shihab Rattansi on CNNI. This boob makes Aaron Brown look like your blue collar drinking buddy. Then there’s Christiane “How do you like my fake accent so far” Amanpour. While remaining mute on the religious teachings of Pan-Islamo-terror-fascist, Mzzzzzzzz. Amanpour has taken the Pope’s death as an opportunity to opine on and thrash the Catholic catechism. Watching Amanpour, you’d think the sole purpose of the Pope and the Catholic Church should be to advance, abortion, birth control, homosexual and women rights. Of course she has pointed out at least a 1,000,000 times that Pope opposed the Iraq war while supporting the Bosnia intervention.

For quite a long time I have believed that there are only two kinds of people, personality driven people and principle driven people. Personality driven people are like feathers in the wind. They focus inward. What’s important in the world is only what’s important to them. They have to have the latest clothes, cars, phone etc. etc. They rob and steal because what others have is not as important as them having those things. Personality driven politicians are poll driven wet noodles that can be bent into any shape and incapable of leadership.

Principle driven people have a set of core beliefs that are not negotiable – they are immovable rocks. They focus outwardly. They work for, support and defend those weaker than themselves. Principle driven politicians are not affected by polls and would rather lose an election than compromise principal.

I think that all of us can be found somewhere on a continuum from shallow self-absorbed personality based creeps (think entertainers and spoiled sports stars) at one end to altruistic outwardly focused humanitarians at the other (Think Pope JPII). This is not a Lib Vs. Conservative distinction. Both sides have plenty of people at each end of the continuum.

Pope JPII was as far to the principled side of the continuum as anyone. He frustrated Libs and Conservatives alike. He was unbending in his beliefs and voiced his beliefs to every corner of the earth. It’s the second part of that sentence that scares the elites in MSM. Pope JPII was an incredibly effective advocate. So now that death has silenced the great man, the MSM thinks that they will get the last word in on his legacy. They are wrong. CNN, Christiane Amanpour and other MSM elites taking on JPII, even after his death, is like a child trying to stop a tank with his BB gun.