Networks Hype Obama's 'Special Bond' With the Pope, Downplay Disagreements

MRC ^ | 3/27/2014 | Kyle Drennen

[Cheerio]

Thursday's network morning shows tripped over themselves in their rush to fawn over President Obama meeting Pope Francis for the first time at the Vatican. At the top of ABC's Good Morning America, co-host Robin Roberts touted how the President "feels a special bond with the Pontiff." On NBC's Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd spoke of an "ideological comfort level" between the two leaders, while on CBS This Morning, White House correspondent Major Garrett described their "genuine connection." [Listen to the audio]

While ABC, NBC, and CBS provided a combined 14 minutes 30 seconds of coverage to the papal meeting on Thursday, only 2 minutes 21 seconds of that air time referred to the fundamental disagreements between Obama and the Pope on a host of issues. Instead, the morning broadcasts chose to play up the "common ground" between the two men on issues of "income inequality" and "social justice."

[SECURE AMERICA]

outed how the President “feels a special bond with the Pontiff.

Now that there is funny.........

[Slyfox]

I agree with what you’re saying but our world leaders today have nowhere near the vision, strength, and fortitude those three had.

So, we have to chose who we will follow. We have the memory of the best. We have George Washington and all of our Founders, including the ones of most recent memory - everyone who did their best to represent the Truth.

We have the freedom to chose who we will follow.

[Taxman]

LIEberals LIE!

Ophonybama is a LIEberal.

He’s lying!

[Graybeard58]

The Pope would do well to not even acknowledge the baby killing obama’s existence.