Time‘s Person of the Year: Pope Francis
Explained—and previously predicted—by Ace.
Lat night when I read Ace’s prediction and his reasons for it, I strongly suspected he had nailed it. And so he had. His point has nothing to do with the present Pope and his actual beliefs and everything to do with Time‘s perception of those beliefs and the political use the editors think they can make of them.
Here’s Ace:
Time’s interest: One part Power to the People agitation, one part multiculti uplift. Sprinkle liberally with a call for Hope and Change…
I predicted this yesterday, including the reasons they’d offer for their choice.
This is not because I am good at prediction; this is because the leftwing media is so very kneejerk and predictable. They claim to be neutral and objective. And yet someone can predict every single one of their news judgements by proceeding from the rule that they will make whichever judgement best serves the Progressive Socialist Transnationalist Cause…
Suppose I’m in a shady casino. I’m playing craps. I’m given a pair of dice by the pit boss, to throw to determine the results of a particularly large bet. I object and say I believe the dice are loaded, and will come up craps. He insists they are fair dice, and could come up with any dice tally.
If my prediction — that the dice will come up craps on anything important — is always correct, that casts a great deal of doubt on crooked house’s claim that the dice are fair, doesn’t it? They claim any score can come up; I claim it will always come up craps when they need it.
If it always comes up craps, then I am right, and they are lying.
If they’re not actually in service of the Progressive Socialist Transnationaist cause, why is it that any moderately-informed observer can predict every single one of their judgements by employing this rule?
Indeed. I have no objection to their pick of Pope Francis, and no objection to the Pope himself. But the MSM has become boring in its predictability and its bias. However, it has not become boring in the amount of influence it still wields. Time may have a low circulation, but it’s just one of many many sources that all position themselves falsely as “objective” and that all combine to strongly affect and even shape the opinions of huge numbers of people.
The liberals will turn on the Pope soon enough, but this POY at least will put egg on their face. Of course, they will explain it that he changed, or was done in by the Vatican curia, or Opus Dei got to him…
They hear what they want to hear, and interpret it the way that suits their needs. I’m a trad-ish Catholic, very orthodox and loyal to the See of Peter. This Pope’s way of talking gives me fits, and I still mourn for my B16. BUT, even Francis has claimed to be a son of the Church, and his viewpoints in important matters match those of B16. This will be more evident as time goes on, and that is what gives me faith.
The Leftist propaganda works on a combination of authority with the circle effect.
Source A reports that a conservative is evil, greedy, and a criminal.
Source B reports Source A’s claims.
Source C claims that their source is B and trusted.
In this circle the Leftist fodder resides and thinks they have 3 sources that verifies the task, that their view is 3 times as right.
But it’s more like 3 times as wrong.
What JuliB said. The Pope hasn’t altered Church teaching in any way shape or form. The Pope doesn’t set dogma, he protects it. This basic fact often eludes people.
It’s kind of amusing that Time and others on the left think that because Francis is here that FINALLY the Church is focusing on the poor, etc. As if his predecessors didn’t.
There’s nothing the Left cannot break.
People should not underestimate the power of the Left. It may come to be that they are surprised when the Left’s prophecies bear fruit. Even if people are protected now from change, that doesn’t guarantee the future.