{"id":12969,"date":"2013-03-13T19:11:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T19:11:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-13T19:11:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T19:11:32","slug":"strange_media_coverage_of_papal_conclave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/13\/strange_media_coverage_of_papal_conclave\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Media Coverage of Papal Conclave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/48352\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t put my finger on it. There\u2019s something about this that\u2019s demeaning, this entire process of choosing the next pope. The media coverage of this is just demeaning it. Do you know how many journalists have been credentialed for this? Over 6,000. They\u2019ve got all these networks and anchors and analysts and desks, and they\u2019re all over there in St. Peter\u2019s Square, and they\u2019re all looking at the smokestack.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll all tell you that they\u2019re there because they want to be on site when history is made, and they want to be the first to tell you. So they all have their eyes on the smokestack. And CNN\u2019s got a graphic up, &#8220;Expecting Smoke This Hour.&#8221; I don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t put my finger on it. It\u2019s just something cheapening all of this. I remember watching this when I was a kid. The camera wasn\u2019t on the smokestack 24 hours because there wasn\u2019t 24-hour news, for one thing.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pope2013MediaMont.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You only saw the smokestack when there was smoke. You saw a five- or ten-second clip of it. I\u2019m not suggesting we go back to that. I\u2019m not pulling out the old fuddy-duddy attitude on you. It\u2019s just the way it\u2019s being covered cheapens the whole thing. It\u2019s as though it\u2019s just&#8230; I don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t describe it any better than that. I guess part of it is that I just know over half the journalists covering this hate this institution. They despise religion and the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>They think religion and the papacy is a joke in the first place, and so they\u2019re over there, and in a way mocking this whole thing. Over half them don\u2019t even have a rudimentary education and knowledge\/understanding of what this is and why it takes place and why it is meaningful to people. It\u2019s just the latest popularity contest, just the latest celebrity news. Of course to the people involved, it\u2019s far more than that. There it is: &#8220;Smoke Expected This Hour.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t put my finger on it. There\u2019s something about this that\u2019s demeaning, this entire process of choosing the next pope. The media coverage of this is just demeaning it. Do you know how many journalists have been credentialed for this? Over 6,000. 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