2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: My day started today being told Sanders was invited to meet the Pope. [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)Sanders made a straightforward announcement, without claiming he was actually going to meet the Pope.
On the View it was the host that said it....I don't think Bernie caught that. But not awful.
Then some internal spat and turf battle between officials in the Vatican was jumped on to try and disgrace and embarrass and discredit Bernie.
Then it turned out that was proven to be totally wrong, but instead of just apologizing and letting it go, people here (and elsewhere) doubled down and started twisting themselves into pretzels to keep some kind of trumped up "controversy" alive. Fishing and looking for any angle they could find to make it somehow a bad thing that Bernie was going to a conference on social and economic justice.
It became obsessive by people who just had to fond a way to turn something basically positive into a negative.
All I can conclude that it hit a nerve.