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On The View today-Sanders said he was going to meet with the POPE
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On The View today-Sanders said he was going to meet with the POPE
One of hosts said to the audience--.....
Host: You're meeting with the POPE?
Bernie: "Yup" (sitting nodding)
Then the host told the audience --Pope Francis has invited Bernie sanders...Clap clap
Sanders said he was meeting with the Pope. Then when the host told the audience he said nothing--He just nodded ...!!(very short You-tube clip
WHOW!
PS--Sanders is NOT meeting with Pope Francis
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Bernie Sanders on Upcoming Meeting With Pope | The View
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Apparently if I call you an authoritarian you will get the posse to hide my posts. Typical. 
Papal official denies report Sanders invited himself to Vatican
VATICAN CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was invited to speak at an April 15 Vatican event by the Vatican, a senior papal official said on Friday, denying a report that Sanders had invited himself.
"I deny that. It was not that way," Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo told Reuters in a telephone interview while he was traveling in New York. Sorondo, a close aide to Pope Francis, is chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, which is hosting the event.
He said it was his idea to invite Sanders.
A Bloomberg report quoted Margaret Archer, president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, as saying that Sanders had broken with protocol by failing to contact her office first.
"This is not true and she knows it. I invited him with her consensus," said Sorondo, who is senior to Archer.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senior-papal-official-untrue-sanders-invited-himself-vatican-173414032.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw
VATICAN CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was invited to speak at an April 15 Vatican event by the Vatican, a senior papal official said on Friday, denying a report that Sanders had invited himself.
"I deny that. It was not that way," Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo told Reuters in a telephone interview while he was traveling in New York. Sorondo, a close aide to Pope Francis, is chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, which is hosting the event.
He said it was his idea to invite Sanders.
A Bloomberg report quoted Margaret Archer, president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, as saying that Sanders had broken with protocol by failing to contact her office first.
"This is not true and she knows it. I invited him with her consensus," said Sorondo, who is senior to Archer.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senior-papal-official-untrue-sanders-invited-himself-vatican-173414032.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw
Y'all are losing it over this invite, please proceed.
Too bad y'all can't see it is the woman in your avatar who has a history of the most egregious lies spanning decades. 
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VICTORY: How Millions of Voters Are Demolishing Anti-Hillary Narratives
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April 8, 2016
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Once they take hold, media narratives are virtually impossible to dislodge, often persisting in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. We’ve deconstructed the zombie myth of Hillary’s “enthusiasm gap” and here we take on the flawed notion that she has a “trust deficit.”
Conventional wisdom is a refuge for journalists who are afraid of going against the grain. It took the near-drowning of a major American city to finally demolish the mindless narrative that George W. Bush was a firm, resolute, straight-talker. The emperor’s clothes came off and the world saw a bumbling, ill-informed, uncaring man.
Similarly, the deceptive meme that John Kerry was a “flip-flopper” took hold in 2004 and cost him the White House.
In 2016, there has been a deafening drumbeat from the media and commentariat that Hillary has a “trust deficit.” Never mind that the questions about her honesty and trustworthiness are being foisted on the public by the very people who are reporting on it, creating a dizzying loop.
Here’s the pattern — you might recognize it:
MEDIA: Is Hillary a liar? Is Hillary a liar? Is Hillary a liar?
PUBLIC: Hmm, is Hillary a liar?
MEDIA: People are asking if Hillary is a liar.
PUBLIC: Seems people are asking if Hillary is a liar. Is she a liar?
MEDIA: Polls say Hillary is a liar. Polls say Hillary is a liar.
PUBLIC: The polls mean something. Hillary must be a liar.
MEDIA: See, we told you, Hillary is a liar. Hillary is a liar. Hillary is a liar.
Thus, independent of any substantiating evidence, a bit of discrediting innuendo gets turned into “conventional wisdom”—something that is taken to be a truism.
The media and pundits then set forth to cherry-pick figures that will uphold their narrative. In February, Philip Bump wrote a piece for the Washington Post addressing the selective reporting around Hillary’s honesty, bluntly headlined: “If Hillary Clinton has an honesty problem, someone forgot to tell South Carolina.”.......................
