{"id":59508,"date":"2025-05-20T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59508"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:01:04","slug":"lied-to-again-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59508","title":{"rendered":"Lied To Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, we really can&#8217;t discern whether the media is continually lying or if they are simply ignorant of basic facts. It is odd, however, that the lies do have a political slant.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2025\/05\/19\/media-spreads-nonsense-about-pope-snubbing-vance-check-out-private-meeting-and-gifts-they-exchanged-n2189276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red State<\/a> posted an article about Vice President J.D. Vance&#8217;s recent trip to the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>But the media was at it again, spinning away about the greeting. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/pope-leo-xiv-snubs-jd-vance-as-he-meets-with-world-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this headline<\/a> from The Daily Beast, painting the greeting as a &#8220;snub&#8221; on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PopeLeo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59509 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PopeLeo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PopeLeo.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PopeLeo-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PopeLeo-362x300.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a>Well, not so fast.<\/p>\n<p>The article continues:<\/p>\n<p>Other outlets like The Daily Mail ran similar takes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Now, if they met, it&#8217;s pretty hard to call that a snub, but that&#8217;s how they tried to spin it anyway. They seem not to notice it&#8217;s the Pope&#8217;s inauguration, so he has a lot going on and many leaders to meet. Of course, this is about stoking some illusion that the Pope hates Vance to make Vance look bad. But that&#8217;s ridiculous since that goes against the whole nature of being Pope. They don&#8217;t seem to get that their scenario would make the Pope look bad, that they&#8217;re inherently attacking the Pope without realizing it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>This isn&#8217;t the first time they&#8217;ve tried this and printed absolute nonsense about Vance. The Daily Beast previously accused him of violating a rule about taking pictures in the Sistine Chapel. After excoriating him in a story, buried deep down in the story was the fact that Vance had permission. He was with Vatican officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article also notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>He and the Pope even exchanged gifts. Vance gave him a Chicago Bears jersey with his name and number. He also gave the Pope &#8211; who is an Augustinian priest &#8211; two books by St. Augustine, the &#8220;City of God&#8221; and &#8220;On Christian Doctrine.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Meanwhile, the Pope gave Vance a bronze sculpture that said in Italian, \u201cPeace is a fragile flower.\u201d He also gave him a picture book of the papal apartments, saying he might live in them, but he hasn&#8217;t decided yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>I said in my prior story that Vance and Rubio (<span class=\"expandableItem\">United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio) <\/span>should work on communication with the Pope so he isn&#8217;t just getting media spin about the Trump administration, and it looks like they were on that during the visit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s odd that people who don&#8217;t have a political agenda and who have actually met President Trump are surprised at how different he is from the person the media paints him as.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, we really can&#8217;t discern whether the media is continually lying or if they are simply ignorant of basic facts. It is odd, however, that the lies do have a political slant. On Monday, Red State posted an article about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59508\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18056,13062,18059,18058,18057,17773],"class_list":["post-59508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pope-leo","tag-red-state","tag-st-augustine","tag-united-states-secretary-of-state-marco-rubio","tag-vatican","tag-vice-president-jd-vance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59510,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59508\/revisions\/59510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}