If Cokie Stands Against Us, Who Wouldn't Stand For Us?

Not that the MSM's biased or anything:

Amid the reactions to the elevation of Joseph Ratzinger to the papacy, there have been some doozies. My favorite came from a furious Ms. Cokie Roberts on Tuesday's night's Nightline. She must have been venting something fierce all evening, because Ted Koppel, none too pleased himself, introduced her with these words: "Cokie Roberts, you, you were, I gather, able to contain your enthusiasm, when you heard the news."

Whereupon Cokie shot back with this. (And if looks could kill, Nightline would have lost its entire viewership, such as it is.)

"Well, this, this choice is really something that is different from how Americans approach a lot of things. It's Cardinal Ratzinger who wrote the letter "Dominus Iesus," about [how] other religions are -- deficient. And, and he said, in that letter, he said that, that, "relativistic theories which seek to justify religious pluralism are bad." Well, now, the problem with that is this country is based on religious pluralism. He has written a letter on, on women and feminism that was very disturbing to many women, myself included. Where he essentially, after Pope John Paul II had apologized to women for the sexism in the Church, this letter went back and essentially said that feminism was the, the source of divorce, that it was the source of problems in, in marriage. When, you know, without ever talking about the many problems that, that happen in marriages where women are the victims. So, there are a lot of areas here where American Catholics will look at this papacy and not recognize it."

Sure, Cokie, the real issue with Catholicism is they're just not into killing babies enough to suit you and your limousine liberal jet-set urban divas.

But then again, Benedict XVI has moral authority and credibility and you're just a pinch-faced virago whose Roledex shrinks like the glaciers over time.