>> THE POPE WAS IN WASHINGTON, HE GAVE A SPEECH TO CONGRESS,
AND THERE ARE A LOT OF CATHOLICS IN CONGRESS INCLUDING A LOT OF
REPUBLICAN CATHOLICS.
ONE OF THEM DECIDED TO BOYCOTT THE
SPEECH, I WILL GET TO HIM IN A BIT.
BUT TWO OF THEM ARE
PROMINENT.
ONE IS JOHN BOEHNER, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, SAT BEHIND
THE POPE AS HE GAVE HIS ADDRESS.
AFTERWARDS THE POPE CAME OUT TO
THE BALCONY AND ADDRESSED THE CROWD.
THE SPEECH WAS IN
ENGLISH, ENGLISH OBVIOUSLY NOT HIS FIRST LANGUAGE, AND HE DID
THE BEST HE COULD.
WHEN HE WAS ADDRESSING THE PEOPLE HE WAS
SPEAKING MORE OFF THE CUFF, NOT WITH NOTES, HE SPOKE IN SPANISH.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS WHAT LED TO THIS.
>>[CHEERING]
>> JOHN BOEHNER AMUSES ME.
WHAT IS THAT?
HE'S CLEARLY CRYING.
THERE IS A QUESTION AS TO WHETHER HE IS FAKING, WE WILL
ASK YOU THAT IN A SECOND.
WITH JOHN BOEHNER, HE CRIES A LOT SO
I AM NOT THAT SURPRISED.
IT'S PROBABLY SINCERE FOR WHATEVER
REASON IN HIS HEAD, BUT WHAT WAS WITH THE MOUTH MOVING?
WHAT WAS
THAT?
OKAY.
ANYWAY, I AM PROBABLY -- PROBABLY NOT BECAUSE
THE POPE WAS SPEAKING SPANISH.
DO IT IN ENGLISH, PLEASE.
BUT
YOU REMEMBER, JOHN BOEHNER IS CATHOLIC, FORMER ALTAR BOY,
MOVED BY THIS SCENE.
BLESS HIS HEART.
WE GO TO MARCO RUBIO.
WHEN THE POPE IS TALKING ABOUT IMMIGRATION THE CAMERAS GO TO
RUBIO, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A BIG ISSUE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGN, HE IS A SENATOR IN THE AUDIENCE, LET'S WATCH
RUBIO'S REACTION.
>>I SAY THIS TO YOU AS THE SON OF IMMIGRANTS, KNOWING THAT SO
MANY OF YOU ARE ALSO DESCENDED FROM IMMIGRANTS.
>> WHAT IS IT WITH RUBIO AND WATER?
ALWAYS SOME SORT OF WATER
CONTROVERSY.
I AM CALLING BULLSHIT.
I DON'T BELIEVE RUBIO
WAS ACTUALLY CRYING THERE.
HE KNEW THE CAMERA WAS COMING TO
HIM WHEN HE SPOKE ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND BEING THE SON OF
IMMIGRANTS, AND HE IS LIKE, I AM SUCH A CATHOLIC.
FIRST OF ALL,
TYT APP, YOU GUYS GO VOTE.
ALREADY THERE ARE A LOT OF VOTES
IN AND WE DIDN'T EVEN DI THE STORY.
YOU GUYS ARE ALREADY UP
AND AT 'EM ON THIS.
74% SAY SO FAR THAT THEY ARE FAKING IT, 26%
SAY NO, THEY ARE GENUINE.
I AM SPLIT ON THAT BECAUSE I THINK
JOHN BOEHNER DOES CRY A LOT, AND I THINK HE IS PROBABLY GENUINE.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT HAS TO DO WITH HIS DRINKING -- ANYWAY,
RUBIO I DO NOT BELIEVE FOR A SECOND.
WHAT DOES RUBIO ACTUALLY
THINK OF THE POPE?
PUTTING THE FAKE TEARS ASIDE, CROCODILE
TEARS ASIDE.
THINK PROGRESS DESCRIBED HIS POSITION ON THE
POPE IN REGARDS TO THE CUBAN POLICY OBAMA HAD TO RESTORE
DIPLOMATIC TIES.
IN A PRESS CONFERENCE, SENATOR MARCO RUBIO
BASHED THE DEAL FOR THE SIMPLE CAPITULATION TO AN AUTHORITARIAN
REGIME.
RUBIO -- WHO IS CATHOLIC AND A CUBAN-AMERICAN -- DIRECTLY
CRITICIZED THE POPE FOR HIS ROLE.
WHAT HAPPENED, I THOUGHT YOU
WERE CRYING?
OH, THE POPE.
NO, IT TURNS OUT YOU DON'T AGREE WITH THE POPE, DON'T LIKE
HIM VERY MUCH.
LET'S TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT ONE OF THE THINGS HE SAID IN
HIS PRESS CONFERENCE.
>>I WOULD ALSO ASK HIS HOLINESS TO TAKE UP THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM
AND DEMOCRACY, WHICH IS CRITICAL FOR A FREE PEOPLE.
FOR A PEOPLE
TO TRULY BE FREE.
I THINK THE PEOPLE OF CUBA DESERVE THE SAME
CHANCE TO HAVE DEMOCRACY AS THE PEOPLE OF ARGENTINA HAVE HAD,
WHERE HE COMES FROM.
AND THE PEOPLE OF ITALY HAVE HAD, WHERE
HE NOW LIVES.
OBVIOUSLY THE VATICAN IS ITS OWN STATE, BUT
NEARBY.
MY POINT IS THAT I HOPE PEOPLE WITH THAT SORT OF PRESTIGE ON
THE WORLD STAGE WILL TAKE UP THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY.
>>HE WAS NOT CRYING BACK THERE.
THEY DON'T AGREE WITH THE POPE,
THEY DON'T AGREE WITH ANY OF IT.
THE IDEA OF PEACE, WE MAKE
PEACE WITH CUBANS?
WE ARE NOT FOR PEACE, WE ARE REPUBLICANS.
RUBIO IS NOT THE MOST EGREGIOUS CASE AT ALL.
CONGRESSMAN PAUL
GOSAR, A REPUBLICAN AND A CATHOLIC, EXPLAINED IN AN OP-ED
THAT HE WILL NOT BE ATTENDING.
HE SAID, I WAS SUPER EXCITED
WHEN I HEARD THE POPE WAS COMING, I AM A GREAT CATHOLIC,
AN AWESOME CATHOLIC.
BUT HE SAID THAT HE HAD MISGIVINGS
ABOUT WHAT THE POPE WAS GOING TO SAY AND HE EXPLAINED IT THIS WAY.
HE SAID, IF THE POPE STUCK TO STANDARD CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY, I
WOULD BE THE FIRST IN LINE.
IN OTHER WORDS, IF THE POPE STUCK
TO BEING CONSERVATIVE AND DOING CONSERVATIVE PROPAGANDA ON
BEHALF OF OUR POLITICAL INTERESTS, I WOULD BE IN FAVOR
OF HIM.
BUT IF HE IS GOING TO GO RUNNING OFF AT THE MOUTH ABOUT
JESUS AND THE POOR AND THE NEEDY, NO INTEREST.
HE WENT ON
TO SAY, ARTIST AND COLUMNIST MAUREEN MULLARKEY EFFECTIVELY
COMMUNICATED THIS FALLACY, STATING, WHEN PAPAL PREFERENCES
MASKED IN A CHRISTIAN IDIOM ALIGN THEMSELVES WITH
IDEOLOGICAL AGENDAS (E.G.
RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM) THEY
IMPINGE UPON DEMOCRATIC FREEDOMS AND THE SANCTITY OF THE
INDIVIDUAL.
IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU ARE DOING LEFTIST IDEOLOGY,
YOU ARE IMPINGING UPON MY FREEDOM.
IF YOU ARE DOING RIGHT
WING IDEOLOGY, THAT IS WHAT THE POPE SHOULD BE DOING.
YOU SHOULD
BE ON MY POLITICAL SIDE, AND IF YOU ARE NOT, I AM MAD AT YOU.
WAIT, I THOUGHT YOU WERE A GOOD CATHOLIC AND LISTENED TO THE
POPE?
AREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW THE POPE?
THAT IS THE
WHOLE POINT IF YOU ARE CATHOLIC.
IF YOU ARE PROTESTANT IT IS
DIFFERENT, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN CHRISTIANITY, TOTALLY
DIFFERENT.
IF YOU ARE A CATHOLIC YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO LISTEN TO
THE POPE, HE IS TALKING TO GOD.
HE IS YOUR SPIRITUAL LEADER, NOW
YOU ARE SAYING IT IS A LITTLE INCONVENIENT.
IT DOES NOT HELP
MY AGENDA.
WHERE ARE THE TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH?
IF HE IS PURSUING
A DIFFERENT AGENDA, I HATE THE POPE.
THEN YOU ARE NOT REALLY
THAT RELIGIOUS, ARE YOU?
YOU JUST PICK AND CHOOSE.
YOU CARE A
LOT MORE ABOUT POLITICS THAN YOU DO BUT RELIGION.
HE SAYS, AN
OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS -- THIS IS WHAT HE SHOULDN'T -ñ AN
OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE ENSLAVEMENT, BELITTLEMENT, RAPE
AND DESECRATION OF CHRISTIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN, TO ADDRESS
THE CONDONED, SUBSIDIZED, INTENTIONALLY PLANNED GENOCIDE
OF UNBORN CHILDREN BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND SOCIETY, AND
FINALLY AN OPPORTUNITY FOR HIS HOLINESS TO REFOCUS HIS PRIORITIES
FROM WRONG TO RIGHT.
IF HE HAD DONE A SPEECH ABOUT HOW
PLANNED PARENTHOOD DOES GENOCIDE, THAT IS THE POPE I
SIGNED UP FOR.
OTHERWISE, OH, THE POPE, THE POPE.
I DON'T WANT
TO HEAR IT, I WILL NOT EVEN TALK TO HIM.
WHICH IS IT, ARE YOU A
CATHOLIC OR NOT?
YOU ARE NOT A CATHOLIC, YOU ARE NOT RELIGIOUS,
YOU DON'T CARE.
ALL THE TIME YOU PRETENDED TO CARE ABOUT WHAT
YOU'RE RELIGION SAYS AND HOW YOU FOLLOWED, YOU DIDN'T MEAN THAT.
YOU ONLY WANTED TO FOLLOW IT IF IT LED TO TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH
AND MORE WAR.
WHEN IT DOESN'T, ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU HATE IT AND
DON'T EVEN WANT TO LISTEN TO THE GUY.
POPE WHO?
HE SAYS, WHEN THE
POPE CHOOSES TO ACT AND TALK LIKE A LEFTIST POLITICIAN, THEN
HE CAN EXPECT TO BE TREATED LIKE ONE.
WHEN HE ACTS AND TALKS LIKE
A RIGHT-WING POLITICIAN, THAT HE IS THE POPE.
NO, YOU DON'T GET
TO DECIDE WHAT THE POPE SAYS.
THAT IS WHY YOU ARE NOT THE
POPE.
IF GOD WANTED YOU TO BE THE POPE, HE WOULD HAVE PICKED
YOU.
BUT HE DIDN'T.
I DON'T BELIEVE IN THAT STUFF, BUT YOU
TELL ME YOU DO.
YOU SAW THE WHITE SMOKE.
WERE YOU IN THAT
ROOM?
WHO PICKED HIM?
OKAY, THE GUYS WHO HAVE BEEN TELLING ME MY
WHOLE LIFE THAT I NEED TO BOW DOWN IN FRONT OF THEIR RELIGION,
NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY WON'T EVEN RESPECT THEIR RELIGIOUS
LEADERS, WON'T ABIDE BY THEIR OWN RELIGION, AND WON'T EVEN
LISTEN TO THE POPE, BECAUSE IT'S A LITTLE INCONVENIENT.
THE POPE
IS NOT FOR KILLING MORE PEOPLE, THE POPE IS ACTUALLY FOR PEACE,
THE POPE IS NOT FOR THE RICH, HE IS ACTUALLY FOR THE POOR AND THE
NEEDY.
YUCK.
I DIDN'T MEAN RELIGION, I DIDN'T MEAN THE POPE, DAMN IT ALL.
THAT IS WHAT REPUBLICANS ARE SAYING NOW.
YOUNG TURKS.