Somebody needs to tell MSNBC hosts that the former Pope's red shoes were not made by Prada.

[onehandle]

Joy Reid subbing for Alex Wagner just repeated this lie. She's not the only one on MSNBC who has made this mistake in the last week.

CNN's Christiane Amanpour disproved this after repeating it herself, and apologized.

Anyone who repeats this is in Fox News Territory.
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Papal ruby shoes custom made, but not by Prada

http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/28/papal-ruby-shoes-custom-made-but-not-by-prada

During CNN’s wall-to-wall coverage of Pope Benedict XVI‘s final day as the head of the Catholic Church, Christiane Amanpour was forced to make a major correction: contrary to what CNN, and other news sources, have been reporting for years, Benedict’s signature red shoes were not made by Prada.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-devil-may-have-worn-prada-but-not-this-pope-cnn-admits-benedicts-red-shoes-are-not-designer

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I'm not sure why we should care who made the Pope's shoes.

[asjr]

3. I always thought they were ballet slippers.

[snooper2]

2. must be a really slow news day...

Next up-

Man spills drink at fast food restaurant! Is it a trend?

[hlthe2b]

4. Would custom made red shoes by a shoemaker not known as Prada be better?

Not sure I see the difference, but then again, I don't really care.

I have long felt the Vatican ought to "tone it down" given the extreme poverty in the world, but one person isn't going to change thousands of years of extravagance and tradition. Whether this new Pope will try to do so,will be interesting...

[GodlessBiker]

5. Do we know it's a lie?

[JaneyVee]

6. Prada is from Italy, even if they were Prada I doubt they would make him pay for them.

[onehandle]

8. Added link to OP. nt

[pinboy3niner]

7. As jberryhill says....

"There's no place like Rome. There's no place like Rome. There's no place like Rome."

[otohara]

9. This Is An Outrage

on second thought, no, no it isn't

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. That's showbiz. Everybody chips in their $.02 on the star's attire. And, lose the beanie, Frankie.

[Quantess]

11. The Devil wears Prada?

[LibertyLover]

12. Yeah, they're made by a small shoemaker in the north of Italy if I am remembering

the piece I saw on tv a few days ago. But I have to say the coverage, while non-stop and wall-to-wall, has been less than great. I was listening to the radio news going into work a day or so ago and their "expert" in Rome, a Sabina Castelfranco IIRC, was asked by the news reader in DC how the cardinals made the smoke white or black. His daughter had asked him the night before and he told her that he believed for the white smoke they burned straw with the ballots. The expert sort of ha-haed about it and never answered. Yet just a day or so before one of the Vatican officials responsible for setting up the conclave had explained to a group of reporters that the ballots were burned with different chemicals to cause the white or black smoke. Let's say I haven't been impressed with the coverage and the shoe issue is but one of the things gotten wrong.