The View:-Sanders said he was going to meet with the POPE-but is NOT meeting him (Hill GRoup)

[riversedge]

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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 audiance he said nothing--He just nodded ...!!(very short You-tubeclip
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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The Briefing ?@TheBriefing2016 Apr 7

Bernie Sanders says Hillary Clinton called him "unqualified."

Nope.

Nope.
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[Thinkingabout]

1. Climb a tree and tell a lie when the truth sounds better on the ground. Always dancing.

[Lucinda]

18. I was married to a guy like that. It's pathological, I think. And more often than not

the truth was the better story.

[Thinkingabout]

21. Yep, I am familiar with that.

[Her Sister]

2. He's also trying to change the conversation!

Away from everything that has come up this week including the NYDN fiasco. Probably wants to avoid NY reporters/interviewers.

[NastyRiffraff]

12. That's the ONLY explanation

of this weirdly puzzling trip, taking him away from NY just before the primary, that makes a sort of sense. This has not been a good week for Sanders; perhaps he just wants to go and hide somewhere. Why not the Vatican?

[MarianJack]

3. I sense another lie about an endorsement coming in 3...2...1...

Beck Bench Bernie isc getting truly desperate!

PEACE!

[riversedge]

5. Sanders will get more Pinocchios for lunch for this bug lie

[seabeyond]

6. What are we up to, 14? Nt.

[DesertRat]

11. He's collecting Pinocchios instead of delegates

[seabeyond]

17. Lol Lol. True that. I am curious what he is up to. 14 Pinocchio's or more. I think maybe 16, 17.

[pandr32]

31. Ha-ha! Seems like it!

[seabeyond]

4. Right? What kind of person lies about this, and expects to get away with it.... On national tv,

With blunt Joy. I cannot wait to hear what she has to say, about a follow up, when she realized the truth.

[riversedge]

7. She seems in love

with Bernie

[DemonGoddess]

19. nah, she likes Hillary

they've known each other for years

[riversedge]

24. I have to admit that I seldom watch the show--only see

clips every now and then. Thanks for information--glad to hear that.

[liberal N proud]

8. He is a saint after all

Why wouldn't the Pope meet him?

[Treant]

16. He's gonna meet the Pope.

A little bird told him.

[Surya Gayatri]

35. Francis is on a first name basis with Sanders. He'll be giving Bern a ring at the hotel

to invite him round for drinks - his own special cocktail recipe, "Pope Potion", and then a private guided tour of Castel Gondolfo, where he kicks back on weekends.

[mcar]

9. I want to see photos of their

one-on-one meeting.

[George II]

10. Plane fare from JFK to Rome is $3800 round trip....

...that's roughly 141 $27 checks.

[SunSeeker]

22. Who's going have to pay for his Secret Service agents going to Rome with him?

This will be a very expensive trip!

[pandr32]

32. Great point!

Perhaps he will leave them behind?

[KittyWampus]

28. can't use campaign funds.

[SunSeeker]

13. Another Sanders pander fail. As the NY Times reported:

Further confusion about the trip bubbled up on Friday afternoon when the Vatican press office made clear that it had not issued the invitation, but that it had come from the academy. It said that there was no indication that Mr. Sanders would meet with Francis.

Meanwhile, Margaret Archer, the academy’s president, told Bloomberg News that Mr. Sanders had actively solicited the invitation for political purposes.

“Sanders made the first move, for the obvious reasons,” Ms. Archer said. “I think in a sense he may be going for the Catholic vote, but this is not the Catholic vote, and he should remember that and act accordingly — not that he will.”

But hours later, Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, a senior papal official and the academy’s chancellor, denied that Mr. Sanders had invited himself to the event. He told Reuters that it was his idea to invite the senator.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/08/bernie-sanders-accepts-pope-franciss-invitation-to-travel-to-the-vatican/

So he apparently got an invite by a Monsignor to a conference, not an invitation by the Vatican to meet with the Pope. Ooops.

[riversedge]

14. What bothered me is that Bernie just sat there and let the lie go on. A simple--no, I am going to

the conference-not meeting with the Pope would have sufficed. but that would have hit his big ego hard--to be honest at that moment

[SunSeeker]

15. Yes, the NY Times noted that:

The Sanders campaign made the announcement on Friday as the Vermont senator made the rounds on the morning television news shows. Mr. Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate, said he would take a break from campaigning in New York, just days before the April 19 primary there, to attend a conference hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a scholarly association in Vatican City that was established by Pope John Paul II in 1994.

Mr. Sanders did not initially correct interviewers who suggested that he would meet with the pope, but he later clarified that he had not confirmed whether the two men would actually meet.
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Mr. Sanders tried to move beyond the controversy and stressed his fondness for the pope and the importance of his visit. In an interview on Friday, he said Pope Francis had played a “profound role in raising consciousness throughout the world, not just within the Catholic community but within all communities.”

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/08/bernie-sanders-accepts-pope-franciss-invitation-to-travel-to-the-vatican/

[riversedge]

26. Thanks. Had not seen that. Also--Pope will be out of the Vatican -so Bernie would have to hop

over to the greek island of Lesbos--in the 16th.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35988298

ARM ?@adirado29 7h7 hours ago

Crisis: Pope to visit troubled Lesbos next week / well that's 1 way of getting out of meeting #BernieSanders & Jane http://ln.is/www.bbc.com/news/F4S2x …

[pandr32]

33. And we do know how good he is at interrupting...

...in order to "correct" what is being said, don't we???

[Fla Dem]

20. The Pope isn't even going to be in Rome when BS is there. What a farce. Nt

[Surya Gayatri]

23. That one word -"YUP"- is a flagrant falsehood. And then, he doubles down on the

deliberate deceit by sitting there nodding, while the host announces the fiction to the audience.

He's really quite a number. The fact that his fans claim he's a paragon of honesty astonishes me.

[BlueMTexpat]

29. I didn't think that things would get

worse after the flagrantly outrageous dealings in NV last weekend.

But this week has shown that he and his campaign can indeed aim for an even lower bar. Two flagrant lies - OK, he's backtracked somewhat on Hillary - but this whole Pope visit situation still is fermenting. And now, his campaign is trying to pull the same kinds of shenanigans in MO as in NV to thwart the will of the voters.

I am SO done with him.

[Surya Gayatri]

30. As I said in another thread...

His increasingly erratic behavior is scaring me more all the time.

I'm so afraid that his manifestly massive ego will not allow him to admit defeat (especially to a WOMAN!!!) and that he'll rally his disciples to go nuclear and trash the convention.

He and his whole team are abject.

And, to think his acolytes loudly excoriate Hillary for a "dirty" campaign. Oh, the biting irony.

[BlueMTexpat]

37. Exactly.

Spot on about his increasingly erratic behavior ...!

- To leave in the middle of a political campaign in a must-win state indicates incredible lack of common sense at the very least. That vaunted judgment of his ... not so much in evidence here.

- To visit the Vatican (Pope or not) - a religious institution - in the middle of what should be a secular political campaign, just

- To visit the Vatican - religious or not - an institution that has until recently been covering up abuse scandals, has been opposed in principle to LGBT rights, adamantly opposes women's reproductive rights, and adamantly opposes women's equal rights in general (no women priests, etc.), just again and also

- To have actively sought this visit - per Jeffrey Sachs anyway - again

Unfortunately, I suspect that you are correct and that he will try to trash the Dem convention. His campaign's behavior in NV last week and MO right now gives every indication of his doing just that.

Anyone who still seriously and sincerely believes that Bernie is any kind of Democrat is liable to be profoundly disillusioned. He is using that label for convenience now and only for this election. He's still "I" as a Senator and has had plenty of time to change that if he really were a "D."

[Surya Gayatri]

38. Rachel called out his hypocrisy so aptly, labelling him the "Party of One",

with his reticence to help the very party that's providing him a vehicle for his own ambitions.

[riversedge]

42. OH MY MY@@ Missed that@ Good on Rachel: Sanders--> "Party of One",

[pandr32]

34. Me too!

I "honestly" don't get it!

[grossproffit]

25. Bernie's initials really do define him.

He's nothing but a bull chitter!

[NurseJackie]

27. So Bernie is actually going to Greece?

[book_worm]

36. He also said he will be the first living person the Pope will proclaim as a Saint.

Saint Bernard.

[KittyWampus]

39. He also lied on Morning Joe. The "Vatican" did not officially invite him

One of the guys running the conference did. And certainly not on behalf of the Pope or the Vatican.

"How did this come about?" co-host Mika Brzezinski asked.
"It was an invitation from the Vatican," Sanders replied.
"That's kind of impressive," Brzezinski said.
"It is," Sanders replied.


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[LisaM]

40. Ugh.

Why are people falling for this?

[seabeyond]

41. I hadn't seen this one. Thanks Kitty. Nt.

[riversedge]

43. added a pic.