Environmentalists (Including the Pope!) Praise the Virus for Saving the Planet
In the transcript of Rush's conversation with a caller, he accuses "a bunch of Millennial-aged left-wing know-it-alls" of praising the virus because it is killing people and thereby saving the planet. Limbaugh does not, sadly, provide us any links or names so we can verify this statement.
Rush then goes on to mischaracterize a statement by Pope Francis. This isn't the first time Limbaugh has been critical of the Pope. He goes on to say,
"This is the pope, the Vicar of Christ on Easter weekend. Donald Trump is doing more for Easter celebration than the pope is, for crying out loud."
First of all, this statement did not come from the Pope on Easter weekend. This comes from an interview with Austen Ivereigh of The Tablet. Ivereigh writes that certain questions were submitted to Pope Francis at the end of March, which the Pope answered, in Spanish, before Easter.
In answer to one question, Pope Francis responds,
"There is an expression in Spanish: 'God always forgives, we forgive sometimes, but nature never forgives.' We did not respond to the partial catastrophes. Who now speaks of the fires in Australia, or remembers that 18 months ago a boat could cross the North Pole because the glaciers had all melted? Who speaks now of the floods? I don’t know if these are the revenge of nature, but they are certainly nature’s responses.
There is absolutely nothing in the original interview which would remotely suggest that the Pope is praising the virus for saving the planet.
On the Facebook page where I found a link to Limbaugh's transcript, I read quite a few nasty comments by people who hate Pope Francis. There's a link to NY Post story which I'm sure Rush read, although I question how many of his listeners/readers followed the link.
The NY Post story does provide a link to the original interview in The Tablet which I'm sure Limbaugh did not bother to read.
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