or one as essential as the American-Peruvian Leo has turned out to be as a counter to Trumpian fascism and world criminality but I had kind of liked the idea of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle from the Phillipines becoming Pope.
This article about a tell-all book about the conclave that elected Leo - who is turning out to be an excellent Pope in many ways, though one who I have some major disagreemtnts with - has this titbit of gossip in what may have sunk Tagle's cause.
O'Connell also cites sources as later saying that the backlash over a video of Tagle singing karaoke to John Lennon's "Imagine" that had circulated online ahead of the conclave "caused many of his would‑be supporters to reconsider and abandon him."
I'm assuming it wasn't because the Cardinal electors know a really lousy song when they hear one. And I'm assuming it wasn't the smart mop-head's insincere imagining of "no possessions" but the rote, Brit, anti-religious content that got them. Though I'd have marked him down for the music too.
Damned song, who knows what might have been if Tagle had sung "You Light Up My Life" or some crappy show tune instead. Though if it was Andrew Lloyd Webber, I'd disqualify him too.
Update: Simps wants me to get into it with him about the mop-heads and his god John Lennon again. I am tempted to kick his ass around once again over something really stupid and unimportant but considering the gravity of the times, I'm not going to do so unless at least four of you ask me to.
Update 2: Apparently no one here cares enough to see me answer Simps so I will honor that non-choice.
Jeebus, Sparky, your obsession with "Imagine" has really gotten out of control, i.e. crossed over into full-blown pathology. Apparently you seem to think Lennon wrote the solely to annoy you personally. 😎
ReplyDeleteStupy, I wasn't the one who published the rumor that Cardinal Tagle lost support in the conclave over the video of him singing that piece of dreck. And your comment proves you have no ability to imagine what or how I think because I think about the only reason the "smart" mophead wrote much of anything after about the period of Rubber Soul was for the money. That piece of crap which he probably knocked off in a ten minutes is just one example of that. I will admit that when I read that in that article about the book about the last conclave, I thought of you. If there is something you might want to know about my thinking it's that I figured it would annoy you, yet again.
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