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The media’s tendency to use the Pope to criticize Republican candidates and officials was on display Wednesday afternoon as MSNBC’s Live with Thomas Roberts and Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect took shots at the 2016 GOP presidential field and, specifically, Catholics Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum (in the case of the latter show) for opposing Pope Francis’s upcoming encyclical on global warming.
On MSNBC, host Thomas Roberts was joined by NBC News senior political analyst Mark Murray, who opined that the issue of climate change “really has Republicans kind of cornered a bit and particularly when the Pope ends up wading in.”