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Liberal Esquire political columnist Charles Pierce joined MSNBC’s All In on Thursday during live coverage of Pope Francis’s visit to New York City and used the occasion of the Pope’s speech hours earlier before Congress to lash out at Ted Cruz and conservatives for not endorsing climate change or other liberal social issues that the Pontiff does.
After remarking how he noticed that “[t]here wasn’t a single accidental word” in the Pope’s speech and was “less of a stem winder” than expected, Pierce began his brief tirade by praising Francis for having “this vast sense he gives off of not being judgmental after frankly two papacies of very judgmental men” in Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.