The Blame Game

Has anyone bothered to tell His Holeyness Pope Rat and his closest confidantes that they can't simply spin their way out of the self-inflicted mess they're well and truly in? The latest in a depressing and pathetic parade of papal apologists is no less a person than the rodent pontiff's second in command, a previously obscure bundle of prejudices named Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. Last week Cardinal Angelo Sodano (I know, it's hard to keep up with all these cardinals) laid into the 'Zionists' (i.e. Jews) for stirring up the paedophile scandal; this week it's Bertone with the equally outrageous allegation that it was the gays wot done it. This whole mess could be laid at the feet (or any other anatomical part) of the sodomites. Nothing to do with celibacy, a culture of silence, or the ridiculous notion of papal infallibility. No it's the sons and daughters of Sodom and Zion that are to blame - uniting in common cause the Church of Rome and the perpetrators of the Holocaust. Not that that's ever happened before....