John Dickerson, co-anchor of "CBS Evening News," is a smug "journalist" whose late-stage affliction with Trump Derangement Syndrome makes him incapable of — gleefully so — not blasting President Donald Trump at every concocted opportunity. On a recent edition of the news show, Dickerson was downright shameful.
The ever-haughty host, reporting live from the Vatican on Thursday night ahead of Saturday’s funeral mass for Pope Francis, ended the show with very-thinly-veiled hit on Trump as a contrast to Francis and other Catholic leaders.
Perhaps even worse, Dickerson went so far as to unfavorably contrast Trump with America's first president, George Washington.
Dickerson's smug cheap shots — which he apparently thinks cover his condescending hit pieces by not referring to Trump directly or by name — were bush-league at best.
As is usually Dickerson's wont, he ended the show by faux-moralizing about a current event (the Pope's death) as an excuse to blister Trump — again, without mentioning Trump by name, but anyone with at least two brain cells could clearly see his delight in criticizing the president:
In American politics, candidates boast. Flash and hubris often win. In the conclave, those same traits are liabilities. As Colleen Dulle, Vatican reporter for America magazine, explained to me, he who enters a conclave a pope exits a cardinal, meaning, if any cardinal campaigns too openly for the job, his chances diminish.
Then the Trump-Washington contrast:
That same suspicion of ambition shaped the early American presidency. George Washington didn’t campaign, nor did many of the first American presidents. It was believed that gross ambition was a cancer. So maybe the systems aren’t that different. Both are shaped, at least in their ideal, by a common fear, that the person who most wants power may be the last person who should have it.
Hmm. "Gross ambition." Why, it almost sounded like Dickerson was referring to Barack Obama. Or perhaps even cognitively vacant Joe Biden... or two-timer loser, Hillary Clinton.
Dickerson's cheap shots stood in contrast to the way he kicked off the show by emphasizing "humility" as a virtue during a discussion with Father Matthew Berrios, a local priest in Rome — an American who previously served in New York City and was Dickerson’s parish priest:
Dickerson: What are you looking for in the next pope?
Berrios: A shepherd, first and foremost, a man that [sic] can listen, a man that can lead, but a man that knows how to be humble.Dickerson: Why is humility so important?
Berrios: Because that is a pure imitation of Jesus. Being a leader is not about vaunting yourself. It’s not about putting your name on buildings and proclaiming yourself. It’s about putting yourself in love at the service and care of others, especially of the most vulnerable.
Dickerson: Really sounds like your description of Pope Francis.
Berrios: Absolutely.
Dickerson then displayed even more faux humility:
The shepherd must smell like the sheep, Pope Francis said. And all day long, the flock has gathered as bells pealed, the rain fell to celebrate his push to put his life, his office, and his church among the people. Not everyone embraced Francis’ style. Yet, in a church short on priests and losing parishioners, his authenticity, his joy, his humility wasn’t just holy, it was necessary.
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Some people we spoke with here say Pope Francis made the church feel close, so close he could call himself the world’s parish priest. The task for the church now? Finding a pope who nurtures that same feeling, where it’s possible to run into your neighborhood priest in Rome and have it feel like more than a coincidence.
Not to be catty, but please. Dickerson pontificating (preaching?) about the virtues of "humility" and such isn't the same guy who trots out his veiled attacks at Trump and his administration, nightly. Not even close.
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Meanwhile, CBS continues to be CBS — with a vengeance — even though the Trump-loathing network sometimes gets its left-wing hand slapped for doing so.
As my colleague Bob Hoge reported on Tuesday:
[V]eteran "60 Minutes" producer Bill Owens quit on Tuesday amid growing tension between the “journalists” at the show and corporate brass. The weekly left-wing news show was widely rebuked in October after it aired a deceptively edited interview with then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
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Some things never change — particularly Democrats and their sycophantic media.
Congressional Democrats, having learned zero, continue to sing from the same sheet music that led Trump to a decisive presidential victory, while their sock puppets in the media continue to read from same old tired scripts that led to their ratings continuing to swirl down the toilet.
Go figure — it's actually quite easy.
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