After Cardinal Robert Prevost became the first American ever to be elected Pope on Tuesday and took the name Leo XIV, MSNBC’s Katy Tur picked and chose what aspects of his beliefs to amplify and which ones to downplay or ignore. Naturally, for MSNBC, she highlighted his “rebuking” of conservatives and Republicans, but not of liberals and Democrats.
Tur asked former Time managing editor and Obama Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel, “Do you foresee this having some legs in the American political landscape?”
Stengel was hopeful that it would, “Yeah. You summarized it well. I mean, it may indeed be a rebuke of some of those conservative ideas. I don’t know that the cardinals are thinking about American politics as much as we are, but he’s a different kind of American.”
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