ABC’s Good Morning America made Pope Francis into one of their own — a cultural progressive — on Monday by boasting “he often clashed with conservatives” over his “compassion for the LGBTQ community” and “wave of optimism” for everyone from immigrants to the poor to even Palestinians. And, of course, they made it about themselves too.
Co-host Michael Strahan had a tease that made it seem like he knows what he’s talking about:
Longtime ABC correspondent Terry Moran shortly thereafter emphasized Pope Francis’s people skills were unlike any of his predecessors (though he later backtracked and praised Saint Pope John Paul II) and, like Strahan, emphasized him as pro-LGBTQ:
“All those unforgettable moments of Pope Francis. The way that he went to a war zone, that he brought refugees back to his own house in Rome. All those gestures,…
