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Debunking Right-Wing Bullsh*t: "The Vatican Embassy Is Closing!!!"

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Monday, December 2, 2013 12:40 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


It started with Jeb Bush::


Bullshit. Amazing what they will lie about to brainwash their so-gullible audience. The truth: There is no U.S. embassy in Vatican City. There are no embassies in Vatican City at all, actually. There is just no room for them. The whole of Vatican City is only 0.2 square mile. All embassies to the Vatican lie in the surrounding city of Rome. Ergo, no “Vatican embassy.”

What is happening is that the U.S. embassy is being moved. That necessarily requires the closing of the old location. The new location will combine the U.S. embassy to the Vatican with the one to Italy. It’s also closer to the Holy See. It won't even downsize any of its personnel. But the closing of the former site is all the information that the myth-laden screeds from the right are giving. So naturally, this truncated version of the facts is drawing the ire of the right.
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"Obama 'insults' Catholics in Vatican-embassy shutdown" http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/obama-insults-catholics-in-vatican-embassy-
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"Obama’s call to close Vatican embassy is ‘slap in the face’ to Roman Catholics": “It’s another manifestation of the antipathy of this administration both to Catholics and to the Vatican — and to Christians in the Middle East. This is a key post for intermediation in so many sovereignties but particularly in the Middle East. This is anything but a good time to diminish the stature of this post. To diminish the stature of this post is to diminish its influence.” http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/26/obamas-call-close-holy
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"Obama Closing Vatican Embassy": "It's hard to escape the conclusion that the Obama administration is hostile to religion in general, and to Catholicism in particular....let's see it for what it really is: A slap in the face to America's Catholics." http://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplattliebau/2013/11/26/obama-closing
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The National Republican Senatorial Committee jumped on the bandwagon, launching a petition against it and setting up a web page containing the ominous headline, "Obama Closes Vatican Embassy":
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"The media is reporting that President Obama plans to close the U.S. Embassy to the Vatican," the page reads. "This is just the latest anti-religion pursuit of this Administration, a slap in the face to Catholic-Americans around the country that weakens America’s position as a global leader."


The webpage has since disappeared, and the NRSC is now quiet on the issue. They are no longer responding to requests for comment.

Now, why is the “Vatican embassy” moving? The main reason is to save money. The old location cost us $1.4 million every year to lease and operate. The other reason is security. The new location is easier and cheaper to protect. You’d think with the "fiscally responsible" right-wing, with their obsession with embassy safety might, well, you know... Ha! Not bloody likely.

Other myths surrounding this move include that the Ambassador’s residence is moving (it’s not) and that the U.S. is the only country that will have a combined location. We’re not. The UK, Netherlands and Israel all have co-located embassies to Italy and Vatican City.

Yet again, we see the right-wing taking a small piece of information from a much larger story and using it to bad-mouth President Obama. But those who want to blame any and everything on this president don’t want the facts. They would much rather pile on the faux outrage.

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Monday, December 2, 2013 12:45 PM

STORYMARK


The right has nothing buy myth to sell these days.




"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Monday, December 2, 2013 3:05 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...





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Monday, December 2, 2013 3:27 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.






Damn. How true.

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