Sigh

So Amy Welborn writes a perfectly sensible post about the impoverished press narrative whenever the Pope is in their sights. Andrew Sullivan scans the light waves emanating from his monitor and links it. However, you get the sense that nothing actually moved any grey matter when he did so. He intones some "beyondist" rubbish ("It would be great to take it to the next elevel, which means re-opening and making more accessible the real debates about the Second Council, that are still unresolved")--and then *instantly* goes out to find somebody who will say the same old tired stuff about how Benedict is out of touch, inacessible, blah blah. Classic "Ratzinger the cold bureacrat" stuff and *exactly* what Amy is talking about when she complains of the imbecilic narrative of the press.

It's behavior like this on the part of liberal Catholic media types that reminds me of nothing so much as this:



Like the Bourbons, progressive dissenter media types remember everything and learn nothing.