The Pope goes for another beaver shot
(Pope Benedict and Sharon Stone: Only their mother can tell them apart…)
You’ve got to hand it to the Pope: He does know how to give good headline.
If it’s not condoms causing AIDS, it’s reintroducing the prayer that asks God to make the Jews repent of their crimes, or saying homosexuals are as big a threat as Global Warming, or embracing Holocaust denying bishops, or…
… well, you know his rep.
So, you might say that his approach to trying to make the papers seems to be the one shared by most of our celebs when they feel that the world should pay more attention to them – mostly, by showing their pubes to the paparazzi or releasing yet another sex tape.
Of course, the Pope isn’t really dressed for upskirt shots and even Jesus’ official stand-in realizes he would need some truly miraculous make-over (or a very well hung, hunky body double) to pull off even a half-decent sex tape. So, most of the time, he tries to emulate Sharon Stone.
No, not the earlier Sharon Stone: As I said, the Pope isn’t dressed (or, we trust, built) for your better beaver shot. It’s the older Stone he tries to follow.
The one telling the world that all those thousands of Chinese school children who died in that earth quake did so because of their government’s actions in Tibet.
Or, more to the point, in this instance, her announcing that she would kiss everyone within a few square Hiroshima miles for Middle East peace:
“Pope Benedict XVI today expressed deep respect for Islam and said he hoped the Catholic church could play a role in Middle East peace as he began his first trip to the region, where he hopes to improve frayed ties with Muslims. The pope offended many in the Muslim world with a speech in 2006 in which he quoted a medieval text that characterised some of the prophet Muhammad’s teachings as “evil and inhuman”, particularly “his command to spread by the sword the faith”.
The pope later said he was “deeply sorry” over the reaction to his speech.”
Quite.
I have to admit it’s almost cute, how he’s even saying sorry in the Sharon Stone manner, as when she petulantly tried to get out of her own Chinese quakemire.
(Getting ready to throw some knickers for Christ…)
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