Pope Rope-A-Dopes

Brian Williams: When was the last time you went to church? Same question to the lot of you Pope ring kissers off-the-chart about the Pontiff's visit. Has the Vatican's Swiss Army Guard sent anthrax letters?

Venal George Bush tells the Pope his speech yesterday was "awesome?" The Devil to whom Bush sold his soul responds to the prez's straying from Satan's playbook with an earthquake in Illinois.

"Faced with the prospect of salvation," Tim Russert blabs to Brian Williams this am on his private audience with the Pope yesterday, "I kept my mouth shut."

Tim and Wolf Blitzer were the "Buffalo Boys" version of Milwaukee's finest: "Laverne & Shirley Meet The Pope." Except they kept their yaps shut.

TV Newser: "I must say, I don't often say it, but I truly feel blessed that I had this opportunity to do what I've just done," said Blitzer to CNN's John King who was sub-anchoring the Situation Room while Blitzer was at the University.

King said, "Pope Benedict may be the only man alive who could be in a room with Blitzer and Russert and not get asked a question."

"You know, I didn't ask him a question, and I listened carefully and Tim Russert, if you can believe it, was even more polite and even more stunned and silent than I was," Blitzer said, adding, "I think the two of us did not embarrass our profession, our news business. We just stood there and we watched, we did what we were told."

Not kissing the Pope's ring: irreverant Bill Maher. NYDN Angry Catholics and politicians want HBO comedian Bill Maher to apologize for linking the Pope to the Nazis and calling him the head of "a child-abusing religious cult."

Bill: stay unrepentant. But watch your back. The Opus Dei thugs are shadowing you, although the shady group publicly denies "The DaVinci Code" characterization as murderers.

"Opus Dei is a Catholic institution and adheres to Catholic doctrine, which clearly condemns immoral behavior, including murder, lying, stealing, and generally injuring people. The Catholic Church teaches that one should never do evil, even for a good purpose." Opus Dei website

"It was truly history" that the Pope met with victims of the abuse scandal. NBC's Brian Williams sucking up to some Catholic bigwig today.

Please. Don't get me started on Catholic hypocrisy, corruption, ideological murders, CYA, pedophiles... Paging Christopher Hitchens...