When one hears, say, Bill Maher call the Pope a Crusader, one puzzles, as the Pope heads the Roman Cayholic Church at the Vatican; the Vatican but for a few shrines in the Mid East is manifestly a Western faith separated from Byzantine Catholicism (Greek Orthodox, Rutherian, Eastern Orthodox, Armenian, et al) since 1050 A.D.; to call the Pope a Crusader against Islam sounds moronic at best, so some say "heh, heh...ol' Maher or whoever, heh heh, just trying to link Iraq to SOMETHING for his Democrat friends! Lighten up, jeez!".
 
When one hears say Obama call religious people in Pennsylvania...specifically that State, notice...one puzzles why a man who clawed so hard to look so progressively ecumenical (well, at least tried as best he personally cared to) would knock even Democrats in a crucial vote and first then at that; "aw jeez...you again! Come on, Obama's just trying to spiff his anti-racism and anti-nationalism credentials for the immigrant votes, as everybody knows Pennsylvania is the new South! Jeez, lighten up, heh heh! Nobody's out to pick on Popes or faiths at random, they're trying to get poor troops out of Iraq and get gays married to stay on the cutting edge of green and progress!".
 
Well...not so fast.
 
In 1960, a Brazilian professor and lawyer started something called Tradition Family And Property (TFP), a voluntary association of Roman Catholics to peaceably oppose any nature of communism or socialism or anything acting like it; their website is http://www.tfp.org/. Since 1973, FTP has had offices throughout Europe and the Western Hemisphere; their primary compass is the 1937 Encyclical of Pope Pius XI titled Divini Redemptoris, a Vatican online copy of which is currently viewable at http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19031937_divini-redemptoris_en.html; said Encyclical at length identifies socialistic traits of society with which the Vatican disagrees, and FTP remians a docile thinktank for advancing the gravamen in Europe and the West via peaceable means; you'll never guess, their USA office is located in Pennsylvania...and the name of their magazine: Crusade.
 
Thus, it is entirely possible that those mocking the Vatican and Western faiths Protestant thereto or in any confraternity with it (as opposed to USA Roman Catholic bailiwicks here and there supporting opposite Benedict XVI and his disapproval of liberation theology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology) are actually targeting the Vatican and FTP for opposing socialized and nationalized practices, and thus by extension anyone else at all who sounds in similar disapproval(s) thereof.
 
Makes more sense than making infinite one-liners followed by infinite brush-off apologists, and is humbly presented for consideration by the reader. And as Howard Dean's new DNC youtube ad re Iraq shows, without borders or military or troops in Mid East, and Hamas, Qaeda, and worse liberation theolgies to be indulged so this bad ol' USA knows its place, with the itchy trigger fingers and seeing reward for their violence, and Democrats believing even troops and police should run from terrorists and not at least contain them, here's all we risk at home in trusting goodwill of foreign killers who just would need to SAY they're Qaeda to get Democrat Cash: https://www.democrats.org/page/contribute/FundIraqAd?source=NETA764 ...and you thought never having private home ownership or work was bad...well, um, yeah...get outta Iraq, IT'S causing recession not handouts to misinformed immigrants re mortgages and stuff, and with an urbane Dem Prez, what would we risk having no borders...it's not like Dems wanna cannibalize Iraq funds for domestic status quo expansions or socialism, 'cuz they sez so.