Regardless of who the leading official is and what the scandal is, one way of a leader spinning it in their favour is to take a number of approaches at the same time. One approach is to aggressive attack the accusers, to go on the offensive, rather than be on the defensive. Another approach is to dilute your accusers attack by attempting to minimize it with big numbers and a broader perspective. (As in, “it is terrible that that incident occurred, but we dealt with thousands of other incidents successfully”).
That was what I thought when I read this: Vatican Sees Campaign Against the Pope in the NYTimes.com
I also thought this: parties that engage in such activities are usually in bigger trouble than we know (yet).
Now, that does not mean the Pope is in trouble. But it is starting to look like it.
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