My Favorite MSM Benedict Talking Point

Not sure if this is being talked about (I'm listening to the Brewers lose in extra innings - Stupid Phelps.) in hourly broadcasts, but according to the Kos-heads: Benedict's a Nazi.

Actually, the Wall Street Journal explains this part of his past quite well.

Traunstein was also where Cardinal Ratzinger went through the harrowing years of Nazi rule and World War II. In his memoirs, Cardinal Ratzinger wrote that he was enrolled in the Nazi youth movement against his will when he was 14 in 1941, when membership was compulsory. He said he was soon let out because of his studies for the priesthood.

Two years later he was drafted into a Nazi antiaircraft unit as a helper, a common task for teenage boys too young to be soldiers. A year later he was released, only to be sent to the Austrian-Hungarian border to construct tank barriers.

He deserted the Germany army in May 1945 and returned to Traunstein -- a risky move, since deserters were shot on the spot if caught, or publicly hanged as examples to others. When he arrived home, U.S. soldiers took him prisoner and held him in a prisoner-of-war camp for several weeks. Upon his release, he re-entered the seminary.

So he's Captain von Trapp. Leave him alone moonbats.

UPDATE: Speak of the Devil. From Yahoo News.