Howard Kurtz, WaPo: Making of a mosque mess

[steve2470]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/17/AR2010081701473.html?hpid=topnews

On Dec. 8, 2009, the New York Times published a story about a planned development in lower Manhattan:

"The building has no sign that hints at its use as a Muslim prayer space, but these modest beginnings point to a far grander vision: an Islamic center near the city's most hallowed piece of land that would stand as one of ground zero's more unexpected and striking neighbors.

"The location was precisely a key selling point for the group of Muslims who bought the building in July. A presence so close to the World Trade Center, 'where a piece of the wreckage fell,' said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the cleric leading the project, 'sends the opposite statement to what happened on 9/11.'

" 'We want to push back against the extremists,' added Imam Feisal, 61."

The reaction? Nada. Later that month, in fact, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham interviewed the imam's wife on "O'Reilly Factor" and said: "I can't find many people who really have a problem with it. . . . I like what you're trying to do."

I'm sure Laura Ingraham is now with the terrorists !!!11 extreme :sarcasm:

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Kurtz is lying, piece of shit douchebag

That even applies when he is telling the truth.

[truebrit71]

2. +1000

eom

[gratuitous]

3. You don't suppose . . .

This is every bit as faked a controversy as last year's Tea Bagger shoutfests, do you? Because if it is, you'd have to wonder at a popular media that can be fooled so easily by such a transparent ploy. They'd have to be either active connivers with the folks ginning up the brouhaha or remarkably gullible.

They'll tell us that neither one is true, but I don't know what other alternative there might be.

[steve2470]

4. It is completely faked.

If the uber-RW idiots had not publicized the Cordoba House, this would be lost to obscurity.

[NC_Nurse]

5. Another example of collusion between the RW and big media. The Repubs gin up

fake controversy and the fear vote, and the media gets big ratings from another bullshit "story".