A typically slanted article at the New York Times about the leftist-influenced and leftist-financed International Freedom Center at Ground Zero in Manhattan: Freedom Museum Is Headed for Showdown at Ground Zero.

The International Freedom Center, a proposed museum that is facing expulsion from ground zero under pressure from angry relatives of 9/11 victims, will make a forceful new appeal today to stay at the World Trade Center site.

The museum’s decision to stand firm would force the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and Gov. George E. Pataki to make a tough choice. They could either infuriate hundreds of impassioned relatives of those who died, or alienate influential cultural, academic and business figures, as well as family members who support the center.

The Freedom Center was chosen by the development corporation in June 2004 to occupy the cultural building on the memorial quadrant. It would portray the history and role of freedom around the world in exhibits and programs. “You could not put it someplace else,” said Tom A. Bernstein, its chairman and co-founder.

But the Freedom Center is now fighting for its life, in part because some victims’ relatives do not want anything around the memorial that smacks of anti-American politics or detracts from the story of 9/11.

You wouldn’t expect the Times to mention it, but it’s not just “some victims’ relatives” who are opposed to plans to turn the site of the September 11 attacks into an America-bashing Moonbat Disneyland. If the entire country (or at least, the part that hasn’t forgotten 9/11) had not been outraged about this monumental insult, it would already be a fait accompli.

And as Take Back The Memorial reports, the Times also forgot to mention that the 20,000 members of the Uniformed Firefighters Association “do not want anything around the memorial that smacks of anti-American politics.”