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♻RetweetOvernight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:11:06 pm PDT
Once again the forces of virtue have triumphed over the forces of rottenness.
— Maxwell Smart
♻RetweetSigns Banned at Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's Hate Rally
Wingnuts | Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:47:40 pm PDT
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are taking a page from the Glenn Beck playbook, and banning all signs at their upcoming shameless attempt to capitalize on America’s memories of 9/11 to demonize Muslims. Instead they’re getting even more shameless with a jingoistic command to bring American flags to a rally for a cause that couldn’t be more un-American: NO SIGNS AT THE 911 GROUND ZERO MEGA MOSQUE RALLY — FLAGS! - Atlas Shrugs.
Robert and I respectfully request that those of you who will be attending our protest against the Ground Zero mega mosque bring American flags, not signs. 9 x 12 sized flags. Nothing with big poles: the NYPD won’t allow big poles. Please get the word out now.
We will be confiscating signs. It is a solemn day. No signs. FLAGS. Tens of thousands of flags.
“Tens of thousands of FLAGS,” she wrote, rubbing her hooves in glee.
Here’s why Geller and Spencer are going to confiscate signs at their hate rally; because they know people like this will show up, as they did in November 2009 in Franklin County, Ohio. I hope they’re ready to confiscate t-shirts too.
♻RetweetPalin, Translated
Wingnuts | Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:43:57 pm PDT
If you can make neither heads nor tails out of @SarahPalinUSA’s stream of consciousness Twitterspeak, follow @palinslation to find out what she’s saying in English. Sort of.
♻RetweetDiscovery Gunman: Just Nuts
Opinion | Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:03:33 pm PDT
It would be nice if everyone could just agree that James Jay Lee, the hostage taker killed today in a standoff at the offices of the Discovery Channel, was deranged. And leave it at that. But of course, we’re already seeing some extremely partisan bloggers trying to put him in the “left wing” category, simply because his weird views sprang out of a kind of extreme environmentalism. (I’m not sure how caring for the environment makes one a “left winger,” but that’s another topic.)
Lee’s “manifesto” has been taken offline, but Google’s cache still has it for a little while.
If Lee was anything, he was a radical Squirrelist.
Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.
Of course.
Lee also harbored a special animosity for immigrants:
5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH! (The first world is feeding the population growth of the Third World and those human families are going to where the food is! They must stop procreating new humans looking for nonexistant jobs!)
Do I need to point out that “anchor baby filth” is not exactly standard left wing terminology?
James Jay Lee was a very disturbed individual who fixated on the Discovery Channel for some reason. He was not left wing, he was not right wing, and he was not sane. We should be glad that no one else was harmed when he snapped.
♻RetweetNY Teenagers Charged with Shooting at Mosque, Trying to Run Over Worshippers
US News | Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:01:08 pm PDT
Another hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the anti-Muslim Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with:Teenagers Charged in Harassment at Mosque.
A group of teenagers in western New York has been accused of harassing members of a mosque by yelling obscenities and insults during evening prayers for Ramadan, sideswiping a worshiper with a vehicle and firing a shotgun outside, the authorities said Tuesday.
The teenagers were cornered by members of the mosque, who held them for the police. They were charged with disrupting a religious service, a misdemeanor.
The obscenities episode occurred Monday and the shooting last Friday, both outside the World Sufi Foundation mosque in Carlton, N.Y., the authorities said. They said a 17-year-old fired the shotgun; no one was hit.
“We have had occasions in the past,” said Joseph V. Cardone, the district attorney in Orleans County, “and it seems every three or four years we have some kids drive by the mosque and make comments and that sort of thing. We’ve had minor incidents, but nothing of this magnitude in the past.”
More details at TPM: Teens Harass Muslims In Upstate New York.
♻RetweetBreaking: Hostages Taken at Discovery Building in Silver Spring
US News | Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:24:26 am PDT
SWAT teams have just entered the offices of the Discovery Channel in Silver Spring, Maryland, where a gunman has apparently taken hostages: Reported standoff at Discovery Channel building in Silver Spring.
The hostage taker has reportedly posted his demands online at this completely insane page: savetheplanetprotest.com.
The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY:
1. The Discovery Channel and it’s affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn’s “My Ishmael” pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other’s inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!
2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs’ places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.
3. All programs promoting War and the technology behind those must cease. There is no sense in advertising weapons of mass-destruction anymore. Instead, talk about ways to disassemble civilization and concentrate the message in finding SOLUTIONS to solving global military mechanized conflict. Again, solutions solutions instead of just repeating the same old wars with newer weapons. Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!
It goes on and on like this. And based on this crazed screed, I’m quite sure that the wingnut blogs will immediately start crowing that this person is a left winger. Predicted headline: “VIOLENT LEFT WING RAAAACIST MOONBAT TAKES HOSTAGES! RIGHT WING EXONERATED!”
♻RetweetNew Apple Product Announcements, Streaming Live
Technology | Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:12:18 am PDT
Steve Jobs is hosting an Apple “special event” to announce some cool new stuff, including iOS 4.1, which will feature automatic High Dynamic Range photography for the iPhone 4 (I can’t wait to try this). The event is streaming live at the Apple website here: Apple Special Event September 2010.
♻RetweetWingnut Morons Get Their Smear On
Wingnuts | Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:40:15 am PDT
This is the kind of stuff right wing morons do if you get them mad at you; someone is using my name with a link to my website to post disgusting comments at this popular business and finance blog: 99er 5 Tier Unemployment Extension: 2 Weeks Until Senate Reconvenes | Business & Finance News.
Comments like this:
Charles Johnson said…
God is a myth just like karma. I support Islam over your ridiculous Christianity anyway.
I saw one of you 99ers looking for handouts as I went into the comic book store. I walked out with a stack of comics including one #104 Captain America which is in incredibility mint condition.
The guy was still standing their begging saying they just wanted $1 to feed their child something off a dollar menu at McDonald’s because they hadn’t eaten in 2 days.
I spent over $1000 in comic books only moments earlier and I wouldn’t spare that guy a single penny.
He should have applied for a job at McDonalds, not begged for money.
You 99ers make me sick.
August 31, 2010 4:07 PM
There are currently 10 comments similar to this one. Almost certainly, this is one of the freaks banned from LGF for posting racist or extreme comments, trying to get some kind of twisted revenge.
This is far from the first time these lunatics have done this. Please note that I almost never post comments at other websites. If you see a comment like this posted somewhere else, it’s a fraud. They do this deliberately, to try to get these comments to pop up in a Google search for my name; it’s Internet character assassination.
UPDATE at 9/1/10 10:22:05 am:
This obsessed loon is also doing the same thing in the comments here: Politics and World News: Tier 5 Unemployment Extension A Big Need After Unemployment Claims.
♻RetweetOvernight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:07:04 pm PDT
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
— George Bernard Shaw
♻RetweetLive Video: Obama Speaks on Iraq
Politics | Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:59:37 pm PDT
President Obama’s speech on the drawdown of US troops in Iraq is about to start; Sarah Palin started attacking it before it began, with a hilariously illiterate reference to George Orwell: Sarah Palin.
When asked, “Which book by George Orwell is your favorite?” Palin replied, “All of them!”
Ahem. Anyway, here’s live video of the President’s address, courtesy of the White House.
[Video removed, because there’s no way to disable autoplay.]
♻RetweetSeattle Man Charged in Hate Assault: 'You're Not American, You're Al Qaeda'
US News | Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:40:06 pm PDT
Here’s another anti-Muslim hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the anti-Muslim Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with: Charge: Seattle man attacked shopkeeper, calls victim a terrorist.
A 35-year-old Seattle man is facing assault and hate crime charges following allegations that he accosted a clerk at a Queen Anne convenience store.
According to police, Brock Stainbrook derided the man as being a terrorist during the Tuesday morning incident.
Writing the court, a Seattle detective said Stainbrook entered the 7-11 store in at 362 Denny Way. The clerk was standing near a coffee machine when Stainbrook accosted him.
“For unknown reasons a person threw change on the floor near the victim’s feet then punched the victim on the left side of the head,” the detective said.
“After the suspect struck (the clerk) with his fist he said, ‘You’re not even American, you’re Al-Qaeda. Go back to your country.’”
Another employee then stepped in, forcing Stainbrook to leave the store. As he did so, police allege the man tried to kick the second employee and damaged a barcode scanner.
Police arrested Stainbrook walking nearby minutes later. Confronted by police, he allegedly admitted that he “struck a person on his turban” because he disliked him. While the alleged victim’s ethnic background is not noted in court documents, his surname is common within the Sikh community.
That’s right — he wasn’t even a Muslim. He was a Sikh.
♻Retweet'Burn a Koran Day' Pastors Let the N Word Flow
Wingnuts | Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:35:58 pm PDT
Pastors Terry Jones and Wayne Sapp of the Dove World Outreach Center, sponsors of “Burn a Koran Day,” let it all hang out. You won’t believe this one.
Warning: this insane video is absolutely not safe for work, and possibly not safe for human beings.
(Hat tip: KT.)
♻RetweetVideo: Inside the Violent World of the English Defense League
World | Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:59:47 pm PDT
Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller thinks Newsweek is out to get her, of course, and she doubles down on her support for the far right thugs of the English Defense League — and announces that she’s bringing them to the US to participate in her anti-Muslim protest on September 11.
Thought you might like to see this piece Mark Hosenball did on the EDL. Clearly the left is attempting to split the counter jihad movement. They want me to distance myself from brave souls fighting Islamic supremacism. N-O-T G-O-I-N-G T-O H-A-P-P-E-N.
If I lived in England, I would surely be active in the EDL Jewish division. Members of the EDL will be attending our rally to stop the Ground Zero Islamic supremacist mosque on September 11th (be there).
People I know in Britain have told me that over there, there’s absolutely no doubt that the EDL is a violent, hardcore group of extremists and racists, with neo-Nazi and BNP roots. Geller is relying on Americans’ lack of knowledge about British politics to try to portray the EDL as peace-loving patriots, when the truth is exactly the opposite.
Here’s a documentary produced by the Guardian showing the actual people who belong to the EDL, doing what they actually do. The video, shot last May, includes undercover footage of the EDL goons planning to “hit” Bradford — which they just did.
This is what Pamela Geller is working hard to import to America.
♻RetweetNewsweek: Geller Defends British Thugs Who Attacked Police, Blames Muslims
Wingnuts | Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:02:08 pm PDT
Mark Hosenball notes anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller’s support for the thuggish English Defense League: N.Y. Anti-Mosque Leader Defends Group That Clashed With British Police.
A leader in the movement protesting plans to build an Islamic cultural center two blocks from Ground Zero in lower Manhattan is defending the actions of a right-wing, anti-Muslim group that was involved in violent clashes with British riot police over the weekend.
Pamela Geller is a conservative blogger, activist, and a principal organizer of Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), which seeks to block construction of the proposed center. The group is sponsoring a protest rally at the site on the 2010 anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a week from Saturday. In a posting on her Atlas Shrugs blog, Geller expresses sympathy for the goals and actions of the English Defense League (EDL), a far-right group implicated in violent clashes with police during an anti-Islamic demonstration last Saturday in the northern English city of Bradford. “The stated goal of the EDL is to oppose militant Islam and the sharia,” Geller writes. “What’s wrong with that? Everything to the PC, leftist slaves in the media and the government.”
In an e-mail to Declassified, Geller affirmed her support for the EDL and defended the group’s actions in Bradford, which, with its nearby sister city of Leeds, has a substantial Muslim population, many of Pakistani extraction.
Geller wrote: “The media has been defamatory and libelous towards any and all counter jihad activists, including the EDL, which far from being neo-Nazi and racist, is pro-Israel and has Sikh and other non-white members and spokesmen. The EDL’s own explanation of what happened in Bradford is here. As you can see from that statement, a group of Islamic supremacists and Communists actually began the violence by throwing rocks at EDL members. White supremacists at the demonstration did not represent the EDL, and EDL members actually removed them from the demonstration.”
A proud member of the English Defense LeagueBritish media reports—including accounts from outlets known for their conservative political slants—and official police statements on the Bradford clashes do not offer much support for, and in some cases contradict, the account offered by the EDL. In an official chronology of last Saturday’s events posted on the Web site of the West Yorkshire Police, the first reference to violence is a 2:30 p.m. entry that says: “Missiles have been thrown in the area around the Bradford Urban Gardens, however, this has been contained and the police are utilising their resources to manage the current situation.”
Also see:
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer Stand With The English Defense League
♻RetweetWhen Proven Liars Attack
Wingnuts | Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:50:23 am PDT
Video fraud perpetrator Andrew Breitbart’s getting frisky:
Ibrahim Hooper on LGF: ‘vicious, anti-Muslim hate site.’ Antonia Zerbisias described LGF: ‘virulently anti-Muslim/Arab website.’ @lizardoid
@andrewbreitbart Hope you realize that many of the now-banned LGF commenters responsible for those remarks are now bloggers at your sites.
For example: Pamela Geller.
And one more point about Breitbart’s lame attempt at a smear: the accusations against LGF that he posted were all based on the comments at the site; not one of these critics ever found an actual post by me to back up their charges. And there’s a reason for that: because I don’t hate Muslims in general, and I never did. There was a time when I naively thought it was better not to moderate comments at all; I no longer believe this, and it’s been years since those kinds of comments were tolerated here.
But what we’re seeing at Andrew Breitbart’s sites, Pajamas Media, and nearly every other right wing blog is a level of hatred and vitriol directed at Muslims as a people that was never part of my writing — and it’s all on their front pages, proud and in your face.
♻RetweetAnti-Mosque Bigots Are Helping America's Enemies
World | Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:12:59 am PDT
Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and the anti-mosque movement are the Taliban’s best friends.
Taliban officials know it’s sacrilegious to hope a mosque will not be built, but that’s exactly what they’re wishing for: the success of the fiery campaign to block the proposed Islamic cultural center and prayer room near the site of the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan. “By preventing this mosque from being built, America is doing us a big favor,” Taliban operative Zabihullah tells NEWSWEEK. (Like many Afghans, he uses a single name.) “It’s providing us with more recruits, donations, and popular support.”
America’s enemies in Afghanistan are delighted by the vehement public opposition to the proposed “Ground Zero mosque.” The backlash against the project has drawn the heaviest e-mail response ever on jihadi Web sites, Zabihullah claims—far bigger even than France’s ban on burqas earlier this year. (That was big, he recalls: “We received many e-mails asking for advice on how Muslims should react to the hijab ban, and how they can punish France.”) This time the target is America itself. “We are getting even more messages of support and solidarity on the mosque issue and questions about how to fight back against this outrage.”
Zabihullah also claims that the issue is such a propaganda windfall—so tailor-made to show how “anti-Islamic” America is—that it now heads the list of talking points in Taliban meetings with fighters, villagers, and potential recruits. “We talk about how America tortures with waterboarding, about the cruel confinement of Muslims in wire cages in Guantánamo, about the killing of innocent women and children in air attacks—and now America gives us another gift with its street protests to prevent a mosque from being built in New York,” Zabihullah says. “Showing reality always makes the best propaganda.”
♻RetweetPajamas Media Hits Bottom, Digs
Wingnuts | Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:26:39 am PDT
Imagine the reaction if Pajamas Media started making videos titled “Does Christianity suck?” or “Does Judaism suck?”
The ignorance and outright bigotry of this video is really quite amazing. “Why would anyone be phobic about ‘Islamics,’ those lovable rapscallions?” Andrew Klavan asks. “Islamics?”
Combined with really lame graphics and painfully unfunny “jokes,” this is one of the most disgusting pieces of dumb hate mongering to come from PJ Media yet.
(Hat tip: beekiller.)
♻RetweetOvernight Open Thread
Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:26:11 pm PDT
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
— Sydney J. Harris
♻RetweetVideo: Interviews with the Beck Fans
Wingnuts | Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:26:45 pm PDT
Interviews with participants of Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally. Good grief.
♻RetweetWhat Happened to Beck's 'Plan'?
Media | Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:11:12 pm PDT
Will Bunch says it all with his headline: It takes Beck just 55 hours to start cashing in on ‘restoring honor’ to America.
Glenn Beck’s original “I Have a Scheme” idea for his Washington rally that he announced in late 2009 was clearly one that was highly focused on a goal of….making boatloads of money for Glenn Beck. The concept, Beck told a large crowd in the Fox-happy retirement community of The Villages, Fla., was that he would consult a bunch of experts and develop a “100-year plan for America.” Then, after luring a huge audience in person and on TV to watch him at the Lincoln Memorial on what he claims he then didn’t know was the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, he would roll out new product, a book called “The Plan” that would surely be the Beckian best-seller to end all Beckian best-sellers.
That didn’t happen. Weeks later, the king of all right-wing media pulled a complete 180 (hardly the first time). The rally would still be on the same day and the same place, but everything else would be completely different. The event would be completely non-political, not about policy prescriptions but “Restoring Honor,” with a goal of raising money not for a Beck book but for a four-star charity called the Special Operations Warrior Fund. And to some extent, that’s what unfolded Saturday. Beck used his bully pulpit to urge America to turn inward, toward God as a source of answers, and although most of his aggressive fundraising went toward the massive cost of the National Mall event, Beck claims that SOWF will also reap a large donation.
There is indeed no book called “The Plan” coming out this week.
Nope. Instead, Beck — basking in the wall-to-wall coverage on national TV and the front pages of America’s newspapers — is using that afterglow to roll out a completely different for-profit venture of Glenn Beck Inc., one that could greatly add to the showman’s $32 million windfall that he reaped last year. His plan to stop America from wandering in the darkness apparently involves you visiting his new website aimed at competing with the Daily Beasts and Huffington Posts of the world.
♻RetweetPalin: Babies - Guns - Jesus
Wingnuts | Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:42:46 pm PDT
Here’s another photo from the Glenn Beck Restoration Minstrel Show; the rally’s organizers banned signs, so the audience brought t-shirts.
♻RetweetGlenn Beck's Miraculous Goose Fly-Over
Wingnuts | Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:42:40 pm PDT
Behold the miracle that was prophesied, as God reveals his plan to Glenn through a wonder never before witnessed by mortal man: a flock of geese.
And by “never before witnessed,” I mean “witnessed every freaking day.”
♻RetweetFor Tim Blair, A Sincere Apology
Wingnuts | Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:25:36 pm PDT
Tim Blair is a funny person! Now he’s demanding an apology from me. What will he think next?
This time he dug up an LGF post from the presidential election, in which I quoted some excerpts from Barack Obama’s autobiography about his prejudice toward white people, earlier in his life. (As with Shirley Sherrod, it’s only part of the story, because Obama has clearly moved past those prejudices.)
In Blair’s dim bulb one-liner wingnut universe, quoting Barack Obama’s own stories about his youthful attitudes toward race is exactly the same as Glenn Beck’s accusation that Obama is “a racist with a deep seated hatred of white people or white culture.” For this transgression I must beg forgiveness from the world on bended knee.
Well, I do want to apologize today for making a huge mistake.
I’d like to express my sincere and utmost regret that I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin, instead of Barack Obama.
If I could go back in time and reverse that vote, knowing what I know today, I would.
I’m sorry, Nation.
♻RetweetOnion: Man Already Knows Everything He Needs to Know About Muslims
Humor | Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:40:30 pm PDT
Humorists like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and The Onion are doing a much better job than mainstream media of rooting out the truthiness of the “Ground Zero Mosque” bigotry outbreak: Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims.
SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world.
Gentries, 48, said he had absolutely no interest in exposing himself to further knowledge of Islamic civilization or putting his sweeping opinions into a broader context of any kind, and confirmed he was “perfectly happy” to make a handful of emotionally charged words the basis of his mistrust toward all members of the world’s second-largest religion.
“I learned all that really matters about the Muslim faith on 9/11,” Gentries said in reference to the terrorist attacks on the United States undertaken by 19 of Islam’s approximately 1.6 billion practitioners. “What more do I need to know to stigmatize Muslims everywhere as inherently violent radicals?”
“And now they want to build a mosque at Ground Zero,” continued Gentries, eliminating any distinction between the 9/11 hijackers and Muslims in general. “No, I won’t examine the accuracy of that statement, but yes, I will allow myself to be outraged by it and use it as evidence of these people’s universal callousness toward Americans who lost loved ones when the Twin Towers fell.”
“Even though I am not one of those people,” he added.
♻RetweetFanatic Opens Ground Zero Church, No Outrage Sighted
Wingnuts | Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:06:05 pm PDT
Opening this Sunday, two blocks from the World Trade Center site: a church called the “9-11 Christian Center at Ground Zero,” run by a deranged hate preacher named Bill Keller: Bigot starts ground zero church: Where’s the outrage?
To get a sense of where Keller is coming from, consider his project’s website, which calls Islam a religion of “hate and death” whose adherents will go to hell. It also says: “Islam is a wonderful religion… for PEDOPHILES!”
Keller is the same pastor who hosted a birther infomercial that encouraged viewers to send him and a partner donations to advance the birther cause. His Internet ministry explicitly calls President Obama the new Hitler. He calls homosexuality a perversion. And in 2008, he targeted presidential contender Mitt Romney for being Mormon with a campaign called “voting for Satan.”
In short, if critics of the Park51 Islamic community center, which is explicitly welcoming of all faiths, truly believe that there is a “zone of solemnity” around ground zero (as Gov. Pat Quinn put it), they should be horrified at Keller’s 9/11 Christian Center.
Ditto for those who believe that religious leaders should not build “deliberately provocative” projects around ground zero, as another mosque opponent put it.
Frank says: