re: #387 elbruce

Regarding a criticism that I’ve heard but hasn’t been made in this thread - sometimes the “conern moderates” will point out that the Park51 project is nationally unpopular per the latest snap poll, and that therefore it would just be really nice of them to move in consideration of the feelings of the majority of Americans.

As the NYT article posted at top demonstrates, the longer this stays in the news cycle, the more that reporters looking to cover new angles of the story are going to dig up more and more pertinent information about it. Most of the people responding to that poll had heard little more than “Muslims are building a Mosque on top of ground zero.” The actual facts of the matter, as well as various other relevant facts are slower to catch up.

As long as they persist and don’t cave in to pressure, and as long as the wingnuts keep the pressure up driving the news cycle, by November this will likely have totally backfired on the right wing, as more reporters look at it from different angles and it becomes obvious to the majority of voters that most GOP’ers (with some significant exceptions) are just being religious bigots in trying to slander a very worthy project.

Well said sir. +1