More Nuanced Hate

Feisal Abdul Rauf seems to be more of a bridge burner than a bridge builder. On the day after Rauf announced plans for the Ground Zero Mosque, my nearly ninety year old father said that the proposal was "rubbing salt in the wound", and I believe that most Americans agree with dear old Dad. Now, it emerges that Imam Rauf was spewing anti-American vitriol as far back as 2001 when just after the September 11 attacks, Rauf called America an accessory to the crimes committed against it by al-Qaeda. And this incendiary anti-Americanism was no one-off either. Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs has uncovered Rauf saying, "the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaeda" and more accusations of US culpability from recordings of a speech by Rauf at the University of South Australia in 2005. But the dinosaur media with vast resources is not reporting facts that would cast Rauf and his Ground Zero project in a negative light, rather than that NBC Evening News and ABC Nightline covered for him last night. Much in the same manner that old line media consciously advanced Barack Hussein Obama into the White House and continues to assist with the Obama agenda, the main stream press is now deliberately backing the Ground Zero provocation. Why with all the producers and reporters available to them did the network news not find the inflammatory statements by Rauf and why are these networks acting as apologists for Rauf when his anti-US venom is made public by others? Because the networks are fellow travelers with Obama, with Rauf, and with those who do not recognize America's benevolence and our exceptionalism- the dinosaur media, the university elite, and the Muslim agitator all find common cause undermining America as we have known and loved her.