Massive Distortion of Massive Rally

This year’s 9/11 anniversary in New York brought opponents and supporters of
the controversial “ground zero mosque” to the streets by the thousands. That
fact has spawned a new controversy, as the American people yet again were served
a false narrative by the dominant liberal establishment mass media. Exhibit A:
in the “media reality distortion case #2478697,” is the photo scene below. This
photo shows the 9/11 Remebrance/Stop the Ground Zero Mosque Rally hosted by
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. According to the New York Times, that is a
crowd of 2,000 persons. According to the New York Daily News, the crowd below
contained “hundreds” despite the fact that it stretched jam packed as seen below
for three city blocks. Local NYC News Channel 10 reported live that there were
30,000 people at this rally. Channel 10 should be applauded for doing their job
and the rest of the media stands exposed. But wait! The distortion goes much
deeper than just downplaying by a factor of 10 or 20 the size of the Stop the
Ground Zero Mosque Rally.

Other speakers included 9/11 family members, first responders, and refugees
from Islamic regimes.

There were also video addresses by former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton and
media-man Andrew Breitbart. Bolton reminded the crowd about the ground zero
imam’s many outrageous public statements, including that Osama bin Laden was
made in the U.S.A., and that America has more blood on its hands than the
terrorists. Bolton brought up questions about the United States State
Department’s funding of Imam Rauf’s trip to the middle east, and the
Department’s thinking in general.

Among those lost were people from 55 nations, people of every religion and
every persuasion. No place on earth had a more multi-ethnic, multi-racial, and
multi-lingual workforce than New York’s proud towers.

That is exactly why they were targeted. They constituted an insult to
those who hold that there can be no peaceful cooperation among people
and nations without submission to Sharia; to those who wish to impose
the legal system of Islam on the rest of us. But New York and Sharia are
incompatible. New York stands for freedom, openness and tolerance. New
York’s Mayor recently said that New York is “rooted in Dutch tolerance.

Those are true words. New York is not intolerant. How can it be? New
York is open to the world. Suppose New York were intolerant. Suppose it
only allowed people of one persuasion within its walls. Then it would
not be New York, it would be New Mecca, a city without freedom. …”

“Mayor Bloomberg forgets, however, that openness cannot be open-ended. A tolerant society is not a suicidal society.

A tolerant society like your city New York must defend itself against
the powers of darkness, the force of hatred and the blight of
ignorance. It cannot tolerate the intolerant – and survive.

This means that we must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us.”

“… Why On 9/11 it wasn’t New York that was attacked, it was America
that was attacked. It was freedom that was attacked. And we can’t forget
not only what happened, not only the murderous intent that killed 3,000
Americans. We can’t forget for a moment that that they wanted to kill
50,000 Americans, or maybe 100,000 Americans. … We can’t forget that
since those attacks, hundreds of thousands of men and women around the
world have been killed by jihadists, in the name of radical Islam. From
Egypt to Bali, from Baghdad to Kabul, no one can forget there was a car
bomb here in Times Square six months ago. Folks, if  you think this is
over, it’s just beginning.

… So what’s my opinion about a mosque at ground zero? NO MOSQUE HERE. …”

Pantano tied in Iran’s actions against Israel with the Gaza Flotilla,
and pointed out Imam Rauf’s involvement with the Gaza Flotilla, and
questioned where the money from the mosque is coming from.

In the crowd there were families of those murdered on 9/11, military
veterans, New Yorkers, and people who had travelled from around the
country and from abroad to be here today. Above, three U.S. Marine Corps
veterans listened intently to Ilario Pantano, candidate for U.S. Congress.

Wave Chan, a New York Tea Party organizer, has filed a non-profit
corporation to raise money to make an offer for the Park 51 property. He
got the idea from Debra Burlingame, who was the sister of the pilot of
Flight 77 which was hijacked by jihadis and flown into the Pentagon,
murdering Burlingame’s brother and 188 other souls. Chan hopes to get a
memorial built at 51 Park Place. He noticed that the Preview of the 9/11 Memorial
doesn’t show a single image of an airplane, makes no reference to
terrorism or jihad, etc. Chan lives not far from ground zero. For many
hours on 9/11, 2001, Chan did not know whether his brother, who works in
the Financial District, survived the attack.

First responder FDNY firefighter Steve Sharp thanks Ms. Geller for
her work. Many off-duty firefighters and police officers from New York
City and other parts of the country were in the crowd.

More pictures and more coverage here.