Media Rewrites News: “Park 51 Opponents Cancel Protest”

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Media spin headline: Park 51 Opponents Cancel Protest

WNYC News Headline:

Park 51 Opponents Cancel Protest 

Uh, this is the twisted asshattery of the media. The craven NYC Council canceled the hearing that we were going to protest. Nothing like rewriting the news in a manner that is void of truth or objectivity.

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As noted last week, opponents of Park 51 were planning to hold their first protest in months on Tuesday. The protest was meant to be held in a committee room at 250 Broadway, during a City Council hearing on Wal-Mart. But last week, that hearing was postponed until January 12, so the Park 51 protest has also been put off. 

According to New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the new venue would be larger, due to the intense interest in Wal-Mart and whether the company will open stores in New York City.

Park 51 [Cordoba]  opponent Pamela Geller says her protest was meant to address the "hypocrisy," as she saw it, in council members questioning Wal-Mart while not questioning the idea of a mosque and Islamic community center near Ground Zero. According to Geller, the council "caved" out of fear of anti-Park 51 [Cordoba]
 demonstrators.

"She [Quinn] said we needed a bigger room," said Geller. "I don’t believe that. I think they were afraid that we would overwhelm them — I don’t mean that in a physical way — and they cancelled."

The reporter, Arun Venugopal, got that wrong too. The Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, said “We needed a bigger room.”  “We heard from unions all across the city, small business leaders from across the city." I said that was a transparent lie. They needed a bigger room because we would overwhelm them. They need a bigger room because they are afraid of us.

However, Jamie McShane, a spokesman for Quinn, said he didn't know who Pam Geller was and that he hadn't been aware of any protest at the hearing related to Park 51.

Geller hadn't expected the protest to be "huge," citing the conflicting schedules of many opponents, some of whom live in other states or have day jobs. But she said the re-scheduled protest would simply take place whenever the Wal-Mart hearing is scheduled.

"Whenever it is, we'll be there," said Geller.

Read the article here.

Meanwhile, slumlord Rauf is going on a lecture tour of Harvard, Yale, the University of North Carolina and other institutions.

Sick.

January 12th is the next hearing. Freedom lovers, mark your calenders. We'll be there with IOTW's award winning signage. Announcement to follow.

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Daryl
Daryl
13 years ago

iOwnTheWorld has a photo of the, ahem, “journalist”
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=49631

Tom Billesley
Tom Billesley
13 years ago

Jamie McShane, a spokesman for Quinn, said he didn’t know who Pam Geller was and that he hadn’t been aware of any protest at the hearing related to Park 51.
Well, there’s one man who’s sleepwalking into ridicule.

When*Pigs8Fly
When*Pigs8Fly
13 years ago

Now it all makes sense.

Joe P. Getz
Joe P. Getz
13 years ago

Yes, the appropriate lead would be, “Opponents of Cordoba House Postpone Protest“. Yes, indeed.

Joe P. Getz
Joe P. Getz
13 years ago

The WNYC website has NOT enabled commentary for the erroneously named subject piece!
I am going to place my comment in ANOTHER comment-enabled piece!
To leave a comment, make select an article here: http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/micropolis/

Joe P. Getz
Joe P. Getz
13 years ago

(Here is what I wrote to Venugopal. tee hee)
Your article entitled, “Park 51 Opponents Cancel Protest”, should use the word ‘postpone’ and not ‘cancel’: In its present form, it discredits, nearly wholesale, the substance of your piece. Do you follow?
http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2010/dec/14/park-51-opponents-cancel-protest/

Joe P. Getz
Joe P. Getz
13 years ago

To his credit, Vernupogal wrote this:
“…This week, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind Park 51 (or as he tends to call it, Cordoba House), launched the Cordoba Movement,…” (http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/micropolis/2010/dec/10/get-ready-get-set-park-51-issue-back/)
What does it say that Rauf can’t even verbalize the ‘Park 51’ misdirection? (More than a few awful things about too many things.)

J.T. Wenting
J.T. Wenting
13 years ago

has the meeting been cancelled or just moved to a secret location and time so noone can come and say anything that’s not in line with the Partei position?

Joanne
Joanne
13 years ago

It’s not just the news, AOL has no Christmas stationery background- but has everything else.

Joe C
Joe C
13 years ago

Slow news day when this writer gets so much undeserving attention from this patriotic web site.

Brian
Brian
13 years ago

I would like to petition for an orthodox church to be built in Bosnia near a place where the Muslim massacres happened to say that it is not the religion that led to the massacres but stupid politics and some radical leaders. So we should build a Church to signify that. It will promote tolerance. Wonder what the reaction in the Muslim world would be. Would they or would they not link it to the crusades?

ben around
ben around
13 years ago

KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED, FOLKS!!
this meeting is going to get MOVED UP (due to alledged scheduling conflicts) to Jan. 4-10 to avoid any possible reaction from the good
ANTI-SUBJUGATIONIST AMERICANS
and obtw – they’re everso sorry that you “schmucks” wheren’t able to understand that the meeting HAD to be rescheduled and that you “idiots” couldn’t fully express yourselves – better luck next time

Richard 2
Richard 2
13 years ago

I see New York politics is still a crooked as Chicago, although they usually try and make it look more honest.

Joe P. Getz
Joe P. Getz
13 years ago

Yes, “One-party States” have some foul characteristics: I’ve spent many years in NY and Mass. (One-party state == lengthy domination by one party.)
The Dragon Lady “moved” to New York so she could become a Senator. I’ll never forgive NY voters for NOT ending her political career THEN; That she will continue to attempt to become our nation’s first female President, I blame on NY voters.
I have and do place blame, singularly, for 9-11 on former President Bill Clinton and I am repulsed when he is given respectful consideration; And I remember fully that we were encouraged to accept the candidacy-for-President of Bill Clinton as a two-for-one, Bill-Hill duo.
Jamie Garelick on the 9-11 Commission was an abomination and served, premeditated-ly, to provide cover for the Clintons, one goal being Mrs. Clinton’s prospective political ambitions.
Was she not re-elected as Senator?
Yes, One-party States have some loathsome qualities. There is reaping and there is sowing.
End of history lesson.

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