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RUSH: Howard Dean yesterday on our New York flagship, WABC, said…<\/line><\/line>DEAN: We have to understand that it is, uhh, a — a real affront to people who lost their lives, including Muslims. Uh, that site doesn\u2019t belong to any particular religion. I think a good, reasonable compromise could be work out without violating the principle that, uh, people ought to be able to worship, um, as they see fit. … I think another site would be a better idea.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: So another Democrat — the former head of the Democrat National Committee, in fact — is off the reservation: Put the mosque somewhere else. Something else in this Pew poll that I want to reemphasize. Over 50% of the people in this poll say, ‘Hey, look, I don\u2019t care if you put a mosque two blocks from my house. Fine and dandy. Just don\u2019t put it at the World Trade Center. Don\u2019t put it at Ground Zero.\u2019 There is no anti-Muslim bigotry in this. There\u2019s nobody wants to deny anybody their religious belief or freedom. Except the left. The left routinely wants to impinge upon Christians and their practice of their faith. But the very people this poll who oppose the mosque being built at Ground Zero say, ‘One\u2019s fine two blocks from my house. I don\u2019t care, but don\u2019t put it at Ground Zero.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘The developers behind the Islamic center planned for a site near Ground Zero won\u2019t rule out accepting financing from the Mideast — including from Saudi Arabia and Iran — as they begin searching for $100 million needed to build the project.\u2019 Do you know how much money they\u2019ve raised for this so far? I read this morning it\u2019s $18,000. What are we even talking about here? They need a hundred million for this? I also found out this morning there\u2019s a mosque four or five blocks away. That is part of the story of Muslims say, ‘There are no mosques in this area of town where we can go worship.\u2019 There are. I saw a Google map earlier today of all the mosques throughout the New York City area. There are many, many, many, many mosques. But now you got the Rauf guy, the imam, is going over and talking to the Iranians in Saudi Arabia and we\u2019re paying for this?<\/p>\n

We\u2019re paying for this. We spent $16,000 sending him as an envoy over there. The State Department sent him. Hillary. But the amount of money the imam has raised for his mosque is not much. He\u2019s trying to get a hundred million dollars for this, and he\u2019s gonna get it from Saudi Arabia — and if he has to take it from Iran, he will. Now, this is not tone deafness. This is not… This is thumb-in-the-eye stuff, which is exactly what the whole project is — and this is, I think, evidence of it. ‘The religious organization and the development company behind the center declined to say how much of the $100 million needed to build the facility has already been raised.\u2019 The number is $18,000, and that\u2019s from the Cordoba people, from their 2008 990 form. It\u2019s 18 grand. <\/p>\n

By the way, I want to know: Has Obama ever called Muslims bitter clingers? Well, he\u2019s called Christians bitter clingers. He did that in San Francisco. I\u2019m just throwing these things out here, folks, because people are questioning his Christianity. Some think he\u2019s a Muslim. I\u2019m just saying there might be reasons why some people think this. You know, the Cordoba project, is a 501(c)(3) charity and they\u2019re reporting 18 grand that they have. Here\u2019s the New York Times Sheryl Gay Stolberg piece on Obama and Muslim. But Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, said aides did work hard to push back against misinformation in a news media environment in which ‘the tweets of discredited rabble-rousers have as much credence to many as the pronouncements of the paper of record.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Rabble-rousers. Now, think of that: Rabble-rousers having as much credibility as the always honest and patriotic New York Times. What is the world coming to? People are believing what they tweet and what they read on Facebook more than they\u2019re believing the New York Times. The media is in utter shock and panic because they live with the daily fantasy and belief that they have the ability to shape and form public opinion to protect Obama, and they\u2019re in full protection mode today. But they\u2019re being undermined when the imam heads out to fundraise and won\u2019t rule out taking money from Saudi Arabia or even Iran. ‘We\u2019ll look at all available options within the United States to start. We\u2019re hoping to fund this predominately from domestic donors. That can be everything from institutions all the way down to personal [contributors].\u2019 <\/p>\n

That\u2019s Oz Sultan, spokesman for the center now called Park51. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of course, has called for an investigation into the funding of those who oppose it approximate. She got a little flak for that, so yesterday she said: ‘Okay, well, let\u2019s investigate the funding of those who support it.\u2019 So she wants to investigate all these people. Hey, Nancy, you want to investigate the Iranians? You want to investigate the Anti-Defamation League? You want to investigate the 9\/11 families? You basically want to — in a Stalinistic move — investigate the American people, essentially. Soft tyranny. It\u2019s amazing to witness all this in the midst of a plummeting economy, and the White House wonders why they\u2019ve got problems. They wonder why people don\u2019t trust them, why they don\u2019t like the president, why his approval numbers are plummeting? The economy is sinking fast. There\u2019s no end in sight. Obama is doubling down on all the things that have caused it to plunge — and, meanwhile, seems more focused on making sure a mosque gets built at Ground Zero than he is on his own country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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