Tag Archives: Ground Zero

NEW YORK CITY: Hillary Leaves Ground Zero Ceremony After Not Feeling Well, Crackpot Sites Go Nuts [VIDEO]

And now we get another week of “sick Hillary” conspiracy claims. CNN reports: Hillary Clinton left the 9/11 commemoration ceremony Sunday early after she felt overheated and went to her daughter’s apartment, the Clinton campaign said. “Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just one hour and 30 minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some …

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Second Circuit Court Of Appeals Rules That WTC Cross Isn’t A Religious Symbol

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the public display of the so-called WTC Cross is a secular remembrance of the 9/11 attacks and not a religious symbol. “Thank God,” said Father Brian Jordan, the Franciscan priest who had the cross pulled from Ground Zero weeks after an excavator showed it to him. “In a way, we’ve been …

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Time Lapse: One World Trade Center

Starting with site preparation in 2004.

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Bloomberg: Stop Saying “Ground Zero”

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants the media to stop referring to the site of the former World Trade Center as “Ground Zero.” “We will never forget the devastation of the area that came to be known as ‘Ground Zero’ — never,” Bloomberg said as he heralded lower Manhattan’s recovery from 9/11 at an Association for a Better New York breakfast. …

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LIVE VIDEO: Obama At Ground Zero

UPDATE: The ceremony has concluded.

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Dubya Snubs Ground Zero Ceremony

According to the New York Daily News, Dubya declined to join President Obama at Ground Zero today because he feels he didn’t get enough credit for taking down Osama Bin Laden. Bush’s visit to the rubble after the 9/11 attacks was the emotional high point of his presidency, but associates say the invitation to return with his successor was a …

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Dan Choi On Bin Laden’s Death

Starts at 7:40.(Tipped by JMG reader Sean Chapin)

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SPLC Brands NYC Anti-Islam Blogger Pamela Geller As Hate Group

The Southern Poverty Law Center has branded vile NYC-based Atlas Shrugs blogger Pamela Geller and her fellow anti-Islam protesters as a hate group. Geller came to national prominence last year when she led the attack against the so-called Ground Zero mosque. Stop the Islamization of America was included in the civil rights organization’s annual roundup of extremist groups – a …

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Loony Tunes Pam Geller: CPAC Was Infiltrated By The Muslim Brotherhood

In case you haven’t been following along, nutjob Pam Geller is the Atlas Shrugs blogger largely behind the battle to block NYC’s now infamous “Ground Zero mosque.”

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PhoboQuotable – Imam Abdallah Adhami

“An enormously, overwhelming percentage of people struggle with homosexual feeling because of some form of violent emotional or sexual abuse at some point in their life. Again, not necessarily in their childhood. A small, tiny percentage of people are born with a natural inclination they cannot explain. You find this in the animal kingdom on some level as well.” – …

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Joy Behar: Why I Walked Out On O’Reilly

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NJ Transit Fires Koran Burner

The man who ripped out pages of the Koran and burned them during the 9/11 protest at Ground Zero has been fired by his employer, NJ Transit. The incident was posted on YouTube and aired on television around the world. NJ Transit said that Derek Fenton’s “public actions” violated its code of ethics and that he “violated his trust as …

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NYPD Braces For 9/11 Protests

Atlas Shrugged blogger Pamela Geller, also the founder of Stop The Islamization Of America, will be staging a massive rally tomorrow at Ground Zero. And the NYPD is gearing up for an ugly situation. “We want to keep everyone in their corners. You don’t want the opposing sides to clash,” an NYPD official told The Post. “All eyes are going …

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Even In Iowa

The “Ground Zero mosque” nonsense has reached into elections in the nation’s heartland as the GOP misses no opportunity to demonize a minority.

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Tea Party Founder Mark Williams Calls Bloomberg And Stringer “Judenrats”

In a new low for a movement littered with new lows, Tea Party Express founder Mark Williams has labeled Michael Bloomberg and Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer as “Judenrats” for their support of Cordoba House. From Williams’ blog: How many times do I have to tell you…. the Ground Zero Mosque is a chest-beating pile of puke from the bellies …

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Protest Rallies Over Cordoba House

Both sides rallied again yesterday in downtown Manhattan.

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Howard Dean Compares “Civil Unions Compromise” To Mosque Controversy

Dean thinks the downtown NYC mosque should be located elsewhere, a “good reasonable compromise” he compared to the creation of civil unions when he was governor of Vermont.

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Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment: There Is No Ground Zero Mosque

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Newt Gingrich On Ground Zero Mosque

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About That Hallowed Ground

Today’s NY Daily News points out that the “hallowed ground” surrounding the planned WTC memorial ain’t really all that hallowed, what with all the titty bars, dirty bookstores, betting parlors and liquor stores also within two or three blocks. Opponents of a proposed lower Manhattan mosque and community center speak in hushed tones about the sanctity of the “shadow of …

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