New Yorkers Think for Themselves; NY Times "Dismayed"
The NY Times conducted a poll recently asking New Yorkers for their views on the GZ mosque, apparently expecting the majority to agree with the paper that the mosque is an all-around swell idea. When the poll demonstrated that a majority in fact find the mosque insensitive and ill-advised, the Times published an editorial denouncing...New Yorkers. The WSJ's invaluable Best of the Web Today gave it a well-earned fisking:
The Times editorial is a classic of muddled thinking and self-righteous attitudinizing:
"As the site of America's bloodiest terrorist attack, New York had a great chance to lead by example. Too bad other places are ahead of us. Muslims hold daily prayer services in a chapel in the Pentagon, a place also hallowed by 9/11 dead. The country often has had the wisdom to choose graciousness and reconciliation over triumphalism, as is plain from the many monuments to Confederate soldiers in northern states, including the battlefield at Gettysburg."
We're not sure we agree with the Times that the proposed mosque is akin to a monument honoring enemy soldiers. But if we accept the analogy for the sake of argument, shouldn't postbellum reconciliation at least wait until the war is over?
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Jun '10
Re: New Yorkers Think for Themselves; NY Times "Dismayed"
Thanks for the vocabulary addition. Wasn't a mispelling as I had feared
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fisking
Edited on Sep 7, 2010 at 7:41amMay '10
Re: New Yorkers Think for Themselves; NY Times "Dismayed"
Attitudinizing? I learn new words on Ricochet every day.