The Republican Noise Machine has been going a full speed trying to prevent the creation of a Muslim community center near Ground Zero but that's not reported by Anne Barnard of the NYT.
In fact, she seems to blame the victims, as Adam Serwer points out:
The Times report, however, descends into a kind of "liberal" media known-nothingism when it comes to how this became a controversy, suggesting that " a combination of arguable naïveté, public-relations missteps and a national political climate in which perhaps no preparation could have headed off controversy." This is a remarkable formula that manages to place the blame everywhere except where it belongs -- on a right-wing smear machine that went into overdrive in an effort to portray Rauf and Khan as terrorist sympathizers, an experience no one outside of contemporary partisan politics could have possibly been prepared for.
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