To Describe Ground Zero Mosque Protest, CNN Pulls Out The KKK

On Sunday's protest against the Ground Zero Mosque, Powerline writes:

CNN is a reliable Democratic Party outlet, so it is no surprise that it puts the worst face on Americans' indignation over the Ground Zero Mosque. NewsBusters caught CNN in this justaposition, comparing today's anti-GZM protesters to pro-Nazi activists of decades past: 

How's that for subtlety? In case you missed the point, CNN adds this photo, and others to the same effect:

To really understand the beauty of this irony, you have to go to Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism. About Coughlin, he notes:

Coughlin himself was a darling among Capitol Hill Democrats, particularly the progressive bloc--the liberals to the left of FDR who pushed him for ever more aggressive reforms...There was even a groundswell among progressives for FDR to appoint Coughlin treasury secretary. (p. 138)

Goldberg also writes about the KKK "whose constituency was, of course traditionally Democratic." (p. 232)

Oops.

So considering how badly CNN botched Coughlin and the KKK on the one hand, it is no wonder how badly they distort and misconstrue the the protest.

Instead, for a more balanced report of the protest, you'll have to go to The National Review. Katrina Trinko writes:

The participants’ views on Islam varied. Some seemed to believe that no moderate version of Islam exists. “These people, this Sharia people, are out to get you. They’re out to convert you. . . . They want to have their own law in our country,” warned actor Tony Lo Bianco. “In the Muslim world, a moderate believes that you can take down America without violence,” said Debra Burlingame, co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America. “You can do it by infiltrating their colleges and universities. You can do it by infiltrating the media, government, [and] cultural institutions, and you can bring down the house of the infidel from within.”

Not everyone took such a hard line. Most of the individuals I spoke to were fine with the mosque being built, just as long as it wasn’t in such close proximity to Ground Zero. “We’re not opposed to Islam. We’re not opposed to a mosque, because, obviously, there are mosques within a five-block radius of the World Trade Center,” said Maureen Bosco, whose son Richard died on 9/11. “We just feel it’s too close.”

Read the whole thing.

Considering CNN's canned description of the protest, it is no wonder that it continues it descent in popularity--and relevance.

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