PolitiFact (PF) recently did a fact-check on whether the “Ground Zero Mosque” is at Ground Zero. It gave a ruling of “Barely True.” Researching this, I found a number of very fishy things, or I might say, given how I rate Sublime Bloviations’ “Grading PolitiFact”, with Pepé LePews, this one gets the max of five, because they really stink.
First there’s the slippery slope….of just how close is close. The day following the publishing of this fact-check, my little friend Bryan White posted in Facebook “Now you [PF] can move on to the question of whether Central Park apartments are actually *inside* Central Park.” I don’t think there are any apartments technically inside Central Park. They border it, and apartment/ condo buildings like the name “Central Park West”, for example, because the view and location is what gets them better rents/prices. It’s sort of a New York City real estate branding.
To read some of the conservative accounts, you’d think the Mosque was on top of One World Trade Center; most say, on hallowed ground. Libertarians are necessarily reluctant to support it because of the paramount importance of private property rights. In my Facebook posts, I posted a possible solution: for someone like Donald Trump, the Big Apple commercial real estate authority, to find a buyer for the Mosque property whereby the owners might make a profit, and then find them a suitable replacement somewhere else on Manhattan. The response was basically, the Imam’s heart is set on this spot…..but why?
