Posted on 08/26/2010 11:31:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mayor Michael Bloomberg predicted that the controversy swirling around the proposal to build an Islamic center near Ground Zero will end after the midterm elections because it’s driven by politicians intent on polarizing voters.
“This whole issue, I think, will go away right after the next election,” Bloomberg said Thursday evening during an interview on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”
“This is plain and simple people trying to stir up things to get publicity and trying to polarize people so that they can get some votes,” Bloomberg added. “And I don’t think that most of these people who are yelling and screaming really care one way or another.”
In his first appearance on the show in eight years, the mayor spent much of the interview earnestly defending the planned mosque and Islamic cultural center two blocks from the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “Whether you like the mosque or don’t like the mosque, you don’t have to go,” he said. “There’s already another mosque down there within four block of the World Trade Center. There’s porno places, there’s fast-food places. It’s a vibrant community. It’s New York.”
Stewart praised the mayor for his eloquent remarks but asked, “Why did you have to look at me when you said porno places?
Bloomberg replied, “I wanted to make it relevant.”
Stewart, thinking outside the box, floated a proposal of his own for a new religious institution. The funnyman said he wanted to build a reform synagogue inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
“If you talk to the archbishop he might be amenable to that,” Bloomberg said. “He said that he wants to bring people together.”
Stewart opened his questioning of the mayor with what he described as an “emotional super-charged issue that everyone in the city is talking about.”
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Mr. Mayor, would you please shut up?
Clueless squared.
The funnyman said he wanted to build a reform synagogue inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral. “If you talk to the archbishop he might be amenable to that,” Bloomberg said. “He said that he wants to bring people together.”
The irony here is that the archbishop would actually entertain such a proposal. Try it in Riyadh and they'd cut the stupid Stewart's (nee Liebowitz) head off.
The funnyman said he wanted to build a reform synagogue inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral. “If you talk to the archbishop he might be amenable to that,” Bloomberg said. “He said that he wants to bring people together.”
The irony here is that the archbishop would actually entertain such a proposal. Try it in Riyadh and they'd cut the stupid Stewart's (nee Liebowitz) head off. Oh that's right - as a Jew they wouldn't even let him in the country!
Why do we have armed people in subways in NY pretending that they are looking for someone Mayor TARD of the YEAR?
“Clueless squared.
That is the coolest answer, and so true.
... thanks... sad to see those who are supposed to govern are so utterly inept... prayers for USA.
americans are too angry, no he is wrong, bloomberg can go back under his rock. he is a jerk.
I think instead of playing cowboys and Indians, as you suggested yesterday, we’ll play Cowboys and moslems.
You think our pain will be assuaged by the coming and going of a date on a calendar?
911 is still as fresh as today for many and we ain’t about to forget the horror that was visited on those poor innocent people.
Hey Mickey, what if there were a city named New York and nobody visits? New York doesn’t depend on tourism now does it?
Ack. I wish he would just shut up! The bloomin’ idiot.
UNamazing. Coulda been a contenda.
Want to bet mayor turncoat traitorberg?
LLS
Liberal insanity insulated from reality.
In a sane world nobody would want to look so foolish as to deny that to build a mosque near Ground Zero is to incite hostility.
Miss Mayor Rudy Giuliani yet? (and I don’t mean Rudy in drag)
You have said it! How I wish he were in charge again.
It's not about partisan politics but about survival.
But what does a leftist care about the survival of all the "little people".
Methinks Bloomberg needs to have his head examined. I think that's the problem.
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