Mayor Bloomberg: 9/11 site shouldn't be called "Ground Zero"

Reuters ^ | Sept. 6, 2011 | Daniel Trotta

[Iron Munro]

Eventually he will order everyone to call it “Cordoba House Plaza” but he won’t announce that demand until after the 10th year 9/11 ceremony.

[diplomatic_immunity]

Mayor Bloomberg can go pound sand. End of message.

[MEGoody]

Okay, I can understand wanting to call the site the 9/11 Memorial instead of “Ground Zero”. But did the mayor have to speechify about it? I don’t think so.

[World'sGoneInsane]

46 murders over the holiday weekend, and this is on his agenda this morning? They should call the whole town ground zero at this rate!

[ladyvet]

Before you know it they'll start calling it a “Peace center”.

[Antoninus]

Hopefully they will call it Bloomberg’s political graveyard. What a nincompoop this guy is.

[WashingtonSource]

Bloomberg, like all secular relativists, is horrified at the thought that good and evil exist. Ground Zero is the ultimate confirmation of evil. So, he can’t deal with it.

In fact, to borrow a line from Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men — Mr. I’ve-got-my-bloomers-in-a-twist, “You can’t handle the truth!”

[Beowulf9]

Why? Let’s be factual. Isn’t that what Al-Qaeda called it?

[miss marmelstein]

He doesn’t want much, does he?

[crosshairs]

How about calling it the Islamic Killing Field?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Bloomberg should be tried and hung for treason!

[Biggirl]

I would ignore the fool. Pity him.

[PieterCasparzen]

[rawhide]

Could it be that Mayor Bloomie is trying to appease the moslems?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Just more political correctness from a liberal.

We can’t say ground zero anymore. check.

We can’t say illegal alien. check.

We can’t say Christmas. check.

Just go down the list of censored words and phrases, and make sure you are in compliance. To the list we add ground zero, so that someone, somewhere, isn’t offended by the use of that term.

Perhaps we’re still allowed to say 9/11 or September 11th because it is a specific date on the calendar, and banning reference to a date is a bridge too far for the politically correct crowd.

[jessduntno]

“Good God, what is wrong with New York?”

Aside from being in the Northeast “power corridor” that wants to t6ell the world how to believe and act?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Would prefer to stop calling him “mayor”.

[massgopguy]

and let’s call The Battle of the Bulge “a tank action near Malmedy”.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Go soak your head, Mike.

[chimera]

Hey, that’s good. The PC revisionists could then refer to Iwo Jima “an amphibious operation on a small Pacific Island”.