Bloomberg Love
by Adam | Friday 13 August 2010
I am really sad I wasn't in New York when Mayor Bloomberg gave his speech in eloquent defense of the proposed mosque and community center near the World Trade Center site.
If you haven't been following, most New Yorkers are in favor of this project while the bigoted idiots (or just the dithering assholes at the Anti-Defamation League) are roundly opposed.
Well, fuck them says Mayor Bloomberg. Not literally. Here's a bit, but read the whole thing here. This one he wrote himself.
"On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' (Bloomberg's voice cracks here a little as he gets choked up.) 'What beliefs do you hold?'
Good to be home.
For further reading on this topic, see here. (New Yorker)