Olbermann: There is no 'Ground Zero Mosque'

If this blog doesn't make it obvious enough, I'm extremely frightened by the way the political winds in this country are blowing. We have a fast paced 24 hour news cycle which sensationalizes the dumbest little things, while failing to report the events that are actually important (or at least in a way in which the general viewer can understand). What we get is a nation is idiots. And we get the worst kind of idiot: the idiot who thinks he's informed. The result is a bunch of mobs demanding mob rule. Debating facts with them is meaningless; they have numbers, and argumentum ad populum is of course never wrong.

Currently, the mob is angry over a Muslim community center being built two blocks away from the World Trade Center site. In the end, it really doesn't matter what anybody's opinion is over this. The First Amendment very clearly prohibits the government from stepping in and stopping this from happening. This is not up for a vote. If you truly believe that this should not happen, then you think it's okay to override the Bill of Rights, and you are quite literally an enemy of the United States. If we're allowed to do this, then which religion will be next? Where will it end? It's so mind-numbingly frustrating to me that the very people who claim to love the country so very much are the ones who are demanding that we begin dismantling it. They're traitors and they don't even know it.

Which is exactly why Olbermann's Special Comment monday night was so refreshing to me. In a sea of ignorance and hate, this is like a breath of fresh air. It's just too bad that the rest of the country is too fucking dumb to listen.

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