Grand Old Memes How 'Ground Zero Mosque' Became The New 'Death Panel'

[babylonsister]

Is The Term 'Ground Zero Mosque' This Year's 'Death Panel'?
Brian Beutler | August 16, 2010, 1:51PM


Arguably, the recent partisan griping over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" really went from a simmer to a boil in mid-July, when former half-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin went on a Twitter rampage, calling on New York Muslims to "refudiate" the Cordoba initiative.

If that were truly the case, it would be a fitting tribute to the role Palin played last August when she popularized the conservative obsession with euthanasia by claiming the Democrats' health care bill contained "death panels."

But in reality, the loaded and inaccurate term "Ground Zero Mosque" had a much more organic rise to prominence beginning this past spring, when Palin and the GOP were instead politicking on the oil spill, the New Black Panthers and other right wing causes célèbre.

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[Scurrilous]

1. Thanks.

K & R :thumbsup:

[Canuckistanian]

2. .. and the Mighty Wurlitzer churns on....

Interesting that Laura Ingraham first used the term back in December. It's taken that much time to get it into mainstream news.

They must be slipping....