In a Washington Post column Richard Cohen, a member of the anointed elite, takes all the rest of us supposedly small-minded Americans to task for our opposition to the Ground Zero mosque: "Appearing on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour," Daisy Khan, a founder of the mosque (and the wife of the imam), rejected any compromise. She was right to do so because to compromise is to accede, even a bit, to the arguments of bigots, demagogues or the merely uninformed. This is no longer her fight. The fight is now all of ours." I don't read WAPO in general, and Cohen in particular, as a matter of habit, but I had to check this out after it was pointed out to me. The bone in my throat is that bit about the merely uninformed. Merely is bad enough because it is so dismissive of the mass of Americans who disagree with the media elites. Merely, that's what we all are to Cohen and his ilk, merely. But what really puts my butt up on the fence is that term uninformed....(Read Full Post)