Like the columnist at the Orlando Sentinel who wrote: "If a sad little man burns some Qurans in the woods, and the media aren't there to film it, is it news? Of course not."
Methinks the lad doth protest too much. Because, in paying such close attention to Jones' every move, the media did a lot more than simply fill several news cycles with sound and fury.
Paradoxically, they provided a platform for the very real anger and frustration of approximately 70 percent of Americans who, when asked their opinion of the so-called Ground Zero mosque, believed it should be moved.
Not prohibited. Just moved.
Jones isn't the most articulate person. And his handlebar mustache reminds you of some Saturday-morning cartoon character. But for all that, he's turned out to be an idiot savant, a person accomplished at only one thing.
By sticking his obnoxious plan in the face of the American people, he has shown up Imam Faisal Rauf for the self-centered charlatan he really is, not the moderate bridge-builder too many defenders have tried to make him out to be.
And the liberal media made it all possible, much to the chagrin of the liberal elites.
To be clear, I abhor the tactics and beliefs of pastor Jones, who doesn't resemble any man of God I know. Showing such disrespect for the sacred text of another religion isn't the way to make friends and influence people.
But I find it interesting that he, of all people, was able to convince at least some imans (if not Rauf himself) that the feelings of the 9/11 families and their supporters mattered. Rauf is apparently still confined to the sound chamber populated by nose-in-the-air elites like Michael (James Madison) Bloomberg, the noted constitutional scholar, and the media types who love to trash Christianity but tiptoe oh-so-lightly when it comes to Islam.
