MTA approves 9/11-themed anti-mosque ad

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It's been a while since we've seen 9/11 invoked for shallow partisan reasons, but New York's MTA has fixed that by okaying an ad for the city's buses that opposes the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero. The ad, paid for by Pamela Geller's American Freedom Defense Initiative, shows a plane heading for the towers next to a rendering of the mosque planned for the site. In case viewers don't grasp the subtlety, the headline "Why there?" is helpfully included.

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