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Or is this the IRA?

by DougJ|  August 15, 20102:39 pm| 28 Comments

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It is strange that Peter King has become one of the most vocal opponents of the Cordoba house as well as a champion of preemptive bedwetting about terrorism more generally. I doubt this will ever happen, but I’d like to see someone ask him if he thinks people should be allowed to open Irish bars on Canary Wharf.

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  1. 1.

    Martin

    August 15, 2010 at 2:42 pm

    I don’t think they could really fall any farther than their current position of fighting the existential threat posed by babies.

  2. 2.

    MikeJ

    August 15, 2010 at 2:45 pm

    When I worked there it was all yuppie chain bars, but I don’t think others were actually forbidden.

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    ihop

    August 15, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    better to ask him if he thinks the catholic church should have their buildings prevented from being near schools, playgrounds or other places children may gather.

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    srv

    August 15, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    Well, the IRA did kill a muslim at that bombing.

  5. 5.

    DougJ

    August 15, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    @MikeJ:

    So you’re not saying anything about the wisdom of opening such a bar.

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    scav

    August 15, 2010 at 2:56 pm

    @DougJ: Let alone the wisdom of if it would be a gay Irish bar and, whether or not there would be married gays with ticking babies in it, let alone whether the ribbon cutting would be on a Friday or not.

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    Joey Maloney

    August 15, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    From the linked Wiki article about Canary Wharf:

    It destroyed part of the South Quay Plaza. The damaged part is still partially derelict, although a redevelopment as the World Trade Centre has been proposed.

    Do they mean leave it as a hole in the ground for over a decade? Or what?

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    bago

    August 15, 2010 at 3:38 pm

    Gay bars in London.

    Of course the whole gay bar next to the mosque bit was idiotic because there are already a couple gay bars right next to the mosque. It’s just south of tribeca, and then just south of the Villiage.

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    Bill Murray

    August 15, 2010 at 3:40 pm

    King’s most worried about the possibility of UDA babies in America, since they could be close to 40 years old now

  10. 10.

    sparky

    August 15, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    Sir:

    Consistency is for [the] little people.

    Yrs &c

    J. Goldberg

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    beltane

    August 15, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    @bago: The opponents of the Cordoba Center are providing a steady stream of evidence that they are clueless when it comes to New York’s time-honored traditions. To those of us who are not similarly clueless, there is nothing remotely shocking about the juxtaposition of a mosque, gay bar, preschool, Knights of Columbus post, Satanist bookstore, S & M club, or just about anything else you can think of. When will they figure this out?

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    burnspbesq

    August 15, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    Peter King is a disgrace to the Irish AND the Catholics.

    I wouldn’t piss on him if he were on fire.

    /s/A Catholic American of Irish Ancestry

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    bago

    August 15, 2010 at 3:57 pm

    @beltane: When they actually travel?

  14. 14.

    burnspbesq

    August 15, 2010 at 3:58 pm

    There’s a joke here somewhere. Peter King, Slab Murphy, and the Pope are locked up in the same cell …

    Or maybe Peter King and Ian Paisley die at the same time and arrive before Saint Peter together …

  15. 15.

    Cynicor

    August 15, 2010 at 4:35 pm

    Ask your questions of Pete King right on his FB page. It’s entertaining to see the insane responses you get.

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    fucen tarmal

    August 15, 2010 at 5:18 pm

    i thought it was the uk
    or just another country….

  17. 17.

    Professor

    August 15, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    FYI, the Continuity IRA bombed Ulster yesterday and injuried three children. Do we take it against the Catholics?

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    YAFB

    August 15, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    I’d like to see someone ask him if he thinks people should be allowed to open Irish bars on Canary Wharf.

    Doug, it’s a hackneyed phrase, but that one’s out of the park and still lofting.

  19. 19.

    Kilkee

    August 15, 2010 at 6:11 pm

    As an Irish Catholic and fellow Notre Dame alum, I am more embarrassed by Peter King than –almost — the fekkin’ Pope.

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    Steve

    August 15, 2010 at 6:28 pm

    I remember wandering around Waterloo Station on my honeymoon for like 20 minutes, trying to find a trashcan without success. Then suddenly it hit me, the IRA used to put bombs in trashcans – so naturally, now there are no trashcans! Talk about letting the terrorists win.

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    DougJ

    August 15, 2010 at 6:45 pm

    @YAFB:

    Thanks!

  22. 22.

    Brick Oven Bill

    August 15, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    We did big a mega embassy in the area that we ‘cleared out’ during the bombing of Iraq.

    Shock and Awe, baby!

  23. 23.

    Anne Laurie

    August 15, 2010 at 9:34 pm

    @Joey Maloney:

    Do they mean leave it as a hole in the ground for over a decade? Or what?

    There are World Trade Centers all over the world. The one in Boston, down on the waterfront, is a popular venue for weddings as well as trade shows. It’s only in the last decade that ‘WTC’ came to be remembered mostly as those fugly twin fingers defacing the NYC skyline.

    (I left NYC in the early 1970s, and pre-9/11 my main references for the New York WTC were the extremely bitter comments of my dad and his co-workers at the Port Authority. We’re all so pious that the complaints from residents, neighbors, architects, preservationists, and New Yorkers in general have gone down the memory hole, but the punchline to one popular joke during the 1970s was “But where are we gonna find a skydiving rat?” )

  24. 24.

    Nick

    August 15, 2010 at 9:51 pm

    @Anne Laurie: I was born in New York and after living overseas for most of my childhood, came back to North Jersey for high school right into the shadow of NYC.

    New Yorkers HATED the twin towers…a city with such a rich history of architecture thought they were boring boxy pieces of contemporary crap that dwarfed all of Lower Manhattan’s works of art (Woolworth Building, 40 Wall Street, 70 Pine Street, etc.)

    the truth is most New Yorkers aren’t sorry they’re gone, although they would’ve preferred a way of getting rid of them that didn’t kill anyone.

  25. 25.

    Mike Toreno

    August 15, 2010 at 10:00 pm

    “I’d like to see someone ask him if he thinks people should be allowed to open Irish bars on Canary Wharf”

    No. Not Irish bars. Catholic churches.

  26. 26.

    Draylon Hogg

    August 16, 2010 at 1:14 am

    Good job we British didn’t adopt a similar mindset to the American one that arose after 9/11. With all that “material support” for terrorism, Boston would be a smouldering ruin and we’d have had the extraordinary rendition of Ted Kennedy years ago. Not to mention kicking out McDonalds.

  27. 27.

    Draylon Hogg

    August 16, 2010 at 1:22 am

    With the permission of our American overlords naturally before anyone starts.

  28. 28.

    Antiquated Tory

    August 17, 2010 at 6:36 am

    Comparing the plastic, commercialized faux-Irishness of an Irish pub to Islam, or even just the Cordoba House, is pretty inapt on a whole bunch of levels. No, of course no one would object to an Irish pub in Canary Wharf. Or a Catholic church, for that matter. Sinn Fein offices might be a problem, though…
    I don’t know, I’m a bit split on the Cordoba House thing. I certainly support their right to build it where they want and I also support their goals and motivation in doing so. But on the other hand it’s a lovely gift to people who want to ride a political wave of anti Islamism. And I have friends on Facebook who are not right wing or particularly racist but who are fodder for any populist outrage du jour and are consequently all fired up against Cordoba House. Hopefully they’ll build the thing and the whole affair will blow over. Sometimes I think of Cordoba House not as “an Irish pub in Canary Wharf” but as a Goethe Institute outside Auschwitz.

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