The Lede: 'At least in America...There's a Debate'
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Pataki tells Chris Matthews "I don't speak for my party," when confronted with a poll showing a majority of GOP have an unfavorable rating of Muslims.
Rangel said he's one of Obama's "best friends."
Vielkind notes Lazio appears in his ad; Cuomo is absent in all three of his.
Lazio, who won't debate Paladino, criticizes Cuomo: "What you have here is what's wrong with Albany, people who won't have a reasonable debate."
Bloomberg's candidate in Washington's mayor's race is, some say, "starting to look desperate."
WaExaminer on Bloomberg's Park51 speech: "he mayor needs to get a grip and apologize to those he has insulted."
In CT, McMahon spokesman defends against WWE's death rate: "I think the public knows it’s the media that keep writing about this."
In NJ, Christie blames bureaucrats in Washington, but teachers blame him, for losing $400 million in federal aid.
Stab suspect Michael Enright is a film student as SVA - and NYP has a trailer to a movie he worked on.
Bloomberg invited the stabbed cab driver to City Hall.
When he was arrested, Enright had a diary fled with "pretty strong anti-Muslim comments."
Paterson: "The potential for this kind of violence is one of the reasons why I have called publicly for a respectful and unifying conversation about the Park51 [mosque] project."
NY Post says the incident should not curb the Park51 debate.
WSJ [$]: The attack comes amid tensions over a planned mosque near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Lower Manhattan, but police didn't link it to the simmering debate."
"A drunk barged into a Queens mosque last night and shouted anti-Muslim slurs as he urinated on prayer rugs, cops and witnesses said."
Jonah Goldberg: "In 2001, there were twice as many anti-Jewish incidents as anti-Muslim ones, according to the FBI."
Taranto [$]: Bloomberg "employs scurrilous McCarthyite rhetoric in an attempt to inflame emotions and divert attention from a point that should be equally obvious: The Ground Zero mosque planners have implicated themselves by seeking to exploit the symbolism of the site, whatever their purpose is in doing so."
Damien Cave finds a pastor who plans on hosting a bonfire of Korans, on September 11.
"At least in America…there's a debate," says a man who's tried building a mosque in Milan for two decades.
Former RNC chairman and Bush43's campaign manager, Ken Mehlman, says he's gay.
"Mehlman and his aides went to considerable lengths to conceal his sexual identity, arranging 'dates' with women and photos of him dancing in heterosexual situations.
Thompson and Stachowski lose union support.
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