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My personal guess is that Nancy Pelosi already has a pretty good idea of who is funding opposition to the Mosque At Ground Zero, assuming that its Rupert Murdoch or someone similar. Therefore, assuming there was any actual thought to her response to the question, I would interpret it as veiled threat to go public with that information. Its one thing to manipulate "conservative Republican GOP" members of the American public, and its another thing to be fairly well known to be manipulating the "conservative Republican GOP" members of the American public, but its an entirely different thing to be blatantly, obviously called out for manipulating the "conservative Republican GOP" members of the American public. Don't turn the sheep into mules.
As far as the public statements from the White House on this topic, I don't see much of a way they could pragmatically do otherwise. The basic premise at the base of this - freedom of religion and speech versus fascist fear-induced decisions complete with pitchforks - is something you can't just ignore if your job is to serve as the nominal figurehead of the American People. I do find it amazing that it seems a strong undercurrent of the "conservative Republican GOP" politicians campaign is essentially "Fuck the poor (i.e. yourselves), fuck the hispanics (i.e. one of the fastest growing sectors of the American public), and fuck the Muslims (i.e. a large percentage of everyone else in the world)" and that it will probably work better than I would anticipate. Americans are some scared-ass motherfuckers these days.
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