Yup, the WTC memorial site and plaza is sure to be crawling with leftist propaganda:

The hysterics of Malkin and others have focused entirely on who the International Freedom Center has turned to for advice. Here’s an idea: how about looking at who the International Freedom Center has actually endorsed.

Turns out the IFC has been one of the great champions of Nathan Sharansky. Yes, that Nathan Sharansky: President Bush’s foreign policy guru, who was offered an hour-long meeting with Bush in the Oval Office, and who has been praised in the pages of the National Review and on David Horowitz’s FrontPageMag. Earlier this year, Bush told “opinion makers” they should put Sharansky’s book, The Case for Democracy, on their “recommended reading list.” “If you want a glimpse of how I think about foreign policy, read Natan Sharansky’s book,” Bush said.

And it gets better. Guess who turned Bush on to Sharansky? The co-founder of the IFC, Tom Bernstein, who sent Bush excerpts of the book shortly after his reelection, and “who was a financial partner with Bush in the Texas Rangers.” And guess who the IFC featured at its very first public program? Good ol’ Nathan Sharansky.

Source.  For background and related post, see here.

UPDATE: And for a well-deserved and funny skewering of Michelle Malkin and the WSJ opinion piece, you must must must read Sadly, No

SECOND UPDATE: The IFC responds to Michelle Malkin’s rant (indirectly) in this WSJ op-ed, laying out some actual, you know, FACTS similar to what I laid out (e.g., each of the reflecting pools of the Memorial will be one acre in size).

Malkin’s considered and intelligent response?: “Blah times 3.” (No kidding—that’s what passes for intellectual argument on the wingnut right these days).  By the way, please note that, according to Malkin, we’re no longer talking about actual evidence that the IFC will be a “Blame America First” monument (not that she presented any evidence before)—we’re talking now about Burlingame’s paranoid and uninformed “concerns” about what the IFC might be.

THIRD UPDATE: LGF’s surreply to today WSJ op-ed (written by the president of the International Freedom Center, Richard Tofel) is even funnier than Malkin’s:

This article is an attempt to soothe the critics, by tossing out a bunch of happy-sounding phrases about memory, loss, courage, etc. — without once confronting the appallingly simple fact that America was attacked on September 11.

Apparently, Charles Johnson doesn’t understand that memorials are about things like memory.  You can tell because both words come from the same latin root. 

Besides, I think most people who visit the new site will already aware of the “appallingly simple fact that America was attacked on September 11”.  Presumably, that is WHY they would visit the site in the first place.

Instead, Tofel sees 9/11 as a chance to learn lessons, a tragedy, anything but the atrocious mass murder it really was.

Aaaaah.  Now I get it.  Wingers want a “Victimize America First” memorial, dark and bleak and pessimistic.  A wall-to-wall tribute to despair.  Well, then “a basement” sounds like the PERFECT place for that, right wingnuts?

The most outrageous statement in Tofel’s piece, cloaked in tones of reasonableness

Reasonableness.  Another thing that is objectionable to wingers.

Tofel doesn’t even mention the involvement of the ACLU and Human Rights First, or radical leftists like Columbia professor Eric Foner and ubermoonbat George Soros; let’s just ignore the America-haters behind the curtain, shall we?

Let’s ignore the fact that Tofel, assistant publisher of the WSJ and VP of Dow Jones, is hardly a member of the “radical left”.

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, what’s being expressed here is rampant hatred for, and fear of, organizations devoted to freedom and human rights, which overshadows any sense of objectivity that the wingnuts may possess.  In fact, their bile even overshadoes notions of decency and respect for what the memorial, taken as a whole, is TRYING to convey.

After reading Tofel’s “nothing up my sleeve” column, I’m more convinced than ever that this memorial will be a complete travesty, and a disgrace to the memories of 3,000 murdered people.

“I still have nothing to actually SUPPORT my belief, just my paranoia and hatred of anything that can be skewed by me as being leftist.”

THEN we get to the lizoid comments, showing their shallowness, hatred, bigotry and stupidity:

If they must have a place for their Celebration of Man’s Inhumanity to Man, allow me to offer a suggestion:

1. Crash a jet into the UN Secretariat Building.

2. Voilà! Instant site.

Yes, the whole ‘international’ thing reeks of PC crap!

All I needed to know about Islam I learned on 9/11/01.

He can’t hide the fact that the IFC has already been hijacked by the Left and the George Soros gang; as such, it has become the anti-9/11 memorial.

There you have it—wingers HATE the idea of a musuem devoted to freedom and human rights (despite the fact that freedom and human rights is why we are supposedly in Iraq).