The definition of insanity

The definition of doublethink is the act of simultaneously accepting as correct two mutually contradictory beliefs.

A great illustration is found by Patterico: 

It is Accepted Wisdom™ that:


It is not the Ground Zero mosque. It’s not at Ground Zero and it’s not a mosque.


And at the same time:


Having the mosque at Ground Zero is a testament to our religious tolerance.

The Muslims who bought the property apparently though it was very important to be as close to Ground Zero as possible. So even as the AP tells its editors to avoid the term "Ground Zero Mosque," the people who wnat to build the mosque are all over the designation.

# A December 8th, 2009, New York Times article stated, “The location [next to Ground Zero] was precisely a key selling point for the group of Muslims,” and quoted Rauf as noting that they got a property “where a piece of the [9/11] wreckage fell.” ASMA then touted the piece in its 2009 Year End Report.
# A simple Google search of the Cordoba Initiative’s website reveals the phrase “Ground Zero” to be seeded throughout as a rather inept 1999-era SEO tactic to bring people looking for information about Ground Zero to the mosque promoters’ website.
# On May 5th and 6th, ASMA’s Daisy Khan was on her Twitter account, boasting first that the “new muslim center near ground zero gets unaminous vote of approval from community board one in downtown nyc,” and then that she had a “Media blitz day for ASMA / Cordoba [on the] muslim commuity center near ground zero.”
# On June 15th, Daisy Khan told the Washington Post’s Sally Quinn that “a divine hand” led to the Ground Zero proximity.