Amanda Marcotte, again, about the ‘wingnut plan to build a “This is not a joke, I’ve spoken to a number of investors…“ plan to stick it to them Muslums and/or stick it to Liberals by building a “gay bar” next to the Cordoba House near Ground Zero.

Image via Amanda on FlickrI just have one thing to say.  Just because their kids set them up on Twitter doesn’t mean they’re computer literate, or they may have done the first thing that occurred to me, which is to look and see if there are any gay bars within the vicinity of the Cordoba House.  And lookie here, there are!

If you look at this picture, and you’re not too stupid to breathe (sorry, wingnuts!), you should immediately see two things that make this whole “let’s put a gay bar by the Cordoba House and see liberal heads explode!” wishful thinking look even stupider than it is on its surface: 1) There are three gay bars within .1 mile of the Cordoba House and 2) They are all as close or closer to the Cordoba House than the WTC is.
She said it here.

Kevin Drum figured out the same thing from his home office somewhere in suburban southern California.

An even better poke in the eye for allegedly more fiscally-responsible conservatives, the first commenter on Drum’s post said

I think it’s called “Dakota North” or something like that.

Anyway, my recollection is, it’s not exactly the, um, most hetero place in TriBeCa anyways. Hope [Greg] Gutfeld’s got a marketing budget.

One of the first rules of starting a new business is assessing market conditions, including competition, at your proposed site. In other words even if they weren’t homophobic, religiously intolerant toolbags Gutfield and the “number of investors” who are lining up are crap businessmen from the word go.

Update Different context but see also Matt Yglesias on prominent conservatives’ blunt incomprehension of standard business practice.