Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?

I had seen it more than once in the subway: two MTA posters side by side, a pink one proclaiming Billy Graham's Crusade in Corona Park in Queens, and a blue one for the Gay Pride Day parade. Andy Newman's front-page
story on Billy Graham struck me. The writing was different. It had more personality than a typical news story, and its color was almost a throwback to journalism of a bygone era, one in which journalists inevitably wore hats.

Yesterday, the rapt audience spread across 93 acres, filling a vast lawn ringed by London plane and linden trees and overflowing into three more sites where Mr. Graham's electrifying visage, rugged and worn but still startlingly handsome, spoke to them from enormous video screens.

It's nice to read a news story in which a figure's voice is described as a "formal yet folksy North Carolina baritone, smooth as old whiskey".

Though, the headline should have read: "Preacher Warns End of World is Nigh." That's what he talked about.

And is it me, or is there no irony at all to anybody that it's called ... a Crusade? I mean, sure he used the term/brand at Madison Square Garden in 1957 to rail against Communism, but for Christ's sake, do we want to piss off the Muslim world any more (the Newsweek Qu'ran flushing thing comes to mind)?