From WNYKRC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.

I'm Bob Garfield. And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

The American people do not want the mosques there. And of course, Muslims do not want us to burn the Koran.

That's Terry Jones, the pastor of a tiny Florida congregation, pulling the plug Thursday on his scheduled

holy book burning after having ignited a global firestorm.

He didn't do it alone, of course. He had help. Here's Fox News anchored Brett Baer.

As we told you at the top of the newscast, a Florida pastor has canceled plans to burn copies of the Quran Saturday.

Tonight's text-to-vote poll question, whom do you think is most responsible for the escalation of this controversy?

You can text your answer to 36288.

Type SR1 for Reverend Terry Jones,

SR2 for the Obama administration, or SR3 for the news media.

The Obama administration?

The president waited until Thursday to call Jones's action a recruitment bonanza for al-Qaeda.

After his commander in Afghanistan spoke of heightened danger to the troops,

and his secretary of state said this.

We are hoping that the pastor decides not to do this.

We're hoping against hope that if he does, it won't be covered.

Finally, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called Jones up and probably helped talk him down.

No, the White House is not a viable blame option.

But I have no quarrel with the other choices offered by Fox's Brett Baer.

Jones himself?

The media?

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