Fox News Has Mainstreamed Pam Geller's Islamophobic Hate Speech
In the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Oslo, Norway, the manifesto of accused killer Anders Behring Breivik is being examined, and commenters are noting that he frequently cited fringe, so-called "antijihad" writers including Atlas Shrugs blogger Pamela Geller. Geller has long been a reliable source for Fox when the network needs or wants to highlight far-right, fringe, and extremist opinions -- and Geller has only benefited from the exposure. And now that the opinions Geller proudly holds have been connected to a horrific act of violence, Fox News' role in mainstreaming Geller and her brand of Islamophobic activism should be put under the microscope.
Geller And Other Fringe "Antijihad" Bloggers Were "Frequently Cited" In Breivik's Manifesto
NYT: "Breivik Frequently Cited" Geller's "Atlas Shrugs" Blog. Detailing the fringe right-wing blogs cited in Breivik's "manifesto," The New York Times reported:
The man accused of the killing spree in Norway was deeply influenced by a small group of American bloggers and writers who have warned for years about the threat from Islam, lacing his 1,500-page manifesto with quotations from them, as well as copying multiple passages from the tract of the Unabomber.
In the document he posted online, Anders Behring Breivik, who is accused of bombing government buildings and killing scores of young people at a Labor Party camp, showed that he had closely followed the acrimonious American debate over Islam.
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Mr. Breivik frequently cited another blog, Atlas Shrugs, and recommended the Gates of Vienna among Web sites. Pamela Geller, an outspoken critic of Islam who runs Atlas Shrugs, wrote on her blog Sunday that any assertion that she or other antijihad writers bore any responsibility for Mr. Breivik's actions was "ridiculous."
"If anyone incited him to violence, it was Islamic supremacists," she wrote. [The New York Times, 7/24/11]
Jeffrey Goldberg: Geller "Should Be Aware Now That Violent People Look To Her For Guidance." Commenting on the Times article noting the number of times Breivik cited Geller, Atlantic national correspondent Jeffrey Golberg opined:
Geller is a hatemonger, but she didn't pull the trigger. Free speech means free speech. But she should be aware now that violent people look to her for guidance, and she should write with that in mind. [TheAtlantic.com, 7/25/11]
Village Voice: Geller Should Be Considered Among The "Lunatics." After noting the frequency with which Breivik cited fringe, right-wing Islamophobic bloggers including Geller, The Village Voice opined:
RTF [Conservative blog Right Turn Forever] acknowledged that Breivik followed Geller and Gates of Vienna, but while those people are known to you and us as lunatics, to RTF they are "popular not only among anti-Islam activists, but amont [sic] even more moderate types concerned about the rise of radical Islam in the West." (RTF doesn't name any of the alleged "moderate types" who follow these nuts.) [The Village Voice, 7/25/11]
Geller Routinely Uses Downright Outrageous, Hateful Rhetoric
Geller: "President Obama Is Indeed A Bastard, Literally And Figuratively." In an April 29, 2011, post on her blog, Atlas Shrugs, Geller wrote, "President Obama is indeed a bastard, literally and figuratively." [Atlas Shrugs, 4/29/11]
Geller Compared Critics Of Muslim Radicalization Hearings To "Pre-War Nazi Germany." In a March 9, 2011, post on her blog, Atlas Shrugs, Geller compared criticism of Rep. Peter King's (R-NY) hearings on the purported radicalization of American Muslims to "what it must have looked like in pre-war Nazi Germany." [Atlas Shrugs, 3/9/11]
Geller: Obama "Is A Third Worlder And A Coward" Who's "Appeas[ing] His Islamic Overlords." In an April 13, 2010, post on her blog, Geller wrote: "Obama is a third worlder and a coward. He will do nothing but beat up on our friends to appease his Islamic overlords. All this is going down while Obama plays footsie at his nuclear nonsense campfire -- sucking up to Iran's enablers while beating up our allies." [Atlas Shrugs, 4/13/10]
Geller Called Obama "President Jihad" And Said Obama Was "Advocating Jihad." In an April 1, 2010, blog post titled, "President Jihad: Obama Encouraged Violent Palestinian Muslim protests against Israel," Geller claimed Obama "is agitating Muslims against Jews" and stated:
The President of the United States is advancing jihad against the oath of office that he took. [Atlas Shrugs, 4/1/10]
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Fox News Has Aggressively Mainstreamed Geller
Geller Engaged In Fundraising For Her Issues On Fox. On June 28, 2010, Geller appeared on Fox News' Fox & Friends where she promoted her book about "the Obama Administration's War on America," discussed her campaign to place signs on taxis that state "Honor killing victims: Is your family threatening you? LeaveIslamSafely.com," and to instruct Fox viewers how to contribute to her campaigns through her website. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 6/28/10]
Geller On Fox: Developers Of Islamic Community Center Near Ground Zero "Want To Stab Americans In The Eye." On May 27, 2010, Geller appeared on Fox News' Fox & Friends to criticize the developers of the Park 51 Islamic community center in New York City:
I think that that's wrong. I think there's no tolerance there. I don't know why they'd want to stab Americans in the eye with that. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 5/27/10]
Geller On Fox: A Mosque "Basically Embodies The Very Ideology That Inspired" 9-11 Attacks. On May 15, 2010, Geller appeared on Fox News' Huckabee to discuss her opposition to the New York City Islamic community center, calling it "an outrage, an insult" and "humiliating to the families and to all Americans." Geller called the community center "a mosque" which she said "basically embodies the very ideology that inspired those attacks on 9-11." [Fox News, Huckabee, 5/15/10]
Geller On Fox: "All The Evidence Points To Obama's Anti-Semitic Associations." On July 27, 2010, Geller appeared on Hannity and claimed that President Obama's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a "photo op" and accused Obama of being anti-Semitic. [Fox News, Hannity, 7/27/10]
Geller Compared Islamic Community Center To A "Ku Klux Klan Shrine" Near A Black Alabama Church. On August 11, 2010, Geller appeared on Fox News' Fox & Friends and voiced opposition to plans to develop an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan. Geller said:
This is not a religious issue or a freedom of speech issue. Would you build a Ku Klux Klan at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama? It has nothing to do with that. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 8/11/10]
Geller On Fox: "Arabic" Is "A Spearhead Of An Ideological Project That Is Deeply Opposed To The United States Of America." On February 14, 2011, Geller appeared on Fox Business' Follow the Money to discuss Arabic language instruction in Texas schools. Gellar said that Arabic "is the language of Islam and it is a spearhead of an ideological project that is deeply opposed to the United States of America." [Fox Business, Follow the Money, 2/14/11, via Nexis]
The American media needs a conservative Enema
Flush Fox Down The Toilet!!!!
Give your 'Enter' key a break once in a while.
Give your 'Enter' key a break once in a while. Yo will feel much better after ceasing from judgmental remarks and so will this site when you get control of yourself for a change.
Yeah, right.
Any chance he could be a psychotic lunatic? They do exist and have since long before there was a FOX News.
Just another hysterical liberal-socialist who grabs on to anything that happens to start shrieking about FOX News. Next they will be shrieking that FOX News is the cause for global warming. Oh, I meant climate change.
One of the Nazi's first priorities was to shut down any opposing viewpoints. It's also what Communists like to do.
I guess freedom of speech only applies to those outlets that march lockstep with the Liberal-Socialist manifesto
Yeah, right.
Yeah, right."
You should not use my name in vain. What do I have to do with this?
You are a LIAR. You are stupid and so brainwashed sheep are ASHAMED of you. Lemmings are mortified by the prospect of being compared to you. You are among the most ignorant and pathetic of any carbon based lifeform known to man
You need to see an anger-management specialist. You seem to have a few, ahem, issues.
It is sad how pathetic you are. Read your posts then tell me about hostile and angry. Look you are stupid. Really, undeniably, bone chillingly stupid. You will never understand me. I am far too complex for your simple mind. I have no anger at all. I just amuse myself slapping the stupid out of brainwashed morontrolls like you.
Your obsession with anger and issues is pure projection. That and being too brain deficient for any hope of self awareness
I am sure to YOU I seema giant intellect. The truth is you are just a brainwashed mentally deficient moron. No you dont know the type. In fact you dont know ANYTHING except what screechmonkeys have told you to think. Time to come to grips with the unalterable fact you are a MORON.
Personally I know you are a LIAR and have never thought in your entire life. You never will think. You flat out dont have the requisite equipment. You regurgitate. You have knee jerk reactions based on what you were TOLD to think.
You are too stupid to understand simple English. I have no anger. Your hostile posts are what they are and I respond in kind. I amuse myself doing so. Being the brainwashed MORON you are you cannot understand any reactions not motivated by fear or anger since your simple mind operates only on those base levels. I am motivated by entertainment and I LOVE to laugh at morons as stupid as you
You DEFINE sad joke
You're flattering katana by suggesting that he is stupid and a liar.
katana doesn't have the necessary intellect to rise to the level of stupidity nor is there necessarily the wherewithal to formulate an actual lie.
Spouting talking points and indulging in the (probably) regurgitated argument techniques of a third rate sophist doesn't really get past the automaton stage of artificial intelligence.
You need to see a reality-oriented specialist. You have a few, ahem, issues.
You need to see a reality-oriented specialist. You have a few, ahem, issues."
You have, erm, made another identification mistake, HU. I am only Metanoia on this site not Kamehameha or anyone else.
Here is why Fox News is the news Nazi.
My GOD but you are stupid. Point out WHO is blaming FOX for Breivik. It didnt happen so that bit of ignorant strawman stupidity is just pathetic.
I am sorry you are too STUPID to know what a socialist even IS. You have proven this over and over. You are a brainwashed MORON.
Now it is apparant you are too STUPID to know what free speech is. See our criticism of Gellers stupidity is just as protected by free speech as her right to be a MORON. You too have every right to showcase how unspeakably STUPID you are. And my GOD but you are stupid
I've said it before, but you should type in all CAPS. I think it also might help vent your feelings of rage and inadequacy.
I am sorry you are so stupid. Forget about trying to read my mind. Forget about projecting your weakness and moral retardation toward me. You are too stupid to understand fully funtioning adults like me.
Inadequacy? HA. Apparanly we have never met. I LOVE being me. Ask anybody. Also I dont do requests so you waste your time making them.
You are so sadly pathetic. You breeze in with your contemptuous lies, blatant stupidity and arrogant hostility then snivel like the punk you are that I treat you the way you treat us. GOD but you are stupid and pathetic
katanakumori did not reply to the question. I get it, kabniel goes off on insult fueled rants in response to ridiculous statements and lies.
However, I'm not kabniel and I would like you to back up your absurd claims.
I'll remind you exactly which absurd claims.
1) So, who is blaming Fox?
2) What "opposing viewpoints" are being "shut down", and by whom? Where in America is this happening and by what authority?
I will be quite surprised if you address these questions regarding your post. We all know your statements in that post are just strawmen and a lame attempt to play victim, followed by the usual baseless accusations and branding your political opponents as socialists and nazis.
I am not insulting you, just asking that you defend your statements. Sadly, we both know you won't be able to answer my questions.
I'd recommend courses in world history and political philosophy because it appears your knowledge of both are sorely lacking.
In a way they are. Fox is constantly promoting the idea that global climate change is a fraud. If Fox viewers believe Fox, they have no incentive to reduce their carbon foot print.
If you don't believe in the power of influence, you shouldn't be so quick with your Nazi references or you should learn a little bit more about the rise of the Third Reich. Then again don't bother. Hypocrisy is something that conservatives embrace and celebrate.
But now that they share their ideology with a terrorist, their views have suddenly become much more sophisticated. Now they say that it's unfair to paint people with a broad brush and blame for the acts of others whom they happen to share beliefs with.
Of course, I'm sure, their sudden realization of how unfair and dishonest their own tactics are will soon be forgotten. We should all remind them of it the next time they start scapegoating.
In the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Oslo, Norway, the manifesto of accused killer Anders Behring Breivik is being examined,
Its called terrorist.