The Washington Post profiled right-wing blogger Pamela Geller who has been at the forefront of the misinformation campaign surrounding the proposed Islamic Center for downtown NYC. (Geller has lied about mosque opening on Sept. 11, 2011 and Geller lied when she claimed the mosque's imam had blamed “the Jews” for the Sept. 11 attack.)

The Post gives anti-Muslim zealot Geller the star treatment and describes her this way [emphasis added]:

The most colorful -- and perhaps most visible -- activist at the moment is Pam Geller, a former New York Observer publisher who has appeared in a bikini and a super-tight Superman costume challenging Islam.

Through her blog, Atlas Shrugs, television interviews and appearances at political rallies, Geller has become one of the chief organizers of opposition to the so-called Ground Zero mosque as well as efforts to build other Muslim prayer centers across the country.

Republican leaders including Sarah Palin, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Gingrich have condemned the $100 million Park 51 Islamic Cultural Center, while Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) have defended it. On Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) added more fuel to the fire by saying she supports an investigation into how opposition to the mosque is being funded.

Geller has become a prominent voice in the debate despite the fact that she once promoted the view that Obama is Malcolm X's love child. She frequently warns that Muslims are trying to impose repressive sharia law on the United States, refers to the president's holiday message to Muslims as “Obama Ramadamadingdong” and promotes a Web site, Religion of Peace, that claims to tally the number of people killed around the world by Muslim extremists.

In that last paragraph the Post only begins to give readers a flavor of Geller's dark hatred of Muslims that anchors her writing. But why only a flavor? Why doesn't the Post just come right out and say that Geller has called the President of the United States an anti-Semite and has attacked him as terrorist sympathizers who's abetting the U.S. invasion from Islamic radicals?

Why can't the Post, and the rest of the press, simply tell the truth about Pam Geller? She doesn't seem shy about calling Obama an anti-Semite. So why does the press shy away from reporting that fact? Is it because journalists would be embarrassed giving the star treatment to somebody who, in all seriousness, says the president “wants jihad to win”?

UPDATED: If during the Bush years there was a loud mouth liberal blogger who routinely called the president a racist or claimed Bush hated gays, do you think the Post would ever describe that blogger as being merely “colorful”?

UPDATED: It should surprise nobody that Geller, who apparently hates the press almost as much as she hates Muslims, attacked the Post writer, even though the newspaper soft-peddled Geller's unhinged nuttiness.