Salon's timeline of Pamela GELLER's & NY Post's Andrea PEYSER's fabrication of "monster mosque"

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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/08/16/ground_zero_mosque_origins/index.html

How the "ground zero mosque" fear mongering began

A viciously anti-Muslim blogger, the New York Post and the right-wing media machine: How it all went down

.... In a story last week, the New York Times, which framed the project in a largely positive, noncontroversial light last December, argued that it was cursed from the start by "public relations missteps." But this isn't accurate. To a remarkable extent, a Salon review of the origins of the story found, the controversy was kicked up and driven by Pamela Geller, a right-wing, viciously anti-Muslim, conspiracy-mongering blogger, whose sinister portrayal of the project was embraced by Rupert Murdoch's New York Post.


Here's a timeline of how it all happened:


Dec. 8, 2009: ....

* Dec. 21, 2009: Conservative media personality Laura Ingraham interviews Abdul Rauf's wife, Daisy Khan, while guest-hosting "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox. In hindsight, the segment is remarkable for its cordiality. "I can't find many people who really have a problem with it," Ingraham says of the Cordoba project, adding at the end of the interview, "I like what you're trying to do." (This segment also includes onscreen the first use that we've seen of the misnomer "ground zero mosque.") After the segment — and despite the front-page Times story — there were no news articles on the mosque for five and a half months, according to a search of the Nexis newspaper archive.

* May 6, 2010: After a unanimous vote by a New York City community board committee to approve the project, the AP runs a story. It quotes relatives of 9/11 victims (called by the reporter), who offer differing opinions. The New York Post, meanwhile, runs a story under the inaccurate headline, "Panel Approves 'WTC' Mosque." Geller is less subtle, titling her post that day, "Monster Mosque Pushes Ahead in Shadow of World Trade Center Islamic Death and Destruction." She writes on her Atlas Shrugs blog, "This is Islamic domination and expansionism. The location is no accident. Just as Al-Aqsa was built on top of the Temple in Jerusalem." (To get an idea of where Geller is coming from, she once suggested that Malcolm X was Obama's real father. Seriously.)

* May 7, 2010: Geller's group, Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), launches ... ....

* May 8, 2010: Geller announces ... ....

* May 13, 2010: Peyser follows up ... ....

Lots of opinion makers on the right read the Post, so it's not surprising that, starting that very day, the mosque story spread through the conservative — and then mainstream — media like fire through dry grass. Geller appeared on Sean Hannity's radio show. The Washington Examiner ran an outraged column about honoring the 9/11 dead. So did Investor's Business Daily. Smelling blood, the Post assigned news reporters to cover the ins and outs of the Cordoba House development daily. Fox News, the Post's television sibling, went all out.

Within a month, Rudy Giuliani had called the mosque a "desecration." Within another month, Sarah Palin had tweeted her famous "peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate" tweet. Peter King and Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty followed suit — with political reporters and television news programs dutifully covering "both sides" of the controversy.

Geller had succeeded beyond her wildest dreams.


Justin Elliott is a Salon reporter. Reach him by email at jelliott@salon.com

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http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/about.html

Biography
Pamela "Atlas" Geller is the founder, editor and publisher of Atlas Shrugs.com, bringing you the news you will not hear from the mainstream media, providing original reportage, covering little-reported events of great import, and giving an unblinkingly honest examination of global affairs. She is also the executive director of Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) and of the Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI), and is a regular columnist for Andrew Breitbart's Big Government and Big Journalism, the American Thinker, and other publications.



Pamela Geller is the author of the book The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America with Robert Spencer (foreword by Ambassador John Bolton) Simon & Schuster).


Pamela Geller's videoblogs ("vlogs") on a wide range of current events have won enthusiastic acclaim, as have her exclusive Atlas interviews with internationally renowned authorities on jihad, terrorism, and related issues, including John Bolton, Geert Wilders, Bat Ye'or, Ann Coulter, Mark Steyn, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski, Steve Emerson, Christopher Hitchens, Natan Sharansky, and many others. (Videos of many of these interviews are available at AtlasShrugs.com.) She routinely confers with leading scholars on the Middle East, Islam, Eurabia, China and Russia.

Atlas has broken numerous important stories -- notably the questionable and illegal foreign sources of some of the financing of the Obama campaign , the anti-Semitic posts on Obama's website, Obama's political organizing in public school classrooms, ACORN's destruction of Republican voter registrations, and many more. Her articles and op-eds have been published in The Washington Times, Big Government, Big Journalism, Human Events, The American Thinker, Newsmax, the Hudson Institute, NY, Pajamas Media, Israel National News, World Net Daily, FrontPage magazine, New Media Journal, and Canada Free Press, among other publications.

Atlas began her publishing career at The New York Daily News and subsequently took over operation of The New York Observer as Associate Publisher.

After September 11, 2001, Pamela Geller began to immerse herself in gaining a full understanding of geopolitics, Islam, jihad, terror, foreign affairs and the imminent threats to our freedoms that the mainstream media and the government wouldn't cover or discuss. After engaging in various forms of activism in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, she became convinced of the crying need for an alternative to the mainstream media, and began AtlasShrugs.com in February 2005. The site won the 2005 "Best New Blog" Jewish & Israeli Blog Award, was a finalist in the 2005 Weblog Awards, and finished in third place for "Best Conservative Blog" in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Atlas also won the "Grande Conservative Blogress Diva" Award for 2008 and for 2009.

Pamela Geller has made appearances on NBC Nightly News, ABC, CNN, AP, Reuters, Hannity, Red Eye, Geraldo, the Mike Huckabee show on the Fox News channel. She has appeared in the New York Times, the Washinton Post, the LA Times, the Daily mail and the Telegraph. She made an acclaimed appearance on the Joy Behar Show in February 2010, engaging in an impromptu debate with Ron Reagan about Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Movement. She is a frequent guest on talk radio and has regular segments on two radio shows, The Jaz McKay Show and Jamie Allman In the Morning. Geller was a featured speaker at the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Restoration Weekend in 2009 and was the featured speaker for the Collin County, Texas, Conservative Republicans in November 2009. She speaks regularly to organizations, synagogues and groups across this nation.

Atlas writes daily at AtlasShrugs.com, where she is fighting the great fight, changing the world one word at a time.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller

.... In addition to her anti-Islam stance, Geller has also lent her support to a number of other political causes. She has been a strong defender of former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, and has denied the existence of Serbian concentration camps in the 1990s. She has also claimed that black South Africans are launching a "genocide" against whites, and expressed support for the English Defence League. ....

Controversial postings on "Atlas Shrugs" have included a number of false claims, including that Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan (who is Jewish) supports Nazi ideology (accompanied by a fake picture of her in a Nazi uniform)<16>, video suggesting Muslims have sex with goats, a doctored photo showing President Obama urinating on an American flag<1>, and false claims that Obama's mother was involved in pornography and that Obama dated a "crack whore".<17> Geller has also used her site to accuse President Obama of anti-Semitism and doing the bidding of "Islamic overlords," while posting an essay suggesting, without any evidence, that the President is the "love child" of Malcolm X. ....

Geller was formerly married to Michael Oshry. In 2007, Oshry was the subject of a criminal investigation in regard to an alleged million-dollar scam at his Universal Auto World dealership on Long Island. Geller, already divorced from Oshry at the time, was listed in business records as a co-owner of Universal, but denied involvement, saying "I have nothing to do with this."<18> Although charges were filed against the dealership and several individuals, Oshry was not charged.<19>

Works
Pamela Geller with Robert Spencer, foreword by (former) Ambassador John R. Bolton, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America,

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I saw this facebook page before I saw the following link. It reeks of bullshit.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/07/kill-a-jew-day-is-july-9th-on-facebook.html

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