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Pamela Geller Bikini ‘Scandal’?

Posted on | August 19, 2010 | 36 Comments

Remember my joke — and it was a joke, in case you didn’t realize it — that Marcela Hoeven looking good in a bikini was a “scandal”? The Washington Post evidently thinks the same thing of Pamela Geller:

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. . . .

It’s rather telling that the Post‘s Michelle Boorstein considers it so vitally urgent that readers know Geller has (gasp) been photographed in a swimsuit. And when you read the rest of the story, it’s a long run for a short slide: Conservatives read conservative blogs (shock) and so forth.

BTW, Pamela’s success is driving Charles Johnson nuts:

Yeah, all “these freaks” like . . . uh, Howard Dean.

UPDATE: Writing at Outside the Beltway, Steven L. Taylor misleads:

Scapegoating is an ugly thing. And whatever else this is, this is scapegoating: it is blaming one group of people for the actions of others.

No, this isn’t scapegoating. It would be scapegoating if Muslims were being blamed for widespread social or economic woes, the way Hitler made Jews the convenient explanation for all of Germany’s ills after World War I.

Nobody is blaming Muslims for the recession. Opponents of the Cordoba House have very specific criticisms, and ignoring those criticisms is not the same as refuting them.

Let us, however, distinguish between longtime opponents of the Cordoba House — including Pamela Geller, who has been on this issue since Day One — and some of those who have jumped aboard the bandwagon. Many of those who have scoffed at opponents of Cordoba House are doing so based on a certain error of logic: “If Fox News is covering it, and Republican politicians are talking about it, the story must therefore be illegitimate.”

If you think Newt Gingrich is demagoging the Ground Zero Mosque story, or that Fox News is exploiting it, then by all means denounce the demagoguery and exploitation. But do not make the mistake of assuming that an issue is illegitimate, simply because it is being promoted by people you don’t like.

Such an assumption is a variety of ad hominem fallacy, which you should take care to avoid when you’re accusing others of scapegoating.

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  • http://twitter.com/CrustyB CrustyB

    That WaPo article was pure garbage. They pointed out the “Malcolm X-Obama Love Child” story she ran but neglected that Pam herself didn’t think it was true. She ran it to point out something specific within the article about Obama’s fuzzy parentage.

    They also don’t realize that the “super-tight Superman costume” was a PhotoShop. But, hey, if they couldn’t spot that photos from the Gaza Strip were cheap edits why would they be able to spot this one? It’s not like they’re in the business of journalism after all.

  • http://twitter.com/CrustyB CrustyB

    That WaPo article was pure garbage. They pointed out the “Malcolm X-Obama Love Child” story she ran but neglected that Pam herself didn’t think it was true. She ran it to point out something specific within the article about Obama’s fuzzy parentage.

    They also don’t realize that the “super-tight Superman costume” was a PhotoShop. But, hey, if they couldn’t spot that photos from the Gaza Strip were cheap edits why would they be able to spot this one? It’s not like they’re in the business of journalism after all.

  • http://www.coldfury.com Randy Rager

    The sooner Charles Johnson realizes what a complete non-entity he is and gets off my internet, the happier we’ll all be.

  • http://www.coldfury.com Randy Rager

    The sooner Charles Johnson realizes what a complete non-entity he is and gets off my internet, the happier we’ll all be.

  • http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com Charles Johnson

    I am so glad I am beyond the freaks. I have banned Sharmuta, Wild Irish Rose, and other of my sycophant lizoids from LGF and locked myself in my undisclosed Southern California bunker.

    I only come out to pine over the lost of the lovely Pam Geller and take a few digital photographs of sand and then to sulk back to monitor my enemies from the LGF, eat stale clearance Halloween candy, and call Pam Geller a harpy.

    I always have Kilgore Trout to comfort me.

  • FenelonSpoke

    A bikini? That is shocking! I think women who aren’t leftist should be stuck at home ALL THE TIME wearing floor length dresses with ankle length sleeves. ;^)

  • http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com Charles Johnson

    I am so glad I am beyond the freaks. I have banned Sharmuta, Wild Irish Rose, and other of my sycophant lizoids from LGF and locked myself in my undisclosed Southern California bunker.

    I only come out to pine over the lost of the lovely Pam Geller and take a few digital photographs of sand and then to sulk back to monitor my enemies from the LGF, eat stale clearance Halloween candy, and call Pam Geller a harpy.

    I always have Kilgore Trout to comfort me.

  • FenelonSpoke

    A bikini? That is shocking! I think women who aren’t leftist should be stuck at home ALL THE TIME wearing floor length dresses with ankle length sleeves. ;^)

  • http://thecampofthesaints.wordpress.com Bob Belvedere

    Damn! I was planning to get dibs on the Pam Geller Bikini Scandal Google-bomb. Drat, McCain, you’ve beat me again, but I’ll win next time despite your diabolical ways!

  • http://thecampofthesaints.wordpress.com Bob Belvedere

    Damn! I was planning to get dibs on the Pam Geller Bikini Scandal Google-bomb. Drat, McCain, you’ve beat me again, but I’ll win next time despite your diabolical ways!

  • http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com Charles Johnson

    I spoke with the writer, Michelle Boorstein, and I had much more to say about Geller and her anti-Muslim cohort Robert Spencer; but this is all that made it into the article:

    Charles Johnson, creator of the national security blog Little Green Footballs, called Spencer and Geller “very influential.” Listening to Gingrich’s comments about Islamic law, he said, “Newt sounded a lot like he got it from Pam Geller.”

    I want MORE CREDIT for my libel and slander! Reporters are whores who take all the credit for themselves. I hate them almost as much as wing nuts. They can’t forgive me for taking out Rather. I did it. Me. Forget about Buckhead, Powerline, whatever. They had nothing to do with it.

    IT’S MINE MINE MINE, I AM RICH I AM A HAPPY MISER.

  • http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com Charles Johnson

    I spoke with the writer, Michelle Boorstein, and I had much more to say about Geller and her anti-Muslim cohort Robert Spencer; but this is all that made it into the article:

    Charles Johnson, creator of the national security blog Little Green Footballs, called Spencer and Geller “very influential.” Listening to Gingrich’s comments about Islamic law, he said, “Newt sounded a lot like he got it from Pam Geller.”

    I want MORE CREDIT for my libel and slander! Reporters are whores who take all the credit for themselves. I hate them almost as much as wing nuts. They can’t forgive me for taking out Rather. I did it. Me. Forget about Buckhead, Powerline, whatever. They had nothing to do with it.

    IT’S MINE MINE MINE, I AM RICH I AM A HAPPY MISER.

  • blaster

    OT but Rod Shealy, Andre Bauer’s top political consultant, passed away from a brain tumor yesterday.

  • blaster

    OT but Rod Shealy, Andre Bauer’s top political consultant, passed away from a brain tumor yesterday.

  • Estragon

    I don’t doubt Michelle Boorstein is obsessed with Geller wearing a bikini in public.

    Ever seen Boorstein? [WARNING: Do NOT look at the following image if you are eating, have young children in the room, or a generally weak stomach] http://tinyurl.com/24z6q86

    Boy, don’t I wish Boorstein would wear her bikini bottoms in public – over her head. She can’t help being ugly but she could stay home, bless her heart.

  • Estragon

    I don’t doubt Michelle Boorstein is obsessed with Geller wearing a bikini in public.

    Ever seen Boorstein? [WARNING: Do NOT look at the following image if you are eating, have young children in the room, or a generally weak stomach] http://tinyurl.com/24z6q86

    Boy, don’t I wish Boorstein would wear her bikini bottoms in public – over her head. She can’t help being ugly but she could stay home, bless her heart.

  • Kojocaro

    um i’am sorry supporting of the greek orthodoxchurch is supporting one religion over islam which is unconstitutional we should be more like the UK and less like the united islamophobic states of america and btw i demand you apologize

    /my best lexhamfox impersonation

  • Kojocaro

    um i’am sorry supporting of the greek orthodoxchurch is supporting one religion over islam which is unconstitutional we should be more like the UK and less like the united islamophobic states of america and btw i demand you apologize

    /my best lexhamfox impersonation

  • http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ Charles Johnson

    You a bunch of buggers!

    Yeah!
    That’s what u are!
    Feckin right u are!
    twatin this twatin that…who the fuck u think u are???????????
    haugty taughty fucky wouty tatty twatty titty twittty itty bitty
    polka dot bikini!

    Why cant you u just say ‘hey ‘ lets give it a bit of lobe love?
    What the hell is wrong with that?
    Why are you so blooody evil!?

  • Joe

    Here is a proposed art work for the Cordoba House museum: I love the classics!.

  • http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ Charles Johnson

    You a bunch of buggers!

    Yeah!
    That’s what u are!
    Feckin right u are!
    twatin this twatin that…who the fuck u think u are???????????
    haugty taughty fucky wouty tatty twatty titty twittty itty bitty
    polka dot bikini!

    Why cant you u just say ‘hey ‘ lets give it a bit of lobe love?
    What the hell is wrong with that?
    Why are you so blooody evil!?

  • Joe

    Here is a proposed art work for the Cordoba House museum: I love the classics!.

  • http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com Charles Johnson

    Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf also said this about 9/11:

    “The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians. But it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.”

    and this just after 9/11

    “I wouldn’t say that the United States deserved what happened. But the United States’ policies were an accessory to the crime that happened.”

    And don’t forget that Iman Rauf helped organize the flotilla to Israel. To Honor St. Pancake Rachel Corrie. And to embarass Israel. Which I am now all for. Because why defend Jews anymore? Because Jews are so passe.

    And of course I agree with Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf. He is a smart and good man and he is speaking the truth about United States war crimes. My job is to educate you on how to think the Charles Johnson way.

  • http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com Charles Johnson

    Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf also said this about 9/11:

    “The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians. But it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.”

    and this just after 9/11

    “I wouldn’t say that the United States deserved what happened. But the United States’ policies were an accessory to the crime that happened.”

    And don’t forget that Iman Rauf helped organize the flotilla to Israel. To Honor St. Pancake Rachel Corrie. And to embarass Israel. Which I am now all for. Because why defend Jews anymore? Because Jews are so passe.

    And of course I agree with Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf. He is a smart and good man and he is speaking the truth about United States war crimes. My job is to educate you on how to think the Charles Johnson way.

  • http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com Charles Johnson

    Hisssss.

  • http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com Charles Johnson

    Hisssss.

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  • http://troglopundit.wordpress.com Lance

    Bikini? I don’t believe it. I think you’re making it up.

  • http://troglopundit.wordpress.com Lance

    Bikini? I don’t believe it. I think you’re making it up.

  • http://troglopundit.wordpress.com Lance

    Bikini? I don’t believe it. You’re making that up.

  • http://troglopundit.wordpress.com Lance

    Bikini? I don’t believe it. You’re making that up.

  • Kojocaro

    charles johnson why don’t you go ride your bike in rush hour traffic

  • Kojocaro

    charles johnson why don’t you go ride your bike in rush hour traffic

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