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2010: The Year of Pamela Geller

Posted on | January 1, 2011 | 11 Comments

Several readers have contacted CPAC director Lisa DePasquale to nominate me as “Blogger of the Year” and, of course, I’m flattered.

What are the chances I’ll actually win? Not bloody likely, but even if I were somehow to win the award, the first sentence of my acceptance speech would have to be, “Pamela Geller got robbed.”

Even if you disagree with her politically, can there be any argument that Geller and her Atlas Shrugs readers had the biggest impact of any conservative blog in 2010? Donald Douglas features this video of Geller’s appearance in the 60 Minutes story about the Ground Zero Mosque controversy:

(4:18) “Pamela Geller is a key figure in all of this. She is the Islamic center’s most ardent opponent. Geller is a former New York media executive who writes a politically far-right blog that mixes news, opinion and conspiracy theories. . . . Last December, Geller’s blog appears to have been the first to re-name the Islamic center the ‘Mosque at Ground Zero.’”

Again, I say, you don’t have to agree with Geller to recognize her tremendous impact. Criticize her, call her names, whatever — she made a difference. She was also targeted by the harshest attacks that the Left and its media allies could muster. When they call you a “far-right conspiracy theorist,” you know you’re doing something right.

What shall we say in answer to Geller’s critics? To those who say she is reckless, that her rhetoric is sometimes sensationalistic and over-the-top . . . Hey, I resemble that remark!

This is the freaking blogosphere, pal. It ain’t a graduate seminar at the Kennedy School of Government.

If the first rule of effective communication is that you’ve got to get people to pay attention, Pamela Geller has brilliantly demonstrated how to do that. Let the respectable intellectuals make their carefully reasoned arguments in quarterly scholastic journals; by the time those journal articles make it to print, Geller will have published 300 posts urging people to take action and get involved.

When you’re in a fight, you need fighters, and in the fight over the Lower Manhattan Islamic Community Center You’re Not Allowed to Call a ‘Mosque,’ Pamela Geller has been worth more than any half-dozen think-tank policy experts.

And you know what else? Pamela Geller is No. 1 on Charles Johnson’s Hate List. She’s the itch he can’t stop scratching. That’s an award in its own right. Geller was named one of Jewish Week‘s “Seven Who Made a Difference in 2010.” By his vindictiveness against her, Charles Johnson has made himself so irrelevant the only place he’s likely to get recognition is on the side of a milk carton: Have You Seen This Blogger?

Go see: The Atlas Shrugs highlights of 2010.

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Comments

  • doh

    You did that just to tweak Johnson, didn’t you? :twisted:

  • Anonymous

    It looks like we’re slowly seeing the power of the fully operational blogosphere in action here.

    I mean, Pamela Geller’s level of fame, the election of a Republican in Massachusetts, it’s going to be quite interesting reading these things in the next few years.

  • Anonymous

    Just imagine the Scanners head-explosion scene when Geller gets CPAC Blogger of the Year. She’s up on the stage, in the spotlight, basking in applause, while he’s sitting there alone in his basement, frothing in impotent rage.

    Poetic justice is a beautiful thing.

  • Adobe_Walls

    For many of us TOM, Atlas Shrugs, The Reb, TCOTS and the larger outfits like Pajamas Media and so many like them is all the “Graduate School of Government” we’re going to get….. or need.

  • vermontaigne

    Amen to Pamela being blogger of the year. I’m trying to picture Stacy pulling a Kanye on her, but I figure any one of us would end up looking like Beetle Bailey after Sarge was done with him.

  • TR Sterling

    Nice post Stacy. I wait to see newly elected Allen West salute Pamela via the big screen at CPAC while Mark Levin calls in (like Rush did for Captain Ed last year).

  • ck

    Sooner or later we have to kill the muslims or become extinct. Those are the only options. I don’t like either choice at all but the first option beats the hell out of the second one.

  • Charles Johnson

    Pamela Geller haunts me. How dare she reject me. Me.

    I will never forget. Never forgive.

  • Anonymous

    Good writing, Stacy.

    I hope one day, you eventually get a CPAC award.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    As Sinatra might say, “She’s a helluva broad!”

  • Guest

    Pamela receiving CPAC’s Blogger of the Year is long overdue ( since 9/11/2001 she’s been out on the streets doing all the dirty work while the CPAC bigwigs have been safe, secure and comfy in their leather DC chairs-I know since I was with her down on the dirty streets)

    Problem is, when it comes to any discussion about the Islamic-Fascist War against the West CPAC’s bigwigs have over the last couple of years acted like Democrats by pretending the war is a ‘right-wing conspiracy theory’.

    Last year I had to send a bunch of money to help Pamela set up shop in an area where CPAC bigwigs had banished her and Spencer; The Birtcher’s shop received a closer place to CPAC’s main place than did Pamela’s shop.

    There is a reason why the West is losing terribly the Islamic-Fascist War and it is not just due to Democrat sabotage, many under that Big Tent called CPAC (does Gover Norquist come to mind) have been aiding Democrat sabotague.

    Going back to when Charles Johnson first assaulted Pamela with that bonus ‘neo-nazi’ crap; when that happened (2005-2006) there were quite a number of right-of-center- bloggers who sided with Johnson’s insanity.

    So yes Pamela’s CPAC Blogger of the Year recognition is years overdue particualarily since she survived so many assaults from those under CPAC’s Big Tent who are suppose to be allies in our defense of Freedom!

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