The left wouldn't have liked her much. Homeschooled her kids, was arrested for it.
Fast forward to today, there are places in the world she'd be jailed and even killed for riding in a car with a man, not her husband. Race not a consideration.
Posted on 05/10/2015 5:31:31 AM PDT by SJackson
Pam GellerI was surprised and pleased, upon scouring the Internet, to find that Pamela Geller, the anti-Islam activist, is a looker. I would have supposed, listening to the many male commenters who have been denouncing her, that she must be partly bald, with most of her remaining hair sprouting from her nose and chin, and with the most repulsive, irregular facial features. But no, she really is attractive, and I say this objectively. My appraisal has nothing to do with the fact that I am considerably older than she is, and am finding it tougher to get dates. And yet hearken to what people, even some on Fox News, are saying about her.
Geraldo Rivera: “She most reminds me of the Aryan Nation, KKK, racists….I feel like taking a shower.”
And high time, Geraldo.
Bill O’Reilly: “It’s always cause and effect. This is what happens when you light the fuse; you get violence.”
Donald Trump: “Nobody would fight harder for free speech than me but why taunt, over and over again…?”
The Donald gave voice, almost word for word, to the rallying cry of many of Ms. Geller’s critics, which begins “I believe in freedom of speech, but…” Most of the people who say this are liberals, but obviously not all.
In case you haven’t been following the Geller brouhaha, it began on Sunday, May 3, when two Islamic radicals attempted to raid a conclave she had organized in Garland, Texas. Outraged by the precepts of Sharia Law that conflict with American values, and dismayed by those Americans who seem inclined to knuckle under to the radicals, so as not to offend them and make them dislike us even more, she defiantly held an art contest in which she invited participants to draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Drawing images of Muhammad, cartoons or otherwise, is one of the big No-nos in the Muslim world. Ask Charlie Hebdo.
The two miscreants, armed with high-powered firearms, who attempted to crash the art contest and murder the participants, fortunately were shot and killed by a policeman before they could carry out their mission.
Because Pam Geller is not, despite her agreeable visage, the right kind of American heroine, she became fair game for the media. We were treated to many variations on the theme “She asked for it,” which as Sean Hannity points out is usually reserved for rape victims wearing revealing garments. As one TV personality fatuously observed: “It there hadn’t been a cartoon contest, those gunmen wouldn’t have gone to Garland.”
So let’s finally just chuck the First Amendment. Too dangerous.
All this craven, gutless, sniveling blame-mongering summoned up for me a recollection of an experience I had nearly fifty years ago, during my days as a journalist. I was in Columbus, Georgia, home to the Royal Crown Cola Co., researching an article about the principal soft-drink producers. I went from office to office, interviewing some of the top executives of the company.
As you may recall, Georgia a half-century ago was not exactly a bastion of civil rights. Although it was off the point, I got to chatting at lunch with one executive about the civil-rights movement, which was dominating the public debate of the day.
He was a well-spoken, buttoned-down type, by no means a Georgia redneck. But he was not a civil-rights enthusiast either. The conversation turned to Viola Liuzzo, a white civil-rights activist from Michigan, who had been murdered in Alabama by the Klan the year before while riding in her car with a young black man. The black man shared her fate.
The executive said he deplored those murders as much as the next man, but that “she should have realized that riding in a car with a black man in that part of America could have deadly consequences.”
If the pious, pompous fools who are denouncing Pam Geller these days could have sat in on that conversation with the Royal Crown executive, they would have howled bloody murder. “How could anyone be so insensitive?” I hear them cry. “Who has the effrontery to say that Viola Liuzzo, by exercising her freedom of expression, and her right to travel freely throughout the United States, had it coming?”
Rivera, O’Reilly, Trump – and the rest of you – it is time for a refresher course in civics.
The left wouldn't have liked her much. Homeschooled her kids, was arrested for it.
Fast forward to today, there are places in the world she'd be jailed and even killed for riding in a car with a man, not her husband. Race not a consideration.
Pam’s a fox
Did anyone ever bother to look into what it was that infuriated southerners so much about black men putting the moves on white women?
Here's a hint. Someon once said to me, "to a black man, a white woman is a trophy" -- a prize in a pissing contest that exists in the minds of men who have big chips on their shoulders; men who are obsessed with proving their existence...."matters".
So you mean, their manner inspired jealousy?
Well they ought to have added an eleventh!
I think the poster is saying that it’s completely understandable for a man to kill a woman of his tribe, if he’s worried that a man of a rival tribe will have sex with her.
How perfectly Islamic ...
Nope.
Save your allowance and buy an original thought.
Many agree in principle with what Pam Geller is doing, and in their hearts, they know she is doing the right thing.
There is always this “but...” phrase included over and over by the more timid.
“...but why taunt, over and over again...”
“But this &!+c# is CRAZY!”
“...but she WANTS the Israelis to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities!”
And on and on it goes. For years there were those who tried to wake the world up to the Nationalist Socialist threat growing in Germany, or the International Socialist threat spreading from the Soviet Union, but would people listen? NOOOOOO, or at least not until it was much too late to turn things back without a huge expenditure of time, treasure and lives of millions.
Can you explain, in another way, the point you intended to make?
“I believe in freedom of speech, but…” //
but I’m scared and let’s not rock the boat. Let’s pick on the Christians and Mormons.
Besides, putting a gay Jesus or sex toys on a company’s hacked website because they responded to a hypothetical situation, “a pizza themed gay marriage” is no biggie.
O'Reilly's mixed metaphor notwithstanding, I'm impressed (and more than a little surprised) that Goldberg didn't spare his fellow talking head his wrath.
I just realized Bernard Goldberg didn't write this article. One of his contributors did.
Still. It's surprising he let it be posted.
Hopefully he'll allow it to stay on his website.
You are the first to stop contributing an actual argument in favor of your position and resort to name-calling or ridicule, so by the rules of the internet YOU LOSE the argument
Tax-chick got to you, didn’t she?
Bump & bookmark
Maybe it’s early in the day in this poster’s time zone.
Pol Pot was wrong to slaughter 2 million innocent Cambodians, BUT...
Goldberg absolutely nails it. Frankly, citizens don’t need the First Amendment if they are to live their lives cowering in silence, and hiding from violent bullies.
It is ridiculous to watch these liberals say that “she was asking for it.” Another blatant, gaudy, hideous example of left wing hypocrisy. They were drawing cartoons - and liberals say that is now forbidden depending on the subject matter? Meanwhile these liberals were all for US taxpayer money to go to Andres Serrano, - so why wasn’t the Piss Christ a hate crime? Because Christians wouldn’t kill Serrano? Violence rules the day? Even in a nation of laws like America? We are descending into a horrible world if that is the case, a nasty brutish short-lived world. If it is our present situation in America that we live in fear for what we might say because someone will do us violence means that they have diminished our nation, and are on the road to destroying it.
Geller also alerted the world to two ISIS Manchurian Candidates hiding in America ready to commit mayhem at the drop of a falafel. Are we to believe they would have done nothing for the remainder of their lives but sit quietly in their basement apartments and re-read the Koran. That is naive! Geller did the nation a service because she alerted us to fanatical murderers in our midst. (Sort of like the police sending free baseball tickets to fugitives who show up to get arrested.)
ISIS Is Not Islam So Get Over It
I am not for mocking people’s religions, but they keep telling me that ISIS is not Islam, and these were ISIS killers so ipso facto Geller was not mocking Islam. The good news is moderate Muslims did not show up to kill the cartoonists but the bad news is that the moderates are attacking Pam Geller instead of the horrible murderous disease within their own body.
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