[ April 25, 2024 ]
In its typical elitist and out-of-touch bad-snark fashion, New York magazine reported on the Ground Zero mosque protest at the NYC Council hearings with contempt and with a little more of their inferior superiority.
Referring to the freedom lovers who showed up as 'Gellerites' demonstrates New York magazine's stiff-necked smarty-pants disconnect with the good and decent who passionately care about this painful and offensive insult at Ground Zero. This is a mass movement. These good working folks took their lunch hour to protest the hypocrisy of the altogether too powerful NYC Council. Banning smoking from parks. Banning stores from New York and from New Yorkers in need, while colluding to build a a giant stab in the eye at Ground Zero. These great Americans are fighting for individual rights; they are anything but group think. The statists and the collectivists on the other side (and in the media) are lemmings. Groupthink, group buzz words, group narrative. Think night of the living dead.
I'll never forget that when I was interviewed by Mark Jacobson of NY Magazine some months back, I said, I didn't expect much from NY magazine. I wasn't disappointed. Jacobson is your typical NY elitist. During our conversation, he lamented to me that he couldn't relate to America. That New York was really more like a "separate country." I, of course, disagreed, and said that I thought New York was very concentrated America, quintessentially so. He disagreed and said that he had nothing in common with "these huge people in their pick-up trucks." I said I loved them and that they were America. Certainly he wasn't.
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Of course, these same elites bash Wal-Mart as well, as if these limousine liberals would ever deign to shop there. Gross. The irony is that the "Gellerites" are independent thinking fighters for freedom who stand up for what they believe. It is the paid anti Wal-Mart morons who are the bots. The professional left pay these poor tools to protest the very thing that would make their lives better. The pro-freedom patriots come out to stand against tyranny and supremacsim.
The NYC Council should be disbanded — a referendum must be put on the ballot to remove the entire structure of quislings (with the exception Daniel Halloran, who should run for Mayor). These statist moochers and looters are sucking the blood out of every hardworking New Yorker.
New York Magazine fails to grasp the logic of why we would protest the mosque at the NYC Council hearing despite the fact that the hypocrisy is glaring. Gd Bless the American sheepdogs for braving the cold and fighting the great fight.
A Day of Wal-Mart Bashing, With a Side of Ground Zero Mosque Protests (Remember Those?) New York Magazine
New York’s City Council held a meeting on Thursday to determine how the construction of a Wal-Mart would affect the city. But first it had to revisit the last building that was supposedly going to disgrace the skyline: the ground zero mosque.
About fifteen minutes before the meeting was slated to begin, people started screaming at each other across Chambers Street. On one side, about 100 people were lined up to get in, most of them in opposition to Wal-Mart’s plan. On the other were a dozen people who were vocally opposing the Park51 Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan. Had they come to the wrong event? What the hell was going on?
As it turns out, the mosque protesters had come because Pam Geller told them to. Geller is the firebrand and figurehead who led protests against Park51 last year. On Thursday she asked all of her blog’s New York readers to join her at the City Council hearing.
A group of the Gellerites had assembled on the steps of Tweed Courthouse to discuss the unfairness of letting Muslims build a mosque but at the same time preventing capitalists from building a megastore. “Today, they are holding hearings to ban Wal-Mart, jobs, and the cheap prices from New Yorkers," Geller said. "But they are helping to erect a ground zero mosque.” As Tom Holloran, a 63-year-old who heeded Geller’s call, told Intel, “You want to ban an American store and yet you want to allow a mosque with people who killed 3,000 Americans to exist in the neighborhood?” Framed between two American flags, Geller’s people were carrying cardboard signs, one side reading “YES TO WALMART,” and the other “NO TO GROUND ZERO MOSQUE.”
Finally, the crowd on the other side of the street had somebody to scream at. “Wal-Mart’s racist and so are you!” “Mosque yes, Wal-Mart no!” “We shall overcome!” The mosque opponents responded with “Down with socialism! Down with unions!” and a stirring rendition of the national anthem. And so they went, back and forth, each side convinced that they were defending the civic fabric of New York.
But for Rose Durante, a 54-year-old from Boro Park, this wasn’t just about abstract principles — it was about keeping her job. Durante unpacks grocery trucks at the Pathmark in Boro Park and worried that if Wal-Mart comes to New York, her wages will take a hit, or, worse, Pathmark will lose business and she’ll get laid off. “People talk about the consumer and how it’s better for them. But they don’t talk about the worker,” she said.
When the hearing finally started and the crowd filed in, they learned what had been reported in the press ahead of time: Wal-Mart was a no-show. The retailer had long ago decided the City Council was a lost cause, in part because Council Speaker Christine Quinn is prone to saying things like, “To me, Wal-Mart is definitely not welcome in New York City; it is a union-busting, tax-evading, wage-correcting, job-destroying, civil-rights-abusing, food-stamps-denying multinational corporation that has no place in New York City.” It also realized that the City Council can’t actually stop Wal-Mart from moving in.
So instead of wasting time trying to win over the Council, Wal-Mart has decided to charm regular New Yorkers. It has launched a major PR campaign, including mailers, radio ads, and a social-networking strategy on Facebook and YouTube. For now, the campaign is a general one — Wal-Mart has not officially announced a proposed location (though the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York appears to be the most likely). Its purpose is to get New Yorkers used to the idea of a Wal-Mart, making the point that Target and Costco have moved in, and nobody seems to mind.
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Its first witness at the hearing was Professor David Merriman, a University of Illinois at Chicago professor who filed a report about the effect of the Chicago Wal-Mart. There is “no evidence of a stimulating effect on new businesses,” Merriman said.
But soon Council member Daniel Halloran was questioning Merriman’s research, poking holes in its methodology and the limits of its findings. Merriman was forced to conclude that his study contained no evidence of a net job loss in the Chicago neighborhood after Wal-Mart moved in, either.
Eventually, realizing nothing was going to be decided today and numbed by more than two hours of panels and questions, Daily Intel decided to leave the hearing. As we put on our coat and looked out the window, we saw the anti-mosque crew was still across the street. Representatives from Wal-Mart, the focus of the day's political theatrics, were still nowhere to be seen.
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16 Comments
13 years ago
“Its purpose is to get New Yorkers used to the idea of a Wal-Mart, making the point that Target and Costco have moved in, and nobody seems to mind”.
The reason “nobody seems to mind” stores like Target and Costco
is that they are unionized and Wal-Mart is not.
13 years ago
Gellerite and proud!!
13 years ago
I rather like Gellerite. Sounds like a rare gem.
13 years ago
Gellerite……..hmmm, I’m getting the bumper sticker.
13 years ago
What is the deal with Walmart, why is Walmart the devil? I really do not get it?( Gellerite is cool! bumper stickers would be real cool too!) But, we can build HATE America-KILL THE JEW Mosque’s? How PC is that? Maybe we should open a Muslem Wal-mart with a Mosque inside! Sorry, no bacon,pork or pigs feet! Then we will not have to hunt them down ,they will be all in the same place,great Idea!
13 years ago
Proud Gellerite checking in God bless. Pamala
13 years ago
“Gellerite”? OK works for me, as does Pamelarian. 🙂 Love ya, Pamela!
13 years ago
NY magazine? Gellerphobes.
13 years ago
PAM, have t-shirts printed so we can wear them at the next rally! “GELLERITES AGAINST SHARIA!” “GELLERITES SAY NO TO THE CALIPHATE!” “DON’T TRY TO SNEAK A MOSQUE INTO OUT NEIGHBORHOOD OR WE WILL GO ALL GELLERITE ON YO A##!”
TOM: Heeeeeeeeeh………. Actually a “phobia” is an irrational fear. I think Pam and Robert and the rest of us give those libtaridiots at NY Magazine very real reasons to Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid. I mean, what if their readers actually start visiting Atlas and learning the truth?
13 years ago
Oh honey, you have arrived!
13 years ago
New York Magazine assumes all anti-Walmart people were across the street with signs. Not true. Some were on line to go inside such as myself. And NY Mag. left out a chant where they called the pro-Walmart group “teabagging racists.” Apparently NY Mag. is ashamed to admit their supporters use this language. The stupidest line was the union type who yelled out that there were many on his side at the protest and few of the pro-Walmart people. Yeah. The pro-Walmart people had JOBS to go to on an early Thursday afternoon.
13 years ago
“As it turns out, the mosque protesters had come because Pam Geller told them to.”
That’s just fucking insulting.
13 years ago
In the Muslim Walmart, no pork. Nothing in womens wear that’s not hideous and made by Glad. No sporting goods marketed to girls and women. No toys that might influence the kids in an overly “western” way, like GI Joe, Barbie, or Lincoln Logs. No small appliances and kitchen doodads that make cooking and food prep easier (not because Sharia forbids them but because kitchen work is women’s work and no matter how hard you work the sub-human baby machines every day, they still don’t work enough to earn their keep). Pull out the pet supplies and fill those aisles with goat feed and sexy nighties for the men’s beauty pageant winning camels. Remove the sporting goods altogether…except for the hunting rifles and guns, of course.
13 years ago
You are a GENIUS! I want some Gellerite shirts, and some or my kids!
13 years ago
It is astonishing how much the “limousine liberals” share a view of America that is similar to Hitler’s view of America. Hitler thought Americans a “mongrel people” with no culture. Hitler thought Americans “trash.” He did not think America capable of being a world power in the long term.
Ernst Hanfstaengl (note link below), a close aide to Hitler, who had lived and traveled in America, said he was astonished at the elitist view that the Nazi leaders had re Americans. Frankly, Hitler’s view was very similar to the pick-up-truck-gun-rack-guys view most liberals today have of middle America.
(BTW-Hitler, who was aware about 25% of Americans are of German ancestry, thought Germans in America would join the Nazis in a war against America. Hitler asked Hanfstaengl his views on that possibility: Hanfstaengl told him that the Germans in America would fight Nazi Germany because “they are Americans.” Eisenhower and Fritz Niland (the movie Saving Private Ryan is based on the Niland Family) proved Hanfstaengl correct.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Hanfstaengl
Saving Private Ryan was based on Private Fritz Niland…
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080416223239AAIom3A
13 years ago
I think Mark Jacobsen has it right – New York City is an island unto itself. It’s people are brainwashed to only see one way – the liberal, socialist, dependent, money-grabbing way. He can’t possibly see the rest of the USA as anything remotely like him. He is as you say an elitist who believes he and the New York elite are better and more intelligent than the rest of the country. That is why New York state is in such financial trouble. Most NYC people could care less about anything outside their tiny universe. I wish they’d separate NYC from New York and float it about 50 miles offshore. Then maybe the rest of us New Yorkers could finally fix the catastrophe they’ve made of this beautiful state.
