Rebuttal to Great Neck Record

April 28th protest at Great Neck Record: Many demonstrators expressed their displeasure with the skewed and
 blatantly false reporting of the Great Neck Record of the Anton
Community Newspapers, edited by Wendy Karpel Kretzman.

Protest signs: Close up of false captions depicting Pamela Geller speech, by photo and
caption at right used as lead photo of Great Neck Record; 2 photos at
left depict true attendance photos published by many other papers (Photo courtsey Paul Brody)

I responded to an unsigned editorial over at The Great Neck News entitled, "We Beg to Differ." The unsigned editorial stood by their calling me a bigot and went on to say, "We stand by our editorial and our belief that speakers who are
divisive and hateful, even if they are 'soft-spoken,' and 'humorous,'
should not be honored guests at religious or political events."

Here is my response, which they published today:

Newspaper distorts me, my supporter

“We don’t often reply to letters from readers in this
space,” says The Island Now in an unsigned editorial. But when it came
to smearing me, they just couldn’t help themselves.

The editorial is a tissue of falsehood and half-truths.
“Geller,” it tells us, “once posted a drawing on her blog of Muhammad
with the head of pig superimposed over his own.”

The Muhammad pig cartoon the editors are
referring to is one that an Danish imam added to the infamous Muhammad
cartoons printed by the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten, in an attempt
to gin up anger among Muslims against the Danes. The imam presented the
Muhammad-as-pig cartoon as if it were one of the original Danish
cartoons, which it wasn’t, and now The Island Now is presenting it as
something I created, which isn’t true, either. 

The original post at my website AtlasShrugs.com
is here. The caption on the Muhammad-as-pig photo is: “Supposed to be
Muhammad as half pig, but actually an altered photograph of a guy at a
French pig-squealing contest.” So they take a photo that I showed was
clearly marked as not Muhammad at all, and present it as if I were
depicting Muhammad as a pig.

The editorial goes on: “She also said that
Muslims have sex with goats.” I have never actually said that at all,
and the editors compound this smear by then quoting me as saying, “I
don’t know where it is in America that you can’t make jokes or make
fun,” which I said in response to something entirely different. This is
dishonest, gutter journalism at its very best.

And there is plenty more of it. “On her
blog, Atlas Shrugs, she posted a mock photograph of Supreme Court
Justice Elena Kagan in a Nazi uniform and a doctored photograph showing
President Obama urinating on an American flag and said the president had
been involved as a youth with a ‘crack whore.’”

The Kagan image was a single satirical
photoshop, posted after it was revealed that Kagan had cited in her
thesis a German Marxist who became a Nazi when Hitler took power. And in
the post about Obama and the “crack whore” I was making a point about
journalistic bias, noting that liberal journalists do not hunt down
unsubstantiated rumors about liberal candidates such as Obama with
anything approaching the zeal they bring to investigations of rumors
about conservatives. 

That bias is obviously present among the editors of The Island Now.

Later on, The Island Now complains that
Joan Swirsky, whose letter defending me they are “rebutting,” “calls us
‘leftists’ and compares us to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. We’re proud to
be in the company of that great American hero. She claims that FDR,
[sic] ‘abandoned the Jews to Hitler’s annihilation.’” To this, the
editors respond triumphantly that “she is as ignorant of history as she
is about the free press. In a review of the book, ‘Roosevelt &
Hitler: Prelude to War,’ Robert Clive, writes that  the author of this
book ‘seeks to set the record straight by detailing how FDR worked
relentlessly to involve the U.S. in a war against Hitler that the
American people as a whole had no genuine interest in.’”

It is well known that Roosevelt worked hard
to get us into World War II. That is not at issue. Joan Swirsky was
talking about saving Jews. It is also a matter of record that FDR
rejected proposals to bomb Auschwitz and to take numerous other measures
that would have saved untold numbers of Jews from Nazi murderers. 

That they don’t know this is just one
indication of how they play fast and loose with the facts. And what’s
even worse is that as unfair and uninterested in the truth as they are,
they aren’t even close to being the worst of today’s leftist
“journalists.”

Pamela Geller 

President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative

The Truth Must be Told

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Michael Harris

10 years ago

Pamela, Tell the passengers on the St. Louis how hard FDR worked.

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Jack Kemp

10 years ago

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The editorial goes on: “She also said that Muslims have sex with goats.” I have never actually said that at all…
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Pamela, you’ve made me dig up a memory from the 1980s Saturday Night Live. There the comedy team of (Al) Franken and Davis did a version of an Iranian Karnak the Magnificent shtick that Johnny Carson used to do with Ed McMahon. In the SNL segment, Davis asked Franken (playing Karnak) for the question which had the answer (Iranian government minister) “Ghotbzadeh.” The future senator replied on national tv that the question was “What do Iranians do for sex if their wives won’t give them sex at night.” In other words, Ghotbzadeh = goats by day. I might be off by a small word or two, but I’ve recalled the line almost exactly as it was said.
So if you can dig up the video of this from NBC, will the Great Neck Record condemn Democrat Sen. Al Franken for insulting Muslims?

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Mac-101

10 years ago

I bet some Apache pilots have some video supporting the great Islamic saying ” Women are for procreation, boys are for pleasure and GOATS are for ecstasy”. LOL!
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\Look up Ayatollah Khomeini’s “Little Green Book”. One section states that “If you have cardinal relations with your Camel, goat or donkey, you can not eat it or sell it to your village. You may sell it to the next village”. Ya can’t make this stuff up. LOL!

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Mac-101

10 years ago

Thanks for remindin me of the St Louis. From period pieces unfortunately a large reason for the anti-Semitism was the lingerin fear of the Trotskyites. It’s amasin one of the biggest haters of Real Jews was Leon Trotsky. How many was he responsible for killin in Russia. Close to a Million?

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