Another CPAC “separated at birth” discovery

Yesterday Ann Coulter and ET. Now Pam “Atlas Shrugs” Geller and Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famer Alice Cooper:

Geller’s mascara was in disarray because she and her fellow conference-goers had just screened a 9/11 propaganda film trailer.

Here’s a description of the proceedings:

Geller’s event was held to screen a preview of the film “The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of The 9/11 Attacks.” She warned the audience about disturbing images in the film, which was previewed before a nearly full overflow room to a crowd snacking on soft pretzels and tortilla chips on Friday. The full film was shown at another unofficial CPAC event on Saturday.

“It’s very graphic,” Geller said before screening 10 minutes of the movie, which opens with footage of bodies falling from the World Trade Center. “I told the 9/11 family members, I suggested they leave. And I wasn’t doing it to be provocative, it was a very difficult film to make, it’s a difficult film to watch. But these are images you haven’t seen, 9/11 has been white washed.”

[snip]

The lights went down and the film began. “That was the sound of someone falling. Someone dying. It was raining bodies,” a narrator says.

How nice that they had soft pretzels and tortilla chips to graze upon as they wanked off to national disaster porn. Because make no mistake about it: That’s what they were doing.

They’ve been doing it for nearly 10 years now—humping away at 9/11 like horny little Chihuahuas on some unfortunate person’s ankle. It’s disgusting. It’s disrespectful.

And people continue to die, not just on patriot-themed snuff films for the viewing pleasure of pretzel-munching wingnuts—people continue to die today in the wars started and supported by these 9/11-humpers, who have achieved a body count that far surpasses al Qaeda’s wildest dreams, in part so Geller and her ilk can live out the Randian fantasy quoted at Geller’s site:

Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window - no, I don’t feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.

Only, Geller asks other people’s children to travel thousands of miles away to die for a lie. And if the American blood spilled in the process comes from a soldier who happened to be Muslim, Geller has no compunction about slagging the resulting Gold Star mom. 

God, what a despicable creature.

Posted by Betty Cracker on 02/15/11 at 02:53 PM • Permalink

And if you’re nominated for a Moore Award for this, I think you should campaign for it, just like TBogg.  I’ll help.

Never mind that it is irrelevant, I predict that Geller and her ilk will make much of the following:

On Friday February 11, the day Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a 60 MINUTES story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy.

In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently in the hospital recovering.

Yep, our Islamophobic loons and propagandists will have lots of fun with this one

A couple evenings ago, I listened to a BBC World report that ending with the correspondent and her driver beating a hasty retreat from some rural Egyptian venue, after the locals started beating on the car. Outside of the well educated middle and upper classes - the majority of Egyptians on Twitter, Facebook, and the like - sizable portions of the impoverished Egyptian populace have bought into media charges that the revolution was instigated by foreigners (including foreign reporters).

There’s gonna be some bad with the good during this post-Mubarak era.

Aaaand, I wonder if otherwise tough & clear-eyed journalist Nir Rosen will lose his association with NYU over this tweet.  Even his closest allies are hammering him (and deservedly so, IMHO).

Major Afgan commenter Joshua Foust (locked Twitter account; blog site) recommended everyone unfollow him.

The only good point Rosen has made so far - assuming it is true - is that there was a lot of violence and sexual assault in the crowd at Tahrir Square.  In which case, that should have been reported along with the accounts of euphoric celebration.*

*...It looks like Rosen is deleting tweets; I just went back to check my facts on that last paragraph, and can’t find the relevant tweet, or the original nasty one that started it all.

My two cents on l’affaires Rosen et Jay Newton Small (TIME blogger who mocked Anderson Cooper for getting roughed up):

@jnsmall & @nirrosen launch new video game Grand Theft: Common Decency. Points scored by beating/raping journalists from comfort of home.

Well, Geller will probably make something of the Lara Logan assault, but the generally despicable Debbie Schlussel may have beat her to the punch (I can’t be bothered to verify by checking time lines and whatnot).

BTW, some Egyptians are responding to the story, quite properly noting that it was Egyptian women and soldiers - most likely themselves “Muslim savages” - who pulled Logan away from the mob of assholes who were assaulting her. Egyptian expat and current U.S. resident Mona Eltahawy has been particularly vigorous in this discussion.

Also too, in the Salon post linked above, there is mention of another presumably respected journalist who - to my mind at least - comes off worse than Nir Rosen.  She’s a she, to boot. I don’t know what kind of dynamic is going on there.

Best wishes to Lara Logan in making a full recovery in body, mind, and spirit. She no more “deserved” this than any one else does - EVER - despite her past sins against honorable journalism, a sin correctly noted by Rosen long, long before he proceeded to go full asshole today. [FWIW, even a shill for the Empire might still be able to come out with a good story, every now-and-again.]

Better yet, he resigned.

And here’s a post-self-destruction interview.

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