Thursday, March 15, 2012

Fox News refuses to show NY Times anti-Catholic ad or a rejected rebuttal of it fearing either or both 'offensive'-Atlas Shrugs

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Fox News self-censors out of fear of sharia or perhaps just the NY Times.

3/15/12, "VIDEO: Pamela Geller on FOX News Discussing NY TImes Hypocrisy," Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller

"The media has been all over the story of the NY Times hypocrisy in favoring Islam while criticizing Catholicism. Mark Steyn at NRO here, Daily Caller here, The Blaze here, Volokh here, Business Insider here, Human Events here, Catholic Online here, RWN here, Mediaite here, and the uber-left, Soros-funded Think Progress is in a tizzy. You will notice that in the Think Progress piece they never mention the anti-Catholic ad or Times inconsistency. But they could not have missed them, as those are the central aspects of the story. So they know. This proves that Think Progess intentionally misleads its readership. The New York Times Rejects Anti-Muslim Advertisement makes it sound as if Geller just wanted to run an anti-Islam ad out of racistislamophbicantimuslimbigotry.

I have been inundated with interviews all morning on shows all over the country and a few from Europe. And so when FOX news called, I was unable to make it to the studio, but I was able to fit in the phone interview in this video. Note FOX's take on the story. They call me an anti-Islam activist. I am a counter-jihadist. Why doesn't the media distinguish between the two? Their lack of distinction implies the two are interchangeable. How islamophobic! FOX refused to run a graphic of either ad, as "both were offensive." More abridgement of free speech in adherence to the sharia. They do not address the motive, the fear, the sharia behind the New York Times' craven hypocrisy. Instead, they focused on the inconsistency of the Times accepting one ad and rejecting another, without clearly explaining why or giving the reasons for the inconsistency, which accords with FOX's increasing tendency not to address this subject matter at all.

Megyn Kelly refers to our ad as an anti-Islam ad. It is not. It is a rebuttal ad. Also, it bears noting that Trace Gallagher ran the Times' pathetic excuse unchallenged. In my interview with Fox, which they severely edited, I questioned the dishonesty of the Times' position, when they have done more to jeopardize the safety of our troops than any mainstream media outlet, with the possible exception of Newsweek. How many front page stories ran on Abu Ghraib? Who leaked the NSA wiretaps under FISA, jeopardizing not just troops but American citizens, or the highly classified Pentagon order authorizing special ops to hunt for al-Qaeda in the mountains of Pakistan? Why didn't Fox mention any of that? Why did Fox give the New York Times a free pass, while jumping to repeat the Islamic supremacists' "anti-Islam" label of me?

New York Times accused of Catholic bashing, double standard on religion

FOX News, Published March 15, 2012

"The New York Times is being accused of having a double standard when it comes to questioning religion, after it ran an ad calling on Catholics to leave their church, but nixed a nearly identical ad aimed at Muslims.""...

(video at link) Following images from Atlas Shrugs showing the NY Times anti-Catholic ad followed by the rebuttal anti-Islam ad the NY Times refused to run.

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