"From the media's perspective, the Ground Zero mosque was an historical phenomenon," she continued. "For the first time, a major news story became the most important national and international news story without the media. Think about that. The Ground Zero mosque was not shaped by the media, not covered by the media – not at first anyway. The media scrambled to cover the story. They had no narrative, at first. They would put me on and let me speak. Of course, they always had some Islamic supremacist liar on to destroy me, but they never could. And despite all the handicaps, I had the opportunity to present America with concretes on Islam."
Geller provides a laundry list of interviews she did with some of the biggest names in the news business, including "a nasty Bill O'Reilly" of Fox News "who had to have me on to refute a virtual fatwa, an incitement to violence that Nihad Awad of CAIR had issued on my head on his show the night before."
She says CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" show went so far as to do a whole segment accusing her of personally ginning up the Ground Zero mosque controversy, saying if it hadn't been for Geller, there would have been no issue.
"Talk about condescending to the American people," she writes.
"Each TV segment was like a short bout in the boxing ring. Every jab, every insult, every lie only strengthened my resolve. Every attack fine-tuned my argument. This is the approach you should adopt too. Never get discouraged. Take every experience, good, bad, or worse, and learn from it. It makes you stronger and smarter. Learn the enemy's strategy – beat him at his own nefarious game. It certainly toughened me up to the rough-and-tumble of this kind of fight. You have to get used to it and you have to expect it. It will sharpen your abilities and your defense of freedom. It is not to be feared, but sought."
Geller says in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, the news media didn't have their story straight, being collectively surprised and not ready for the act of war against America.
"But they dusted the human remains off their jackets and began to shape a suicide narrative. We have gone so far down the rabbit hole, 9/11 images are embargoed and not shown. They are dusted off but once a year and then secreted back into the vault of things the media won't talk about."
Geller says she became personally blacklisted from appearances on major networks.
"The dirty smear merchants over at Media [anti]Matters understood what was happening and issued a directive to the leftwing lemmings: 'do not have Geller on national television.' The very same day that Goebbels-inspired post ran, Chris Matthews canceled my TV appearance for that evening. And the media, both left and right, have generally followed suit. They will only have me on if they have no choice. If I make news vis-a-vis a lawsuit or rally or some other newsmaking event and they are forced to, they do so reluctantly. If they can get my lawyer instead, they will because they have become so fearful of the truth."
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