If you happened to read the Sunday New York Times last weekend, you might have seen Anne Barnard and Alan Feuer's profile of Pamela Geller, the extreme rightwing blogger who's arguably done more than anyone else to incite fear and hatred over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque". (It was hard to miss, since it was accompanied by a photo spread showing Geller with various rightwing pundits and politicians, on Fox News, and posing in her bikini.)
One thing you'll discover in the article is that Pamela Geller got her start on the internet by commenting at my site, Little Green Footballs. She posted more than 6,000 comments at LGF in our earlier days, when our comment moderation policy was much more laissez faire than it is now.
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