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In college she was known as 'the Eva Braun of Oberlin.' Today, she’s the right's biggest bomb-thrower—and queen of the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list. Lloyd Grove feels Malkin’s pain.
The last thing you’d expect Michelle Malkin to be is charming, funny, or vulnerable.
As an agent provocateur of the hard right—blogger, newspaper columnist, Fox News contributor and, for the past six weeks, queen of the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list—she can project a certain grim, off-putting intensity. In recent appearances on The View and the Today show to hype her latest anti-liberal screed—Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies—she was, by turns, shrill and smug, occasionally disciplining an unruly interrogator with a schoolmarmish “Read the book!” And unlike Ann Coulter, whose more outrageous remarks are usually mitigated by a sly grin, nobody ever wonders if Michelle Malkin is for real.
She is, unmistakably, dead serious.
The recipient of occasional death threats, Malkin has twice felt the need to move her family to undisclosed locations. “I limit the amount of traveling and speaking that I do, but you just never know,” she says.
So who is this softspoken, self-deprecating woman talking to me on the phone?
“I’m a human being,” Malkin says from her home in tranquil Colorado Springs (tranquil, except for the shrieking of Air Force jets—“the sound of freedom,” Malkin says), far, far away from the media-political complex. “I mean, every once in a while it might get under my skin. But I can't stop ad hominem attacks against me.”
I’ve just asked if it ever bothers her that so many people dislike her—even worse, despise her. She did, after all, once write a book defending the World War II internment camps for Japanese-Americans, and calling for racial profiling of Arabs in the war on terror.
The recipient of occasional death threats, she has twice felt the need to move her family to undisclosed locations—and in recent years decamped from suburban Washington to the flyover wilds of Colorado. When she goes on book tour or lectures on college campuses, she is accompanied by a private security guard. “I limit the amount of traveling and speaking that I do, but you just never know,” she says.
The 38-year-old Malkin recounts how, a few years back, someone photo-shopped her head onto a sexy body in a string bikini and posted it on the Web site Wonkette, which presented the snapshot as genuine and captioned it: “Malkin doing the Girls Gone Wild semi-boob flash.” Here was evidence of rank hypocrisy on the same day Malkin had published a column lamenting the abundance of “skanks” and the dearth of “wholesome” role-models for young girls.
“It was ridiculous,” says Malkin, a mother of two. “I’m open with my kids about my job and what I do. They’ve seen the photo-shop of me in the bikini. I told them: ‘This is what I’d look like if I didn’t have stretch marks.’ ”
Malkin is pretty and dark-skinned, a first-generation American whose parents left the Philippines in 1970—in search of economic opportunity, not political freedom, she says—and settled in southern New Jersey. Young Michelle Maglalang absorbed the conservative social values of her striving, Ronald Reagan-admiring parents—her mother a schoolteacher, her father a physician—and received a Catholic education while diligently studying to be a concert pianist.
Alas, when she arrived at Oberlin College—a music- and arts-oriented campus in Ohio—she quickly learned she wasn’t talented enough at the piano keyboard; at the computer keyboard, though, it was a whole different story. Writing for an alternative publication edited by a fellow student, husband-to-be Jesse Malkin, she discovered a virtuosic capacity for riling people up. Her essay attacking affirmative action set the campus in an uproar. Outraged undergraduates took stacks of the magazine and tossed them in the trash. Her detractors called her “the Eva Braun of Oberlin.” Having tasted first blood, Michelle couldn’t get enough: She had found her vocation: Conservative Controversialist.
But unlike like her blond, blue-eyed sisters in right-wing punditry—Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Monica Crowley et al—Malkin has been forced to grapple personally with the issue of race. “I mean, look at me,” she once told a college audience. “I’ve been called a Jap, Chink, Gook, Dog-eater.” One day in kindergarten, she came home sobbing after being the target of racial insults from other children. “My mom wiped my tears...and told me everyone has prejudice,” she recounted. “I am eternally grateful for this [lesson].”
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texgent
What a piece of bunk. I've tried to listen to her and have read her former columns in the Post, but find she is full of nothing but hate and bullsh*t.
yms-PA
She is fabulous, just fabulous and I hope she continues to be successful!
Pupster
Don't worry: with zombies like you around with no ability for cognitive thinking, she'll always have dum-dums willing to buy her "books".
BrokenArrow
NYTimes Bestseller?? Don't you know it's just BULK SALES financed from the right wing. How about a little factual verification. These high sales are not from individual buyers.....can you say, BOGUS? I knew that you could.
donquijoterocket
Alright another contributor to the wingnut welfare system.Just click on clownhall.com for a free offer of Ms. Maglalang's books which they've bought in bulk and can offer as premiums like banks used to offer toasters to owners of new accounts and the anchor baby's sale figures climb or stabilize.Unfortunately her formula seems to be the same as mAnn Coulters and most of the rest of the wingnut welfare writers guild- take any old wingnut blathering point, extend them to their most outrageous logical point, dress them up in semi-new language maybe with a Frank Luntz derived metaphor or two and pimp them to the wingnut welfare circuit and voila instant NYT bestseller and all the old liberal-bias infractions of the gray lady are forgotten.
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n--Y--almchrl1cooleddy
She's nothing more than an insecure self-hating product of hard-working immigrants who decided she wanted to become "white" and reject her ethnic heritage. As a Filipino-American, I can attest that her vile hatred is an anomaly in the good nature and easy and caring manners of most Filipinos. What a hypocrite to label liberals as racist when she herself denies her own ethnicity. And what utter shame and embarrassment her immigrant parents must feel for the monster she has turned out to be.
UponFurtherReview
BrokenArrow wrote:
NYTimes Bestseller?? Don't you know it's just BULK SALES financed from the right wing. How about a little factual verification. These high sales are not from individual buyers.....can you say, BOGUS? I knew that you could.
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*** Gosh, BrokenArrow, if it's so easy to create a best-seller from bulk sales as you claim (without any verification, of course) ... then how come liberal authors don't pull the same "easy" trick and send their books to the top of The New York Times best-seller list, too?
Are they just not as smart as conservative authors ... are you the only one who's figured out the conservatives' diabolical scheme ... or what?
Or perhaps the inconvenient truth (gasp!) is that as with talk radio, not as many people are as interested in hearing what they have to say.
MaliciousDisorder
If you'd take your head out of your a_ _ you might learn something from her.
Pupster
Learn what? Self-hate projected onto others?
Embers
What's to learn? She's a hypocrite who has no sympathy for other people.
This article says she's vulnerable. That's funny, considering that Malkin is so unsympathetic and downright scornful of anyone else who is vulnerable.
jbo206
Two things I have learned from MM. The un-employed are lazy and should just get jobs (from one of her meet the press appearances) and that dunkin donuts supports terrorism because they allowed Rachel Ray to wear a "terrorist" scarf (a style I see people wearing everyday. who new there were so many terrorist barristas. let's bomb starbucks). Should I stick around for more of her wise thoughts? Nope.
The thing about conservative columnists is that they don't have to be particularly talented to be successful, just shrill and in attack mode all the time (Carrie Prejean will become a columnist soon I'm sure).
Conservatives are huge supporters of capitalism, yet allow the lowest common denominator to thrive and wonder why people outside of their bubble get turned off.
GreybirdK
That it's possible for someone with many advantages and a good brain to still be a hate-mongering lying bigot? She's either insane or seriously evil. I'm glad she is happily married or I would have to worry about her hooking up with Glenn Beck and producing the anti-Christ.
ittybittykitty
She's living the American dream. Making lots of money, doesn't matter how. Unscrupulous.
BullMoose
What? A re-write of "The Poor Little Rich Girl"?
donquijoterocket
It's fortunate for her-due to her sensitivity- and unfortunate for his family due to the fact that he's recently passed, but if my father a WWII veteran of the Pacifc campaign and most particularly the Macarthur's promise part but he'd have referred to her with the same word McCain used to identify natives of that general part of the world.
ukeman
Well like MalDis condones, that Obama and his secret police, Acorn, are going to round up all non-koolaid drinking whites; women, children, and grannies too, and do what Hitler couldn't; STEAL your country!
That's right; I heard it at a tea party.
Obama is MORE DANGEROUS than Hitler!
He's destroying us from the inside!
Yeah!
These folks need to be rounded up and put on meds.
Malkin comes from a vicious line of thinking; and thanks to our gov't run red states, gets a lot of support. Not only gov't run, but racist bigots who wouldn't give her the time of day, as a "minority" without her vicious rhetoric.
roger37
Ah-h-h, yes Michelle Malkin. The great looks of a Bratz Doll, but the soul of Chucky.
Ritarita
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Here's
Your blue ribbon
Roger.
This is my favorite comment
On all these pages.
Chucky indeed.
UponFurtherReview
I love it! Lefties, who pretend to be tolerant and compassionate, are once again demonstrating that they have no tolerance for anyone or anything that doesn't march in lockstep with their worldview.
Really, if you took out all the posts containing the usual boring schoolyard name-calling -- "liar," "hater," "hypocrite," "racist," etc. -- the number of comments would probably shrink by two-thirds.
You can always tell you've won the argument when your opponent stops attacking your arguments and starts attacking you personally.
Obviously, Malkin has been right all along on many points, including her criticism of ACORN. Even the IRS, the Census Bureau and Democratic Congressmen have finally figured that out.
almoore
Some people would rather smell their own crap than to hear from someone who is in denial as stated above. Maybe you are the one who needs to wake up.
reardongalt
We lover her.
newswoman
Ms. Malkin is so pretty and so viscious. Why she would want to live in fear is beyond me. She doesn't need to be SO conservative that she has nothing good to say about anyone on the left. She is so rigid she is not believable, just mean.
Warehouseone
That's what I'm thinking. Its really hard to believe anyone's arguments when they NEVER concede anything. When they believe they are ALWAYS right.
biglover
Pretty. Those big buck teeth are bigger than a beaver's teeth
reardongalt
" Its really hard to believe anyone's arguments when they NEVER concede anything. When they believe they are ALWAYS right." warehouseone
But if she's always right, why would she concede anything. Facts are stubborn things. Michelle Malkin deals in facts not emotions.
JohnnyA
A) She is full of hate and lies.
B) People think that is just fab.
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n--Y--almchrl1sophia5
Wow, over 230 comments in one day. The reaction to Malkin is quite polarizing.
As a person of color Malkin must frustrate the hell out of the far left.
It sort of disarms the far left kooks from using
one of their favorite ploys . . . their race baiting card.
misha1000
"As a person of color Malkin must frustrate the hell out of the far left."
Oh, no. My wife is from China, and she thinks Malkin is nuts. And I'm Russian-Jewish, like her husband. What does she have to be so angry about? When my wife is not around, I hear McCain descriptions of her nationality from her crowd.
She was raised Catholic. She should learn about the Catholic peace movement. I went to a Jesuit college, and admire the Berigan Brothers.
jsdc007
Perhaps, you should ask what other persons of color think of her? How about we start with Asian Americans nearly 2/3 of whom voted for the Obama ticket in 2008, with that percentage being even higher among the most educated and affluent Asian American ethnic groups (Indians and Japanese Americans, the latter of whom have both education and income levels that far outstrip whites). Filipino Americans since the 1990s have also become far more liberal with about 58% having voted for the Obama ticket. Incidentally, these numbers are even higher for Asian American women, and even higher for those Asian Ameican women with college degrees. Its virtually impossible that Asian Americans would find Malkin anything other than a repugnant bigot, not because she spouts views that may be deemed as "anti asian-American," (whatever that means) but because they fly in the face of empirical evidence. What many Asian-Americans find really annoying about her is that she also uses her race and gender as punctuation for these views (e.g., "see, I'm an Asian-American woman and I believe that racial profiling and gender discrimination is okay!!"). Maybe white males of the wingnut persuasion fall for that garbage, but few people outside that demographic buy MM's psychotic trash.
mathomas
Right wingers have this incredibly stupid tendency to define the effectiveness of their "leaders" by how angry they make liberals. So the more hateful their spokespersons are, the more controversy they generate and the more airtime they get on Fox News and talk radio, which leads more thinking people to call them out for being moronic -- a cycle which has become an end in and of itself for the right wing. Elevating someone's status because they aggravate your opponents is an irrational, reactionary and ultimately immature way to carry on a political dialogue. But that's what the modern Republican party is all about now: manufacturing and disseminating lies to get people so riled up that discussions cannot focus on real issues.
almoore
I agree to an extent. Why put your young children through having to relocate just because you thrive on the publicity. First things first the safety of your family. So what she's been called naughty names who hasn't based on their cultures. Don't get scared now and run. She made her bed now she needs to lay in it. If she's afraid for her family that she needs to constantly move then cut the bull crap and find another career. Nothing is worth the life of your family. You can't replace them a career you can.
Smittynamvet
Jealous, huh?!
texgent
It is strange that there are no postings for this piece. Why would that be? Are they all that negative?
ThinkAgain
Makes you wonder who's making that book a bestseller doesn't it? Can't just be what you all refer to as the "tiny shrinking irrelevant republicans".
KateTheGreat
I know many Liberals and Moderates who read books by Conservative authors...just because you don't agree with someone doesn't mean you don't ever want to see where they're coming from...or, it's like a trainwreck and is fodder for oodles of "see how crazy they are" talks around the bar-table.
cbeenthere
Books purchased in bulk as give aways and sold at big discounts, at let's say, a venue such as the recent Values Meeting etc. provide, can up the number of sales rather easily. Capitalism at its' best.
CitizenBloggerX
Typical winger mindset !! Uh TA let me let you in on a little secret, This garbage malkin puts out make the best seller lst before even one individual buys a book , Rightwing thinktanks, and PACs buy up this toilet fodder in bulk to hand out to their minions who pay to hear hate over loud speakers as part of their gift package, In actuallity very few of these books are sold over the counter, But hey their little sales diversion worked on you, That alone speaks volumes .
elle2u
For those of you who think the book sales are 'fixed'....Come ON! That is bull.
Go ahead and come up with an explanation of how Fox and conservative talk radio get the highest ratings? I guess that is 'fixed' too.
You are sore LOSERS.... in every aspect.
tonyjenson
If you go to Conservative websites like Townhall.com, you will see they give away books by Malkin, Beck and the like. These are the equivalent of the giveaways on PBS for being a sponsor.
Using your logic that book sales equal public perception, Obama's Audacity of Hope sales make the country a Libreral stronghold.
Malkin is the new Coulter. Guess Coulter got too old to be the face of New Republicans.
elle2u
people have to BUY something to get that book. It is an INCENTIVE to move another product. I'm not even sure that the giveaways are 'counted' in the best-sellers listing. Even if it is - so what? People BOUGHT something to GET it.
Why not answer my other question??
elle2u
and Coulter isn't too old. People LOVE her because she holds her own and SPEAKS THE NON PC TRUTH!
francoistoulour
Someone's been begging for an answer as to why Fox gets high ratings, with the suggestion being that if Fox gets high ratings, it must be because it is popular, i.e., the voice of "the people." The snarky answer to the question is "Doesn't the WWF also get high ratings?"
The non-snarky answer is that Republicans/conservatives are much more pre-disposed to hearing their pre-existing beliefs reinforced than are Democrats/liberals. The fragmentation of the media, especially into the Republican/conservative-niche programs on Fox and talk-radio, allows people with that bias to incessantly indulge that bias, and they do. Moreover, independents and Democrats/liberals also watch Fox, not because they agree with the beliefs that are being reinforced, but to see what it is that Fox News is promoting among its Republican/conservative audience. If you put on a spectacle, people will watch, even people who think it's a hoax.
reardongalt
"For those of you who think the book sales are 'fixed'....Come ON! That is bull." elle
elle2u, you touched on a key point. There are more of US than THEM, but they keep trying to obfuscate. Look at Mark Levin's book "Liberty and Tyranny". It's sold 2 million copies and still hasn't been reviewed by The Old York Times. No wonder the newspapers want a bailout. There is so much evidence that liberalism is in the minority, that they'll try anything conceivable to hide that fact.
Michelle is Da Bomb!
reardongalt
Ann Coulter is Da Bomb. Her column cracks me up. Man, she's good. She's my idol.
cbeenthere
Her sales have been discredited, but keep screaming, and there were millions in WDC, hang onto that one too. Even your guru discredited that one, but keep hanging onto the fantasy. It will eventually bring even more profits to her.
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n--Y--almchrl1misha1000
"SPEAKS THE NON PC TRUTH! "
Coulter is an anti-Semite. She called Christians "perfected Jews." You can google it.
elle2u
every old network has lost major ratings, and I see the obvious bias on ABC/ NBC/ CBS/ and most of all - CNN. I disliked them jumping on Obama's side and endorsing him. They didn't investigate him at all, but covered everything up. People KNOW there is something amiss in all of this. It's just hard for libs to admit that they were wrong. You will see in the next election how 'fixed' the book ratings are. And keep labeling conservatives --it really helps your cause (rolling eyes). Loser.
elle2u
If you are going to call ANYONE an anti-semite - it should be BO. There is an incredible amount of evidence that he sides with Muslims and Palestinians. Netanyahu knows it also.
I've never heard Coulter say that, but I'd have to hear the context of her statement. That statement does not have any hatred of jews in it - if you had one ounce of religious knowledge, you would know what she is saying.
elle2u
So if a liberal book gets high ratings, I should assume that lib organizations paid for them?
And bias is only on the Republican/conservative side? LMAO!!! riiight....
You so WANT it to be bias, and to paint that picture.
Bias has nothing to do with people disagreeing with the "One" or Congress. You can disagree with IDEAS without being 'biased'. You can't be serious.
crngndmhm
Keep going it you say it enough times it must be true.
meglon978
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/books/07cons.html
tonyjenson
elle-
I assume your other question is how to explain the high ratings of Fox and conservative talk radio?
Jerry Springer had high ratings too, but I wouldn't say he was representative of America either.
unclelew
Actually, Malkin's books are purchased by the 20 million people who attended the Beckistan march earlier this month.
AZDave
Malkin will contine to have to move to different houses in different parts of the country not because of the crazy left but because of the nature of the things that she says. Her outrageous comments suggesting that Senator Kerry stepped in front of schrapnel to get a purple heart was a slap at every military man that was ever in a war zone. She must be much more careful on who she is castigating.
I have never heard her do a serious interview without filling it with unsupported 'dribble'. This does not make her an 'agent provocateur' just a poor speaker and writer.
bobcn1
How sad that Malkin has suffered insults and threats. It's terrible how people encourage that sort of thing.
Like the threats Malkin encouraged against some students in Santa Cruz that disagreed with her. Despite their desire to remain anonymous, she posted their names, phone numbers, and other personal information on her web site to 'expose' them. When they began receiving threats and harassment from Malkin's followers the students asked Malkin to remove their personal info from her blog. Her response was to repost the information and state: "I am leaving it up. If you are contacting them, I do not condone death threats or foul language. As for SAW, my message is this: You are responsible for your individual actions. Other individuals are responsible for theirs. Grow up and take responsibility."
Malkin really is a disgusting human being. I have no sympathy for her at all.
yms-PA
I think it is great to teach young college students a lesson...take responsibility and own what you say.
totoro
Wow, what a pathetic liar.
Why don't you give us the entire quote: "SAW has removed the contact information from its press release and is now lying about the fact that it made the info publicly available on the Internet. I am leaving it up..."
The stupid students put their contact info on a press release and MM linked to it. If it was their desire to remain anonymous, then don't publish your own contact info.
bobcn1
totoro,
What's pathetic is that you defend Malkin while she encourages threats and harassment against people she doesn't like while whining about harassment directed at herself. She's a typical wingnut. She likes to dish it out but she can't take it.
Since you seem to need more information about Malkin's bad behavior toward the Students Against War (SAW) students here it is:
"..a crew of students at UC Santa Cruz ... protested some military recruiters, and Malkin got hold of a press release with their personal contact information -- a poorly conceived inclusion on the students' part, but then, these are undergraduates, not trained media flacks. Rather than calling and speaking to them herself, which is what members of the press are supposed to use such releases for, Malkin published their personal information on her website, prompting her hordes of orcish mouth-breathers to brandish their pitchforks and inundate the unsuspecting students with death threats ... When the students frantically called on Malkin to remove their numbers, she posted their contact information again."
"John Amato... writes, (Malkin) 'crosse[d] the line of decency..the death threats are emanating from her blog and she knows it. Malkin understands the nature of the fear and outrage she causes. Will she take responsibility when somebody gets hurt?' "
link: http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=04&year=2006&bas e_name=hunting_slugs
Malkin truly is a disgusting person. If you think encouraging death threats against students is acceptable, then you are disgusting too.
BullMoose
Malkin is a Jezebel for the religious right hypocrites.
When the truth finally is revealed to the world, political prostitutes like her will go with the goats,
Elijah had her ilk figured out long ago.
MadMaisy
Kerry is a money chasing fraud. As a MA resident forced to suffer his and Kennedys lifetime appointments to their monarchies I can attest to his uselessness. Don't believe me...try moving here and finding a job.
johnnyapplecd
Try moving ANYWHERE and finding a job. It's called a recession, dumb-ass.
BCLance
What does your curiously uninformed opinion have to do with what people are impeaching Malkin for? Logical reasoning is an important skill, one that probably would help you to realize how much benefit MA has received from having two very senior and influential senators in its delegation. You *do* realize they're elected, right? And that MA isn't known for the kind of gerrymandering that takes place in more conservative parts of the country?
tonyjenson
Malkin is the political equivalent of "The Hills." A faux-reality pundit reading scripted lines to create "drama."
true1906alpha
This is one nasty lady. a TRUE BE-YATCH if there ever was one.
BrokenArrow
Yes. NEWSFLASH to Malkin.....there is nothing CONSERVATIVE about the crew you run with........NOTHING. Biggest dump ever taken on the economy and the citizens. Do some research. History proves that ALL prosper more when there's a Democrat in the White House. The Repubs hold the record for DEFICITS. Check it out, my peeps.
AbnVet
BrokenArrow, you seem fond of otherwise unsubstantiated statements. I'm not saying you're wrong, but you need to cite your sources. "History proves..." It does? Where? "Repubs hold the record..." You mean the Democratic controlled Legislature while W. was in the Executive Branch? Or the Reagan Administration? Or what? I'm willing to listen, but you need to cite some sources to prove the research is valid...
ThinkAgain
It's the Moveon/DailyKos selected/parsed copy pasted history these folks go by. You can blame anyone for anything if you're creative enough and your audience wants to believe it or is just too lazy to be bothered to do more than superficial searches.
BullMoose
We won't mention the WorldNetDaily, FAUX news and the Nazi Murdoch, along with the endless stream of hate radio nuts, all rabble rousing for a living. Just tell the idle rich, and working stiff idiots who vote against their own financial benefit, what they want to hear. Prostituting your ideals (really the lack of) , to rabble rouse the racist and bigots, who represent the latter working stiffs is very profitable, just not very virtuous. The rich get a good laugh at the country club, about how they snookered the working poor into voting against their chance of getting anywhere in life. Just slave on, they love it.
mutterhals
Why would you behave with such hubris and then moan that people don't like you? This one knows her only bankable schtick is shilling for republicans, so please, spare me the sob story. Go cry yourself to sleep on that big pile of money, Michelle.
yms-PA
Actually, if you read the article which it doesn't seem you did, she mentions the outrage she received in college when she wrote an article trashing affirmative action, stating that then realized this was exactly what she wanted to do and quite frankly embraced the negative feedback. Doesn't sound like she was crying dear sir or miss.
mutterhals
Please, it took this idiot that long to figure out if you say something controversial people will pay attention to you? What the hell is so noble about that? And then to cry foul when people lob that sort of bullshit back at you, well not only is she an idiot but a hypocrite as well.
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ittybittykitty
I'm sure that she is crying all the way to the bank.
amanda07070
And we all know that money is, well everything. What character!
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ClareA
(to Old-Hippy)
with those first two words you'll also see Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Sarah Palin and all those other political bitch-witches of any ideological persuasion. This stuff is bi-partisan.
piktor
Ahh, bipartisanism,
the sweet aroma of post-feminism,
wafting from your poison words.
yms-PA
Very poetic but without substance unfortunately, try again
piktor
yms -- It's not an argument. Just a comment.
Jaibones
mi·sog·y·ny (m%u012D-s%u014Fj'%u0259-n%u0113)
n. Hatred of women.
Thanks for the reminder that hippies were always a fraud. Best combination of misogyny and illiteracy in the thread!
crymeariver
Wow, didn't realize that MM carries all womEn in her hateful
little body. Apparently to talk about her is to insult all WOMEN.
Wow, you should let all women in the world know that they
are now represented by MM!
P.S. to the writer: I've seen pretty and MM isn't it. She is as ugly
on the inside as she is on the outside.
rlord49
The last line is the most telling of the interview, "I think that every good conservative capitalist pursues the profit motive."
It isn't about conservatism, right, wrong, left, progressiveness, or anything else that might be high-minded. It's about money and how to get it, said in what I presume are her own words.
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ittybittykitty
I agree. Money makes the world go round.
MadMaisy
Gee and doesn't Michael Moore despise Capitalism.......I don't see him opting out of his profits . The Democrat Party is littered with hypocrites.
BCLance
Opposing capitalism as it stands doesn't mean opposing profits. Seriously, it's really important you learn what words mean before you use them.
Being critical of the kind of free-market capitalism Moore explores int he movie has nothing to do with rejecting having an income, or even disparate levels of income. What Moore criticizes--indeed, what most modern leftists criticize--is the unfounded faith in unfettered market logic.
Capitalism doesn't mean "making money." Get a dictionary. Or better yet, an encyclopedia.
mathomas
There is no such thing as a "GOOD conservative capitalist"
elle2u
I agree MadMaisy. FULL BLOWN HYPOCRITES in every way.
ThinkAgain
She's interesting and often spot on. But both the far right and far left have a black and white view of world that I find troubling. It's too cynical and monolithic. Human existance is more complicated than that, that's what makes it interesting.
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ThinkAgain
Goodness, you're one of these uninteresting ugly hate filled left wingers
who prides themselves on being good at nothing but slinging insults. Well played. I'm sure all your liberal buddies on this blog think you're brilliant.
cbeenthere
Mugly
Think thinks no one on this thread has ever read a post of his. Hah.
elle2u
what an example of a crass liberal idiot you are. Thanks for showing everyone your true colors.
cbeenthere
elle
Who are you calling crass and an idiot?
elle2u
likely the comment that was removed by the DB editors.
cbeenthere
That is a first, someone attacking a removed comment. OK
elle2u
I didn't 'attack' a removed comment. I made a COMMENT about a post that was removed by the editors --look above.
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cvillekid
The post removed had to be Charles116 in his new disguise.
Mugly067
Guess my comment was too real for some, I calls them like I see them. Call me simple I guess, but TA you are too often giving props to those none of us should espouse, particularly this con-artist, she is neither altruistic nor genuine in her writings and loves the cheap shots. Ah well she'll reap what she sews and most of us won't give a damn.
cbeenthere
Can you figure out the comment made by the commenter regarding your removed post? Bizarre.
mathomas
Malkin is on the far right and typifies ideological black-and-white thinking in everything she says and writes.
Ozone69
I just finished reading her new book "Culture of Corruption." Each instance of corruption and/or cronyism in the Obama past, campaign and administration was meticulously cited. I do not hate Obama nor do I want to see him fail as my President. However, this book opened my eyes to the fact that he is a politician, (a very gifted one at that) and is not that different form other politicians who play the game. Patronage, cronyism and opportunism have all played a part in his rise to be POTUS.
elle2u
Same thing with me. Remember that libs are afraid of the facts and will do all they can to try to cover them up. Libs love liars....that is my only explanation for them.
mathomas
We libs just love liars, huh? You mean like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, whose lies led us into a trillion-dollar war that has killed tens of thousands of people? Oh, I almost forgot: they were REPUBLICANS!
Oh, and those scary facts that terrify us liberals so! Oh, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, please stop frightening us with the bonafide truths you espouse!
Anyway, elle2u, you just keep on making those brilliant generalizations about us libs and looking for those elusive explanations, genius! We really appreciate you helping us figure out why we love liars and facts scare us so much!
ittybittykitty
Hmm. You don't think that she might be a little biased in her reporting?
cvillekid
Malkin doesn't do reporting. It's all how about how mean everyone's been to her during her life.
elle2u
check her facts....then we'll talk about bias.
Otherwise - is there ANY lib who takes a fellow Demorat to task? NO.
BCLance
Is that a joke? why do you think Democrats have such a hard time spouting the same cookie-cutter line like republicans? Because Liberals (and Democrats more generally) disagree about *many* issues. Republicans and conservatives used to, but neither the party nor the movement has space for many who used to consider themselves both.
ghfulton
Elle....it doesn't surprise me that you don't listen to left wing talk radio, but if you did you'd hear quite a bit of criticism of the Obama administration....Alex Bennett, Lynn Samuels, Mark Thompson among others are lefties who actually think independently....unlike your heros Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, etc., etc., etc. They are so predictable that you know what they are going to say before they say it....
soporifix
You need a book to open your eyes to the fact that a man who makes it to the office of US President is . . . a politician? I'm shocked -- shocked! -- at such a thing. All this time I thought we were only electing non-politicians to the highest and most powerful political position on earth.
Ozone69
Don't be shocked. Maybe I should elaborate. He came in with this hope and change theme and he is anything but change. He came out of the Daly machine in Chicago and did what he had to do to rise to the top. Sitting in Rev. Wright's church for 20 years and was shocked when he heard that Wright used racial and anti-American rhetoric. Please.
soporifix
Pardon -- I was under the impression that the Right is angry at him because he's trying for too much change.
elle2u
the wrong kind of change - Obama wants something that has been tried over and over - the Marxist crap won't work. That is the change he wants. Others just want the same old politics gone - Obama and his craptastic Congress has made it apparent that they play dirty and lie - constantly. I've also found that Liars excuse liars - attorneys, and the whole lot of them - LIARS. People are fed up, and really wanted a CHANGE. Also, Obama makes promises that he can't fulfill without enslaving every damn person in the US. That is what he wants - he WANTS TO BE A DICTATOR. Mark my words.
misha1000
"If you are going to call ANYONE an anti-semite - it should be BO. There is an incredible amount of evidence that he sides with Muslims and Palestinians."
Name one Muslim country that built a concentration camp. I believe in social justice for Arabs. Arabs in Israel are treated like black people used to be treated here. I've seen it. Obama's two principle advisers are Axlerod and Emanuel. It is the president's duty to be fair. I want Jewish culture to flourish, and it cannot when we mistreat others. Because of what was done to us, does not give us license to do it in turn. And settlers have instituted apartheid in the West Bank, and have made pogroms against Arabs, like setting fire to olive groves.
"I've never heard Coulter say that, but I'd have to hear the context of her statement. That statement does not have any hatred of jews in it - if you had one ounce of religious knowledge, you would know what she is saying."
Evanglelicals love Israel, but hate Judaism and Jewish culture. Evangelicals are opposed to a peace settlement, because that means Armageddon will not come. I will not be a player in their sick theatre. And Hagee is a closet anti-Semite. He told his congregation that the anti-Christ will be Jewish, and Jews control the world's monetary supply. I saw the video. I wish Jews would tell evangelicals to go away. In private, they trash us.
From a minister in Palin's church: "Auschwitz was divine retribution, because you people have refused to accept God's only son. Let me baptize you, because if you are killed in a car crash, you will spend all eternity in the torments of Hell."
"he WANTS TO BE A DICTATOR'
Like Nixon?
elle2u
Misha - we could debate this all day - but it is clear that BO sides AGAINST the Jews. I am not an evangelical, but why are you paying SO MUCH attention to what other religions say, but you make no mention of BO and his Black Liberation Theology teachers and church?
As someone who was RAISED MUSLIM (and that cannot be denied), BO will always side against the Jews....which most Christians recognize as God's 'chosen people'. This conversation is more deep than a simple post, so I will leave it at that.
As a Christian, my reading of the bible points to the Anti-Christ coming out of the EU, but most believe that BO will bring the AC to the forefront.
BCLance
I also just finished it. Part of the problem with both Malkin and Coulter is that they are in fact *not* meticulously cited, they have the trappings of citation. Although Malkin is better at it than Coulter, their reference structure is often self-referential and primarily dependent on opinion sources. Hard as it is to accept, that doesn't make a book "sourced", particularly when the argument is as much of a reach as she's making here.
But you highlight what the real problem is. It isn't that people like Malkin write what they do: this will always be true and isn't terribly scandalous in the grand scheme of things. It's that we have bred a culture of anemic readers who have difficulty parsing information, and even more understanding logical reasoning or use of sources.
memo02
I been follow her story's on the past she is bery talented to find the truth like I said no body like heard the truth at the begining I was kind of skeptical thinking this woman had to much on her story's but later I was follow in occasions untill now I understand her work is been pay off , if some thing happens to her we will know why to me she is an truly journalist so far not many like her to said the truth, acn I said in search for the truth ?....
Prince-O
Grammatical error....
MYSTERIOUS
To: Memo02, Have you been to any grammar classes, lately? How about a few commas, periods, sentence caps, etc.
Oh nevermind. I suppose you are the type of people who are drawn to Malkin. People with compassion and a brain know better. Were you at Palin get-togethers also?
ittybittykitty
I been, follow, she is bery, begining, I was follow, untill, is been, an tuly journalist, to be said, acn. Did I miss any?
Greensleeves
Please, if someone is trying to make a point - just because English may be a new language for them, doesn;t mean the point can't be valid. I've quickly realized this site is all about knee jerk attacks against people who support anything not liberal or Democrat, but the ad hominems are tiresome.
memo02
I realy understand African American had family values like any body I have many friends in Long Beach California, and we respect each other to me this situation is pretty much bizarre the hole thing instead we get closer we get more distante from ech other I also understand most of you vote for Mr:Obama because people was hungry to find some one diferent for what we know in politics, and to define America is not racist to show to the world the lives been lost to defend this Country was for a good cost !, what we have now ? look arround you we can't make like this we need to find a diferent way this is not about Religions or Politic Party's this is about to find our selfs on what we are and who we are .
I whant the truth I need to know the truth but not like this everything is going apart and that is no good for no body !....
Prince-O
You need to get enlightened! Maybe read some books on Grammar... Ignorance is not Bliss.
dana-zucchini
What? Come on, now.
nkadzi
please use punctuations, and check your sentence structure. its very hard to decipher what you are trying to communicate, because that is the whole point of your comment, to communicate, right?
tnwoman1948
To memo02:
Excuse me if English is not your first language, but the opinions you are trying to convey are not getting through because your spelling, grammar and punctuation are horrible or maybe you are just ignorant. My Spanish is probably just as bad to a native Spanish speaker. Anyhow, Michelle comes across as a very hateful person. I think of her as a "media whore" like Rush, Beck, Dobbs, etc. There is a verse in the Bible which covers the likes of these people: Mark 8:36.
TavernWench
Grrrr Hulk Smash!! Ugg. Mmmmm. Grrrrrrr!
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n--Y--almchrl1whipmawhopma
memo02 - Please compose your comments in Word and use the grammar check and spell check. Or in Outlook if you don't have Word.
XmenII
This bitch is a self-hating wanna be white so so bad and will do like most filippino's. as a matter of fact most Asians absolutely despise being dark and believe; the darker you are the lower you are.. Its sad that her parents did not teach her to be proud of her own culture.. I liken it to "Black Conservatives" House N#%" s who hate themselves so much that they are willing to consort with even bash their own people to be accepted.. Just look at that Idiot Michael Steele.
Pupster
Poor girl. This is what self-loathing looks like.
She thinks she's white and that the Republican Party actually cares what she says. It's so sad to see such delusion.
Michelle, no matter how much you try and try, those bigots you are trying to please will never accept you.
piktor
Pupster -- What is galling is she spews forth about "anchor babies" and she was one herself. I, too, think she projects self-hatred in her rants.
misha1000
She has written extensively against anchor babies, and Jindal has spoken out against this, too. She wants the 14th Amendment changed.
Unfortunately, she and Jindal were anchor babies.
Pupster
My guess is she loved being called "Eva Braun" for two reasons: 1) it got her attention in a way that her shortcoming at the piano couldn't and 2) she loved being compared to a blond, blue-eyed Aryan poster model.
Her reaction in this way is not unique though it's fortunately limited to a few. It's similar to Michael Jackson's obsession with lightening his skin, manifested in extreme physical transformation. Her's is just mental, emotional and political.
Jaibones
Bwaaa! "She thinks she's white"? What does that mean?
Apparently you view "whites" as a superior race and that a presumably lowly first-generation American of Asian descent would wish to somehow become "white". This exposes you as a racist and an imbecile. As for the acceptance of Malkin by conservatives, your imbecile side should peruse the NY Times best-seller list to see what we think of Michelle Malkin.
She is absolutely adored by her fans. But of course, we don't play the race-gender-victim game that you liberals play.
gak001
Wow... irony.
In the course of deriding someone for making generalizations, you yourself made a generalization.
Your deduction skills could use a little work too.
amanda07070
Your post is so inaccurate it's funny. You totally missed the point Pupster was making. She (the hate-filled Michelle) will NEVER be accepted by YOU and your PARTY. How does that make Pupster a racist? When you accuse (with literally HUNDREDS of examples) someone of being a racist that makes YOU one? What planet are you from or do you simply not understand the English language?
And coming from a party who doesn't accept those of any race other than white, any gender other than male and talk about victims!! Leave him alone, he didn't mean to come on to interns! Leave him alone, he didn't mean to call the POTUS a liar! Leave her alone, she CAN see Russia from her house! I can name about a dozen more.
jbo206
Jailbones - yer funny. I think any impartial look at racists will put more in the conservative camp than liberal (I believe they exist in both camps)
Conservatives love minority conservatives spokespeople (John Woo, Alberto Gonzales). It gives them a chance to say, "look at how big our tent is". In reality, these people are stick out due to the tent being tiny. small, itty bitty.
Looking at Mr. Woo's & Mr. Gonzales careers, it appears they are taking the heat for their supperiors decisions and directions. If I were a minority in the republican party, I would always be looking over my shoulder to make sure I wasn't the next chosen fall guy (yep Michael Steele it's your turn).
Pupster
If you listen to her closely, she always refers to minorities as the other, as distant from herself. And she aligns herself with whites.
It's an observation.
soporifix
The logic here is truly breathtaking. This is exactly the type of thinking that MM appeals to -- that is, no thinking at all.
ertdfg
So, the only reason to be conservative is to "want to be white". Only whites should ever be conservative; anyone of any other color should be liberal; you should know how a person will think by the color of their skin... Oh, and Conservatives are the bigots.
Did that sum up the thoughts behind your statement? Weird that you think the color of someone's skin should control their thoughts; and all people of color should think alike; but I'm the bigot.
Pupster
No, not at all. But in Malkin's case, in which she passionately defends the internment of the Japanese during WWII and her refusal to acknowledge ANY racism underlying some of the very obvious protest signage and chants, she tries a little too hard to deny her own heritage.
Read the article. The anecdote of her crying because other little kids made fun of her darker skin and how that scarred her was a telling one. Most minorities don't suffer from the self-loathing and desperate need to assimilate that she does, thank goodness. Her poor self-esteem reveals itself every time she speaks and writes.
agrawog
I am absolutely astonished at this article. Michelle Malkin is one of the most hatable, bitter human beings in the media world. What is the point in trying to humanize her by painting her as a victim of racism as a child or her choice to move to Colorado Springs (one of the most conservative places in the U.S.).
She is a viper of the highest order. She cares not for the truth or any semblance of normalcy. I use the term "political whore" to describe her. It is not meant to denote her sexual practices but rather that she will do anything (ANYTHING) to sell books and further the conservative agenda.
The simple way to look at this is to review her comments and ask this question: Has she ever, EVER, criticized anything the Bush administration or anyone else in the conservative movement has ever done or said. Of course not.
That is the difference between the conservative acolytes and progressives. You will hear criticism of Obama from even the most liberal of sources (re: Bill Maher). You would never hear that from the right.
That is the basic difference - the right's fanatics are a combination of idealogues and money-hungry whores. The left's are principled and intellectual. They think about their positions. BTW - this is also one of their greatest failings from a political perspective (see current health care debate).
I live in America so as long as there is a market for her screed people like Malkin and Coulter will have a career. I don't wish her bad health or any type of "accident" (compare that to conservatives celebrating the death of someone like Dr. Tiller), I just wish she would go away.
And - oh yeah - I weep for the fact that she has already procreated. Conservative bigots are not born, they are made and the next generation is being baked in Colorado Springs right now.
Old-Hippy
You said it much better than I could have . . .
You are 100% correct ! !
Jaibones
"Michelle Malkin is one of the most hatable..."
You are a sissy and a hater.
Eykis121
You sound just like her.
Eykis121
Agreed.
Apparently she has fans here -- why? Who knows why any of these haters have fans.
amanda07070
Holy crap! The voice of reason rings out among the sheeple idiots actually trying to humanize this demon.
Thank you.
penscott
"That is the basic difference - the right's fanatics are a combination of idealogues and money-hungry whores. The left's are principled and intellectual."
It is simply mind-boggling that many lefties actually believe that. But it does explain some of their actions - like using violence and disruption to prevent conservatives from speaking, by destroying newspapers or flyers, like Malkin's when she was in college - because they dislike the contents. Many lefties have a real totalitarian mindset; they simply are infuriated by anyone who challenges their beliefs.
The Daily Beast's reader comments reveal this mindset every day of the week.
Mugly067
If your beliefs are sounded in what is actually real, I don't really give a damn what you believe or say just don't expect me to swallow all of it down without some facts and truth, the rights problem is they can't tell the difference with all the lies they use to bend reality, tough isn't it trying to prove a point without facts, kinda like that whole birther thing, ah well keep swinging the crazy bell some more, still not gonna change the truth, and that is why you are whores and the rest are just people, plain and simple.
penscott
Mugly067's vulgar, semi-literate pronouncement speaks for itself - the ugly, totalitarian mindset, the bullying tone, the intellectual poverty.
Greensleeves
agrawog --" I don't wish her bad health or any type of "accident" (compare that to conservatives celebrating the death of someone like Dr. Tiller), I just wish she would go away." Why not compare it too, say, the many death threats that MM has recieved. I know why not - it is an inconvenient truth, a fact that would fly in the face of your argument. Or do you think it is the conservatives giving her death threats?
soporifix
You're talking, I assume, about the violent leftists invading Town Hall meetings to shout down speakers . . . oh, wait.
americanworkhorse
Thanks for commenting on all the words Old Hippy uses. Obviously he didn't learn anything from the Summer of Love. I saw Michelle at SGP Summit last weekend and she was fabulous. Her fearlessness to go after the truth is inspiring to all of us (all the ugly names) who happen to think with our God given brains, independently of hatemonger liberals and over the top Republicans. Way to Go Michelle, your book is an eye opener!
Thank you.
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