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Revision as of 01:13, 6 November 2008
Michelle Malkin | |
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Born | Michelle Maglalang October 20, 1970 |
Occupation(s) | Author, syndicated columnist, television personality and blogger |
Spouse | Jesse Malkin |
Website | Michelle Malkin, Hot Air |
Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang) is a fucking cunt. The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: Feb 16, 2007. pg. C.1</ref> In addition to a widely read blog, Malkin posts regular video blogs. Her weekly syndicated column appears in nearly 200 newspapers and websites.[1] She has been a frequent guest on MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and C-SPAN, and on national radio programs. Malkin has written three books.
Biography
Malkin was born on 20 October 1970 in Philadelphia to Filipino parents, Rafaela and Dr. Apolo Maglalang, while they were in the United States on student visas.[2] She grew up in Absecon, New Jersey.[3] Malkin graduated from Oberlin College which she described as a "radically left-wing, liberal arts college."[4]
In 1993 she married Jesse Malkin, a Rhodes Scholar and former economist for the RAND Corporation.[5] As of 2004, Jesse stays home and raises their two children: daughter, Veronica, and a son.[6]
Career
Malkin began her career at the Los Angeles Daily News, working as a columnist from 1992 to 1994. In 1996, she moved to Seattle, Washington, where she wrote columns for The Seattle Times. She became a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate in 1999.[7] [8] She also has been a frequent commentator for FOX News Channel and has guest-hosted The O'Reilly Factor.
Her first book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces, was published in 2002 and was a New York Times bestseller.
In 2004, she wrote In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror, defending Japanese American internment by the United States Government during World War II. She related the theme to the contemporary War on Terrorism, taking some heat from Asian American civil rights organizations who had been uniformly opposed to this historical policy. The "Historians' Committee for Fairness," a group of professors, condemned the book for not having undergone peer review and argued that its central thesis is false.[9] An attempt to ban the book from the Manzanar relocation center National Historic Site failed.[10]. Malkin's third book, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild was released in October 2005.
Blog
In June 2004 she launched a political blog which quickly became a popular conservative blog, at most times residing among the top five conservative political blogs.[11] After initially allowing reader comments, she disabled them, attributing her decision to an intolerable level of obscene and racist comments.[12] A 2007 memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee described Malkin as one of the five "best-read national conservative bloggers."[13] In June 2007, she revamped the blog, moving it to Wordpress and a larger server.[14] With the new redesign, subscribed readers can once again post comments, but only if they registered before 5 p.m. on June 22, 2007.[15]
Malkin's blog occasionally highlights investigative reports from other sites, most notably an investigation into financial irregularities at Air America Radio.[16] She is frequently used as an example of the blurred line between bloggers and reporters, given such investigations and her widely distributed columns and appearances on multiple media outlets.
Hot Air website
On April 24, 2006, Hot Air, a "conservative Internet broadcast network" went into operation, with Malkin as founder/CEO.[17] She intended the blog to provide "content and analysis you can't get anywhere else on a daily basis–both on the blog and in our original video features."[18] Other staffers include "Allahpundit" and Bryan Preston. The latter was replaced by Ed Morrissey on February 25, 2008.[19]
After Malkin criticized hip hop artist Akon for "degrading women" in a Vent episode, Akon's record label, Universal Music Group, forced YouTube to remove the video by issuing a DMCA takedown notice,[20] but backed down[21] after the Electronic Frontier Foundation joined Malkin and Hot Air in contesting the removal as a misuse of copyright law.[22]
Controversies
Bronwyn Lance Chester, an editorial writer at The Virginian-Pilot, stated in November 2004 when the newspaper dropped Malkin's column that Malkin "habitually mistakes shrill for thought-provoking and substitutes screaming for discussion. She's an Asian Ann Coulter. [...] She’s the worst of what's wrong with punditry today. She adds absolutely nothing to genuine political discourse."[23] Malkin responded "I'm not Asian, I'm American, for goodness' sake. I would take the comparison to Ann Coulter as somewhat of a compliment. I have a lot of respect for Ann Coulter."[24]
Malkin has been criticized for defending the forced internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.[25][26] While promoting her book "In Defense of Internment", Malkin was asked whether she believed internment was "the right thing to do". Malkin responded:
Well, I think that, based on the military intelligence and legal assessments at the time, the Roosevelt administration did the best that it could do.[27]
John Tateishi, the executive director of the Japanese American Citizens League issued a media release on August 24, 2004 stating:
Michelle Malkin's book In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror is a desperate attempt to impugn the loyalty of Japanese Americans during World War II to justify harsher governmental policies today in the treatment of Arab and Muslim Americans.
As a result of the controversy, Hawaiian-based newspaper Midweek dropped her column. Midweek editor, Don Chapman stated:
In light of her new book and guest column in the Star-Bulletin justifying the internment of Japanese-American families in WWII, we felt she had become a detriment to our reputation and to our business.[28]
In April 2006, Students Against War (SAW), a campus group at University of California, Santa Cruz, staged a protest against the presence of military recruiters on campus, and sent out a press release containing contact details (names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses) of their three-person "ad-hoc press team" for use by reporters. Malkin included these contact details in a blog post criticizing SAW and UCSC.[29] Malkin claims the contact information was originally taken from SAW's own website, but that later SAW had removed the information and had "wiped the info from the cached version."[30] SAW "politely asked"[31] her to remove the contact details; Malkin refused, writing in her blog "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."[29] Malkin noted that none of the three students contacted her with that request, and posted a screenshot from one of several Indymedia websites where the complete press release was still available.[32] After Malkin's post, the three SAW contacts received abusive emails and phone calls, including death threats.[31] Malkin also received hostile e-mails and death threats.[33] Subsequently, people opposed to Malkin published her private home address, phone number, photos of her neighborhood and maps to her house on several websites. Malkin has stated that this forced her to remove one of her children from school and move her family.[34]
In July 2006, Malkin noted that the New York Times had printed photos and other details of the summer homes of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, and alleged that "[t]here is a concerted, organized effort to dig up and publicize the private home information of prominent conservatives in the media and blogosphere to intimidate them."[35] Two days later, the Center for American Progress reported that Rumsfeld's office had given permission for the Times story and that the Secret Service said there was no security threat.[36]
Malkin created a "Conservative YouTubers" group at the YouTube website in July 2006.[37] In October 2006, she stated that "[a]nti-jihad YouTube users have reported having their videos yanked and accounts suspended" as a result of a campaign by "members of the Religion of Perpetual Outrage".[38] Later she noted reports that YouTube had failed to remove recruitment videos for street gangs[39] and "jihadi propaganda."[40]
In February 2007, Malkin accused YouTube of double standards after Nick Gisburne, an atheistic YouTuber who had posted videos critical of Christianity without any difficulty, was supposedly suspended for posting material critical of Islam.[41] Gisburne later said that the suspension had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with his use of copyrighted music in one of his videos.[42]
Malkin occasionally posts hate mail she received, which often consists of racist or sexist epithets.[43][44] Malkin says she has been "attacked as an 'Aunt Thomasina and a sellout and a race traitor' by liberals of Asian background"[24]
The O'Reilly Factor
While filling in for Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor, Malkin interviewed New Black Panther Party leader Malik Zulu Shabazz about the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case.[45] When Malkin challenged Shabazz to apologize about the NBPP calling Reade Seligmann a "dead man walking", Shabazz said, "Will you apologize for being a political prostitute for Bill O'Reilly, a white male chauvinist racist, as a woman of color?". In response, Malkin said, "There's only one whore on this split-screen, and it's you, Mr. Shabazz. You should be ashamed of yourself for profiting off of your racial poison." To which Mr. Shabazz replied, "You should be ashamed of yourself for defending and being a spokesman for Bill O'Reilly."[46]
Jamil Hussein
Malkin was one of the conservatives who questioned the existence and credibility of Iraqi policeman Jamil Hussein, who has been used as a source by the Associated Press in over 60 news stories about Baghdad. The controversy started in November 2006, when Malkin and others expressed doubt about a "shocking [AP report which] received massive, global coverage"[47] that six Sunni civilians had been burned alive as they left Friday worship services as part of an attack that destroyed several mosques.[48] Edward Wong of The New York Times concluded that subsequent events in Baghdad contradicted the AP's claim that "that six Sunni civilians had been burned to death with kerosene."[49] On January 4, 2007, the Iraqi Interior Ministry confirmed Jamil Gholaiem Hussein does exist.[50] Malkin responded:
As I noted on the 4th, the AP reported that the Ministry of Interior in Iraq has now said a Captain Jamil Hussein does work in the al Khadra police station. I regret the error. But no blogger should apologize for raising legitimate questions about AP's transparency, its reliance on local foreign stringers of dubious origins, and information that sources such as Hussein have provided the AP.[51]
Later that month, Malkin visited Baghdad herself. She claimed the four mosques that AP claimed terrorists had "burned and blew up" still standing. She noted that the AP's only corroborating witness has recanted and that no-one else has found any evidence of the claim about people being burned alive.[52] The Associated Press updated their story later that day noting "the AP has confirmed damage at three of the four mosques, including burn damage at two and slight damage at a third."[53]
Leaving The O'Reilly Factor
On September 1, 2007, Geraldo Rivera attacked Fox News Channel contributor and substitute host Malkin when he was quoted in a Boston Globe interview as saying:[54]
Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life. She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in NY. I’d spit on her if I saw her.[55]
Rivera would later apologize for his words explaining that he was overcome with emotion at the time.[56] Michelle Malkin stated that she felt that The O'Reilly Factor mishandled the situation, the apology was staged and that she had decided not to return to the show.[57]
Dunkin' Donuts
Malkin created a stir with a May 28, 2008, entry on her website which described a neck scarf worn by Rachael Ray in a Dunkin' Donuts advertisement as "a jihadi chic keffiyeh". Malkin asked rhetorically, "Is Ray’s blunder worth boycotting DD over?", answering herself, "At this point, I’m going to give the management the benefit of the doubt."[58] Dunkin' Donuts subsequently pulled the advertisement, issuing the following statement:
In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design. It was selected by her stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial." [59]
Viewpoints
Malkin opposes the granting of automatic U.S. citizenship to babies born to illegal aliens, tourists, and temporary workers. Malkin discussed her position on these children, which she called "anchor babies" in a 2003 Jewish World Review column. The column ended, "Citizenship is too precious to squander on accidental Americans in Name Only."[60] [2]
She also opposes sanctuary cities, in which local authorities do not enforce all national immigration laws, such as the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) or coordinate with agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In light of the August 2007 execution-style murder of three college students in Newark, New Jersey, she has repeated her criticisms of politicians' posture towards sanctuary cities. (The prime suspect in the murders is an illegal immigrant with a history of violent felonies.) In particular, she criticized former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani, then a Republican candidate for the 2008 presidential election. She responded to his proposal for a tamper-proof identification card with this comment:
What Rudy-come-lately fails to comprehend is that there are already multiple alien tracking databases mandated by [the 1996 law] that have yet to be fully implemented, integrated and used.[61]
She contended that the databases have not been successful because politicians opposed funding them. She further noted that the 1996 immigration law prohibited local governments from barring employees from coordinating with the INS (the predecessor to the ICE). [62] She supports coordination with federal authorities through the use of Section 287(g) of the IIRIRA. [63] [64]
Notes and references
- ^ Pitts, Jonathan (2008-03-09). "Right at home". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2008-03-21.
- ^ a b Michelle Malkin interview re Invasion, Brian Lamb, Booknotes, December 8, 2002
- ^ "Michelle Malkin of 'The Seattle Times'", The Masthead, Winter 1998. Accessed October 25, 2007. "Malkin, originally from Absecon, New Jersey, is a graduate of Oberlin College."
- ^ "Michelle Malkin: as a book author, newspaper columnist, television commentator, and blogger, this young first-generation American has used a pull-no-punches style to criticize U.S. immigration and war-on-terror policies.", The American Enterprise, September 1, 2005. Accessed October 25, 2007.
- ^ "RAND".
{{cite web}}
: Text "Authors" ignored (help); Text "Jesse Malkin" ignored (help); Text "M" ignored (help); Text "Reports & Bookstore" ignored (help) - ^ America’s broken health insurance system, MichelleMalkin.com, August 27, 2004 ("After my husband quit his job earlier this year (to become a full-time stay-at-home dad).")
- ^ "Opinion Michelle Malkin" (HTML). Creators Syndicate.
- ^ "Opinion Michelle Malkin" (RSS). Creators Syndicate.
- ^ "Open Letter to Michelle Malkin" from the "Historians' Committee for Fairness"
- ^ "A Book-Banning Dodged--Thank You!", MichelleMalkin.com, May 7, 2005; has links to Malkin's responses to criticisms of In Defense of Internment
- ^ Ranking details for Malkin's blog at The Truth Laid Bear
- ^ "Comments, Trolls, and the Left's Continued Whore Fixation", MichelleMalkin.com, February 8, 2005
- ^ "GOP issues rules to avoid Macaca moments", Carrie Budoff, The Politico, June 13, 2007
- ^ "Welcome to the new michellemalkin.com!", June 18, 2007
- ^ "Comment registration is open", June 21, 2007, updated June 22, 2007
- ^ "Inside Air America: An Investigative Blog Report", Michellemalkin.com, August 17, 2005
- ^ "Conservative Internet Broadcast Network Debuts", PRWeb.com, April 24, 2006
- ^ "Hot Air turns One", Michelle Malkin, HotAir.com, April 24, 2007
- ^ "The Road Goes Ever On"
- ^ "Akon's record company abuses DMCA to stifle criticism on YouTube", MichelleMalkin.com, May 3, 2007
- ^ "UMG & YouTube retreat over Akon report", MichelleMalkin.com, May 14, 2007
- ^ "Malkin Fights Back Against Copyright Law Misuse by Universal Music Group", Electronic Frontier Foundation press release, May 9, 2007
- ^ "Virginia Paper Drops Columnist Malkin", Editor and Publisher, November 22, 2004
- ^ a b "Malkin: Liberal Bigotry on the Rise", NewsMax.com, November 28, 2004
- ^ "Reason Magazine - Indefensible Internment".
- ^ "Media Matters - Michelle Malkin defended WWII internment, racial profiling today; said Mineta's view "clouded" by his internment".
- ^ "'Scarborough Country' for August 9 - MSNBC Transcripts - MSNBC.com".
- ^ "Michelle Malkin » BOOK BUZZ".
- ^ a b "Seditious Santa Cruz vs. America", MichelleMalkin.com, April 12, 2006
- ^ "More Thuggery from Santa Cruz", MichelleMalkin.com, April 17, 2006
- ^ a b "Death Threats and Harassment", UCSC Students Against War, April 14, 2006
- ^ The contact details were removed "as per request" after Malkin posted this.
- ^ "The Moonbats Strike Back", MichelleMalkin.com, April 17, 2006
- ^ "Cyber war over UCSC protest heats up", Santa Cruz Sentinel, April 22, 2006
- ^ "When the Left invades our privacy", MichelleMalkin.com, July 1, 2006
- ^ "Exclusive: Secret Service says Times article on Cheney, Rumsfeld homes is not a security threat; Rumsfeld's office confirms giving permission for photo of his house", The Horses Mouth blog, Center for American Progress website, July 3, 2006
- ^ "Conservative YouTubers", youtube.com
- ^ "Banned on YouTube", MichelleMalkin.com, October 4, 2006
- ^ "Gangs using YouTube to recruit", MichelleMalkin.com, November 13, 2006
- ^ "Fighting jihad at YouTube", MichelleMalkin.com, October 6, 2006
- ^ "Dhimmitude at YouTube, again", MichelleMalkin.com, February 12, 2007
- ^ "Back on YouTube! This is the how and the why", Gisburne.com, October 14, 2007
- ^ "Minority Conservatives And The Sellout Smear", MichelleMalkin.com, January 12, 2005
- ^ "Maglalangadingdong this", MichelleMalkin.com, December 3, 2004
- ^ "Blame George Washington for misogynist rap! ...Plus: Malik Shabazz impersonates Snoop Dogg", MichelleMalkin.com, April 12, 2007
- ^ "New Black Panther Party Leader Calls Michelle Malkin a ‘Political Prostitute’", NewsBusters, April 15, 2007
- ^ "The media fog of war", MichelleMalkin.com, November 27, 2006
- ^ Shi'ites burn six Sunnis alive in Iraq, Associated Press, November 24, 2006
- ^ "Peering Through a Foggy War in Iraq", Tom Zeller Jr., The Lede, The New York Times website, December 1, 2006
- ^ "Iraq threatens arrest of police captain who spoke to media", Steven R. Hurst, Associated Press, January 4, 2007
- ^ "Corrections", January 6, 2007
- ^ "Destroyed - Not: Lurid AP report on Iraq outrage doesn't check out", Michelle Malkin, New York Post, January 21, 2007
- ^ "Sunni Mosques Still Show Damage in Iraq", Associated Press, January 31, 2007
- ^ "Michelle Malkin » Geraldo Rivera unhinged".
- ^ "Making waves - The Boston Globe".
- ^ "Rivera Apologizes for Saying He had Spit on Malkin".
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: Text "NewsBusters.org" ignored (help) - ^ "Michelle Malkin » Stiiiiill going".
- ^ Michelle Malkin (May 23, 2008), Of donuts and dumb celebrities, michellemalkin.com, retrieved 2008-05-29
- ^ "Dunkin' Donuts yanks Rachael Ray ad - The Boston Globe".
- ^ "What makes an American?", Michelle Malkin, Jewish World Review, July 4, 2003
- ^ Michelle Malkin (August 15, 2007), Sanctuary Nation or Sovereign Nation: It’s your choice Update: Illegal alien deportation evader Elvira Arellano will leave church sanctuary to participate in amnesty march, retrieved 2008-09-27
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- ^ "Michelle Malkin » BUSH'S OPEN-BORDERS NOMINEES".
- ^ "Gee! Let Us Just Enforce 287(g) ... Really! :: MAXINE".
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Books
- Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Regnery Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-89526-030-1
- In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War On Terror, Regnery Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-89526-051-4
- Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces, Regnery Publishing, 2002, ISBN 0-89526-075-1
External links
Malkin's sites
- Malkin's official site
- Archive of Malkin's columns at Townhall.com
- Archive of Malkin's columns at Jewish World Review