Did ash note in a previous post that Malkin once declared that liberals couldn’t wait for the 2,000th troop death in Iraq? It would be hard to top the gall of that, and as far as ash knows she never (quite) has. Nevertheless, she’s competed with her own inflammatory rhetoric with prolific proficiency, as ash notes in the following letters, before she decided to spare herself Malkin ( and a number of other columnists) altogether. Dates have been preserved for a sense of contemporary events.
FRI 10 22 04
Oh, goody. The photo negative version of Ann Coulter makes her debut in the State Journal-Register, and both are carried on the same day! Otherwise it would be difficult to distinguish one from the other, each of them relying on cheap shots, trivializing legitimate issues, and mocking causes, employing clichés that weren’t clever when they originated.
If I were a conservative I’d be hopping mad. First Coulter strives mightily to discredit rightwing philosophy, now comes one Michelle Malkin to supplement her silliness. This week it was women “getting their pantyhose in a bunch” over aspects of feminism that aren’t even aspects of feminism (to mix a metaphor, never mind that she’s biting the hand that paved the way); next week I suppose she’ll launch into a tirade against environmentalists complaining they don’t get to wear their fake fur coats since the advent of global warming.
Hey. I could write her column for her.
SUN 11 28 04
During the mercifully completed presidential campaign, Michelle “Amen” Malkin was dispatched throughout the political media circuit to accuse John Kerry of inflicting his own war wounds in order to pad his resume for office some thirty years later.
Yes, I heard it with my very own ears.
Mission accomplished, she has resumed the general task of misrepresenting, distorting, and caricaturing the left on everything from feminism to an alleged hostility toward faith. Now I’m no expert on the Bible, and excuse me for paraphrasing, but I believe somewhere therein is a passage admonishing those whose deeds undermine their prayers.
FRI 3 25 05
You gotta love that columnist Michele Malkin. Having declared the mainstream media “lousy,” in its coverage, she proceeds to recite a laundry list of misleading information and downright lies regarding the Schiavo matter. That takes chutzpah.
On a related note, the most salient characterization of this sad case may have come from a commentator on MSNBC, who spoke of it as a psychological issue. In his opinion, the most effective course of action at this time would be to enroll the parents in grief counseling in order to cope with the inevitable outcome. In his opinion, the major roadblock to resolving the stalemate between them and Schiavo’s husband is the state of denial.
I concur with that assessment.
FRI 5 20 05
Michelle Malkin is full of it. Whether or not she realizes it is the only question.
Nowhere in her media-bashing column does she mention the messenger, Michael Isikoff, the journalist who referenced the Guantanamo Quran-flushing incident in Newsweek Magazine.
That’s a glaring omission, and what it reveals is the admonition from on high (read: Karl Rove) to lay off the guy who also broke the Lewinsky scandal.
Isikoff, presumably reflecting most investigative reporters, subsumes his personal political leanings to his professional allegiance to the juicy story, whichever party it hurts. Hence the administrative order not to finger a willing tool who may prove useful in averting future p.r. disasters.
The Gitmo matter is reminiscent of last year’s CBS imbroglio in which a document of a suspicious nature somehow made its way through the vetting process only to be pounced on the moment the story aired. This time around the diversion from the truth at the heart of the story is a source who may or may not be reliable becoming the focus of inquiry instead of the allegations themselves.
I smell a set-up but doubt anyone will get to the bottom of it, just as the origin of Bush’s bogus military records remains unknown. The larger picture is the systematic effort to undermine and render irrevocably and utterly impotent “liberal” college campuses, PBS, and other news organizations not yet bought and paid for by loyal conservatives eager to end the era of independent thought and analysis.