michelle malkin

I Guess Hacking Email Is Cool Now?

In case you have missed it there is a sudden shortage on aluminum foil. It has been bought up by wingnuts in order to prepare their latest hats.

I am talking about the case of a British university’s server being hacked and approximately 160mb of data and email being leaked. The server that was hacked was of prominent climate change researchers:

The computer files were apparently accessed earlier this week from servers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, a world-renowned centre focused on the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change.

Climate change sceptics who have studied the emails allege they provide "smoking gun" evidence that some of the climatologists colluded in manipulating data to support the widely held view that climate change is real, and is being largely caused by the actions of mankind.

This has got the wingnuts fired up and pulling out zingers like this:

— “If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW,” says the Telegraph’s James Delingpole.

Congress Is Doing A “Ram Down”

Just ask Michelle Malkin:

The House is now in a rare Saturday session for the government health care takeover ram down.

So a bill that will affect virtually every citizen of this country is a “ram down” because it is being voted on on a Saturday. What would that make a bill being voted on in the twilight hours of Palm Sunday?

Michelle Malkin Makes Orly Taitz Look Sane

Get ready for the newest chapter in right wing lunacies – the “art fraud” chapter. Malkin and her minions are on a rampage over what they consider to be “fraudulent art” in the White House. Here is their smoking gun:

The artist is Alma Thomas and the piece is called “Watusi”. As Malkin can’t help but point out, Thomas is a African America (oohhh shudder).

They are saying that Thomas’ pieces is a copy Henri Matisse’s “L’Escargot” (the snail):

Wow now they do look very similar indeed. As matter of fact they could be the same thing, but only different. Good for Malkin for exposing this this fraud! Let’s take a look at Thomas a little more and see what they say about this fraud:

So Do The Birther Republicans Also Believe 9/11 Was An Inside Job?

Here’s what really started the whole birther movement:

In the final months of the 2008 presidential race, Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) campaign learned of a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania that asked the state to strip Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) of the Democratic nomination on suspicion that he was not an American citizen. The complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief was filed by Phil Berg, a former deputy state attorney general who left government in 1990 for a series of gadfly political campaigns. His last round of notoriety had come when he filed RICO complaints against George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein and multiple members of the Bush administration for “accountability” for the 9/11 attacks. Still, Berg’s complaint had gotten glancing local media attention, and the Democratic National Committee’s counsel had filed a motion to dismiss it. One lawyer who was doing some work for the campaign was tasked with reading Berg’s lawsuit and gauging its chances of success

The person who started it all is also a “truther”. So does that mean Liz Cheney, Michelle Malkin and the rest of the right wing loonies think that 9/11 was an inside job? Hopefully they will start being asked this question.

No One To Blame But Themselves

Following the shooting at the Holocaust Museum this week the right has been in defense mode. They are trying everything to pain James Von Brunn as some lefty or just a plain old loon. The problem with that is he isn’t.

Just like in lefty liberal land there are extremes of right wing/neo-con land. James Von Brunn would far surpass even people like Rush Limbaugh on the right, just like Stalin would far surpass Dennis Kucinich on the left. Hence the names “right wing extremists” and “left wing extremists”. Both sides have people that just go too far.

I wanted to give this little lesson in political science to address this:

Weird, huh? What possible grievance could a Jew-hating 9/11 Truther who ranted about Bill O’Reilly and “neocons” have against a magazine owned by Rupert Murdoch and edited by Bill Kristol? Maybe he detected a leftward drift in the Standard’s editorial slant lately? You know how irascible those “right-wingers” can be, especially when they’re fed a steady diet of Fox News. Which, um, Von Brunn hated.

I guess he’s from the conservative-hating wing of conservatism. Big tent!

I have not seen one liberal blog or talking head say that Von Brunn is from the Republican or conservative movement. Instead they are addressing Von Brunn for what he is – a far right extremist.

But this also goes back to the DHS report. At no point did that report say “Republicans” or “Conservatives”. It addressed far-right extremists like Von Brunn. But it was people like Michelle Malkin and Rush Limbaugh who decided to classify themselves as far-right extremists, not the left or the DHS report.

Malkin’s Deraingment Syndrome

Earlier today Michelle Malkin wanted everyone to not talk about Dr. Tiller’s assassination and just give time for the family to grieve. Now news has broken about a army recruiter being shot dead and another wounded at a Army recruiting center in Arkansas, and guess what?

I wonder if the Justice Department will send marshals to beef up protection at recruiting centers — especially given the past targeting of military centers on campuses and elsewhere across the country.

I guess the family of the soldier that lost his life today doesn’t deserve time to grieve. I never knew Malkin was in such support of doctor’s who perform abortion.

Interesting…

Yesterday a right wing extremist shoots and kills a doctor who provides abortions. Greg also reminds us that it wasn’t that long ago the right was in an uproar over a DHS report talking about right wing extremists:

One passage from the DHS report that provoked nonstop outrage said that right wing extremists “may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”

Some on the right read this passage and decided it was a reference to them. Top conservative blogger Michelle Malkin warned that it meant you’re being targeted by Obama’s big brother government “if you are a member of an active conservative group that opposes abortion” or if you are active on other issues.

This wasn’t a fringe interpretation of the report, by the way. RNC chair Michael Steele for instance, blasted the report for labeling peaceful dissenters on issues “as terrorists.” Other Republican members of Congress sounded similar tones.

Maybe we need to take another look at that report now.

Trouble in Paradise #11231: O’Reilly -VS- Malkin

Bill O’Reilly decided to go after blog commenters the other night and he just so happened to single out Hot Air. The interesting part of that is the fact that Hot Air is owned by Michelle Malkin, who is a common face on FOX and has even guest hosted for O’Reilly in the past. The civil war is deepening amongst the wingnuts.

“Cinco De Cuatro”

Obama had a celebration yesterday with Mexico’s ambassador and had a little gaff:

President Barack Obama is celebrating Cinco de Mayo a little early.

On the eve of the Mexican holiday, Obama on Monday had an event in the East Room of the White House with Mexico's Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan (sahr-oo-KHAN').

Obama joked that it was "Cinco de Cuatro," botching a play on the Spanish word for "four" when he meant to say "Cuatro de Mayo," or the Fourth of May. He tried again, but he still did not get it right.

The right is now going on about this and saying “if George Bush had said this”.. Allow me to explain the difference to the thick headed on the right.

When President Obama makes a gaff like this he is quick to acknowledge it and openly joke it off. Bush made these gaffs and didn’t even realize he had made them.

Also when Bush made “gaffs” like “bring em’ on” and “we will conduct a crusade”, those resulted in death. The simple gaffs Obama has made are the most innocent in nature.

Of course I doubt people like Michelle Malkin are even capable of comprehending something like this, but it was worth pointing out as it goes to the heart of the issue that the right lacks basic common sense.

Swine Flu May Have Started In U.S.

Since the swine flu has been all the news, we have seen right wingers like Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck using it to promote their racist agenda against Mexico, calling for the border to be sealed. Now it turns out the outbreak may have actually started right here in the United States.

Let me remind you of what Malkin said:

I’ve blogged for years about the spread of contagious diseases from around the world into the U.S. as a result of uncontrolled immigration. We’ve heard for years from reckless open-borders ideologues who continue to insist there’s nothing to worry about. And we’ve heard for years that calling any attention to the dangers of allowing untold numbers of people to pass across our borders and through our other ports of entry without proper medical screening — as required of every legal visitor/immigrant to this country — is RAAAACIST.

The fact that Malkin heard of a disease and Mexico and instantly pinned it on immigrants is RACIST. She is just too wrapped up in her own hatred to realize that. But its nice to see that the proof is coming out to show the rest of the country exactly how racist Malkin is.

Living In A Pre-9/11 World

Andrew Sullivan takes Malkin to task on her alarmist tone over the DHS report:

Why, one wonders, would Michelle Malkin read a DHS report on fringe, far-right extremism that could lead to violence or Oklahoma-style domestic terrorism and think ... they're talking about her?

Rightwing nut-jobs have been the number one purveyor of domestic terrorism in this country. Rather it be the abortion clinic bombers or Timothy McVeigh, there is no arguing that the right will take to violence much quicker than the left.

The actions of the right is also messing with operations in our capital:

Local reports indicate that the practice of mailing actual tea bags to legislators has repeatedly raised security concerns, and sometimes forced the evacuation of congressional offices in anthrax-like scares.

Brian Sperry, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service, told the Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune that tea bags in the mail "cause us some concern. ... They could pose a problem if the tea bag is mailed in a regular envelope instead of a padded bag."

These tea bags are coming from the same party that spawned Chad Castagana, the right wing follower of people like Malkin and Coulter who resorted to sending fake anthrax letters to notable liberals. Of course their only mention of him was to deny any involvement.

Andrew Breitbart Resurrects The Right Wing Strawman

What happens when a commenter on a right wing blog disagrees with the rest of the people there? Easy – they are tagged as some “leftist invader”. Now Andrew Breitbart is on the war path against these “leftist invaders”:

A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing. Read the comment sections of right-leaning blogs, news sites and social forums, and the evidence is there in ugly abundance. Internet hooligans are spewing their talking points to thwart the dissent of the newly-out-of-power.

We must not let that go unanswered.

Uninvited Democratic activists are on a mission to demoralize the enemy - us. They want to ensure that President Obama is not subject to the same coordinated, facts-be-damned, multimedia takedown they employed over eight long years to destroy the presidency - and the humanity - of George W. Bush.

Political leftists play for keeps. They are willing to lie, perform deceptive acts in a coordinated fashion and do so in a wicked way - all in the pursuit of victory. Moral relativism is alive and well in the land of Hope and Change and its Web-savvy youth brigade expresses its "idealism" in a most cynical fashion.

Two of the biggest righty blogs out there are Hot Air and Michelle Malkin. Head on over to those blogs and try to comment. What? You can’t? That’s because the only way to comment on these sites is to be invited.

The Right Wing’s Blogging Queen

Michelle Malkin has met the expectations and came to the defense of Jindal’s response:

There were some apparent audio and technical problems. He could have been more specific in his attacks on the porkulus bill, the bailouts, and the coming omnibus spending bill/mortgage entitlement expansion.

(emphasis added)

What audio problems? Was there supposed to be some massive reverb machine making Jindal sound all God like or something? This is the best that the high goddess of the right wing blogosphere can come up with to defend their promised child – faux audio problems? Damn the Republicans are so fucked. This country will be a one party nation with this crew running things.

But there may be a little hope for them. At least FOX news is admitting the truth – Jindal did bad.

Or could it be that Malkin is right on this? Was there really audio problems? Well this video Bob found could explain it:

Hot damn there was audio problems! They forgot the background music. Sorry I doubted you Michelle. This video brings it all into perfect context now.

Sully Is Wondering About Malkin

Andrew Sullivan:

It says something that, challenged for posing in a photo with a man with a swastika-bedecked Obama sign, all she says in response is that far left people used Nazi imagery against "Bushitler" for years. This is true and she rightly disdained it. But ... so? Why is it ok now but not then? Was she aware of the sign? Or did she miss it? The fact that Malkin has not answered these questions seems the only apposite thing to note.

She hasn’t answered because she knows the answers will prove the fact that she is the number one hypocrite on the right. A simple example is how it is fine for her to stalk a 12 year old, yet people question a 30 year old, so-called plumber and they are violating his privacy. Or how it’s unpatriotic and you should be treated as a terrorist for questioning Bush, but it’s perfectly acceptable to question Obama.

Michelle Malkin is in the same class as Ann Coulter. She is a rabid, hypocritical racist bitch, and she is happy about that. As long as she is making money for it, then why not? I guess the good Christian thing to do is sell you soul to the devil for a profit. Coulter and Malkin are both prime examples of this. I wonder what their judgment days will be like?

Wingnuts Explode!

Oh and they are. They hate this press conference. Let’s look at the wingnut queen Michelle Malkin:

Update 8:05pm Eastern. President Obama. “It is only government that can break the vicious cycle.”

Jobs, jobs, jobs. Investment, investment, investment.

Gag. President Obama claims to be acting on behalf of my children and grandchildren.

So talking stimulus shouldn’t mean jobs and investment? Really? This bitch is whack. We are losing jobs left and right, but how dare the President talk about trying to create jobs!.

Then she goes into this little tirade:

Update 8:13pm Eastern. Obama dissing those who have criticized FDR’s growth-stifling interventions. Attempts to shut down and whitewash the economic dissenters. It’s the Obama way.

Hmmm did I miss him calling them terrorists lovers or unpatriotic? Oh no – that’s what Republicans did every time someone disagreed with Bush.

Like I said the other day, if people like Malkin don’t like the country now they can get the hell out. They told us that for the past eight years, so now it’s time to return the favor. Osama bin Laden loves seeing the American economy fail, along with Malkin. Why does she support the terrorists so much?