Michelle Malkin

The big news yesterday was this “private” remark from Harry Reid, which appears on page 37 of Game Change

encouragement of Obama was unequivocal. He was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama -- a "light-skinned" African American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one," as he said privately.  Reid was convinced, in fact, that Obama's race would help him more than hurt him in a bid for the Democratic nomination.

An utterly stupid comment, which Harry Reid has apologized for, but still should cost him his career. I’ll get on to the reason it should cost him his career in a minute, but first I want to address the race issue.

While surfing the blogosphere for reactions to this, one post stuck out. It was by none other than Michelle Malkin, in which she asks the following question:

Trent Lott resigned his leadership post over his birthday party pandering in praise of Strom Thurmond’s racial segregationist presidential platform. Many conservatives (myself included) put pressure on him to resign. Where are the “progressive” Democrats who will apply the same standards to Reid?

Comparing a stupid comment to support of segregation is absolutely mind boggling. Does Malkin even know what segregation is and what it did to this country? I would hope so, but after reading that, it doesn’t seem likely.

Like I said, this should cost Reid his career. He made a stupid comment, but this type of comment is also very common from people in Reid’s generation. Face it – they grew up in a very different America. That’s not making an excuse, but rather stating a fact.

The best thing for Reid now is to follow in the footsteps of Byron Dorgan and Chris Dodd and hang up his soapbox. A new Mason-Dixon poll paints a very bad picture for Reid:

52 percent had an unfavorable opinion of Reid, 33 percent had a favorable view and another 15 percent said they're neutral. In early December, a Mason-Dixon poll put his unfavorable-favorable rating at 49-38. The lowest Reid's popularity had slipped before in the surveys was 50 percent -- in October, August and May of 2009, when Mason-Dixon started tracking the senate race for the Review-Journal.

The poll also took a snapshot of how Reid would do against three potential GOP opponents. In each case -- as in past Review-Journal surveys -- it showed the senator would lose with only four in 10 voters supporting him.

This isn’t the first poll to show Reid losing to all the Republican possibilities – it has become a trend. Chances are Harry is going to be gone after November.

This is why Reid should retire. Politicians never want their careers to end on a loss, but rather end when they say it is over. Reid would do his legacy a lot better if he took the same path and threw in the towel. Get with state Democrats and find a popular Democrat who is known state-wide and get them to run.

Republicans are looking at a big pickup in Nevada, like they were in Connecticut. If Reid follows his friend Chris Dodd, then it will become another big blow to Republicans. I don’t know enough about Nevada politics to know if there is any such candidate out there, but if there is then now is the time to talk them into running.

Hey if you are Michelle Malkin they are:

Follow the bouncing ball: TARP, the trillion-dollar-plus banking bailout, has morphed from a toxic assets purchase plan to a capital injection plan, back to a toxic assets purchase plan, to a life insurance company bailout, to an auto supplier bailout. I’m sure I forgot more.

Well, now the Democrats want to use it to bail out state governments and convert unused TARP bucks into…a government union slush fund.

The article she is referencing is this:

… Pelosi said serious thought is being given to investments in transportation infrastructure, seen by economists as one of the most efficient ways of creating jobs quickly.

She also said money could be used to preserve public-sector jobs such as firefighters, police and health-care providers.

The senior Pelosi aide said this would be distributed by bypassing state governments and providing funds directly to local or regional governments.

How dare that evil Pelosi want to do things like protect firefighters and police and improve our infrastructure!

That goddamn socialist!!!

The funniest part of Malkin’s latest installment of “rantings of a psycho” has to be the timing.

Within 5 hours she went from screeching about some “war” on cops being raged by liberals and blacks, to screaming about the Democrats wanting to save cop jobs. I’ve heard of flip-flop before, but at this pace we are more into rapid somersaulting.

In her latest “syndicated column”, Michelle Malkin has decided to target blacks and the left as being responsible for the rash of cop killings this year. Ironically she forgets to mention one tragedy that claimed the lives of 3 cops earlier this year:

A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and “lying in wait” opened fire on officers responding to a domestic disturbance call Saturday, killing three of them and turning a quiet Pittsburgh street into a battlefield, police said.

Police Chief Nate Harper said the motive for the shooting isn’t clear, but friends said the gunman recently had been upset about losing his job and feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.

This was the shooter:

He really looks black to me – doesn’t he to you? Oh and what leftist agenda drove him to this point?

Poplawski feared “the Obama gun ban that’s on the way” and “didn’t like our rights being infringed upon,” said Edward Perkovic, his best friend.

Some right wing conspiracy is what drove this man.

But Malkin didn’t miss this story when it happened in April. Here is what she wrote:

You killed these police officers.

It’s all your fault.

She was addressing her fellow psychos on the right.

The needless killing of law enforcement isn’t a left or right issue, nor is it a black or white issue. This issue is an American society and justice issue and one that should be addressed as such. Ignoring a single case like that of Poplawski proves Malkin doesn’t take this issue seriously and is a dishonor to the memory of the three police officers killed by him that Spring morning.

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.

– Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey claims the emails discuss “repetitive, false data of higher temperatures.”

– The National Review’s Chris Horner salivates, “The blue-dress moment may have arrived.”

– “The crimes revealed in the e-mails promise to be the global warming scandal of the century,” blares Michelle Malkin.

– The Australia Herald-Sun’s Andrew Bolt claims the emails are “proof of a conspiracy which is one of the largest, most extraordinary and most disgraceful in moderrn [sic] science.”

I’m not going to take the time to debunk this conspiracy craze by the right; Nate Silver has already done an excellent job at that, concluding:

But let's be clear: Jones is talking to his colleagues about making a prettier picture out of his data, and not about manipulating the data itself. Again, I'm not trying to excuse what he did -- we make a lot of charts here and 538 and make every effort to ensure that they fairly and accurately reflect the underlying data (in addition to being aesthetically appealing.) I wish everybody would abide by that standard.

Still: I don't know how you get from some scientist having sexed up a graph in East Anglia ten years ago to The Final Nail In The Coffin of Anthropogenic Global Warming. Anyone who comes to that connection has more screws loose than the Space Shuttle Challenger. And yet that's literally what some of these bloggers are saying!

Instead I want to focus on the source of this latest conspiracy craze – the hacked emails.

It was just a little over a year ago that everyone was focusing on some other emails obtained through hacking. Those emails happened to reside in Sarah Palin’s email account. Did the wingnuts jump onto the information they provided as evidence against Palin? Absolutely not. Instead they wrote them off as being nothing because they were obtained through the illegal means of hacking. Let’s look at how some of these wingnuts described that incident:

The law will catch up to the hackers, but what about the lowlifes who are now gleefully splashing the alleged contents of Palin’s private e-mail account all over the Internet? – Michelle Malkin

The group taking responsibility certainly has a history of partisan attacks, as Caleb Howe notes in his post.  He has a picture and a video that he took of their protest at the Republican convention, although Howe also wonders exactly why they were there – Ed Morrissey

Funny how back in September 2008 hacking was a horrible thing to these wingnuts, but today it is nothing but awesomeness.

Back to the subject of the day – the climate change emails. Do all these wingnuts really believe that 90% of the world’s scientists got together and decided to mislead the entire globe? Perhaps they think that the disappearing ice on the polar ice caps is just some big Hollywood effect? Really – these people are insane. They act like global warming is some big marketing scheme, when in fact denying it is. That’s the reason that companies like Exxon pay big money to the other 10% of “scientists” to actually fake data and rewrite actual scientific reports to try and show that global warming doesn’t exist.

Like I said, aluminum foil is now about as precious as gold since the wingnuts are buying it up.

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?

There is still a lot of speculating going on, but the most reasonable sounding thing I have heard so far is this:

His cousin said Maj Hasan had been resisting such a deployment.

"He hired a military attorney to try to have the issue resolved, pay back the government, to get out of the military. He was at the end of trying everything," Nader Hasan told Fox News.

He also said that Nidal Malik Hasan had been battling racial harassment because of his "Middle Eastern ethnicity".

(emphasis added)

Even on The Today Show they were interviewing people who know Maj. Hasan and talked about how much he heard things like “sand nigger” or “terrorist” yelled at him.

While the right is trying to paint Hasan as some Islamic terrorist, just look at the guy. He was American born and just spent countless years going through school to become a Psychiatrist, MD. This wasn’t a man planning on doing something like this, this was a man who snapped.

So our question now is how to fix our relationship with Muslims. The military really needs to take a long, hard inner look at itself and come up with a way to limit incidents like this.

And the fix isn’t limited to the military alone – it also must include society. For example, look at this:

Here we have a guy who went on a rampage, and so far the one of the leading reasons is that he was constantly harassed about his ethnicity and religious beliefs, and then you add in a big voice of the right making wild claims like this. This isn’t a solution – it’s asking for more of the same.

Luckily Maj. Hasan is still alive. Now maybe we can get a better idea of what was going through his mind when he decided this was the route to take. Hopefully we can use that as a teaching moment also and try to instill a better sense of tolerance in both our military and society as a whole.

This could be a make or break moment for President Obama. How he takes the lead on this will really define him not only as our President, but also as a man. We can’t afford any cover-up of what really happened. We need full transparency here and for our Commander in Chief to insure the changes needed to help prevent future events like this from happening. The coming weeks and months should prove to be rather interesting as this story continues to unravel.

Dede Scozzafava is a Republican candidate for NY-23. Last night she held a dinner and afterwards someone from her campaign called the police on John McCormack from the Weekly Standard. Here’s what he says about it:

I spotted Scozzafava later as she was walking to the parking lot, and asked her: " Assemblywoman, do you believe that the health-care bill should exclude coverage for abortion?" She didn't reply. I asked her twice more. Silence.

After she got into her car, I went to my car and fired up my laptop to report the evening's events.

Minutes later a police car drove into the parking lot with its lights flashing. Officer Grolman informed me that she was called because "there was a little bit of an uncomfortable situation" and then took down my name, date of birth, and address.

"Maybe we do things a little differently here, but you know, persistence in that area, you scared the candidate a little bit," Officer Grolman told me.

This sounds like a misunderstanding is all, but let’s look at how Malkin responds to this:

Radical leftist Dede Scozzafava can’t stand the heat

I just read through Scozzafava’s issues page on her campaign site, and nothing strikes me as her being a “radical leftist”. As matter of fact items like these speak the speak the opposite:

Those are two cornerstone conservative points. Yet since Scozzafava is apparently pro-choice that’s enough for Malkin to label her a “radical leftist” and is why people like Malkin are a cancer for the Republican Party. They can’t be honest about the reasons they disagree with the people they like. Instead they believe that if you disagree with them on any one issue then you must be from the other side. If the Republican Party wants to become the party of Steppford, where everyone is the same, then so be it, but they must also plan to remain a diminishing minority until such time that they change this position.

America is a bunch of clones. It’s a country full of unique individuals with different ideas. That’s why the Republican Party is in such dire straits right now. They fail to recognize that and the constant actions by them or their supporters reaffirms this position. Given the lack of choice we have when it comes to parties in this country that leaves those actual Republicans and Conservatives who might disagree on a single issue or two to either give up their voices really being heard or become Democrats.

If the Republicans want to regain power then they need to denounce people like Malkin, Beck, Limbaugh and the rest of the others who are intolerable of any ideal that might not coincide with their own.

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:

A good place to begin thinking about Alma Thomas’s ravishing late work might be the moment in 1964 when, close to paralysis and bedridden, the 73-year-old artist found herself staring at the hollyhock shadows she had known her entire life and calculating how to use them in her paintings. A year earlier, she had seen the late Matisse cutouts at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Matisse’s work had prompted her to paint an acrylic-on-canvas version of his collage The Snail (1953), in which nearly all the original colors were reversed. Thomas named her painting Watusi (Hard Edge), after Chubby Checker’s dance hit “The Watusi.” As well as marrying high modernism with the popular culture of black America–then entering the American mainstream–the title she chose noted Matisse’s debt to African art.

Wait! So Thomas admits what the piece was – a copy of “L’Escargot”, with the colors reversed. I don’t think we can call this a fraud when the artist actually admits what they were doing. True to someone like Malkin, who can only see black and white, I guess this is the smoking gun needed to impeach our president.

And to see the racist overtones of what this has lead provoked in Malkin’s comment section check out the list assembled by The General. It seems there is an obsession with rappers using lyrics from “white people music”. Yeah we won’t talk about country singers copying rock songs left and right, or how most modern music actually comes from black origins. Nope – to Malkin and her readers they are the superior race, even if Malkin isn’t part of that race. Welcome to the new Storm Front.

The right has been snooping into a young girl who asked President Obama a question at the townhall meeting yesterday and they uncovered that her mother is a big donor to the President. Oh my!. While I don’t agree with planted questioners in such forums, they exist none the less. We have seen tons of them popping up from the right at townhalls – the so called “normal citizen” who ends up being a former GOP official or healthcare representative.

But Malkin’s post ends with this:

Now, look for Dems to play the kiddie human shield card to the hilt. Anyone who mentions Hall’s political pedigree will be attacked as a vicious meanie stalker. Graeme Frost redux!

I guess that shield only applies to Sarah Palin, who Malkin and countless on the right tried to claim when the debate would shift focus to one of Palin’s children. For them its perfectly alright to go after children when the action benefits their cause, yet how dare anyone go after a child of someone on their side. That is just plain wrong.

No – actually it is just plain two-faced.

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.

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.

You knew this was coming:

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.

9/11 didn’t convince the open-borders zealots to put down their race cards and confront reality.

Maybe the threat of their sons or daughters contracting a deadly virus spread from south of the border to their Manhattan prep schools will.

So some Mexican with a deadily virus snuck across the border, then traveled all the way across this country and infected people in New York? Maybe we should investigate Santa Clause for transporting illegal immigrants, because I don’t know anyone else who can travel that fast.

Malkin’s latest column is entitled ‘You might be a “radicalized rightwing extremist” if…’ Ok – I’ll bite. Here’s my top 5

• 5. You might be a radicalized rightwing extremist if:
• 4. You create false evidence to lie a nation into war.
• 3. You champion for war without acknoledging the true costs.
• 2. You stalk a handicap child for your own political gain

And finally – the number one reason you might be a radicalized right wing extremist

• You are scared of a report on radicalized right wing extremists

Please add your own in the comments.

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.

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?