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Michelle Malkin FAN PAGE
File:Congressman-malkin cropped.jpg
Born (1970-10-20) October 20, 1970 (age 54)
United States Philadelphia, PA, USA
Occupation(s)Author, syndicated columnist, television personality and blogger
SpouseJesse Malkin
WebsiteMichelle Malkin, Hot Air

Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang) (born October 20, 1970) is an American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. She is a social and political conservative. She makes frequent guest appearances on national syndicated radio programs and on television networks such as MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and C-SPAN. As well as her written blog, she posts regular video blogs. Her syndicated column "appears in nearly 200 newspapers nationwide.". Her column, including archives of past columns, also appears in the e-zine Jewish World Review.

Malkin was born in Philadelphia to Filipino parents, Dr. Apolo and Rafaela Maglalang, in the United States on a work visa. Her maternal grandfather fought under General Douglas MacArthur. She grew up in Absecon, New Jersey, and graduated from Oberlin College. In 1993, she married Rhodes Scholar and RAND Corporation economist Jesse Malkin. They have two children.

Career

She 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. She is also a frequent commentator for FOX News Channel and has guest-hosted The O'Reilly Factor.

In June 2004 she launched a political blog which quickly became popular, at most times residing among the top five conservative political blogs. After initially allowing reader comments, she disabled them, attributing her decision to an intolerable level of obscene and racist comments.

Malkin's blog occasionally highlights investigative reports from other sites, most notably an investigation into financial irregularities at Air America Radio. 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.

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, defending Japanese American internment by the United States Government during World War II and relating this 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. An attempt to ban the book from the Manzanar relocation center National Historic Site failed.

Malkin's third book, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild was released in October 2005.

Hot Air website

On April 24, 2006, Hot Air, a "conservative Internet broadcast network" went into operation, with Malkin as founder and CEO. Other staffers include "Allahpundit" and Bryan Preston. Malkin has a daily video "column" on Hot Air called "Vent With Michelle Malkin."

After Hot Air's first year of operation, Malkin wrote:

hanks to all of you for making the first year of Hot Air a phenomenal success. ... One of the primary goals in starting this site was to give you content and analysis you can’t get anywhere else on a daily basis–both on the blog and in our original video features. Another chief goal: having fun.

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 but backed down after the Electronic Frontier Foundation joined Malkin and Hot Air in contesting the removal as a misuse of copyright law.

Controversies

Former columnist Bronwyn Lance Chester once said 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." 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."

In April 2006, Students Against War, 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 criticising SAW and UCSC. 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." SAW "politely asked" 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." 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. After Malkin's post, the three SAW contacts received abusive emails and phone calls, including death threats. Malkin also received hostile e-mails. 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.

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 "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." 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.

Malkin created a "Conservative YouTubers" group at the YouTube website in July 2006. In October 2006, she stated that "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". Later she noted reports that YouTube had failed to remove recruitment videos for street gangs and "jihadi propaganda".

In February 2007, Malkin accused YouTube of double standards after Nick Gisburne, a member of the "Rational Response Squad" who had posted videos critical of Christianity without any difficulty, was suspended for posting material critical of Islam.

While filling in for Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor, Malkin interviewed New Black Panther Party leader Malik Shabazz Zulu about the 2006 Duke University lacrosse team scandal. When Malkin challenged Shabazz to apologize about a 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.

Malkin occasionally posts hate mail she received, which often consists of racist or sexist epithets. Malkin says she has been "attacked as an 'Aunt Thomasina and a sellout and a race traitor' by liberals of Asian background".

Jamil Hussein

Main article: Jamil Hussein controversy

Malkin was one of the conservatives who questioned the existence of Iraqi policeman Jamil Hussein, who has been used as a source (who's reliability Malkin later questioned) by the Associated Press in over 60 news stories about Baghdad. The controversy started in November 2006, when Malkin and others expressed doubt about an AP report that six Sunni civilians had been burned alive as they left Friday worship services as part of an attack that destroyed several mosques. On 1 January 2007, Eason Jordan noted that "the AP's handling of call into question credibility, integrity, and smarts."

On 4 January 2007, the Associated Press claimed that an Iraqi official had stated that Jamil Hussein does exist. 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.

However, the AP now claim that their source is named Jamil Gholaiem Hussein, not Jamil Hussein. Conservatives working with Malkin have since quoted sources in Iraq as saying that Jamil Gholaiem Hussein denies being the AP's source, that the Iraqi official quoted by the AP denies saying Hussein existed, and that there is still no evidence of six people being burned alive.

Later that month, Malkin visited Baghdad herself. She found the mosques still standing. She also 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. The Associated Press has not retracted their reports. No other journalists have been able to speak with Hussein, and the AP has stopped using him as a source.

Viewpoints

Malkin opposes the granting of automatic U.S. citizenship to babies born to tourists and temporary workers. Malkin articulated her position on these "anchor babies" in a 2003 Jewish World Review column, which ended, "Citizenship is too precious to squander on accidental Americans in Name Only."

On February 16, 2007, while guest-hosting on The O'Reilly Factor, Malkin said "I have to tell you, in general, I’m skeptical of anything that has Bill of Rights tacked on to it” in discussing a proposed Passenger Bill of Rights. She later explained and defended her comment by quoting from a liberal blog that suggested her critics were quote mining.

Notes and references

  1. About Michelle Malkin, MichelleMalkin.com
  2. "On Bataan and Balikatan", Michelle Malkin, Jewish World Review, April 6 2002
  3. List of highest-traffic blogs and Traffic details for Malkin's blog at The Truth Laid Bear; Malkin's blog at Alexa
  4. "Comments, Trolls, and the Left's Continued Whore Fixation", MichelleMalkin.com, 8 February, 2005
  5. "Inside Air America: An Investigative Blog Report", Michellemalkin.com, 17 August 2005
  6. "Open Letter to Michelle Malkin" from the "Historians' Committee for Fairness"
  7. "A Book-Banning Dodged--Thank You!", MichelleMalkin.com, 7 May 2005; has links to Malkin's responses to criticisms of In Defense of Internment
  8. "Conservative Internet Broadcast Network Debuts", PRWeb.com, 24 April 2006
  9. "Hot Air turns One", Michelle Malkin, HotAir.com, 24 April 2007
  10. "Akon's record company abuses DMCA to stifle criticism on YouTube", MichelleMalkin.com, 3 May 2007
  11. "UMG & YouTube retreat over Akon report", MichelleMalkin.com, 14 May 2007
  12. "Malkin Fights Back Against Copyright Law Misuse by Universal Music Group", Electronic Frontier Foundation press release, 9 May 2007
  13. "Virginia Paper Drops Columnist Malkin", Editor and Publisher, 22 November 2004
  14. ^ "Malkin: Liberal Bigotry on the Rise", NewsMax.com, 28 November 2004
  15. ^ "Seditious Santa Cruz vs. America", MichelleMalkin.com, 12 April 2006
  16. "More Thuggery from Santa Cruz", MichelleMalkin.com, 17 April 2006
  17. ^ "Death Threats and Harrassment", UCSC Students Against War, 14 April 2006
  18. The contact details were removed "as per request" after Malkin posted this.
  19. "The Moonbats Strike Back", MichelleMalkin.com, 17 April 2006
  20. "Cyber war over UCSC protest heats up", Santa Cruz Sentinel, 22 April 2006
  21. "When the Left invades our privacy", MichelleMalkin.com, 1 July 2006
  22. "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, 3 July 2006
  23. "Conservative YouTubers", youtube.com
  24. "Banned on YouTube", MichelleMalkin.com, 4 October 2006
  25. "Gangs using YouTube to recruit", MichelleMalkin.com, 13 November 2006
  26. "Fighting jihad at YouTube", MichelleMalkin.com, 6 October 2006
  27. "Dhimmitude at YouTube, again", MichelleMalkin.com, 12 February 2007
  28. "Blame George Washington for misogynist rap! ...Plus: Malik Shabazz impersonates Snoop Dogg", MichelleMalkin.com, 12 April 2007
  29. "New Black Panther Party Leader Calls Michelle Malkin a ‘Political Prostitute’", NewsBusters, 15 April 2007
  30. "Minority Conservatives And The Sellout Smear", MichelleMalkin.com, 12 January 2005
  31. "Maglalangadingdong this", MichelleMalkin.com, 3 December 2004
  32. "The media fog of war", MichelleMalkin.com, 27 November 2006
  33. ^ "The AP's Jamil Hussein Scandal Controversy Will Haunt the AP Until It Does What is Right", Eason Jordan, 1 January 2007
  34. ^ "Iraq threatens arrest of police captain who spoke to media", Steven R. Hurst, Associated Press, 4 January 2007
  35. "Corrections", MichelleMalkin.com, 6 January 2007
  36. "The latest on Jamil Hussein", Curt, 'Flopping Aces' blog, 11 January 2007
  37. "J-DAMN", Bob Owens, 'Confederate Yankee' blog, 11 January 2007
  38. "The Jamil Hussein Name Game — Iraqi General Weighs In", Bob Owens, Pajamas Media, 15 February 2007
  39. "Destroyed - Not: Lurid AP report on Iraq outrage doesn't check out", Michelle Malkin, New York Post, 21 January 2007
  40. "What makes an American?", Michelle Malkin, Jewish World Review, 4 July 2003
  41. "Not all liberals are stupid", MichelleMalkin.com, 17 February 2007

Books

External links

Malkin's sites

Critiques of Malkin

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