Fatwa Fatwa Fatwa
I know Michelle and Jesse Malkin’s home address. I didn’t seek it out. I didn’t lift one finger to find it. It was inadvertantly included in a mailing sent out to the Malkins’ e-mail list.
But I know it. And I’m not going to publish it. Not a chance. Why? Because we are better than them. They know their audience. They knew what the consequences of publishing addresses on their blog would be.
Now, I’m off to the post office - happy tax day, everyone. I will definitely be posting more later. But I just wanted to point out that for people as paranoid about “unhinged moonbats” as they are they don’t seem to feel the slightest compunction about unleashing the wingnut hordes on a group of college students.
They were busy over Easter weekend, weren’t they?
Update: Apparently the Malkins’ address has already been published. I’m actually worried about this development - I really don’t want anything untoward to happen. No one deserves physical harm or fear of same due to political speech.
Which is what makes me different from wingnuts. I don’t say things like:
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.
Wow. The wingnut blame-the-victim mentality really pervades every issue under the sun, doesn’t it? “Death threats are never justified, but they were sure asking for them.”
Update 2: Thanks for your enthusiasm, but I would have thought that this post would also imply that I’d prefer you not post their address in comments, either.
Update 3: Emboldened by the success of the rabble-rousing, Malkin posts more e-mail addresses with the now-chilling postscript:
Forewarned is forearmed.
Update 4: I don’t know how much Malkin is or isn’t being harassed. A little bit is too much. But according to Technorati, exactly one blogger (and no one of significant readership) has posted the home address in the body of a post. Eh, this doesn’t really mean anything. Commisar in comments claims that TBogg has the address posted, although I certainly couldn’t find it.
It doesn’t matter, anyway. It’s not appropriate no matter how few have done it.
Update 5: Due to wingnut plants and other silliness, I’ve gone ahead and closed comments on this thread. Never done that before. I’ve also been fairly liberal, so to speak, with the delete button. Some deleted comments may not have deserved it. But considering the lengths and depths to which some commenters are going (some of whom are absolutely winger plants) I want to keep the whole thing as aboveboard as possible.
You may not be posting their address, but it’s already all over the internet. I don’t know what she was thinking. They have two small children for God’s sake. Why put your kids in danger just to try and make a point? I guess we now see what’s most important to her and it’s not her children.
Comment by WTF — April 18, 2006 @ 5:46 am
Congratulations, Michelle, making the top of Keith Olberman’s Worst Person list. Posting somebody’s home phone on your website is equivalent to writing it on a men’s room wall. Tres tacky.
Comment by thelma — April 18, 2006 @ 2:19 pm
Malkin is gonna be on the radio today.
http://www.proteinwisdom.com/index.php/weblog/trackbacks/20178/
Maybe someone can call in and get her to explain herself.
Comment by Big Worm — April 18, 2006 @ 7:02 pm
I found her home address in under a minute. She lives in a McMansion in Maryland.
Comment by Jack — April 18, 2006 @ 7:59 pm
I have forearms, elbows too. so what’s your point?
;)
Comment by mdhatter — April 18, 2006 @ 10:29 pm
Yeah, I found it in about 45 seconds. It seems her house is not visible in Google Earth — the satellite photography is very, very blurry.
Comment by spencer — April 19, 2006 @ 12:21 am
Auguste,
You are better than them, a lot better. Thank you for this.
Comment by Ann Bartow — April 19, 2006 @ 3:00 pm
I’m sure the entire Malkin family is packing heat. Hope no moonbats get winged. lol!
Comment by urleftards — April 20, 2006 @ 2:16 am
Not only is posting her personal information wrong, but it gives her the opportunity to do the “courageous conservative harassed by unhinged moonbats” schtick she loves so much.
Comment by Big Worm — April 20, 2006 @ 4:48 am
[Links to Malkin’s contact info redacted - ed.]
Her refusal to remove these kids contact information was not from conviction, but from revenue. Every journalist in the world knows that contact information on a press release is for journalists to call for more information or interviews, not to be published (or even pointed out) in the publication itself. If she were any kind of ethical person she would have pulled the information when asked.
If she were something resembling a human being with “feelings”, she would not have republished the information once the students themselves removed it. Michelle is a vicious, vindictive, venomous egoist with no discernible ethics nor even a shred of human decency. If she wants to be The Minority Woman Who Believes Minorities and Women Suck, that’s her right. But she should at least have the integrity to acknowledge that she has done wrong and to stop compounding the wrong. And she should not give us that disingenuous crap about how she doesn’t condone death threats and nobody should misuse her posting and reposting of personal information.
Comment by themole — April 20, 2006 @ 11:32 am
Something I hate about Malkin is the way she manipulates what other articles say. She describes the UCSC students as all throwing rocks and slashing tires. What do you know, in the articles that she links to–it was ONE student throwing rocks. And the tire incident happened at an event LAST year (see the original paragraph in the article), and who knows if it really happened or not.
Ugh. I just can’t believe that Malkin gets all self-righteous. It’s nauseating.
Comment by jane — April 20, 2006 @ 1:14 pm
A Leftie commenter posted Malkin’s contact info and house pictures in a comment on my blog. Go to TBogg. Go to DU.
It’s not hard to find.
Comment by The Commissar — April 20, 2006 @ 1:34 pm
This morning there are reports of moonbats in emergency rooms with gunshot wounds all over the greater DC area. Who knew her little tykes would be such great shots? lol!
Comment by urleftards — April 20, 2006 @ 1:40 pm
To clarify my comment above, I then edited out the links.
Comment by The Commissar — April 20, 2006 @ 1:49 pm
I’ve spent most of the morning making life for Sister Toldjah’s wingnuts hell and ribbing the idiots at Protein Wisdom (which, with the exception of liberal comments, contains neither). Thanks for the info; it’s more ammo to fire at the Hypocritical (Never) Right.
Comment by Gideon S. — April 20, 2006 @ 2:10 pm
“Because we are better than them”
Oh really?
Want to offer a correction now or later?
LOL!!!!
Comment by Big Daddy — April 20, 2006 @ 3:33 pm
Your update 4 is inaccurate. DU, TBogg, a site linked by TBogg, and (even) by a commenter on my (wingnut) blog. At least these; there are more.
“all over the internet” is a fair description.
And I do appreciate that you are trying to take the high road here. Stay on it, and fix your Update 4.
Comment by The Commissar — April 20, 2006 @ 3:34 pm
TBogg commenters linked to it. Sorry to be imprecise. I was (too briefly) trying to point out its readily available nature.
TBogg is, IMHO, a pr1ck, and has done plenty to stir the pots of hate on the internet; but he has NOT, to my knowledge posted Malkin’s private contact info.
Comment by The Commissar — April 20, 2006 @ 6:11 pm
Oh, c’mon now. I just read your Update 3 “Malkin posted more email addresses.”
Listserv-type email addresses!!!! Is there even one there (on the post you referred to) that could remotely, even possibly, be an individual?
High road?
Sigh. I really can’t be the “Malkin-watch-watch.”
Via con Dios.
Comment by The Commissar — April 20, 2006 @ 6:15 pm
Per my previous comment, here they are:
[Deleted due to lesser but still real inappropriateness - Ed.]
Comment by The Commissar — April 20, 2006 @ 6:16 pm
What can I say, commissar, you’re right. Of course, there’s certainly NO POSSIBILITY of abuse of listserv e-mail addresses. I can’t possibly think of what might happen if those were misused, which is why I’ve deleted them.
But still, you’re right, those weren’t personal e-mails. I guess I was just blinded by her veiled call to anti-protest violence.
Comment by Auguste — April 20, 2006 @ 6:19 pm