This dumb editorial is tl;dr. But there’s this:

If Al Franken can run a competitive race for the United States Senate, why can’t Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, or Michael Medved do the same?

I’d love to know how Candidate Malkin would implement her policy positions on illegal immigration, including how she’d pay for them.

Your irrelevancy is manifest.

I can’t take all the credit for the death of your favorite party, but only a little.

P.S. It’s been fun watching you defend a subscriber to anthropogenic global warming. Good work.

Gore won Florida. Whatever happens in a couple days, I’d like to be able to say the President Elect is legitimate.

Y’know, ‘cuz Legitimacy and the Oval Office have been divorced for ’bout eight years, or so.

Haven’t been posting, because MM and Hot Air dot coms have been quite boring, more of the same, etc. The comment threads are where it’s really goin’ on. Just read this one:

We need to know what the libs and the MSM are talking about. I like HotAir because it isnt a dailykos circle-jerk

lodge on November 1, 2008 at 9:10 PM

I bet he also loves Little Green Footballs.

I love A la Pundit’s poll posts. Especially the latest:

CBS/NYT: Obama 53, McCain 39

On top of this, Obama’s buying ad time in the broadcast markets here, a strongly R-area. (Let’s barrelhouse all night long, baby!)

Someone stole Capt. Ed’s McCain-Palin-Communist-Revolution lawn sign. Observe his whining ways. He even uses the “The case of the…” construct in the title of his post, as if some rough-n-tumble cop who plays fast and loose with the rules might be close to cracking this one wide open.

Oh! And he’s even got a pic up of his wife, son-in-law, daughter, and conceived-out-of-wedlock grandchild just to make sure you know he’s totally humorless. (Fun fact: Ed’s wife, a.k.a. “The First Mate” is blind.) Perhaps I know too much about these people. Let me know when McCain throws in the towel. This sux.

Bonus: Ryan does his impression of Capt. Ed wanking into a bowl of Capt. Crunk, a.k.a. the last paragraph of any Queeg post:

Interestingly enough, the original story fails to get at the heart of the most notable aspect of the dynamic. Not that the sign was stolen, per se. (That’s to be expected.) It’s that the sign won’t be readily replaced. McCain ensured his supporters that the RNC’s warchest alongside his own public financing would be enough to take on the Democrat candidate. Maybe Feingold was onto something when he collaborated with Senator McCain…

Ah… It’s soul-shattering writing like I’m getting paid by the word.

Google will give exact factorial values up through 15 and approximate values up through 170. (Just put in a number with an exclamation point after. E.g.)

I’m sure “overflow” is the “official” “reason”. Pshaw! I see bias everywhere!

I was on vacation last week. I successfully avoided CNN and Fox News in all the airports. It’s actually quite a lot of work avoiding the news media when a member of a politically-aware family. Also amusing explaining to an uncle who’s been front-paged Kos why exactly I’m only reading Malkin & Co.

Welp. Every third post at MM.com is “Kill the Bailout!” If you ask me, she’s got a shot at getting her way. (”Snort!”) That’s probably why she’s pushing so hard: There’s no chance she’ll see her policy positions on immigration enter the mainstream, and losing all the time sucks.

And remember her illiterate and blundering BDS blog posts?

Should be an entertaining tonight if past behavior is any indication.

Cf.

Michelle shares an email with us…

• Race traitor card-playing e-mail of the day

From: Leilani Albano
To: writemalkin@gmail.com
Subject: don’t forget you’re brown

i’ve read your stories throughout the years.

and i have to say, from one pinay journalist to another, you embarrass me and you embarrass our people.

i’m sorry the US media has used you, larry elders and other conservative drones of color to bolster their quota numbers.

what we need are more conscious journalists of color, not just another mainstream token acting as a cheerleader for the conservative right.

hopefully someday, you will find genuine connections with others and see how much damage you have done with your recklessly crafted pieces.

Unlike she does with Obama, I don’t pretend to know what Michelle is thinking or feeling. I don’t know her. I only know the persona that is Michelle Malkin. (Fun fact: Michelle still copyrights her books under the name “Michelle Maglalang.”) I’m guessing, though, that this email really stung. Michelle didn’t grow up in a strong Filipino community like the Filipinos I knew growing up, so it’s no surprise that the “our people” comment was taken as an extreme insult. MM was never “accepted by them” to begin with, so how could she “turn her back”? It’s an interesting aspect of the blogger’s life.

The part I emphasized above is of particular importance. If asked how her own skin color has impacted her career, I would guess Michelle to either take the indifferent stance or concede that it’s helped her. I highly doubt that a woman of Michelle’s viciousness would allow anyone to “use” her. To the contrary, her race is a platform to attract an audience that can’t distinguish differences among Asians–or realize that Michelle sees herself as a white American.

Today’s moral: Don’t bait Michelle and Jesse Malkin with issues of race. It only disrupts the hornet’s nests that are their troubled minds.

• The Atlantic should have Googled Jill Greenberg before hiring her

Jill Greenberg disgraced her profession well before The Atlantic hired her.

A simple Google search would have turned up my post…

Oh yes. It’s Michelle Malkin’s world; we just live here. If only The Atlantic had read Michelle’s crack reporting, they wouldn’t be in the precarious situation of having to answer to Michelle Malkin’s well-tempered criticism. A couple related questions:

• Why didn’t McCain’s handlers Google Jill Greenberg? I’m sure they have Blackberries and iPhones.
• Why didn’t Michelle use her Gazoogling skills (We all know they’re beyond those of mortal beings!) to rat out Box Turtle Ben Domenech’s plagiarism, back when he was editing her last book, Unhinged.

Another poll falling into the bad-news-for-Barack category. Queeg:

One of the more striking numbers from the poll is the younger voter demographic. Obama has had a large lead in most polling in voters under 35, and in Minnesota, the college-age and young adult vote is a formidable weapon. Now, though, McCain and Obama evenly split that vote, which bodes ill for Obama in a general election.

First off, the data analysis that went into this report must be wrong. In no way will Obama and McCain split the 35-and-under vote. Impossible, really. My guess (without having any other references) is that corrections for party affiliation were to strong for Republicans and independents. Seems that whenever a poll claims they based numbers on 45% Dems, 28% Criminals, and 17% independents, the wingnuts go on a rampage.

It’s still worthwhile to look at poll numbers even if the absolute percentages aren’t accurate. They can still give an idea of where support is shifting. Obama, then, isn’t necessarily losing ground but opinion is shifting towards McCain slightly, due mostly to his Beard.

Obama has an opportunity now to enter the debates as an apparent underdog. (And Americans love an underdog!) In this situation, the viewers (and there will be a lot of them) go in with high expectations for the Favorite (McCain) and low expectations for Obama. Rope-a-Dope, anyone?

Capt. Ed Morrissey of the U.S.S. Mass Over Volume:

Could the GOP retake the House?

…same answer to this one, too:

Is New York in play? Update: Obama loses 18 points since June

It hasn’t been a full week, yet, but I think Saturdays are a good time to do a weekly roundup of sorts on my impressions.

The Malkinites have very low expectations of Palin and none for McCain; Obama and Biden are “Gaffe Twins.” It’s amazing that the Malkinites think it’s just alright that McCain doesn’t access the Internet or even use a computer, as the recent Obama ad suggests. The Internet is the bread and butter–quite literally–of the Malkins, Ed Morrissey, and A la Pundit; it should bother any blogger that McCain does not have a grasp of the security, financial, and neutrality issues facing the Net. Of course, they’ll argue, “He’ll appoint good people!” But, by definition, he won’t be able to judge anyone’s knowledge on these subjects. (And John “P.O.W.” McCain’s various disabilities may preclude his use of a typewriter–no excuse for not knowing about computer systems. The guy wants to be the Prez after all!)

Sarah Palin didn’t have any idea what the Bush Doctrine is! Therefore she’s more qualified than ever before! I knew of at least a couple ways of defining the term, but Palin didn’t even know one. But that’s gravy with everyone else: They needed Teh Gazoogle to find out about it. Corollary: Both Noam Chomsky and myself are too well-versed in recent American history to hold public office. Zing!

Malkin and her peeps are very confident right now. They really don’t trust McCain, and they’ve fallen for the Palin ruse. Where does this leave them? They are consistently only sharing polls with me that show McCain is tied or taking the lead. All political analysis is being forced into the “Obama’s doomed; Go Palin/McCain” frame. Sad really. They’re reminding me of DUers four years ago.

Michelle performed her annual empty gesture for the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the NY and DC today. It amounted to some tl;dr copypasta from the 9/11 Commission Report. Eat it, bitches! 5 posts, timed closely to their respective events:

• Never forget: United Airlines Flight 175
• Never forget: American Airlines Flight 11
• Never forget: South Tower collapse
• Never forget: United Airlines Flight 93
• Never forget: American Airlines Flight 77

And, according to the rules, I had to read the comment threads for all of these… Good stuff after TEH jump.
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