A sustaining din of indignation has a steady source in the blogging collective surrounding Michelle & Jesse Malkin.

It appears to be getting more shrill as the group grows. This week saw a raising of stakes of sorts: paranoia of media manipulation in the coverage of the continuing slaughter in Lebanon, Joe Lieberman’s primary loss to a political fish, and the arrests of alleged violent jihadists in Britain.
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More bad writing. Michelle navel gazes by proxy:

I’m excited to welcome Ian Schwartz, formerly of Expose the Left, to the team over at Hot Air. He’s an energetic and innovative young entrepreneur who helped kick off the video revolution on the right side of the blogosphere. Ian will be working with us, and starting college this fall, as we expand our programming and operations. We’re lucky to have him!

(BTW, that’s the whole post. No need to click through.)

Update: (8/7, evening) Silly me. I’ve been distracted today by talented dead writers. I didn’t even bother to go to Expose the Left to get Ian’s take on his new gig. I see this:

Beginning August 17th, the archives of Expose the Left will be accessed through a different link then [sic] it is now.

We’re in for a bumpy ride, folks. If you’re the praying type, beg the Almighty for him to take Bryan’s failures as an example, thus knowing his place and not posting much in the way of text — Amen.

As of yet, his Hot Airian purpose is not clear. Sporadic, yet frequent, updates as they come in. Developing…

Bryan Preston, “Hot Airian” extraordinaire, offered up a poorly written rant last night in an attempt to point out some of the mainstream press’s misplaced priorities. I’ll go through the post itself with commentary. Don’t think of this as a “fisking,” but as a focused exposition of why The Prestigious Internet, especially the blogosphere, has been testing my imperturbability lately.

Today’s news featured anti-semites on rampages. Every day since 9-11 seems to have featured anti-semites on rampages somewhere in the world, but two of today’s stories happened right here in the US of A.

The phrase “anti-semites on rampages” is very queer. It’s not usual to use the word rampage when referring to a single person. So after reading the first sentence a couple times, then the second sentence a few times, it was still unclear if Bryan means to say that different groups of anti-semites are going on wholly different rampages (like in the case of the Danish Muhammed cartoons) or if individual anti-semites are going on their own mini-rampages? And how the hell does a day feature anything, much less an anti-semite?
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Economical blog posting is a virtue.

Yesterday the Malkins celebrated the third anniversary of Technorati. But the interesting part of that post comes in the form of off topic rambling:

Speaking of redesign, the moonbats at digg are whining about the format of my blog post headlines. So, I’ve turned off the caps. (Update: Well, I tried to, but it didn’t work. If you know your way around MT, let me know what I need to do. Thanks. Update II: No more CAPS!) Not that it’ll cure their BDS. But it can’t hurt.

“[M]oonbats?” “[A]t Digg?” “[W]hining?” “[P]ost headlines?”

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…and crackerdom ensues.

I’m not entirely sure what possessed A la Pundit to cover this, considering the rabid racism of his base audience.

And he doth proclaimeth (with a healthy dose of ye olde verbal irony):

It’ll cure blacks’ sense of grievance and make whites more sympathetic to the injustice of slavery by driving home the economic costs.

I don’t believe the author of this sentence has the capacity to sympathize with the man who couldn’t patronize a store owned and operated by a person who looks like him if he so desired. Granting small bits of humanity such as this to a people oppressed for the good part of 500 years is beyond a dollar amount. Who cares how angry a bunch of racists get?
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Yesterday marked the weakest blogging day out of Malkin Central in some time. (Discounting this past Saturday, of course.*) Not too surprising, because it comes after nearly 48 hours of vigorous updating wherein the troops she agrees with were given (con)textual backup (over an odious song). Maybe she’s been working on a post for The Immigration Blog, which hasn’t been updated since June 9th.

Then again the lag may be attributed, not to something as simple as “battle fatigue” a la 82nd Chairborne Brigade (cite), but to a barrage of fire coming from the Left-O-Sphere’s own A-List nasties. (We’ll know for sure if some not-so-glorifying emails find their way to the front page of MM.com later today.)

Warning: This post is long. If you find my prose tedious and boring, you may as well stop here.

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Anyone concerned with human rights should be appalled by the (laughably weak) charges against Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci. Unlike Michelle, I do not agree with Fallaci’s assessment of Islam, but I am willing to concede that her writings (from what I have seen) do not constitute “hate speech”, which is the basis of speech-restricting laws, such as those against Holocaust denial.

That said, is Michelle’s reporting of the facts accurate? Of course not. Her agenda requires that she distort the narrative to the extent that she can claim that ‘European dhimmitude’ will land on U.S. shores in no time. In her Women Warriors episode of VENT from May 9, our esteemed host claimed that Fallaci “faces up to two years in jail, in Italy”. It appears that she found this fact in a WSJ editorial that was written well before the law was changed in January 2006. From the New Yorker Fallaci profile that Malkin herself linked to:

A Mussolini-era criminal code holds that “whoever offends the state’s religion, by defaming those who profess it, will be punished with up to two years of imprisonment.” Though the code was written to protect the Catholic Church, it has been successively amended in the past ten years, so that it encompasses any “religion acknowledged by the state.” The complaint against Fallaci marks the first time that the code has been invoked on behalf of any religion but Catholicism. (In January, Fallaci’s supporters in the Italian Senate pushed through an amendment to the code, reducing the maximum penalty to five thousand euros.)

As a respected member/journalist of the New Media, I’m sure Michelle will be eager to clear this up for her readers, and call for the repeal of this oppressive statute.

Blogger and “Vent” producer Bryan Preston, who according to my projections may surpass John “Hindrocket” Hinderaker as the right’s leading source of embarrassment nearly four months from now, wasn’t satisfied with simply making shit up this week. He also had to go and call out a major British newspaper for not hating Muslims enough.

Now, it’s up for debate which of his writings from this week is crazier: That “MeCHA [sic]” desires to commit genocide against all non-Latinos in Aztlan or the condemnation of a metropolitan daily for not “hanging the raghead.” (OK. He didn’t publish the last part, but it certainly fits.)

[Ed. Bryan’s post appears to have been deleted from the Hot Air blog. As a public service, I’ve supplied the text of the post, in full, as it appeared in my RSS reader, below the fold.]

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According to Master Steamer Allahpundit, being physically strong, morally astute, and pro-civil liberties makes one a “gaywad”.

Our gaywad superheroes

There aren’t enough real villains to fight, I guess, so they’re duking it out with each other over civil liberties. The dissenters — led by Captain America, naturally — are facing hard time at a Gitmo-esque facility. … Stay tuned for next week’s issue, in which a grief-stricken Batman hears the news about Haditha and has the Human Torch immolate him outside Don Rumsfeld’s office.

Perhaps he means that the whole intra-superhero conflict is frivolous and unimportant, leaving all involved with a “gaywadish” stain on their respective tights. (N.B. According to Urban Dictionary, gaywad may not necessarily have a homophobic connotation.)

Either way, it’s just fiction.

On a related note: I still haven’t forgiven Topps for attempting to militarily indoctrinate me with their Desert Storm Trading Cards.

Update: Geez. I call him flamboyant one time, and he has to go and whine in wingnut fashion. Cushy job, that.

This news was so hot I had to notify Auguste by Instant Messenger!

LA: Did you hear?
LA: Suspected illegal Mexican day-laborers were behind 9/11 the whole time

Auguste: ohhhhh!
Auguste: it’s all so clear

LA: They hatched the plot at a 7/11 in Virginia.

Auguste: right
Auguste: actually - no
Auguste: I heard
Auguste: they hatched the plot at one of those day laborer sites a city in New Hampshire built
Auguste: thank god other cities are throwing city councils out for suggesting them

LA: Oh shit - you’re probably right

Auguste: I say we bomb the day labor sites
Auguste: at night - they’ll never expect it

LA: Shock and awe

[pause…]

Auguste: dude, you weren’t even kidding!
Auguste: I thought you were being dadaist!

LA: Michelle’s all over the story!
LA: Connecting the dots!
LA: NEVER FORGET!

Auguste: I totally thought you were kidding. I should know better than that.

LA: She even brought her boyfriend Bryan Preston along to secretly film the Mexicans.
LA: I wonder if Jesse was there?
LA: I wonder if Jesse would have savagely beaten Bryan Preston if he got spooked by the camera?

Yes, fellow race-traitors - Michelle, Bryan and possibly Jesse just dropped one straight into the laps of the Open Borders Lobby and pinning 9/11 on a tequila-crazed “Viva Bush” mariachi band from Jalisco that had grown frustrated after not landing a birthday-party gig after 20 consecutive days of showing up at what they thought was the designated day-laborer site (it was actually a methadone clinic). Their hearts filled with rage they recruited a gang of disenchanted young Arab men (who they met at the clinic), forged Virginia drivers’ licenses for them, trained them in the dark-arts of ka-ra-te (with a little capoeira mixed in for good measure) and sent them on their dirty deed. The rest, of course is history.

[Why is Michelle so sad?]

Update: The caption on the photo says, “Jesse! One of those frijoles licked our lowrider!” Not my best work. I have a pickup-truck full of Mexicans coming over to mow my lawn in a moment, however, so I don’t have time to write a better one. I’ve started a thread on my site, however, for a caption contest.

You can’t win if you don’t play.

Someone remarked that now that HotAir is up and running, they can see why Malkin doesn’t allow comments on her blog - and it ain’t because of the lefties.

After the jump, I once again mercilessly steal the “damn-them-with-their-own-words” structure from Pam. Update: Breaking - a new collective noun for people who comment on HotAir below! Prepare yourself for teh genius! (inspired in part by Amanda Marcotte)
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Tip 1: When working with a green screen, don’t use a prop which has green elements.

Tip 2: Tagline selection is very important. “Keep fishing for the truth” is not very good. Since fishing is generally speaking a hit-and-miss affair, it implies that the truth is very hard to find when one is watching Vent.

On second thought, I guess it’s a really good analogy after all.

(It’s almost - almost, mind you - worth watching the actual video just for the fishing pole scene. Greater production values have not been seen since my third grade project “The Haunted Kitchen” pioneered the “stop-motion-animation-with-occasionally-appearing-hand” technique.)