Michelle has some well-intentioned critique for the Obama camp as it relates to defending the candidate against unsourced smears:

As I reported yesterday, Kurtz spent two hours on legendary radio talk show host Milt Rosenberg’s Chicago program on WGN last night detailing his initial findings. The Obama campaign went ballistic — and in typical Chicago mafia-style, smeared Kurtz and tried to shut down the show.

Ignoring that Michelle never does any original “reporting,” she does an interesting job of conflating many vintage attacks that have been used by the Blame America Last contingent.

The Obama/Ayers connection is an attempt at bringing 60s radicals, many of whom have entered the mainstream of society, back from the Weird/Bizarro/Scary/Acid Trip days. The terrorist allegations aren’t sticking. This is mainly because Ayers is now a middle-aged white guy. Other middle-aged white people see him standing on the American flag and shrug their shoulders. “He’s a professor, huh? Well, that’s nothing new.”

The “Chicago mafia-style” reference is also less-than-resonant. In no way does Obama’s supporters defending their man look anything like organized crime. If anything, what Michelle is complaining about resembles what Republican activists did back in 2000 to stop the recounts–something Michelle likely applauded.

And, of course, Michelle and “thuggery” cannot be mentioned together without reminding all of how she posted the personal phone numbers of members of Santa Cruz’s Students Against War. She wouldn’t remove them after a request. She responded, “You are responsible for your individual actions. Other individuals are responsible for theirs. Grow up and take responsibility.”

If only she gave Stanley Kurtz the same suggestion.

Michelle Malkin is a professional blogger. She is also a proud mother of two. Her husband, Jesse, is a stay-at-home father who also happens to ghostwrite portions of her blog.

They employ at least one full-time nanny and another part-time babysitter to watch after their kids. Not out of necessity, but because of their blogging obsession.

Now, I only bring up these facts (in firmly diplomatic terms, of course) to draw attention to Michelle’s do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do approach to parenting. Below the fold is the entirety of a column by one Ms. Michelle Maglalang, which appeared in the Long Beach Press-Telegram on April 30, 1993.
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Michelle has written a total of three posts lauding the actions of Wenyi Wang (and strangely using the situation to take a swipe at Rep. Cynthia McKinney).

Video:Shouting Down a Tyrant
Wenyi Wang Rocks
The Prosecution of Wenyi Wang

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Pasadena Weekly (article also includes an informative interview with Wang):

Unfortunately for Wang, a 47-year-old mother of two, the romantic notion of America as the home of free speech is about to collide with the harsh reality of what happens when small voices speak big truths to powerful people who do not want to hear such things. And in this case, it appears power is about to have its way again with Wang facing possible jail time, heavy fines and perhaps even deportation if convicted for her internationally televised 45-second tirade against Hu on the White House lawn.

The Post reports that court documents have Wang waving a yellow banner and shouting in Chinese: “Stop oppressing the Falun Gong,” “Your time is running out” and “Anything you have done will come back to you in this lifetime.” Although Wang disputes saying Hu’s time was running out, she reportedly also yelled to Bush, “Stop him from persecuting Falun Gong!”

If you followed this story from Malkin’s angle (not to mention that of the rest of the A-Listers on both sides) the threats in bold above may seem surprising. That’s because you weren’t reading Mykeru. His coverage included accurate translations of Wang’s Mandarin. And although these could be considered “political threats”, one can hardly imagine a moonbat or militia member yelling at Bush, “Your days are numbered!”

All of the self-described professional bloggers who covered this story should be ashamed of themselves for intentionally turning a blind eye to Myk’s observations. In Malkin’s case, she has a grudge against the loose union of pointedly anti-Malkin blogs made up of The Liberal Avenger, Malkin(s)Watch, and Mykeru.com.* Needless to say, she has let her hatred for her most effective critics compromise her ability to cover something as plain as a protest.

Another superfluous string of letters: Her readers don’t care.

*Neiwert’s Orcinus and Muller’s IsThatLegal? intentionally left out because she actually responds to them on occasion.
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