Some lazy college student cribbed that MM piece calling Ted Rall a racist. Blissful:

Herzog’s (er, Malkin’s) thesis is ridiculous. No one attributes a character in a novel’s lines to its author. Similarly, when a character in a cartoon says something, it isn’t the cartoonist saying it.

(N.B.: Ted Rall drew and colored this site’s logo.)

…adding that I got this link from a Google News Alert for michelle-malkin. Because the subject is “old news,” I didn’t take it as a compromise of my promise to you, dear readers. Disagreement always accepted.

Gavin the Sadlynaught has it about right with this Shorter Right-O-Sphere:

Video Exclusive: Michelle Malkin Attacked At DNC

Ho-hum, we condemn the alleged plot to assassinate Barack. . .OH MY GOD, SOMEBODY YELLED AT MICHELLE MALKIN!

One, i.e., me, might conclude that Michelle can’t go out in public without running into members of The Unhinged Left. And that would explain at least one of the major themes of her oeuvre–that liberals, as a people, aren’t just crazier than their conservative counterparts, but they are less likely to reel in fringe elements.

Another conclusion: She just brings out the worst in people.

Update: As is the case with my entire oeuvre, this post is ill-informed and unreadable. David Neiwert has the goods on the man who accosted MM. Basically a solid STFU to Gateway Pundit.

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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Marymary over at MM=I recently exhibited her awesome command and understanding of all the fucked up things that travel through Michelle’s/Jesse’s brain(s). And what better medium than a Malkin version of the Monopoly game board. Classic.

The NYTimes got some powder in the mail, coinciding with recent protests against free speech by (strangely enough) American conservatives.

nyc indymedia reports with silent sobs:

It is unknown if the FBI will begin to racially profile the protesters at the Times offices in order to better assess the terrorist threat they pose.
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Its uncertain as to whether Michelle Malkin and Rabbi Aryeh Spero of the Caucus for America will be arrested pre-emptively in order to keep them from doing any further damage.
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We don’t know any of these things. But I doubt it.

Chris Clarke, being of the type that gets paid for the stringing together of words, does more than I would had I been pressed to respond to Deb Frisch’s vile remarks. I likely would have lowered the bar by saying, “Fuck Goldstein!” and then proceeded to make fun of the guy for having panic attacks every time some liberal blogger emails him a takedown link.

If this were something I could sign onto, I would:

[L]et me say this straight out to dispell any misconceptions:

I am appalled by Deb Frisch’s crude, offensive, and arguably threatening statements. I condemn them.

I’m also appalled by the burning of the Reichstag, and I condemn it in no uncertain terms. And all those chickens: I condemn each and every feather on their backs as they come home to roost. And I further and summarily disavow all of the fruits of the seeds Goldstein may or may not have sown, though I fully support his right to reap them as he sees fit.

If you didn’t know, Michelle and Jesse wrote about the Frisch thing. Eh. Nothing special.

David Neiwert wrote a great expansion of a little post I did recently. My position has not changed: Michelle needs to shut down The Immigration Blog, if only to preserve her own reputation. And the exit strategy is safe and succinct: No one’s reading it.

David Neiwert has an excellent post up on the latest developments coming out of the Minuteman Project, most notably the divisions at the leadership levels and the rumblings coming from their easily confused donors.

One of the really fortunate aspects of the far right in America is that it is constitutionally predisposed to fracturing: the combination of latent paranoid tendencies, controlling personalities and gigantic egos makes it nearly certain that its various components can never form an effective, long-term coalition.

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(When the first paragraph is that good, you can tell it’s going to be a great read.)

What is somewhat ironic about groups like the Minuteman Project is that they refer to themselves as conservatives but take on revolutionary labels. They also seem more than willing to fling mud at each other over trivialities, such as money and how it’s spent. Obviously, revolutions without coherent, realizable goals are doomed for failure.

I suppose one could say that Michelle and Jesse Malkin are cut from the same cloth as the leaders of these far-right groups. After the ghostblogging charges began to diffuse through the blogosphere, the two cobloggers may have become increasingly paranoid about even more damaging leaks making their way to sundry blogs of ill-repute.

And given Michelle’s propensity for lashing out at critics, one wonders if they suspected people who know them well. On top of that, Jesse’s [alleged] tendency toward violent behavior suggests that his enormous ego clashing with Michelle’s comparably enormous ego is no pretty sight. Fer sure.

News Hounds guestblogger Priscilla makes an excellent point regarding Warlord author Ilario Pantano and Ann Coulter’s recent 9/11 widows comments:

My suspicions were affirmed when I came across Michelle Malkin’s endorsement of Mr. Patano’s [sic] book. She recommended that it be given to your “local troop trashing columnist or cartoonist” and mentioned that his experience reminded her of the Haditha “debacle.” Now according to Ann Coulter, isn’t Mr. Pantano [sic] exploiting his personal tragedy for personal gain? As a soldier isn’t he what Coulter refers to as a “human shield?”

And over at MichelleMalkinIsAnIdiot.com (or as I like to call it, “MM=I”) there’s a list of some of the more tasteless Coulter quotes modified so as to attack Michelle’s ethnicity, sex, and overall existence.

Word:

The time for you and me to allow ourselves to be brutalized nonviolently has passed. Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist, then I’ll get nonviolent. But don’t teach me to be nonviolent until you teach some of those crackers to be nonviolent.

[Also see this May 1964 Monthly Review interview.]

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skippy alerts us to some Closed Border Lobby Hypocrisy.

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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Not exactly a case of Malkinian plagiarism, but good enough. Ann Coulter has been caught lifting the words of others. Again. Ron Brynaert has the goods over at Raw Story:

“In the August 24, 2004, New York Times, science writer Gina Kolata claimed that no one had succeeded in using adult stem cells ‘to treat diseases,’” writes Coulter.

To prove the Times science writer wrong, Coulter then provides a “short list” of sixteen “successful treatments achieved by adult stem cell research.”

But fifteen of Coulter’s examples are nearly identical to a longer list of seventeen compiled by the Illinois Right To Life website, which has been available since at least September of 2003.
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The anti-abortion website doesn’t provide any sources for its list of examples of “successful experimental treatments [that] have been achieved using ethical sources of stem cells.”

Pushing unsubstantiated propaganda from fringe groups? Michelle would never do that… Or would she?

Much more over at Raw Story.

Vox Day’s column this week laments the shift of the conservative movement to (and its subsequent dry-humping of) The Left, and he finally does what none of us have had the courage to do: Peg down Michelle’s politics with a single label based on a single controversial stance on a nonexistent issue.

[I]t is debatable as to which group is in worse shape, the ‘’conservative'’ politicians or the ‘’conservative'’ commentariat. While the leftward drift of the administration and the Congress have not escaped notice despite the best efforts of its cheerleaders to play it down…

Indeed, what with Michelle Malkin pushing FDR’s internment program, Ben Shapiro, Sean Hannity and numerous others pushing Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy, Larry Kudlow pushing Richard Nixon’s monetary policies and the editors of National Review harboring a Harry Truman-style crush on the United Nations, one has to wonder if a liberal media is redundant these days.

There you have it. Michelle is a New Deal Democrat because she wants to lock up the undesirables. If this seems a bit farfetched to you (as it does to me), take solace in the fact that you are not a genius like VD. We’ll never get to hang at those hot MENSA orgies. American politics is, like, totally hard to understand.

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For more on being a Pro-Internment Leftist, read Neiwert’s latest!
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Michelle got it wrong, yet again, this week by publishing (approvingly and without the appropriate fact check) an email, which claims that Ted Rall was not the first commentator to lambast some of the more opportunistic widows and widowers of 9/11.

“The widows’” act (all four of them) was getting tired long ago and Ann Coulter or that creep Ted Rall weren’t the first to point it out. Dorothy Rabinowitz of the WSJ may have that distinction and said as much in 2004.

Rall was the first, but it doesn’t stop Malkin from reprinting a large portion of a two-year-old column that wasn’t even interesting when it was new. Furthermore, she doesn’t have the temerity to reprint the comic in question. (By the way, the comic is over four years old, and can be viewed below the fold.)
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Some people take Internet insults a little too personally.

Malkin tells us, “It’s the Jihad, Stupid“. The post is a verifiable/veritable verbal anal drip, a rehashing of her latest column. I’m guessing that no one is reading it if she has to post it on her blog; it’s basically an attempt to form the impression that there is an epidemic of jihadist activity on the continent that must be addressed through profiling. (Just scroll through the pictures. You’ll understand.) “Money” quote:

Many clueless North Americans remain shocked, shocked, that jihadis live among them — despite the open secret of our northern neighbor’s reputation as an Islamic terrorist safe haven.

Someone should remind whoever wrote this of the minor fact that the WTC and the Pentagon were in the U.S. on 9/11. Just from watching the news for the last week, it seems that Canada has a pretty good track record on thwarting terrorist attacks. Most notably, because they did it the right way: By infiltrating the cell. Torture not required.

A point I’ve been meaning to make:

Also last month, Virginia Death Row inmate and Nation of Islam convert John Allan Mohammed was convicted of six Maryland murders from his fall 2002 Beltway-area criminal spree.

Not only was he a member of the Nation of Islam, but a competent shot—trained by the U.S. Army. Surely Michelle doesn’t want to extend profiling and extended incarceration to returning war vets. Even the white ones.

Anyway. Apparently, some easily offended person took Michelle’s title to heart and has responded by registering the domain michellemalkinisanidiot.com. Looks bloglike.