Compare:

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

A few things:

• The Malkins sarcastically asked, “How long before someone screams RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST?” referring to the hard-right position that racist criticisms of Barack Obama shouldn’t be called racist. I don’t think the fake story itself is racist, but Michelle’s use of “Bling” as a caption for the jewelry graphic is: Would Michelle have chosen “bling” had this been President-elect Clinton purchasing her husband a comparably priced watch? No.
• Michelle Malkin is displaying a remarkable bitterness stemming from the abject failure of her savior, The Gov. Palin, and she’s taking it out on her own credibility. When something so trivial as a tale about a fake ring comes up, and Obama doesn’t merely decline to comment, but denies the report, she can’t take him at his word. Yes, Pres. Bush received similar treatment, but only after building a strong reputation as a poor manager and a liar. Michelle could at least let Obama do that first.
• Michelle’s post actually has the word “criminey” in it. This term falls slightly ahead of “fiddle sticks” but behind “tarnation” on the Absolute Profanity Scale published biannually by the American Enterprise Institute in concert with Charles Krauthammer’s upper lip.

That said, the Malkins tend to treat sources from the “other” side as dubious. Her treatment of the Murtha-Haditha Massacre and Jamil Hussein scandals are the most notable case. The former she got almost right, the latter totally wrong.

Here the perspective is switched. The video running on MM.com has obvious signs of heavy editing and poor camera work. (I’m sure the investigators would be willing to hand over the original tapes if the state needs that evidence.)

I know Bloomington, Indiana pretty well, and I have been in that Planned Parenthood building. It is not an “abortion clinic” as claimed in Live Action Films’s press release (reprinted at the Malkin link above). As far as I can recall, there are no doctors in Bloomington who perform abortions. The building does not have the facilities required to perform surgical procedures. If Michelle and Jesse held this exposé to the same standards they hold the Associated Press and CNN, they would be posting the phone numbers and home addresses of the anti-abortion students behind the video, because, honestly, they need to “grow up and take responsibility.“

German outreach to Muslims backfires

The medicine Islam needs may kill it: Flinstones Vitamins & Arsenic.

My favorite part is that last frame.

Earlier today, Michelle and Jesse followed the lead of Greater Wingnuttia and linked approvingly to a John Ziegler’s hack operation HowObamaGotElected.com.

(The) Malkin(s) blogged that it was because “[s]tupid people voted,” yet in an interview with Nate Silver of 538 dot com, Ziegler said, “The point here was not to show that Obama supporters were idiots — there are plenty of idiots on both sides of the aisle — but what information they got from the media that they were able to consume.”

At least he’s polite, right?

NS [Nate Silver]: Well, since you’re running a website calling people misinformed, I’d like to see if — there are certain things you’ve said that I would consider misinformed.
JZ [John Ziegler]: Misinformed? You’re a piece of work! You are never going to have the guts to post a representative transcript on your website! I thought you actually ran a legitimate website!

NS: Thank you, have a good day.
JZ: Go fuck yourself.

Upon hearing of rumors that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton may accept the title of Madame Secretary, Michelle wonders,

Where do you think she should take her first diplomatic trip?

I vote Tuzla!

It is fresh in the active political junky’s mind that Candidate Hillary Clinton, came under figurative sniper-fire over remarks over claims of literal sniper-fire. She eventually recanted.

That the actual threat of violence was nonexistent is beyond the point; Michelle is taking the connotation of violence towards then-First Lady and applying it directly to a sitting Senator, glibly implying, “Maybe she’ll actually get shot this time.”

Unacceptable, and beyond the border encompassing the Unhinged.

A Web site called Malkin Watch runs a cartoon of her in a Nazi uniform.

Guilty as charged.