Michelle Malkin

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[[File:Michelle M.jpg|thumb|right|165px|She can't be racist because she is her own Asian friend.]]
{{Pundits}}{{cquote|The right-wing solution is not to lie down, but to win over more converts, find new ways to disseminate our news and views, and turn up the heat. I’ve been doing it for 25-plus years and have no intention on cooling off, giving in or shutting up.|||Malkin, the endless horror<ref>[https://www.unz.com/author/michelle-malkin//2018/08/29/the-lefts-long-war-on-conservative-free-speech/ The Left's Long War on Conservative Free Speech] by Michelle Malkin (August 29, 2018), ''The Unz Review''.</ref>}}'''Michelle Malkin''' (nee Maglalang) {{lived|1970|}} is a particularly vile [[Wingnut|far-right]] US political pundit. And to merit the qualification "particularly vile" in the august company of [[Rush Limbaugh]] and [[Michael Savage]] is truly awe-inspiring.

She stands out for [[Internet law#Skarka’s Law|openly defending]] [[Japanese American internment]] during [[World War II]], and implied that [[Islam|Muslim]] civilians should be similarly locked up for the duration of the [[War on Terror]] (so basically until the Republican Party unanimously decides that Muslims are okay<ref group=note>And [[Fundamentalism|given]] the [[Dominionism|Dominionist]]/[[Fundamentalism|hyper]]-<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Protestant]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> [[Christianity|Christian]] [[Religious Right|leanings]] [[QAnon|of]] [[American Taliban|the]] [[Fun:Jesusland|current]] [[Fascism|GOP]], [[Islamophobia|that won't be for a long, ''long'' time]].</ref>). She's also a proponent of [[torture]], and [[demonization|demonizes]] her opponents at almost every opportunity, often for no particular reason.

Being a [[woman]], she's usually the go-to alternative to [[Ann Coulter]]. Being the daughter of [[Asia]]n parents, (i.e., not [[Caucasian|white]]), she's often [[Tokenism|used to shield American conservative punditry from accusations of racism]] (regardless of the [[ironic]] fact that Malkin's a flaming [[racist]] herself).

Not surprisingly, Malkin was a regular contributor on [[Fox News]] and was a guest host on ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]''.

Her rhetoric is so bad that [[Andrew Sullivan]] made up the Malkin Award for the most intemperate, hateful remarks of the year. (Both she and Coulter are ineligible for the award, to give others a chance at winning.<ref>[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/awards/ The Dish Awards]</ref>)

==Malkin's Greatest Hits==
Malkin has a history of bizarre, vile behavior. A full list would run to book length. Here are some of the more notorious incidents, in chronological order:

===Malkin versus Matthews===
Malkin's rise started during the run-up to the [[2004 U.S. Presidential Election|2004 Presidential Election]]. At the time, she still had a habit of saying obscene things, but she couched them in such a way that she had [[Deceit#Deceit via plausible deniability|plausible deniability]]. The first challenge to this tactic came from professional screamer [[Chris Matthews]]. On ''Hardball'', Malkin raised allegations that [[John Kerry]] had deliberately wounded himself to earn a purple heart. However, she couldn't quite bring herself to say that she believed that, only that [[JAQing off|allegations were being made]] (well, allegations from Malkin, at least). The results were a bit embarrassing for Malkin, to say the least.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoM90bAsr1M Chris Matthews and Michelle Malkin (video)]</ref>

===Malkin defends Japanese internment===
{{main|In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror}}
In 2004, Malkin released a book ''defending'' [[Japanese American internment|Japanese internment]] during [[World War II]]<ref>''In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror'' by Michelle Malkin (2004) Regnery Publishing. ISBN:0895260514.</ref> (something that had been ordered by [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]). Apparently, she didn't like the fact that Japanese internment was brought up by those opposing [[racial profiling]] of 
terr'ists
 [[Muslim]]s, so she decided to write a [[negationism|negationist]] history of Japanese internment. In fact, it was '''not racist'''. Nothing to do with racism, nothing at all.<ref>[http://hnn.us/articles/7094.html A historian reviews ''In Defense of Internment''.]</ref><ref group=note>See also the [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/16/EDGP28P0T11.DTL#ixzz1G4XdDKkU smackdown by Fred Korematsu himself] and the [http://malkin.blogspot.com/2004/09/historians-committee-for-fairness-open.html Historians' Committee open letter.]</ref> The book is especially [[ironic]] considering that [[Robert Taft|the leading conservative Republican during World War II]] was ''opposed'' to Japanese American Internment.  Perhaps her Filipino parents brought her up with some resentment of the Japanese for their occupation of the country during WWII?

===Malkin and the Sinister Crescent!===
In 2005, Malkin took a pre-eminent role in an astoundingly [[Manufactroversy|dumb controversy]] regarding a proposed memorial for [[9/11|Flight 93]]. Dubbed "Crescent of Embrace," it consisted primarily of a stand of trees partially surrounding the crash site. The design was selected by a panel composed of design experts and victims' family members, and it was announced on September 7.<ref>[http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05251/567702.stm Flight 93 marker design picked], ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''</ref>

Shortly after the announcement, a group of Internet obsessives—Malkin among them—[[PIDOOMA|came to the conclusion]] that the Memorial was actually a covert memorial to the [[terrorists]].<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2005/09/10/flight-93-memorial-seeing-is-believing/ "Flight 93 Memorial: Seeing Is Believing"]</ref> Why? Because it's a big red crescent, a ''historic'' symbol of Islam!<ref group=note>Actually, the crescent is a historic symbol of the [[Turkey|Ottoman Empire]], and the color red on a topographical map represents trees, which are green for most of the year. But hey, why let [[reality]] get in the way of a good controversy?</ref> With such clear facts, all Malkin had to overcome were the families, all of whom were sure the claims were utter [[bullshit|bunk]].<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/world/americas/04iht-shrine.4.12556290.html?_r=1 Design of a memorial to Flight 93 fuels tension between families], ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> Of course, Malkin is not one to let something as petty as the stated desires of the grieving get in her way.

The dreaded crescent was not a particularly long-term campaign, for Malkin or anyone else. Today, the only ones who want to talk about it are the mentally unstable sons of renowned political theorists.<ref group=note>Alec Rawls, in case you were wondering.</ref>

===Malkin invokes death threats===
In 2006, Malkin "reported" on opposition to military recruitment in UC Santa Cruz, specifically the actions of a few students calling themselves Students Against [[Iraq War|War]]. [[Doxxing|She included a copy of a press release which contained contact information for the three leaders.]] Subsequently, the three of them started receiving threatening phone calls and e-mails. In a rare act of "civility," Malkin took the contact information down.

The students were understandably upset. When Malkin heard of their complaints, she blamed them, then ''reposted'' their contact info. Subsequent requests were ignored, and the information remains on her site to this day.<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2006/04/17/more-thuggery-in-santa-cruz/ "More Thuggery In Santa Cruz"]</ref><ref>[http://crooksandliars.com/2006/04/17/malkin-worst-person Malkin Makes Worst Person] on ''[[Countdown with Keith Olbermann]]''</ref>

===Malkin stalks a child===
In 2007, then-President [[Bush]] proposed cuts to SCHIP, an insurance program for lower-class families who are above the cutoff for Medicaid. The [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] response included a statement by 12-year old Graeme Frost, a recipient of the program. The Frosts had been in a nasty car accident which left Graeme in a coma and his younger sister Gemma with [[brain damage]]. The costs for their treatment were covered by SCHIP. As Graeme said in the response: "If it weren't for SCHIP, I might not be here today … We got the help we needed because we had health insurance for us through the SCHIP program. But there are millions of kids out there who don’t have SCHIP, and they wouldn’t get the care that my sister and I did if they got hurt … I just hope the President will listen to my story and help other kids to be as lucky as me."<ref>[http://democrats.senate.gov/2007/09/28/twelve-year-old-chip-participant-asks-president-to-sign-childrens-health-renewal-into-law/#.U43dayjN4U8 Filthy Democrats with their filthy civilization.]</ref>

Enter Michelle Malkin. Spurred by the mad gibbering of the [[Freeper]]s, Malkin launched a 
full-on harassment campaign
 "investigation" against the Frosts. She traveled to the Frosts' neighborhood, hoping to find evidence that they were all [[con artist]]s. When grilling the neighbors failed to turn up any dirt, she tried snooping in their windows.<ref group=note>If you can stomach it, [http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/08/graeme-frost-and-the-perils-of-democrat-poster-child-abuse/ here's her account.]</ref> She made hay out of the fact that she thought she saw granite countertops, an accusation which has been dumped down the [[memory hole]] but lives on as a [[meme]] to this day.<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22michelle+malkin%22+countertops&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&oq= The Internet will never let her live this down, rightfully.]</ref> Probably what would be the most laughable part of the whole incident, if it weren't such a twisted, dangerous display of lunacy, is that she actually had the audacity to claim that the Democrats had engaged in "child abuse" by putting Graeme in a place where ''Malkin'' could savage him.

Lest you still have doubts about Malkin's utter classlessness, she followed this up with an attack on an even younger SCHIP recipient.<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/15/s-chip-and-the-democrats-human-shield-campaign/ The original link], or a link for those who need [http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/7531.html some snark to mask the bitterness.]</ref>

...and no, we're not over yet. In 2010, Malkin decided to reprise her role as the huntress of children:

{{cquote|Marcelas Owens, an 11-year-old from Seattle, headlined a press conference with Senate Democratic leadership on Thursday, telling a packed room of reporters that he wanted the president and Congress to come together and pass health insurance reform. "I am here because of my mom," said Owens. "My mom was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension in 2006. She missed so much work she lost her job. And when my mom lost her job, she lost her health care. And losing her health care ended up costing her her life..."<br><br>...At least one conservative columnist wants to throw cold water on the Marcelas Owens narrative. Michelle Malkin wrote in a column that Democrats are using Owens as a "human kiddie shield." And, reprising her role in a coordinated conservative assault on the family of 12-year-old Graeme Frost during the battle over children's health insurance in 2007, Malkin questioned whether a failure of personal responsibility is not to blame for the death of Owens's mother.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/11/marcelas-owens-11-year-ol_n_495207.html Marcelas Owens, 11-Year-Old Whose Mother Died Without Health Insurance: 'Get The Health Care Bill Passed'], ''Huffington Post''</ref>}}

===Malkin's Crusade against a Sinister Scarf!===
In 2008, Malkin looked at an ad Rachael Ray did for Dunkin' Donuts and decided that the black-and-white paisley scarf she was wearing was a sly sign of support for the [[Palestine|Palestinian]] Liberation Organization.<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/23/of-donuts-and-dumb-celebrities/ "Of Donuts and Dumb Celebrities"] ([[Dunning-Kruger]] alert!)</ref>

It is scientifically impossible to make that sound more ridiculous than it really is. Trust us, we tried.

===Malkin defends a rapist===
Malkin is a vocal defender of {{wpl|Daniel Holtzclaw}} (convicted in 2015 of raping multiple African-American women)<ref>[https://www.enidnews.com/news/updated-holtzclaw-family-friends-vow-to-keep-appealing-after-oklahoma-court-upholds-263-prison-sentence/article_44b5fbd4-b468-11e9-a730-4ff2d2397b4b.html Updated: Holtzclaw family, friends vow to keep appealing after Oklahoma court upholds 263-prison sentence]</ref> and considers him a friend.<ref>[https://mobile.twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1337180224350375936 Michelle Malkin on Twitter: "My friend Daniel Holtzclaw was wrongfully convicted in Oklahoma 5 years ago today--one of the worst miscarriages of justice I've ever covered in 25+ yrs. It's also Daniel's 34th birthday. NEVER GIVE UP!]</ref> Despite victim testimony and limited DNA evidence being presented at the trial,<ref>[https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jtes/daniel-holtzclaw-alleged-sexual-assault-oklahoma-city How Police Caught The Cop Who Allegedly Sexually Abused Black Women]</ref> Malkin still appears to genuinely believe that Holtzclaw was the victim of anti-police railroading.<ref>[https://yellowhammernews.com/michelle-malkin-science-secrecy-lies-oklahoma/ Science, secrecy and lies in Oklahoma] (BTW, she cites her own show as her source)</ref>

In 2019, in an apparent attempt to insinuate massive fraud in Oklahoma, Malkin found another convicted rapist to defend. Her motive in doing this was quite transparently to discredit the process through which Holtzclaw was convicted, as the suspect in question (Rayshun Mullins) had confessed. Twice.<ref>[https://abegaustad.medium.com/michelle-malkin-defends-another-convicted-rapist-25818bb765c8 Michelle Malkin Defends Another Convicted Rapist]</ref>

===ACORN conspiracies===
Malkin has been one of the foremost proponents of [[ACORN]] conspiracy theories, or "[[Obama]]corn" as she often calls it. She has written numerous columns accusing ACORN of everything from massive [[voter fraud]] to being a major player in causing the [[banking crisis]] so it could embezzle [[ARRA|stimulus]] money. Compared to everything else she's done, Malkin is probably one of the few people who can make ACORN [[conspiracy theories|conspiracies]] sound sane in comparison.<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/category/acorn-watch/ Malkin's "ACORN Watch"]</ref>

===Doxing Of People Who Protest===
In 2006, four students at the University of California at Santa Cruz protested the appearance of military recruiters at an on-campus job fair. Malkin not only blogged about this incident, she went on to post the full names and phone numbers of these students on her blog for all to see, leading to them getting death threats.<ref>''The Worst Person in the World and 202 Strong Contenders'' by Keith Olbermann (Wiley, September 2006). ISBN 0-470-04495-0</ref>{{rp|227}}

==More fun==
===Stance on immigration===
Michelle follows the typical [[nationalist]] views on immigration: [[Secure the border|lock 'em up or kick 'em out]]. She is associated with the nativist website [[VDARE]], who must be thrilled to have an actual minority on hand. She has a particular obsession with "[[Anchor baby|anchor babies]]", children born to immigrants in the United States. She is adamant that the [[US Constitution|laws]] that [[Jus soli|allow foreign parents of American-born children to gain citizenship]] should be changed immediately.<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2004/06/13/no-more-drive-by-citizenship/ "No More Drive By Citizenship"]</ref><ref group=note>Incidentally, [[RationalWiki]] is very sorry that this article has so many links to Malkin's site.</ref> Ironically enough, Malkin's own parents were immigrants, on worker visas, from the [[Philippines]]. In other words, Michelle Malkin '''is''' an anchor baby, by her own definition.<ref>[http://spiiderweb.blogspot.com/2006/04/michelle-malkin-anchor-baby.html Michelle Malkin: Anchor Baby]</ref><ref>[http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/173558-1/Michelle+Malkin.aspx Booknotes, Dec. 8, 2002].</ref> [[Uncle Tom|Uncle tommery]] of the highest order.

===Global warming denial===
Do you really think Malkin believes in 
[[science]]
 the lies of the enviro-nitwits and [[Gore's Law|Al Gore]]? Don't bet on it.<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/category/enviro-nitwits/ "Enviro-nitwits" category]</ref>

===Affirmative action===
In a column following the US Supreme Court decision in ''Grutter v. Bollinger'', Malkin complained about seeing "militant Asian activists joining other liberal minority students across the country in a Sumatran gibbon-like celebration ritual of chest-beating, fist-pumping and pro-affirmative action whooping calls" in the news.<ref>Malkin, Michelle. "[http://articles.philly.com/2003-06-30/news/25446551_1_admissions-hopwood-decision-ethnic-minorities Asian Americans shouldn't cheer affirmative action]." ''Philadelphia Inquirer'': June 30, 2003.</ref> Yep, "gibbon-like....chest-beating" is totally ''not'' bigoted.<ref>[http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2008/pr-eber-021308.html Discrimination against blacks linked to dehumanization, study finds]</ref>

===Drugs are bad, but crazy is good, m'kay===
Interestingly, the only thing that will dissuade Malkin from associating with politicians that match identically with her views is whether or not they engage in [[crack]] use.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/05/01/rob-ford-bieber-crack-muzik_n_5244340.html "Canadian clown show"]</ref>

On the other hand, Malkin has long supported legalizing marijuana. She even blasted the [[war on drugs]] as a costly failure and an "[[stopped clock|inhumane sacrifice to personal liberty]]."<ref>[https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19970729&slug=2551904 Liberty Is Biggest Loser In Nation's War On Drugs]. ''The Seattle Times''. 29 July 1997.</ref><ref>[https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/opinion/columns/2014/03/29/malkin-legalizing-medical-marijuana-can-do-good-many-people/15048720007/ Malkin: Legalizing medical marijuana can do good for many people]. ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''. 28 March 2014.</ref><ref>[https://gazette.com/news/michelle-malkin-conservative-hero-and-marijuana-advocate/article_68155b32-1833-59e2-9e2d-51415ab87cdf.html Michelle Malkin: Conservative hero and marijuana advocate]. ''The Cannabist'' via ''The Colorado Springs Gazette''. 19 May 2014.</ref>

===Twitchy===
In 2012, Malkin founded Twitchy, an aggregation website for [[Twitter]] posts relating to current news about politics and entertainment.<ref>http://michellemalkin.com/2012/03/07/announcing-twitchy-com/</reF> Ultimately, the site is mostly [[nutpicking]] of Twitter posts intending to make liberals look stupid, rather than making serious arguments. The content is catnip for the audience, as the comments section is full of the predictable, juvenile insults like "libtard" as well as tired [[PRATT]] memes. Many "headlines" on Twitchy are coincidentally posts of her own tweets, written as a third-person is covering them e.g. "Try ‘systemic assassinations’: Michelle Malkin fixes Obama’s statement after the Chattanooga attack"<ref>http://twitchy.com/2015/07/16/try-systemic-assassinations-michelle-malkin-fixes-obamas-statement-after-the-chattanooga-attack/</ref>and "‘Tone’ problem?' Michelle Malkin let Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards HAVE IT with gruesome truth"<ref>http://twitchy.com/2015/07/22/tone-problem-michelle-malkin-let-planned-parenthoods-cecile-richards-have-it-with-gruesome-truth/</ref> written by "Twitchy Staff" of which she happens to be a member, apparently using her site as the most obvious [[sockpuppet]] imaginable.<ref>http://twitchy.com/about/</ref>

===VDare===
Malkin writes for white nationalist online "news" site VDare.<ref>https://vdare.com/writers/michelle-malkin</ref>

===Capital punishment===
Malkin is opposed to the death penalty. Seriously, her piece published on ''The Daily Wire'' sounds nothing like her usual vile views where she calls for systemic reform of the criminal justice system.<ref>Malkin, M. (August 11, 2018). "[https://www.dailywire.com/news/malkin-oklahomas-wretched-record-wrongful-michelle-malkin MALKIN: Oklahoma’s Wretched Record On Wrongful Convictions]". ''The Daily Wire''.</ref> Although she was once in favour of it, Malkin changed her opinion after seeing the numerous cases of prosecutorial misconduct leading to wrongful convictions in the USA.<ref>[https://www.larepeal.org/conservative-voices/ Repeal the Death Penalty: Conservative Voices]</ref><ref>[https://mobile.twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1029883257788293120 Michelle Malkin on Twitter: "Based on the bungling that has occurred in Oklahoma, the date executions are to resume should be easily decided: there should be none."]</ref>

===Association with groypers===
Beginning in 2002, Young America's Foundation had arranged Malkin to give lectures on college campuses. By 2019, YAF no longer included Malkin in its speaker lineup after Malkin defended neo-Nazi [[Nick Fuentes]].<reF>Sommer, Will. "[https://www.thedailybeast.com/conservative-group-yaf-fires-michelle-malkin-over-support-for-holocaust-denier Conservative Group Fires Michelle Malkin Over Support for Holocaust Denier]." ''The Daily Beast''. 18 November 2019. Accessed 7 September 2024.</ref> Then in 2020, Malkin was a lead speaker at America First Political Action Conference, a competitor to the Conservative Political Action Conference. One video from her speech showed her "[engaging] in not just Holocaust denial, but also indiscriminately [throwing] around charges of dual loyalty".<ref>Mandel, Bethany S. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20200321193410/https://ricochet.com/727187/the-fall-of-michelle-malkin/ The fall of Michelle Malkin]." Ricochet. 2 March 2020. Accessed 7 September 2024.</ref>

Malkin's choice to die on this hill irrevocably blacklisted her from the conservative media scene. Eventually in 2022, she announced her retirement from writing her syndicated column. In her retirement announcement, she criticized conservative media for being "dominated by...libertarian elites" and ignoring "private Silicon Valley corporations and their nonprofit allies [that] crush nationalist dissent, handcuff free speech and deplatform free thinkers" and complained about the consequences of her viewpoints: "Because of my peacefully expressed reporting, opinions and speeches, my family has been punished and stigmatized, my reputation tarnished and my voice squelched."<ref>Malkin, Michelle. "[https://www.creators.com/read/michelle-malkin/10/22/-30-an-ending-but-not-the-end '-30-': An Ending, but Not the End]." Creators Syndicate. 25 October 2022. Accessed 7 September 2024.</reF>

==See also==
*[[Poe's Law]]
*[[Candace Owens]] — another shifty grifty minority pundit with far-right political views

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