While Michelle Malkin is quick to dismiss those who are dubious about her upcoming Jaunt for Jihadi with Eason Jordan as hurling "hate, slime and stupidity," even our bretheren on the right are…er….laughing at her. Stephen Spruiell at the NRO chortles at the thought, saying it "sounds like a sitcom" (proving even some on the right have limits of acceptable absurdity). And Wonkette says they have "reason to suspect that Reuters has a totally made-up source in Saint-Tropez. We’d love to be proven wrong, of course. Maybe in the Spring, if that works."
Meanwhile, LG&M has a Christmas wish that I'd like to second. May all the warbloggers take Malkin's bravery as a challenge to demonstrate that the AP simply doesn't know what it's talking about and prove those of us suffering from BDS dead wrong.
Will she go? Does she actually believe the stuff she writes? Matt Ortega alerts us that this could be a danger:
It is tough to say, for sure, whether she will go or not until she actually gets on that Baghdad-bound plane. Malkin has immersed herself in the kind of mindset that Iraq is safer than [state city] based on inaccurate murder rates of inequal samples, a la Power Line.
Too bad it ain't summer anymore in Baghdad because that would put a whole new spin on her "Hot Air" segment.
And meanwhile the big burly cop-type she's invited along for safety in numbers (who calls himself with no small amount of irony "Flopping Aces") is finding all manner of reason to backpeddle:
I worry, as others have, that this may be a set-up of some kind. Think about it. Eason Jordon should have a easy time of finding Jamil Hussein since the AP has said they have been talked to him for over two years. I have blogged many times that there may indeed be a man named Jamil Hussein but my argument has always been he is a fraud. It has already been confirmed that he is NOT employed by the Iraqi government so why would we go skipping around Iraq in search of someone the AP could supposedly produce in a heartbeat?
Picture this, we are tooling around Baghdad and then Eason say’s “AH-HA!” There he is. Jamil produces a fake police ID badge and then asks us to comment. When we say that we would like him to come with us to the Ministry of Interior and have the MoI verify he is indeed a employee Mr. Jordan would spin it as “big time journalist (Michelle obviously, not me) refusing to accept proof that Jamil is real.” His story would be “Jamil found” and thats how it will be filed across the land.
Do I sense some codpiece slippage? Methinks we do.
You can count me in the Steve Gilliard School of Expectations.
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AP – Iraq’s army has “opened its doors” to all former members of Saddam Hussein’s army, the prime minister said Saturday at a national reconciliation conference boycotted by one of his main Shiite allies, a major Sunni group and Iraq’s exiled opposition.
Fitz!
Oklahoma kiddo @
1
Iraq’s al-Maliki presses reconciliation
Hillary, Iraq, and the Sphinx (silence). You go girl!
twolf1 @
3
dead man walking ……
twolf1 @ 3
Seems a bit circular to me. Of course that is, discounting about 3,000 dead American soldiers and over 1/2 million Iraqi corpses.
I suspect her verdant ideology compels her to sacrifice her bony ass on the altar of Denialism.
Watch for the grainy video of her pleading for
the immediate pullout of US troops as the curtain of realism descends and the scales drop from her eyes.
EPU’d, but on target here too . . .
Those pesky liberal theologians at SMU are stirring up trouble . . . Seems they aren’t too keen on SMU becoming the host to the Shrub’s presidential library. From the blog of Paul Burka, senior editor of The Texas Monthly:
I do believe somebody’s gone from preachin’ to meddlin’ . . . and that list is just for starters, ’cause the letter keeps on going.
Here’s an Amen! for the folks at SMU! (h/t Josh Marshall for the link)
Ms. Malkin should familiarize herself with this list of journalists.
Needless to say they are not around anymore and they didn’t meet their ends by choking on caviar while standing on some balcony in the green zone.
-GSD
Just for fun
Hell really DOES freeze over!
Michelle Malkin is a “big time journalist”?
I think she’s even in the B-rolodex in O’Reilly’s office, fercrissake. What world do these assclowns live in?
Jane, hope you came through the storm ok! OT, has anyone tried Prairie Sunshine’s greek lemon chicke nrecipe? I ‘m trying to figure out cook time and temp.
Won’t Jesse have to go with Michelle? Otherwise, how will she “blog” from Baghdad?
Peterr @ 8
Thanks old chum! The Joker’s on the loose! To the Bat Pole!
Dear Michelle:
There are dangerous brown people in Iraq.
Although the ‘Green’ Zone’s got not quite so much brown in it…
Edwina and Patsy!
But Michelle is brown, jayt.
Oklahoma kiddo,
That is a great present giving students the option of counting the grade.
We have final exams this Wednesday and Thursday ending 1st semester before the Christmas break.
Peterr @ 8,
Thanks for the news on SMU. This is not going to sit well with the Bush family.
The letter giving the reasons should be a real embarrassment to GWB, but I am sure Laura will fix everything.
I’m sure Michelle doesn’t want to go anywhere near the Green Zone. There’s been so much inaccurate reporting about Iraq in the Liberal Controlled Media, doncha know. Michelle should prove them wrong by freely walking thrugh Baghdad’s colorful streets.
angie @ 16
Stoli Bollis!
Where is that photo from? Looks familiar.
David Ehrenstein @ 17
But Michelle is brown, jayt.
And she’s so obviously
unawareproud of it….The Iraqslogger site makes me really queasy … but they sure came up with a great way to generate massive site visits with this little promo …
do they think it’s amusing to post things like the black market prices in various parts of Iraq and what’s up with their promo for the “hottest amateur video of the day from Iraq” bit …
Guess the slaughter of innocents is really just fodder for E Entertainment type “reporting”
Apple Canyon 2 @ 18
Perhaps SMU will have the letter engraved on a plaque that will sit near the entrance to the library – kind of a disclaimer, like you see on some websites when you click on an external link:
You are now leaving the SMU campus and entering the GWB Presidential Library. SMU has no control over the contents of this library, and does not endorse the policies of the documents contained therein. Indeed, we join the rest of the reality-based community in our condemnation of such actions as torture, the abolition of Habeas Corpus, ignorance of science and disdain for those who carry it out, and much more.
Still, the books and papers had to go somewhere. Maybe someone will read them and learn from their abundant mistakes, misjudgments, and misinformation. Just don’t blame us for what you see inside, or attribute any of it to Southern Methodist University.
David Ehrenstein @ 17
Shh! Nobody’s told her yet.
OfT, but that last day of the 109th really stinks.
Excerpt:
The leaders’ dealmaking went on behind the scenes during the final, frenetic hours of the 109th Congress. Hastert’s provision, which would give certain Medicare beneficiaries additional time to change their health-care coverage, and Reid’s plan, which involves more than 900 square miles of federal land, were included in a massive tax and trade measure approved by Congress shortly before its final adjournment early last Saturday morning.
Thelma and Louise?
pontificator @ 21
it’s from Absolutely Fabulous
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/abfab/
“The Iraqslogger site”
Shouldn’t that be The Iraqslaughter site”?
Michelle Malkin is going to Baghdad to discredit AP on that story? So she’s a journalist? Even if she is: What’s her platform? Who will constitute her press crew outside the Green Zone? These are basic questions.
You don’t suppose she’ll go to Iraq and come back a changed woman? Picture the opening lines of that first, post-visit blog entry: “I believed in this war, but now I’ve seen the mess for what it is: brutal, ugly, violent – and unwinnable.”
Then Bush, like LBJ looking at Cronkite talking about Vietnam, will see the terrible truth: “If I’ve lost Michelle Malkin, I’ve lost America.”
OK, me neither. Still, it’s a nice little daydream.
angie @ 28
Stoli Bolli’s all around . . .
I don’t have any problem with Malkin calling herself a journalist, with or without any platform.
I do have a problem with her incomprehensible and mean-spirited ideas.
sounds abfab, Peterr!
(that show so cracks me up!)
egregious @
27
Malkin and Coulter
GSD @ 9
Really sad. Too many Iraqi journalists on that list, and their fate is unsung. We all know about Michael Kelly and David Bloom and Paul Douglas.
I missed this yesterday, wherein Carol Keeton Strayhorn (Scott and Mark’s mom!) in her official capacity as Texas Comptroller
Oh boy. Our lady of the Concentration Camps (HT to Jesus General) is headed to eye-rack.
It’s like the good old days of surrealism, without the festive pharmachueticals to get you there.
OT – got a Christmas card from Barbara Lee’s office, with this quote from Shirley Chisholm:
“Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.”
Truer words are seldom spoken.
Just so we’re clear, this IraqSlogger guy is the one the warbloggers got fired from CNN after his Davos chat, right?
OT–From AP: Edwards to enter 2008 race:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponlin…..ref=slogin
Michelle is going to blog over there so she doesn’t have to blog here.
I hope they go.
They will not be the same after
the world, especially their fans, needs that.
I hope that Dahr Jamail, Michael Ware and Arwa Damon take these buffoons on a trip around Iraq.
Patrick 4/4 @
42
I like that quote.
Well, we’ve suggested all along that those who support the war should go there. I hope this happens, not because I wish any harm on MM or anyone else, but because it’s helpful for more people to see any war’s reality.
What I doubt is whether the US forces will allow this group free rein to go touring around the city without a lot of “guidance,” if it’s allowed at all.
Jim @ 11
Why the neo-con “city on the hill” of course.
scarecrow @ 46
I don’t think US forces have any control over “journalists” who wish to roam around Baghdad–and all over Iraq for that matter. But journalists fake and legit can be kept out of the Green Zone.
for Michelle: a New Way Flowered
(hero’s welcome and all that)
hero’s, not her’s
Malkin blogging from Iraq? I suddenly have a mental image of the cartoon character Mr.Magoo doing a blog about what he ’sees’.
Biodun @ 48
I was thinking of the clearances needed to get into the country, plus papers allowing one to get passed various checkpoints.
Patrick 4/4 @
35
Maybe they can drive over a cliff together.
Onward to Iraq
Awkward to Iran
I doubt she’ll go, but if she does, I sure hope no one gets killed protecting her. That would be a waste, just like everything that’s been wasted up until now.
I love Eddy and Patsie, it would be a riot to watch them accompnay Malkin through Bagdad.
Thelma and Puhleeeeeze
I think he meant to say “Baghdad-bound broomstick.”
Biodun @ 48
Yeah, if she can survive one militarily-unprotected hour outside the Green Zone, well that’d be just the luck, wouldn’t it?
Maybe I’ll send her a T-shirt with FoxNews on the front, and a big-ass American flag on the back.
I suspect some of the warbloggers would have trouble paying the airfare for a trip to Iraq. On the other hand hotel prices in Baghdad look quite modest (outside the Green Zone, of course). So, maybe there should be a “wings for wingnuts” fund, to sponsor some tours for that special wingnut and a friend. I know I’d pay good money for Malkin and hubbby to take a second honeymoon in the romantic cradle of civilization. They could visit some tourist sites like the place where six people were *not* doused with gasoline and burned alive, spend some quality time, and show those balcony-martini-sipping journalists how safe it all really is.
Scarecrow @ 52
You’re right. But remember: the borders are porous, and in the chaos and bedlam, especially in Baghdad, checkpoints are shaky at best. That’s why all those curfews are imposed for days at a time when US forces and the Iraqi government (such as it is) try to contain the violence.
New thread upstairs
Biodun @ 61
The idea that they have to sneak MM across the border at night, and slip her around checkpoints and avoid curfews is an interesting thought.
If Malkin does not leave the Green Zone and spend substantial time in higher-risk areas of Iraq, she will never live down her “hotel balconies” criticism of other journalists.
new thread
If she stays it will be trouble. If she goes it will be double.
Do you make a career of being reprehensible?
I guess when a lefty writes that he hopes Malkin takes a round in the face, that it might “open her eyes (Jesus! What fucking racists you bastards are) that she’s over reacting.
And if you, as a war resister, had an ounce of courage yourself, you’d chain your skinny ass to the gate of a military post and go to jail for your beliefs instead of sitting safely at home. It worked 30 years ago but then, those guys actually believed in what they were doing. They clogged the jails of this country and put their bodies on the line for peace – unlike you chickendoves who talk a good game but never quite get around to proving how committed you are.
punaise @ 57
The Police? Sting? Someone should tell Christy.
Rick Moran @ 67
MM is putting others in danger so she can do what…prove that the AP is part of the propagansa tools used to spread misinformation?
Are you noting her courage as it applies to the reality of Iraq or as it applies to thinking ‘the MSM just doesn’t report the good stuff’?
Personally, I wish them both the best and I hope their goal of driving around until they find Jamail is well received by the Iraqi militia checkpoints they’ll likely encounter.
“Codpiece slippage?” I think Mr. Floppy may be suffering from the same problem so many of us patriots are cursed with. After a long period of owning very large caliber weapons with ultra-long barrels, driving extremely large and powerful SUVs, and talking tough about situations that in reality would scare us malkinless, we tend to start overestimating the size of our patriotic package and begin wearing codpieces that are much too large for us, thus the slippage. No one needs those huge store-bought codpieces. I’ve found that one made of half a walnut shell and a couple of shoelaces is plenty big for every fighting keyboarder I’ve helped to equip.
Mon General!
Merci beaucoups etc for sharing your expertise!
Siun @
71
I try to limit my comments to the things I know.
Rick, do you have a link to who suggested Malkin taking a round in the face?
Wrt one of the other factual errors in your comment, “30 years ago” was 1976. If you know of someone protesting Vietnam in 1976,
please by all means, link to it.
Rick do you remember how much Ronald Reagan criticized the United Nations for “nation building?” Why are you supporting failed efforts at “nation building” at the cost of about 20,000 U.S. casualties and $267,000,000/DAY? Is that your idea of supporting our troops? What’s the military objective in Iraq?
Considering the role Malkin played in Jordan’s leaving CNN, I have to say that the Floppy Aces guy has a remarkably dull imagination. He worries Jordan’ll come up with a “fake” Jamil Hussein?
If I was Jordan, I’d spend as much time as possible driving them around to the car bomb site of the day, telling that that Hussein was sure to show up any minute. Or I’d take them to the edge of Sadr City and tell them he’s down the alleyway, north, west, east, or south, somewhat.
Rick Moran @
67
I, for one, do. It pays great, I get attention from ALL the ladies, and, since i live in Massachusetts, i was recently allowed to marry my dog.� Now his last name is Strawman too.
I assure you that every single person here is exactly as racist and reprehensible as you need them to be. We all agree, 100%, that what some lunatic said is the best and only way forward. Further, our collective ignoring of such comments by lunatics is proof positive that these are the VERY secret messages through which we recieve our commands daily from lefty conspiracy central, or as we call it, “the Soros Streisand borgtinuum.”
You are correct, we are all violent racists here. Look out, we’re coming for your babies.
As war resisters, we have found that mass consumption of cheeto’s and Jolt cola have a measurable positive impact on the economies of venezuela, cuba, syria, iran, and north korea. We do our part as best we can. we’re lazy. Your suggestion has been noted in our log.
I guess we all better get off his lawn folks. We ain’t working on Maggies Farm no more… and we just aren’t resising the war they way they did back ion 1976.
pne last thing Rick.
You can, in fact, get ANYTHING you want. At Alice’s Resturant.
“chickendoves”?
nice try with that one. but a failure, nevertheless.
John Casper: Rick’s just being a “moran”. Manufacturing straw men is his only option, since the truth isn’t on his side.
Since Rick Moran’s busy putting words in our mouth (that is, when he’s not inventing fake “lefties” to shadowbox against), I guess that I can go ahead and accuse him of being a hypocritical, unfunny, bitter old boozehound like Bruce “Mallard Fillmore” Tinsley.
It’s relatively straightforward to get an entry visa as a US journalist. The hard part is hiring the security detail.
I’d go, too, but A: I’m 65 and the military doesn’t want to see me again, and B: I developed an allergy to cordite a few (40) years ago. I’m also affected by exposure to gunshot wounds and pain. Otherwise I’d be on that plane in a flash, you betcha.
Your photo of Eddie and Patsy on their French holiday is significant; They were in the wrong house but due to language problems remained in the smaller place. Sort of like aWol in the wrong war at the wrong time.
Well, if Flopping Aces turns out to be, er, a flop, I’m sure Rick Moran would proudly take his place on the Baghdad Bus. Or he would in a heartbeat if only he didn’t have that trick knee. Or that pilonidal cyst. Or an erection lasting longer than four hours. Or whatever.
Didn’t the right-wing press already take their “It’s safer than the press is telling us” Tour a couple of years ago?
It won’t matter if Malkin goes as she’ll just lie to fit her preconceived notions of reality. She’s been lying for years, why would her actually seeing a thin sliver of reality in Iraq actually make her tell the truth all of the sudden?
Floppy’s a cop from So. Cal. The islamunistofascists won’t have a chance if he goes. They’re all brown; he’ll taze all their asses and then shoot them. His only problem will be finding the millions of “throw down” weapons he’ll need to cover his ass at the shooting review board.
love the image of “codpiece slippage”!
Fred F. @
84
To make a comparison to the pathological behavior of an alcoholic, there comes a moment of reckoning. The truthiness of denial can be rationalized for decades. When the moment comes that makes us aware of our own fragile mortality, the truth looks different.
PhillyJilly,
Indeed they did, and they even sent back pix to prove how safe it was. Only problem was that the pix were of some place in Turkey.
I opposed this stupid, disastrous war before it was launched. I’ve written my congresspeople, newspapers, and the White House. I gave to candidates who opposed the war.
Now I’m supposed to chain myself to military gates and get arrested to prove myself? Sorry, pal. It’s YOUR war, and you guys LOST it. I don’t need to jump through any of your hoops. It’s you assholes who have something to prove to history, and you had better get busy. You are out of time.
perfect republican name ….Rich Moron
My dear, I think you mean “backpedal.”
If Michelle Malkin doesn’t go to Baghdad, THE TERRORISTS WILL BE EMBOLDENED! They will mock us in Al Qaeda videos: “Oh no! America can’t win the War on Terror because Michelle Malkin’s such a big chicken! Buk-buk-buk-buk-buk!”
For the sake of America’s schoolchildren, we must not allow Malkin to chicken out on this!
Everytime I think of Michelle it reminds me of that Dave Chapelle sketch about the blind Klansman who doesn’t realize he’s black.
Ohhhh, I am soo looking forward to my visit to Baghdaddy… Everyone needs a little time out of the hustle ‘n bustle of North America for a more relaxing locale…. And my big strong friend Flopping Aces will make such a goooood companion…
Michelle @
94
We all pitched and got you a new shirt to wear on your trip over there.
It has a nice design and the phrase
I will out the crooked Iraqis
If It’s the Last Thing I Do.
mdhatter 75 — that kind of thorough fisking deserves some recognition.
Journamalism.
How about “let’s see some paperwork proving you are who you say”. Nah, that would be walking into some kind of trap!