malkin season

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Well, La Malkin has registered her discomfiture over Joan Walsh's handy dispatching of her little surrogate, Mary Katherine Ham on CNN's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz last weekend.  See, it's Malkin and Ham's contention that nobody in the Liberal Blogosphere gave a flip about online misogyny at all until it happened to someone besides them, for you see, no one on our side ever got sent hate mail or threats until somewhere around this past January, I guess, hence our "silence" on the subject.

Walsh has posted an excellent response to Malkin's sanctimonious drivel.  The piece is called, "Michelle Malkin Plays the Victim Card", and in fact, the title is my only quibble with the post, that there's anything new or newsworthy about everybody's favorite gibbering Right Wing Paranoiac playing the Victim Card.  Aside from that one, the Race Card, and the Sexism Card, Malkin frankly has no other cards.

Walsh:

Michelle Malkin has big brass balls, as my idol Stephen Colbert likes to say. (Yes, women can have balls!) The conservative columnist of Asian descent who defended Japanese internment and anti-Muslim racial profiling, the defiant woman of color who's made her name opposing political correctness and identity politics, is suddenly playing the victim card, complaining that I didn't defend her from online misogyny when I defended Kathy Sierra.

At least that's what I think she's saying.

Good luck finding a translator, Ms. Walsh.  Malkiñol has driven many a strong semiotician around the bend. Trying to sort out the switchbacks of her double standards, the Möbius contortions of her (lack of) reasoning, and her massive, glaring blind spots about her own role in the sewerification of the national discorse will make blood pour from your ears and nose if you stare into the abyss for too long.  Trust me.  I know of which I speak.

Fortunately, I don't think Joan is wasting a tremendous amount of time thinking about Wrong-Way Malkin.  In fact, it's pretty clear that Ms. Walsh has Michelle's number:

Now Malkin herself is complaining about what I said on CNN. "Walsh also argued that the reason she decided to pay attention to misogyny in the blogosphere now is because Sierra is a 'techblogger' trying to 'make the web a better community.' As opposed to us Christofascist wingnut women bloggers who deserve what we get because we're just trying to use the web to spread poisonous conservative ideas."

GASP!  Was that a flicker of self-awareness?  Oh, no, sorry.  She meant it sarcastically, I guess.

I usually shrug it off, as I will Malkin's attempt to bait me. After this.

But in case there's any doubt: Feel free to attack Michelle Malkin as a lousy writer, a third-rate thinker, a talent-free provocateur, or all of the above. But it's wrong to attack her for being a woman or Filipina. Is that clear enough, Michelle?

Clear enough for me, but I doubt Malkin is going to be content with that.  She has an amazing capacity to be willfully, staggeringly obtuse.  Today, Howie Kurtz continues his unseemly fascination with La Malkin by highlighting her (literally) tone-deaf response to the Imus flap.  Rap lyrics are clearly the culprit.  It was 50 Cent who turned Imus into a bigoted creep.  Who knew?

Malkin is a partisan hack, a racist bomb-thrower who launches one vicious ad hominem attack after another against blacks, Muslims, feminists, peace activists, and anyone else who arouses her oh-so-excitable ire.  And that would be all well and good (I guess) if she was just writing about these things on her blog in an effort to inform her audience, but as I and others have entensively documented, Malkin has the most vicious and unhinged readers on the web, and every time she announces one of her white-bread fatwas, her flying monkeys spring into action, raining death threats, harassing emails, and vicious, violent hate speech down on her victims.  After all, it's not one of our readers who's currently cooling his heels in a California prison cell for sending fake anthrax letters to high-profile liberals.

Charmingly, Malkin also takes every opportunity to publish her opponents' private contact information, and there are still questions about her role in the suicide of university administrator Denice Denton.  Denton was apparently a troubled person with issues of her own, but having Malkin's readers repeatedly strafe her with threatening calls and emails can't have helped matters.  So, when Poor Michelle wraps herself in her cloak of martyrdom and starts to weep and moan about how hard her life is with those nasty liberals calling her names, I can only echo her response to the suicide of the three Guantanamo detainees who killed themselves in captivity, "Boo-freakin'-hoo."

She courts this kind of attention.  She pushes and provokes, spewing the most outrageous, mendacious crap to wind people up just so she can get a brace of new angry emails to wave over her head as evidence that the Left is as full of hate as she is.  All the while deluding herself with the notion that by eschewing swear-words (at least in print, anyway), she has seized some kind of moral high ground.

But let's look at the "Boo-freakin'-hoo" comment, because that was the Malkin Moment where something tore for me.  I ceased to feel any sympathy or compassion for her mental and emotional problems right then and there.  It was like Tucker Carlson's report of the Narcissist-in-Chief's hateful mockery of condemned murderer Karla Faye Tucker:

In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, a number of protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Karla Faye Tucker. "Did you meet with any of them?" I ask. Bush whips around and stares at me. "No, I didn't meet with any of them", he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. "I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with Tucker, though. He asked her real difficult questions like, 'What would you say to Governor Bush?'" "What was her answer?" I wonder. "'Please,'" Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, "'don't kill me.'" I must look shocked — ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel — because he immediately stops smirking.

This kind of contempt for the lives and the suffering of other human beings is what gives the lie to all the Right Wing's disingenuous, demonstrably false blathering about "The Culture of Life".  They are bloodthirsty charlatans.  The way they view their "enemies" isn't just inhumane, it's inhuman.  

Whether one's writing has curse-words or not, at that juncture, frankly becomes academic, because at its core, Malkin's brand of frenzied, mindless hate and her thinly disguised blood-lust are the very definition of obscenity.  It is the kind of thinking that made genocide in Rwanda and Nazi Germany possible, a willingness to dehumanize one's enemies and to excuse any amount of sadism and bloodshed in the name of furthering the goal of a rigidly controlled, homogenous society.

Michelle Malkin is not a good American.  She is a throwback, a mouthpiece to the most deluded, exclusionary, authoritarian elements of our society.  It is our duty as responsible citizens to expose her for what she is and to do everything in our power to disrupt a status quo that accepts her as legitimate.

That is all. 

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