Digby brings up a good point — beltway media have been strangely silent on the subject of Stalkin’ Malkin and whether her actions “hurt” Republicans, because basically nothing, as we know, ever hurts Republicans.
So I decided to take a look at the ComPost, home of Malkin’s most slavish sycophant Howard Kurtz. Indeed, Kurtz is the only one who bothered to address the fact that Malkin went to the home of a brain injured 12 year-old for the purpose of harassing him and getting his medical insurance cut off:
Helena, Mont.: I think there is a difference between criticizing one party’s symbol for an issue and the level of venom that was directed at the Frosts — they were criticized for not going bankrupt in order to pay their medical bills, for Pete’s sake. Michelle Malkin published their address and telephone number on her blog so more people could harass them. At what point do you say to criticize and at what point do you make the point that someone has gone too far in their criticism?
Howard Kurtz: The Baltimore Sun also published a picture of the Maryland family’s house and asked for their tax returns, which the Frosts declined to provide. Is that a mean-spirited attack or plain old reporting?
How many times did Kurtz discuss the MoveOn ad, which evidently wiped the Democratic party from the face of the earth? The Post’s archives indicate eighteen times.
I’ve got some bad news for Kurtz: she’s just not that into you.
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Settling for second.
Jane! darkblack!
The Hacktacular one is truly a one trick pony. Today he offered another love note to his BFF on her “resignation” from BungleO Billo’s Teh Factor.
Hi Jane!
There needs to be a contest. And the 1st. prize winner gets a dinner date with Malkin, Rush, Coulter or O’Reilly. And the grand prize winner gets a date with all four at the same time.
I didn’t even know who Malkin was until I started reading FDL and saw that cheerleading video.
Fitz!
*g*
Anyone let the pups downstairs know Jane has a new post?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 5
Second place winner gets a week with all of them.
I been thinking that same IRT to Coulter. She is so bat-shit crazy ya gotta wonder how on earth she is any good for the repugs.
It is just difficult to believe that Malkin attended Oberlin college in Northern Ohio. My oldest daughter attended Oberlin and it is an amazing environment for learning, creativity and out of the box thinking.
Malkin’s thinking had to stick out like a sore thumb at Oberlin.
Cardin tells Mukasey about voters being scared away from voting, etc., and Mukasey said, “It is flat out fraud, pernicious fraud”.
Somehow, I don’t think that “Maglalang” would play in oh say, Philadelphia, Mississippi at least as well as “Malkin” does. But a little self-loathing and a large dose of hatred and intolerance will take a person a long way towards Hell, whatever that may be.
Schtick = infamy = $$$
I still can not believe Malkin did not make Keiths “worst person in the world”spot. I think there is some gender discrimination going on for these positions.
I would put money that men take those spots at least 80% of the time.
Come on Keith Malkin would look great up on that screen
Kurtz wouldn’t know “plain old reporting” if it bit him.
Of course Kurtz (along with the rest of the braindead media) misses the entire point of why the Frost case is relevant. It was SCHIP that kept these people from living in refrigerator cartons under the expressway after their kids got injured. It wouldn’t matter whether they made $50K or $100K ferchrissakes. That’s the FUCKING POINT!
Kathleen @ 15
She’s been there fairly often. Not as much as Bill-O, but a bit.
Kathleen @ 11
Perhaps she’s really a parody act that’s now made it too big to risk acknowleging that it’s really just an act.
Howie Kurtz pines for the day when the Beltway media was relevant. Somehow he thinks sucking up to MalKKKin will keep him “in the loop”. Probably feels the same way about Drudge. Whaddya think ol Howie boots up Drudge about 80 times a day?
Howie who?
Kurtz simply wants to hold on to his “Father Tim of the Print Press” position.
Criticize Michelle? Inconcievable!
Kevster @ 20
Heh, like I boot up FDL 80 times a day? *g*
Going to bat many times for the “tripe of Phillipines” has eroded his credibility.
Coulter. Malkin. The GOP’s subliminal appeal is to their racist base. The contemporary Southern Strategy is ethnic and socio-economic racism. IMHO.
newspaperbrat @ 8
Thanks for taking care of it — wound up stepping away from my desk…
BobbyG @ 9
3rd place gets a phone call from O’Reilly.
Malkin’s still pouting about being hung out to dry by McConnell’s staff. She just won’t give up the argument, even after it’s been destroyed.
They all, male or female, remind me of armpit farting, junior high boys.
So, is he implying that the Frosts are hiding something because they didn’t let the press invade their privacy any more than was necessary?
As I understand it, Maryland’s SCHIP program covers up to 300% of the poverty line. If Maryland says they qualify, who are we to question it? I assume there was proof presented.
Jeez, Kurtz et al are just Fricking clueless. They need to be sent to a re-education camp and taught how to be decent human beings again.
What is that object in Malkin’s chicken hands in the picture?
encephalopath @ 31
I’ve wondered too, I think it’s a grenade.
encephalopath @ 31
Looks like a giant grenade.
OT – a request to twolf1 or anyone else capable of make a video clip from c-span (when today’s house floor debates are hopeful rebroadcast tonight).
representative holt made an excellent statement on FISA at about 11am this morning (about 1.5 minutes long).
a youtube clip of this would be, imo, awesome – and i think of interest to firepups.
can anyone here help me out on this?
Yawn. A few thousand bytes wasted on an irrelevant moron.
Malkin obviously is need of a new agent. Or shrink. Or friend (perhaps Judy Miller would do). Or maybe all three.
Kevster @ 18
I beg to differ. Although I agree with what you say, I would add that the biggest point is that after-the-lifesaving stuff was over, all the physical therapy and any medical needs thereafter would not have been done due to lack of money. Any decisions on how to treat the kids would have been made based on the Frosts ability to pay, or in this case, not pay. The kids themselves would have suffered and would not be as well recuperated as they are now. I feel this is an equally cold-hearted and dispiriting negative impact, because they would have been living under the freeway with two, way more severely brain damaged kids and no way out of the situation.
selise @ 34
That would be cool!
I’m still on equipment from last millennium tho so I can’t help.
Reading about her on Wiki….
“In 2004, she wrote In Defense of Internment: The Case for ‘Racial Profiling’ in World War II and the War on Terror, defending Japanese American internment by the United States Government during World War II and relating this theme to the contemporary War on Terrorism,”….
That is one sick chick.
cahuenga @ 35
Since we all lack a sense of humor here, you probably have a point.
Hugh @ 16
Howie can’t even answer the question that is asked. What a douchebag!! Not only that, but the Sun is out of bounds asking for their tax returns. They had to apply to the state and supply the state with that info. They don’t need to let the newspaper see it.
Greenwald was on to Kurtz’s special brand of obsfu-fuckery some time ago:
Unclaimed Territory
Sycophant is the perfect word to describe him. Sycophant-In-Chief.
Ann in AZ @ 37
The Frosts children should be held up as a beacon of hope for what this nation can do. Truly an amazing recovery.
A single-payer system is the only way to break this Gordian knot. Just finished talking to a Canadian friend with two kids with special needs. He just shakes his head and thanks the Lord he isn’t a USA-American when I mention or he reads about this shit.
portia.vz @ 30
That was my point. Is Howie implying fraud here? If so, file with the state of Maryland. Otherwise, Howie can STFU.
free association break:
The left are full of hatred and name-calling, all they do is hate the country, hate the president, hate the Homeland…they are weak on terror, and they are causing us to lose the war, because they want us to lose the war, and..and…and….
and that is what the left is…really critical and hateful…
Paraphrase of a conservative spewing this morning on the teevee….
I had to laugh.
LS @ 33
I thought it was a (little) Green Football….
LS @ 39
The Japanese (and Koreans) were particularly cruel captors of the Philippinos during WWII. Maybe Maglalang Malkin has revenge issues with the Japanese. I mean, in addition to her being a cheerleader for Amero-Fascism.
tw3k @ 43
Not only an amazing recovery but one that did not drive them to bankruptcy. The righties are hung up on the notion that somehow these folks “chose” not to buy health insurance. As if that were a level playing field in the first place! It is absolutely criminal that hard working Americans face a $1200 insurance premium for individual family coverage when folks (like me) in large corporate insurance pools pay a lot less. There is a lot that is wrong with our healthcare finance system and the next Dem president better make it a top priority. The Goopers know this train is coming and they can’t seem to find the gumption to jump out of the way as long as W is preznit. We’ll just hang their votes around their necks and watch them sink into the electoral abyss in ‘08.
I’m a big fan of wabi-sabi myself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi
dalai lama declines to join his host in burning a cross on the Frost’s lawn.
tw3k @ 38
my audio recording this morning is fucked up, so i can’t even make a transcript. :(
i’ve emailed holt’s office and dan at politics.tv – begging for a clip. calling c-span now…
It is easier for people to attack a brain damaged twelve year old whose parents supposedly ripped off the system for several thousand dollars than to grapple with Halliburton and Blackwater who ripped off the system for a great deal more. I don’t know how to deal with this kind of thinking.
At a recent army reunion a few otherwise very nice people criticized Clinton who did not respond to the bombing of the destroyer Cole. They prefer Bush who did something. Mind boggling.
hackworth @ 49
Good observation! That does make sense. When I was an older teenager, my parents were living in Singapore…I asked to go to the beach…I was taken to the beach…when I got there, the water was really hot…it was a strip of land and beach….Changi Beach! Man…I got in the car and went home fast…it was haunting.
tw3k @ 46
another very ‘odd’ japanese ‘thing’ I don’t pretend to ‘get’ but it’s certainly interesting.
i recall once going to a weekend marriage seminar (just gimme the divorce already and let me outta here) and the hosts (god it was awful) talking about those ‘warm fuzzy feelings’ we all want and need.
i just assume (and pray) the Japanese are not talking about ‘warm fuzzy feelings.’
Flyin’ by from frazzly real life to give props to Froomkin for his lede: is Bush relevant?
Although I’d take a slight quibble. It’s not the Democratic Congress and legislation that prompts that question. It’s last night’s Frontline. Clearly Chee-knee is the relevant one…Bush is the appendage.
And as the Sunshine household knows, you can get along without an appendage.
New, worse poll numbers for Bush and Congress say to me that Americans can’t wait for this era to end, and there’ll be a groundswell voting on election day.
Hold on…change is comin’….
LS @ 47
Yes, we should be more like the right…full of happiness, compassion and love for all, equal rights, arguments based on facts and logic, and fair play.
Oh, maybe that’s fair game…
Ed Kunin @ 54
I don’t think President Clinton was still in office when the USS Cole was bombed.
Oops, sorry. Yes, he was.
TRex @ 59
10/12/2000
Howie talks out of both sides of his computer.
He is a fucking jerk, trying to promote his
book. I heard him on the Diane Rehm (sp) show and he was awful….
LS @ 51
:)
TRex @ 60
I don’t think the GOPer critics worry about factual time lines. *s
Perhaps the best medicine for this country is public financing of elections. What do attorney organizatins have to say about this issue? I don’t have a clue.
Bush praises Dalai Lama as peace symbol
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..dalai_lama
OT, but a constant worry: NYT points out that Putin’s trip to Iran is the first visit by a Kremlin leader since 1943! Ya think maybe he’s trying to ’send a message’?
Can someone remind Bush about ‘entangling alliances’ and the beginning of WWI? Please!?
I stopped reading Kurtz some time ago. He is a republican masquerading as a unbiased media reporter. He is married to a republican so let’s be up front and honest here.
Also, did I say that Howie K is a media whore?
SEVENTEEN people died and 39 were injured in an attack on the American guided missile destroyer, USS Cole, in Aden harbour, Yemen, on October 12, 2000. …
Related:
Watching the Bus Plunge
Oklahoma kiddo @ 66
That must have been an entirely phonetic transcript he read off of. Does he even know the meaning of any of that?
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 56
Sounds like a treat :(
That is the first I’ve seen that blog so I don’t really know the bloggers train of thought.
This sentence stood out to me IRT the ongoing framing of issues.
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 56
Mabel, you tickle me pink! i would love to meet you. anywhere near MA?
peanutbutter @ 72
when you put symbols on your family it’s good to think about peace because education and is for the better good of all childrens learning how to contributes in or out of an emergency room…
Etheridge just flipped on SCHIP! Congrats to FDL and Blue America!
http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/?p=654
The premise is quite simple: instead of encoding values as numbers, ranges of numbers are tagged as having membership association with a word. Words are such great containers of knowledge.
:-)
doesn’t sound like a warm fuzzy feeling….does it?
Kathryn in MA @ 74
heh. thank you.
no not near MA.
up across the border.
in the city where Michael Moore says nobody locks their doors.
:-)
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 77
Depends upon the application but from that perspective, no!
any @ 76
woo hoo! thanks for the breaking news.
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 77
No, it sounds like a fuckin’ programmer’s nightmare! ;-)
Kathleen @ 11
Malkin seems to stumble more than most wingers do in defending the indefensible right wing positions. She seems to search for answers that aren’t there. The only effective methods used to defend a right wing argument is to avoid giving an answer, obfuscate, change the subject, and attack the opponent. You must never answer directly and never permit contemplation of both sides of an issue to occur.
I think that Malkin and her coach husband have designed the Michelle Malkin character as a right wing media creation for a financial benefit. (Not unlike Dennis Miller’s switcheroo – he did it for the money.) She (and Mr. Malkin, more so) obviously believe a lot of the garbage she spews, but I think they mostly do it for the money in the hope of making her a big star (like Coulter).
Getting dumped by O’Reilly has been a huge set back. Too bad. Sucks to be an as*hole sometimes.
LS @ 47
And don’t forget, we want Toyota to beat GM.
OT, but I just thought I’d prepare y’all, I just read at TPM that the Rethugs are about to introduce an amendment to the FISA bill in an effort to derail it.
If it was me, once they introduce their amendment, I’d simply drop even talking about it and let the President stew in his own juices as he sees the sun setting on his program that his people tried to force down Dems throats. That, of course, would take guts!
Mabel, **sigh** i’m happy for you. at least here in MA, we have good congresspeeps.
Howie Annis Kurtz Trophy husband of gooper consultant Sherrie Annis
He is all you need to know about CNN’s commitment to journalism
at least here in MA, we have good congresspeeps
it really is easy here to be ‘out of the eye of the storm’….one forgets what a psychological pitched-battle it is constantly ‘down there’…
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 87
you make it better with your fabulous humor.
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 89
If you can keep the conservatives in check, you will weather the storm. Harper and the rest of the pr*cks want to take away your health care so you can be more like us. I hope you don’t let it happen.
Let the FISA bill die!!!!!
“The confirmation hearing for Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey has ended for the day and will resume tomorrow.
Today’s hearing produced little drama. Members of both parties praised him, and there’s no doubt he’ll be confirmed.”
LS @ 90
Absolutely.
Democratic party (elected officials). Show a little partisanship. For Christ sake.
Eureka Springs @ 92
Any chance that could happen?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 95
Dem’s could really use just an ounce of Rove/Atwater’s ability to frame issues for the public, combined with Bug Man’s ability to keep his caucus in order.
(I’m talking about using those powers for good for a change.)
About six months (assuming the Dems win) after January, 2009, I likely will have decided whether or not to stay in the Democratic party.
Tell me where we stand irt FISA. Just finished cooking for family and now want to watch cspan. Will they be voting tonight?
Kathleen @ 11
I went to Oberlin. Malkin’s family was from Pennsylvania, IIRC. Oberlin was my first choice, but it was then a lot of East coast kids’ second or third choice, which is probably how she got there.
solai @ 97
See the link @ 84. Repubs throwing together an amendment that has really broad language…the bill could be yanked indefinitely.
Memo to John Edwards and the rest from HRC: “I’m your girl”.
Jane!
Great to hear you are on his case. You will be proud to know that the Pup commentors have already made the same Kurtz-esy call.
http://www.firedoglake.com/200…../#comments
(search Kurtz, and my humble handle)
And BTW, he did the same pro-smear stuff last Sunday on CNN.
Now that we are on to him (again), Jane, any suggestion for concerted action?
Ish @ 95
Now that, “using those powers for good”, would be a refreshing change.
LS @ 99
then good! right?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 100
Did you see this in Harpers? Gonzalaes pulled a hundred attorneys ( some from as far away as Iraq) into Illinois to research and intimidate Edwards supporters.
do-si-do @ 80
Whee! Where is our whip? With Tzongas (MA) joining the House tmr, what’s the count in the House?
BTW, this pm, I posted a link to the Kaiser poll numbers that show 74% approval of Schip extension for your faxing pleasure.
Eureka Springs @ 92
See, my idea is to let the President come to them hat in hand, and if he comes to them with his usual bravado instead of hat in hand, I’d tell him to go on a time out until he comes up with the proper deference for an equal branch of government.
I keep wondering if the fuss the House made over the Armenian incident wasn’t meant to just make the Executive branch of government know that the legislative branch is still relevant and still has the ability to make life interesting.
Restore Act vote postponed:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/…..postponed/
Eureka Springs @ 104
Uunbelievable!wholly predictableEureka Springs @ 104
Wow, now that could be huge.
OT now, but doesn’t it bother anyone that although Mukasey may not be Bush’s lapdog, he IS on Giuliani’s leash?
Daily Kos on Mukasey
Eureka Springs @ 104
Just finished reading it. TNX.
Has the House voted on SCHIP yet?
If not, does anyone know when the vote is scheduled?
FYI, new post
New TRex thread upstairs!
Bush: I am too relevant! What a whiner. Embarrassing.
darkblack, in the portrait of MM at the top, does for her what Gilbert Stuart did for George Washington. Who among us shall ever forget?
Dude how could you link me to michellemalkin . com ? Blech, I feel like I just gave money to the RNC. Seriously, don’t generate traffic for such freaks. I feel so dirty. And not like dirty in a cool way at all. Dirty like I ran over a puppy.
My 2c; it’s right to be outraged about what Malkin’s doin’; but shocked?
Nuh-uh.
These denial queen assholes have performed so many pre-frontal lobotomies on themselves to avoid having their synapses connnect about the reality of what they’ve helped create, that nothing shocks me about how many floors their elevator skips, or which Nightmare-at-conservative-headquarters it DOES stop at.
And ladies and gents, we aint seen NUTHIN’ yet.
FWIW, there was a lot to be appalled by throughout this transcript. I’ve talked about it a bit here. You’ve got to love how he evades questions about the journalistic standards of accuracy and truthfulness here (some media critic, eh?):
And then he dismisses quite legitimate concern that the attack dogs were treading in the field of actionable libel:
Because, you know, every citizen who takes a public political stand deserves to have his entire life audited.
LS @ 61
Just curious, but did they also criticize Reagan for sending the Marines into Beirut without allowing them to lock and load? Or for failing to take action after the Marines died? Or for his cut and run from Beirut? Didn’t think so.
As I recall, concerning the Cole, it was not officially determined that al-Qaida was behind the bombing until after Clinton left office, something like January or February. We are, after all, talking about a mere three months. And in any event, Clinton didn’t want to hand off a military operation to an incoming administration the way JFK got stuck with the Bay of Pigs. The Clinton team just laid out everything they had on al-Qaida and terrorism and left it up to the Bushies to determine their own policy, which, apparently, was to do nothing, or more specifically, nothing that Clinton did or would do, no matter what the issue.
… the way JFK got stuck with the Bay of Pigs.
And the way Clinton himself got Somalia handed off to him by Poppy Bush.