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=see bakbad sistas, with ann c?helped jumpstart TP=<div><div>=8 22</div><div><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/student-group-invites-white-nationalist-jared-taylor-to-arizona-state-university/">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/student-group-invites-white-nationalist-jared-taylor-to-arizona-state-university/</a></div><div>
</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">New guard and old guard white nationalists are set to descend on Arizona State University next week. Kai Schwemmer, a 19-year-old influencer with the <a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2022/02/22/the-groyper-army-is-looking-to-make-white-nationalism-mainstream-it-has-key-allies-in-arizona-politics/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">white nationalis</a><a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2022/02/22/the-groyper-army-is-looking-to-make-white-nationalism-mainstream-it-has-key-allies-in-arizona-politics/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">t</a> <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/groyper-army-and-america-first" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">America First</a> youth movement, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/21/13592814/alt-right-donald-trump-jared-taylor" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Jared Taylor</a>, the founder of a <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/people-white-nationalist-jared-taylor-muslim-american-journalist/story?id=46211947" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">white nationalist </a><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/people-white-nationalist-jared-taylor-muslim-american-journalist/story?id=46211947" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">think tank</a>, are scheduled to speak on university grounds next Monday and Friday respectively.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Taylor was the longtime editor of the American Renaissance, a now-defunct magazine and website that <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/08/17/543880487/the-trickle-up-theory-of-white-nationalist-thought" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">presents racism and eugenics</a> with a <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jared-taylor" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">“pseudo-academic polish.”</a>  He also sponsors conferences by the same name at which “racist ‘intellectuals’ rub shoulders with Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists,” the Southern Poverty Law Center <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jared-taylor" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">explains</a>.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Schwemmer, meanwhile, is a follower of a white nationalist youth movement headed by Nick Fuentes. The groyper influencer “launders <a href="https://twitter.com/BenLorber8/status/1423360789054898178?s=20" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">stylized takes</a> on White nationalist ideology for a Gen-Z audience through his popular Kai Clips account on TikTok,” Public Research Associate’s Ben Lorber <a href="https://politicalresearch.org/2021/08/17/hitler-youth-without-hitler" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reports</a>. Now, Schwemmer has expanded his takes to the <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1481641451444260866" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">explicitly racist, misogynist, homophobic, and antisemitic</a> Cozy streaming platform, where he streams regularly.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Schwemmer announced his scheduled Aug. 29 appearance at ASU on a Monday night livestream on Cozy, adding that Tyler Russell, the <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/at-amren-2018-white-nationalists-boast-about-grooming-the-next-generation-of-racists/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">self-appointed leader</a> of the “Canadian branch” of the America First movement, may be a speaker as well. He revealed that Jared Taylor, a figure Schwemmer affectionately called “Uncle Jared,” would speak at the university just days later.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I’m gonna be doing a speech at ASU, at Arizona State University,” Schwemmer said. “I think it’ll be on the 29th. Actually, it’s literally in a week. We’ll be doing a speech there. It might be Tyler Russell as well, but me for sure.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“Guess who else is going to be speaking like a few days after Tyler and I are potentially speaking?” Schwemmer said. “It’s gonna be Jared Taylor, old head of the dissident right, major, major player. Jared Taylor is going to be speaking only like three days after the speech event I’m doing. That’s going to be a big deal. This is going to be his first campus speech in over a decade.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Urging his followers to fly out to Arizona for a week to see both speeches, Schwemmer admitted that attendance would likely be sparse. “What they’re worried about right now is just filling up the seats,” he said.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">A description of the event on Baam! Tickets shows that Taylor was invited to speak by the ASU student group College Republicans United. The group appears to be affiliated with the white nationalist America First movement, with the group’s Gab profile declaring, “America First at Arizona State University!” Another Gab post the group shared urged people to follow Fuentes, and from <a href="https://asu.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/college-republicans-united-at-asu/gallery/album/255723" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">photos on the university website</a>, the group has invited speakers like <a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/michelle-malkin-is-attempting-to-normalize-white-supremacy" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Michelle Malkin</a>—referred to as <a href="https://twitter.com/rightwingwatch/status/1491088940996370432?lang=en" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">“Mommy Malkin”</a> by groypers—and Joe Arpaio—the far-right former Arizona sheriff who was <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/10/29/1050490391/joe-arpaio-legal-costs-100-million-arizona-sheriff" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">first known nationally</a> for jailing people in tents in triple-digit summer heat and using them on chain gangs.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American Renaissance says the topic of Taylor’s Sept. 2 speech will be titled “If We Do Nothing: A Defense of White Identity Politics.” According to a post promoting the speech on the American Renaissance website, Eventbrite declined to host ticket sales on its platform.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Right Wing Watch reached out to Arizona State University about Taylor’s and Schwemmer’s appearances Wednesday.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Arizona State University permits registered student organizations to host guest speakers and use university facilities for student events. The presence of an invited speaker on campus does not in any way imply university endorsement,” a spokesperson for Arizona State University stated.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">This wouldn’t be the first time in recent years Taylor was invited to speak at a university by an America First student group. The student organization America First at the University of Alabama invited Taylor to speak there in 2018, but the speech was <a href="https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2018/04/white_nationalist_jared_taylor.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">canceled</a> after the student group lost its registered status with the university.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">As Jared Holt reported for Right Wing Watch in 2019, American Renaissance, with Taylor at its helm, has been <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/at-amren-2018-white-nationalists-boast-about-grooming-the-next-generation-of-racists/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">grooming the next generation of</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/with-youtuber-line-up-american-renaissance-places-its-bets-on-optics/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">young white nationalist YouTubers</a> and podcasters via its conferences and other outreach, even providing a 19-year-old Fuentes a primetime speaking slot at that year’s conference. Now, those white nationalists have a new conference: the annual America First Political Action Conference headed by Fuentes.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Schwemmer said he met with Taylor at AFPAC III, held in February. That conference made headlines for the special guest appearance of the far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who served as <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/marjorie-taylor-greene-bridges-white-nationalism-and-the-gop/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">white nationalists’ latest vehicle</a> into the mainstream GOP. But the event also served as a meeting of the minds between old guard white nationalists like Taylor and the up-and-coming groypers of the America First movement.</div><div>=</div></div><div>
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</div><div><div>no lnx twt vid</div><div>Michelle Malkin is Attempting to Normalize White Supremacy</div><div>Published: 08.05.2020</div><div>August 05, 2020</div><div>
</div><div>Conservative pundit and syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin has a long history of divisive rhetoric around a range of issues - particularly immigration. In the past year, however, she has publicly and explicitly allied herself with white supremacists, particularly the so-called “groypers,” appearing on white supremacist podcasts and other online programs. Malkin’s bold support of and interaction with white supremacists points to the increasingly fine line between people who call themselves “American nationalists” and recognizable white supremacy.</div><div>
</div><div>A history of divisiveness</div><div> </div><div>Malkin’s columns and books paint a picture of America under siege by enemies and outsiders. In 2002, she wrote her first book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores, which painted immigrants as unwelcome enemies and criminals. In her 2004 book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror, she defends both the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and racial profiling of Arab and Muslim Americans after 9/11.</div><div>
</div><div>Her latest book, Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction?, released in September 2019, focuses on her claims that churches and various nonprofit organizations are contributing to what Malkin sees as unfettered immigration to the U.S., which she believes is destroying the country. In the book, she blamed some mainstream conservatives for embracing the status quo on immigration, and criticized other groups spanning the political spectrum for facilitating increasing immigration to the U.S.</div><div>
</div><div>When discussing the book during a Facebook live promotional event, Malkin appeared alongside Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.  When McInnes promulgated George Soros conspiracy theories, asserting the discredited claim that Soros, a child in Hungary at the time, was “not a Holocaust survivor” but rather a “Holocaust facilitator,” Malkin agreed with him.</div><div>
</div><div>One month later, in an October 1, 2019, column attacking ADL, Malkin dismissed the violent and deadly actions by white supremacists at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 by accusing “left” organizations of exploiting “the riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, as a means of demonizing all Trump supporters and nationalist activists while giving cover to antifa…”</div><div>
</div><div>In March 2020, Malkin’s column about a speech she gave at a groyper conference that month reflected her bigoted views. She wrote, “America will look like the cover of Ilhan Omar’s new book. It will look like the no-go zones of the Twin Cities. It will look like the serial predator-infested public schools in Montgomery County, Maryland. It will not look like this room. This is not conspiracy replacement theory. This is conspiracy truth.” By this point, Malkin was echoing many of the views promoted by white supremacists, joining the battle against what they call “Conservative, Inc.,” otherwise known as the mainstream conservative movement.</div><div>
</div><div>malkin</div><div>Source: VDare-- https://vdare.com/articles/vdare-com-at-cpac-faith-goldy-video-report</div><div>
</div><div>Michelle Malkin is interviewed by Canadian white supremacist Faith Goldy at CPAC on March 3, 2019.</div><div>
</div><div>Breaking with mainstream conservatism, Malkin aligns herself with the groypers</div><div> </div><div>At the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which describes itself as “the largest and most influential gathering of conservatives in the world,” Malkin gave a speech that was very critical of mainstream conservatism, saying, “It’s the GOP sellouts in bed with open borders—like the ones who hijacked the Tea Party movement to shill for amnesty—who are the real grifters cashing in and practicing deceit at the expense of their base.”</div><div>
</div><div>Malkin had for years expressed concern about demographic changes in the U.S. she attributed to the rise in immigration of people from undeveloped countries, but her unease appeared to grow at what she perceived to be a complacent response from the conservative establishment. She also argued that anti-establishment “dissidents” were being attacked verbally and assaulted at political events.</div><div>
</div><div>Through much of 2019, Malkin was regularly invited to speak at mainstream conservative events and also spoke on behalf of Young America’s Foundation (YAF), a conservative youth organization, as part of their speakers’ bureau. By November 2019, however, Malkin’s association with YAF would change drastically. Early in the month, Ben Shapiro, a conservative commentator, gave a speech at Stanford University on behalf of YAF, in which he argued that the alt right, including the groypers, were racist and trying to sabotage conservatives by heckling them in public. </div><div>
</div><div>The groypers, a loose network of alt right figures who are vocal supporters of white supremacist and “America First” podcaster Nick Fuentes, were in the midst of a campaign to disrupt speeches by mainstream conservatives like Shapiro and Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, a conservative  student organization. The groypers were showing up at events and asking questions designed to embarrass the speakers.</div><div>
</div><div>Shortly afterwards, Malkin gave a speech at UCLA titled, “America First: the Torch Is Being Passed,” in which she criticized Shapiro.  She praised Fuentes and the groypers as “patriotic conservatives.” She also called Fuentes one of the “New Right leaders.” </div><div>
</div><div>Malkin’s UCLA speech was praised by numerous white supremacists, including Fuentes, neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin and James Fulford, a writer for VDare. YAF, meanwhile, dismissed Malkin from the organization, tweeting, “There is no room in mainstream conservatism or at YAF for holocaust deniers, white nationalists, street brawlers, or racists.” In reply, Malkin tweeted, “The Keepers of the Gate have spoken.  My defense of unjustly prosecuted Proud Boys, patriotic young nationalists/groypers & demographic truth-tellers must not be tolerated…”</div><div>
</div><div>At the end of January 2020, Malkin announced on Twitter that she would be a speaker at the first America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC), sponsored by the founders of America First Students, which describes itself as a “campus conservative organization” but was created by groyper activists. The Washington, D.C. conference featured a number of white supremacists as speakers, including Fuentes, Patrick Casey, who heads American Identity Movement, and Scott Greer, who wrote, using a pseudonym, for the white supremacist journal Radix.         </div><div>
</div><div>malkin</div><div>Source: Michelle Malkin twitter page: https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1223357859842285568?s=20</div><div>
</div><div>Michelle Malkin tweets on January 31, 2020, about her plans to speak at the America First Political Action Conference.</div><div>
</div><div>Malkin has positioned herself as a guiding, parental figure for America Firsters and groypers, who openly express racism, antisemitism and other forms of bigotry. Malkin herself made antisemitic remarks at the AFPAC event, wondering aloud why she wasn’t able to question the number of people killed during the Holocaust or talk about the “dual loyalty” of American Jews.</div><div>
</div><div>Malkin began her speech by remarking to the crowd, including Fuentes and Casey, “Thank you. Thank you. Mommy’s in the house.” She talked about her building anger, saying, “A fury had welled up inside me a year ago that had long been simmering.”  She mentioned the “betrayals of the GOP establishment when it comes to engineering and succumbing to demographic conquest.”</div><div>
</div><div>In a column about AFPAC afterwards, she referred to the groypers as “serious young men who never take themselves too seriously in their shared mission to end mass migration, restore law and order, and conserve and uphold actual conservative values” and she saluted “their sardonic humor and irreverence layered over their core America First message.”</div><div>
</div><div>malkin</div><div>Source: Cassandra Fairbanks Twitter page: https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1234322811415670785?s=20</div><div>
</div><div>Photo, posted March 1, 2020, shows Michelle Malkin with attendees from the America First Political Action Conference, including white supremacist Nick Fuentes, seated to her right.</div><div>
</div><div>A number of days later, Malkin used her Telegram account to comment on various alt right and alt lite figures being banned by mainstream social media sites like Twitter, claiming she and others were experiencing “ruthless dehumanization.” The post was circulated on Telegram, including by a group associated with the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM). With a nod to the irony so popular within the alt right, Malkin signed her post “Love, NAZI MOM.” </div><div>
</div><div>malkin</div><div>Source: Michelle Malkin’s Telegram channel, March 9, 2020.</div><div>
</div><div>Malkin strengthens ties to white supremacists and right wing extremists</div><div> </div><div>Malkin’s bigoted views have paved the way for ties with fringe figures like white supremacist Peter Brimelow, who operates the racist, anti-immigrant site, VDare (which runs her columns), Proud Boys founder McInnes and Laura Loomer, a right wing anti-Muslim bigot currently running for Congress in Florida (whose campaign Malkin supports).* In March 2019, Malkin was interviewed by Faith Goldy, a Canadian white supremacist who was reporting on the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) for VDare. Malkin told Goldy, “Deplatforming dissenting voices is a ruthless, bizarre and unprogressive way to achieve ‘diversity and inclusion.’”</div><div>
</div><div>Since appearing at AFPAC, Malkin has continued to align herself with white supremacists and fringe figures to promote their views.  In May 2020, Right-Wing Watch reported that Malkin was collaborating with right wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos to create an “America First” reading list, recommending books for their supporters to read. The list includes a number of well-known antisemitic works, including The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, The Culture of Critique by retired antisemitic professor Kevin MacDonald and The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit by antisemite E. Michael Jones.</div><div>
</div><div>In January 2020, American Renaissance, a white supremacist online publication run by Jared Taylor, began syndicating Malkin’s columns.  Malkin’s personal website now directs readers to the Unz Review, a site that features numerous white supremacists and antisemites and is run by Ron Unz, who has written a number of antisemitic tracts.</div><div>
</div><div>Malkin has also appeared on white supremacist online broadcasts, including white supremacist Vincent James Foxx’s YouTube channel, and Red Ice TV, which is run by white supremacist husband/wife team Henrik Palmgren and Lana Loktelff.  Malkin also did a livestream show in May 2020 featuring Faith Goldy, as well as right wing commentators Cassandra Fairbanks and Asley Rae Goldenberg. In July 2020, Patrick Casey interviewed Michele Malkin on his podcast “Restoring Order.”</div><div>
</div><div>Malkin has clearly crossed a boundary in terms of her association with white supremacists. Nick Fuentes and the groypers present themselves as Christian conservatives and American nationalists while they attempt to normalize white supremacist views. Malkin justifies her embrace of those views by arguing that her “enemies” (the left, mainstream media, social media sites and now mainstream conservatives) are attacking “dissident voices,” including her own. </div><div>
</div><div>malkin</div><div>Source: Faith Goldy’s Twitter page:  https://twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/1266711021642711041?s=20</div><div>
</div><div>Michelle Malkin on a May 2020 livestream with Faith Goldy and others. (Posted 5-30-20 on Twitter)</div><div>
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</div><div>=</div>=<div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">on  Thursday, far-right activist Lauren Witzke issued an apology that could only be described as groveling; in fact, she described it as such.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“I feel like I’ve been going through—it’s almost like a breakup. I wanted to say publicly how sorry I am,” Witzke said on her livestream. <p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“It’s been a rough last few days. I’ve been crying like a woman. And of course, I did what any rational adult would do and called Mommy Malkin to help me. So like I said, this is a groveling session, I have to pay my penance where penance is due, apologies where they are well deserved, and that’s why I am doing this stream,” Witzke said. “I respect our great and merciful leader, who has forgiven me by the way."<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">twt]<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">that “great and merciful leader” is Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist who organized the<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/marjorie-taylor-greene-bridges-white-nationalism-and-the-gop/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> America First Political Action Conference</a> held last week in Orlando, Florida. So why was Witzke, who was the <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gop-nominates-another-qanon-candidate-this-one-for-senate-seat/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">GOP nominee for U.S. Senate</a> in Delaware in 2020, apologizing to Fuentes?<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Witzke had defended her boss, the far-right conspiracy theorist Stew Peters, who had criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Fuentes and his self-described army of<a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/groyper-army-and-america-first" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> “Groypers”</a> defended Greene—who spoke at AFPAC and whose initials they chanted during her speech—in the only way they knew how: with harassment of her critics. <p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The unfolding drama among the far-right activists who attended AFPAC offers a glimpse into Fuentes’ and his white nationalist America First movement’s commitment to bring their message into the mainstream GOP discourse—and to make dissenting voices fall in line. <p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Witzke had made the mistake of defending her boss. But Peters, who hosts “The Stew Peters Show,” is not getting off easy either. <p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">After Greene gave her opening speech in which she spoke about Christian nationalism and attacked transgender people, a slew of other extremist speakers followed, including Vincent James, who<a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/afpac-iii-elected-officials-support-white-supremacist-event" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> promotes</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/freshman-infowars-host-keeps-booking-white-nationalists-and-they-sound-just-like-him/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> white nationalism</a> on his livestream, and Peters.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Peters said on his show Monday that he was unaware that Greene was the surprise mystery speaker. When one of his producers, presumably Witzke, asked whether they should change his speech in which he had planned to criticize Greene (as he has done in the <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1435262097324232709" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">past</a>), Peters said he decided to go ahead with his speech as planned.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">At the AFPAC podium, Peters blasted Greene, calling her a “faker.” He criticized her as perpetuating the “useless own-the-libs conservatism” and accused her of “embracing race-based reparations to own the libs”—”disgusting!” he added. (Later in the speech, he also declared that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be “hanging by the end of a noose somewhere” and that Georgia congressional candidate Vernon Jones “belongs in a prison cell, actually, truthfully, he probably belongs in an electric chair.”)<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">As the evening wound down, Fuentes made a point of thanking Greene for her appearance. “God bless Marjorie Taylor Greene, you have no idea what a big deal it was for her to come out and do that,” Fuentes said, adding that it was easy to talk and yell but that it was hard work to bring the fight to Congress.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Of course, the next day, Greene spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference and told reporters that she didn’t know Nick Fuentes or his views and that she was only there to speak to “young conservatives.” <p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Peters was livid. “It is unsurprising to see liar and fraud Marjorie Taylor Greene so quickly stab Nick Fuentes in the stomach mere hours after pretending to fawn all over his fast-growing movement,” he<a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1497642142411468800" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> told</a> The Daily Beast’s Zachary Petrizzo.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But instead of appreciating the attack on Greene, Fuentes’ America First crowd lashed out at Peters, calling him a “boomer.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“Very disappointing that Stew Peters— a former ‘rapper’ and criminal is trying so hard to sabotage a perfect night by running to Zach Petrizzo at the Daily Beast to attack one of our featured speakers. He was disrespectful to our staff, looked like a slob, and stormed out of the conference after his speech,” Fuentes wrote on Telegram. (If you’re wondering what his rapping sounded like, give<a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1456616426127646720" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> this</a> a listen.) “And for people who think he’s just ‘too hardcore’ or whatever, he also tried to get me to promise to stop saying the n-word before even agreeing to attend the conference lol. Good riddance loser.” <p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">In a broadcast Monday, Peters appeared bewildered by what took place. He explained why he attacked Greene—she’s “fake”—claimed “we always promise to give you the unvarnished truth,” and recounted the so-called <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/11/20948317/alt-right-donald-trump-jr-conservative-tpusa-yaf-racism-antisemitism" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">“Groyper Wars”</a> of 2019 in which Nick Fuentes and the “Groypers” attacked Charlie Kirk, influencing him to take more extreme positions. That’s what he was trying to do, Peters said, adding, “Her speech was lame, too.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Peters brought on his guest Neil Kumar, a candidate for Congress in Arkansas who has peddled white nationalism, whom Peters looked to for reassurance. Kumar delivered,<a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1498731585679638530?s=20&t=r8Y7BYxuNFH-yZRyABo5TA" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> accusing Fuentes and the “Groypers” of being sellouts</a> for chasing clout by “simping for this serial adulterer who wears hot pants everywhere she goes. Marjorie is a pathological liar and a total fraud.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Peters went on to take a softer tone, hoping only that the “Groypers” would find their way back. <p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">The Groypers’ attacks on the far-right who disagree with them wasn’t limited to Peters and Witzke. They lashed out at Joe Kent, an<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-maga-squad/2021/12/26/654f49ea-5448-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> extreme MAGA</a> congressional candidate in Washington state whom Fuentes had endorsed last year, for<a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1499441105405984775/photo/3" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> disavowing</a> Fuentes Thursday. That harassment continued even after Kent stood by his comments that Fuentes should not have been placed on a no-fly list. On Thursday night, Fuentes spent his livestream trashing Kent.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">These attacks could be seen as far-right actors following the whim of their leader who<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/nick-fuentes" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> operates his movement like a cult</a> and will suffer no criticism without striking back twice as hard. But it is also clear that Fuentes has already decided that this is the moment for the movement to partner with extreme politicians whose ideology may not directly align with his in order to bring white nationalism to more mainstream Republican audiences.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">While Greene’s politics lie, as<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/cpac-afpac-nick-fuentes-marjorie-taylor-greene-1313210/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> Rolling Stone put it</a>, “at the area of greatest overlap between ‘bigotry’ and ‘self-promotion,’” her speech at AFPAC didn’t dip into white nationalism. Instead, it focused on transphobia and Christian nationalism—takes that anyone sensible would find deeply troublesome but which the “Groypers” consider child’s play.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">In a livestream Monday, Vincent James, a close ally of Fuentes,<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/white-nationalist-praises-marjorie-taylor-greene-for-mainstreaming-our-message-by-speaking-at-afpac/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> explained</a> why what she said in her speech didn’t matter.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“We are breaking through this Overton Window, and speakers like Marjorie Taylor Greene… it doesn’t matter what they say. You have to really think about the end game here,” James<a href="https://youtu.be/ZrWnb6wTLBI" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> said</a>. “It’s about gaining legitimacy.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“It’s about mainstreaming our message,” James added.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">And while Kent, Peters, and Witzke may be useful to Fuentes and his movement, they’re nowhere near as valuable as Greene in spreading their message to a broader audience.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Back on Witzke’s livestream—where the live chat included takes like “Never trust a femoid” and incessant use of the N-word—Witzke thanked Fuentes for forgiving her.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“Thanks, Nick, for forgiving me,” she said. “I’m glad I’m not getting the Joe Kent treatment right now because God knows, I guess I deserved it.”<div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/why-are-the-far-right-of-afpac-fighting/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;">Tags: <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/joe-kent/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Joe Kent</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/marjorie-taylor-greene/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/neil-kumar/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Neil Kumar</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/nick-fuentes/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Nick Fuentes</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/stew-peters/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Stew Peters</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/vincent-james/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Vincent James</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/america-first-political-action-conference/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">America First Political Action Conference</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/groypers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">groypers</a></div></div>==<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/white-house-turmoil-as-senior-staffer-denied-key-promotion-after-right-wing-fury-on-twitter-report/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/white-house-turmoil-as-senior-staffer-denied-key-promotion-after-right-wing-fury-on-twitter-report/</a>according to a report from Politico, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/17/white-house-staffing-search-upended-261226" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a senior White House official</a> slated to take a high profile position overseeing domestic policy had his appointment derailed by a furious response on Twitter from extremist conservatives questioning his bonafides.The report notes that Derek Lyons was on the verge of being announced as President Donald Trump’s next top domestic policy adviser before having the rug pulled out from him and seeing the job suddenly go to Brooke Rollins.According to Politico’s Anita Kumar and Daniel Lippman, “The abrupt shuffle at the Domestic Policy Council was the result of several typical Trump-era factors: an announcement that got out early, conservative anger and differing internal messages.”“Nothing’s done until it’s done, and that’s always been true in Trump world and this is yet another of many examples,” explained a person close to the White House.jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, <a class="e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/10/mark-meadows-jared-kushner-influence-240020" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">floated</a> several people for the role, including both Lyons and Rollins. Newly installed chief of staff Mark Meadows floated his own name, Stephen Miller, an influential immigration policy aide. It was expected that the domestic policy chief would play a significant role in the president’s efforts to reopen the country amid the coronavirus pandemic,” the report notes. “After several days of deliberations, it appeared Kushner and Meadows had selected Lyons to serve as acting DPC director for the rest of Trump’s term, while continuing in his current role as White House staff secretary, a key official who manages document flow to the president.”However, after a Politico report noted the upcoming announcement, it set off a furor among conservative hardliners about Lyons association with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.“Lyons, a lawyer and Harvard Law School grad, started his career as a law clerk to Brett Kavanaugh when the Supreme Court justice was still a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals. He later worked on Capitol Hill,” the report continues. “But it was his time with Jeb Bush’s campaign that made some conservatives suspicious. His affiliation with Kushner also raised some eyebrows, given that Trump’s son-in-law has <a class="e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/15/immigration-infrastructure-week-trump-administration-114913" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">pushed</a> for some more moderate policies, including business-friendly immigration changes that hardliners say are too lenient.”That announcement set off anti-immigration gadfly Michelle Malkin who tweeted out, “This is not what #AmericaFirst voters signed up for,” along with the hashtag, “#JaredKushnerIsNotMyPresident..” Conservative writer and political consultant Ryan Girdusky, piled on, tweeting, “Trump has picked Derek Lyons as the head of the Domestic Policy Council…- he’s a former Jeb! Person.”The report notes that the outside criticism set off alarms in the White House that eventually led to Lyons being skipped over.“A White House official said Meadows received praise internally about Lyons but some in the White House worried that criticism from influential conservative pundits, such as Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson of Fox News, would soon follow,” the report states. “There was another problem that arose during deliberations: Meadows and Kushner had yet to have Trump sign off on Lyons’ appointment when the news broke, according to two White House officials. The White House official said Lyons and Rollins were finalists for the job, but the job ultimately went to Rollins in part because she would be able to appear on television as part of ‘the public facing role’ of DPC director.”“By the end of the week Rollins had been tapped to head the DPC in an acting capacity,” the report notes before adding, “Lyons was elevated to the title of counselor, making him one of the closest advisers to the president alongside Hope Hicks and Kellyanne Conway, who have similar titles, although Conway is senior counselor. The move was seen internally by some as a face-saving measure and by others as a Kushner attempt to diminish Conway’s status.”You can <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/17/white-house-staffing-search-upended-261226" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">read more here</a>.<div>mma 919</div><div><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>Michelle Malkin has been on a book tour through right-wing media, and she's been pushing far-right conspiracy theories at every stop. On Fox, she <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=96927e51c0e1f6e3efa5d55db19482f4e7d853f86d7b5c3e1f00c84f0aece7036fa5dd33c9dd8205b4a3d1c73da15b3427e1322593800bcb" title="pushed">pushed</a> the conspiracy theory behind the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue. On the radio, she pushed the white nationalist "great replacement" conspiracy theory behind the El Paso shooting with both <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=96927e51c0e1f6e3003c22ccc3ebb78eca96eaece12a5a91d553ff9ba197fe9596324cfcf4ed606a83bb80becf16296f027d8123064c748b" title="Sean Hannity">Sean Hannity</a> and former Trump aide <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=96927e51c0e1f6e306adfbee8342621c22a20f1bbea5c90a56cd286d69f91f81d552c31b3582ea1a74e18f6632fc09a4b5e5d37378b3f430" title="Sebastian Gorka">Sebastian Gorka</a>. In a Facebook video, she and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=96927e51c0e1f6e37108549edc6d8912f26916f6360e7832ad5fcefaca438adb01fb8dccffcfe1f7ca55138febe211ecb43563624d28257b" title="alleged">alleged</a> that billionaire donor George Soros was not actually Jewish. On a Daily Caller podcast, she <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=96927e51c0e1f6e35189a5fa7fac33686b3983d3d2e03ecc009e6f45bef7a34e9d2654928ab86063053306f156bc646bfa178bc26053a741" title="pushed">pushed </a>an anti-Catholic conspiracy theory about immigration. When Malkin was on Fox Business, host Lou Dobbs <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=96927e51c0e1f6e3ffec6fdbd03eab0104cea29232daec61f3f5595e4076130bb3e7ba268817558f86071dee414c260130978206d88cbafa" title="alleged that">alleged that</a> Soros' "tentacles" are undermining American sovereignty.</li></ul></div>mma<div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Reporting on ACORN, Beck and Hannity claim to be concerned with government waste and corruption</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Beck implores viewers to “take a stand” because "[t]his is clear-cut, unadulterated, taxpayer-funded corruption" at ACORN due to its receipt of government funding. On the September 15 edition of his Fox News program, Beck aired portions of an undercover video at a California ACORN office and stated (from the Nexis database):</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">BECK: I am just asking you this -- please, take a stand. Take a stand. This is clear-cut, unadulterated, taxpayer-funded corruption. You love your children. You love your country just like I do. You must understand that what you've been seeing from ACORN on these tapes this past week isn't compassion, it's corruption!</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">I'm asking you -- demand a full investigation from your representatives of everybody -- ACORN, all the way to the top, everybody in government, all the way to the top, in your cities, and in our nation. And until that corruption is brought under control, we must quarantine Washington, D.C. -- no legislation must come out of it.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Hannity: “The only question that remains is, will this keep ACORN from receiving our tax dollars?” From the September 16 edition of Hannity (from Nexis):</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">HANNITY: Now the employees in five separate ACORN offices have now showed themselves willing to aid and in some cases participate in child prostitution. Now predictably, ACORN is retaliating by attacking the individuals who exposed them and threatening them with lawsuits.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">But the videos, they speak for themselves. The only question that remains is, will this keep ACORN from receiving our tax dollars?</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">And here with reaction is the author of the best-selling book, “Culture of Corruption,” Michelle Malkin is back with us.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">You know, if you look at the money and follow the money, tens and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to date, Michelle. And if you add the stimulus, you're looking, you know, at potentially $8.5 billion more. So there are -- there is an effort in Congress to stop it. Will it be successful?</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">MICHELLE MALKIN, “THE CULTURE OF CORRUPTION” AUTHOR: Well, it already has, in some measure. And I think that cutting off ACORN from the Census Bureau partnerships was a big first step, and then of course in the Senate cutting off transportation and HUD appropriations money from ACORN and all of its affiliates.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">I think that's very important. I called up Senator Mike Johan's office the other day just to clarify and make sure that it's not just ACORN, the national umbrella group, but all of the web of its affiliates and entities under it that are nonprofit, tax exempt and supposedly nonpartisan.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">So all these are a good first step. But I think that the next step, Sean, obviously, is to crack open the books and take a look at how the money they currently have been allocated and allocated in the past is being spent. And that's going to be an incredible forensic undertaking. And hopefully it will be bipartisan.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">HANNITY: You talk about these umbrella groups. There's all these groups that would then, you know, sort of subcontract out to ACORN. So it's almost difficult to do the accounting. But the reality is, and I know Governor Tim Pawlenty and I know some others, Richard Shelby was on this morning, and he is working in Washington.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">They're saying they want to find a way to get to the real bottom line dollar figure of how much they are getting and cut off all funds because this is only part of the corruption. I mean it's bad enough every office they went to showed a connection, you know, to some of these scandals. But it goes a lot deeper, doesn't it?</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">MALKIN: It's systemic. And I'll tell you, ACORN plays a game of throwing its rank and file operatives under the bus and then claiming that these were just the indefensible actions of a few, a handful. That's the phrase that Bertha Lewis and the ACORN brass are using.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Both hosts have largely ignored major scandals involving military contractors that have huge government contracts</div><div>=</div><div>3/19</div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/1109916/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/1109916/</a></div><div>
</div><div>Peter Wehner, a senior fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center and former stagger in the Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush administrations, on Friday ripped “parts of the American right” after a speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference railed against “the ghost of John McCain.”<div class="p1_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During her CPAC speech on Friday Conservative activist Michelle Malkin <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/conservative-activist-lashes-out-at-the-ghost-of-john-mccain-in-unhinged-cpac-speech/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">received a rousing applause</a> when she raged against fellow Republicans, including the late Sen. John McCain.<div class="p2_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Hey, remember when Congress promised that they were going to enact a nationwide visa entry/exit system to track legal short-term visa holders?” Malkin asked. “Remember that? Nobody in Congress does. One has yet to be built even in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks which were perpetrated in part by several illegal alien visa overstayers.”<div class="p3_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“E-verify has been stalled,” she continued. “Sanctuary cities have metastasized and both parties are to blame. Yes, I’m looking at you, retired Paul Ryan and yes, I’m looking at you, Mitch McConnell. And yes, I’m looking at you, Bush family, and yes, I’m looking at you, the ghost of John McCain.”<div class="p4_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">McCain died last August after a year-long battle with glioblastoma.<div class="p5_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wehner, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/i-left-gop-because-trump/581965/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">who left the Republican Party last year</a>—citing “the political rise of Donald Trump”—ripped members of his former party for cheering Malkin’s remark.<div class="p6_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“If you want an example of how rancid large parts of the American right have become, watch Michelle Malkin at CPAC raging against the ‘ghost of John McCain,’” Wehner tweeted. “This display of cruelty and moral sickness brings a standing ovation.”<div class="p7_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“<a href="https://twitter.com/Peter_Wehner/status/1101610850404761600" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">What a freak show</a>,” he added.</div><div></div>When a long list of prominent Democrats became the target of a domestic terrorist campaign in 2018, many people on the far right were quick to assume it was all a left-wing hoax. But the bombs mailed to billionaire George Soros, former President Barack Obama, 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and others were quick real. And now, similarly, some extremists on the far right are assuming that the violent attack on actor/singer Jussie Smollett in Chicago this week is simply a left-wing plot to discredit Donald Trump’s presidency.<div class="p1_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TMZ reported that after Smollett (best known for his portrayal of R&B singer Jamal Lyon on the Fox television series “Empire”) left a Subway in Chicago in the wee hours, he was beaten by two men in ski masks who used racial and anti-gay slurs and told him, “This is MAGA country.” Smollett, who is African-American and openly gay, suffered a broken rib but was well enough to be discharged from Chicago’s Northwestern Hospital on Tuesday morning, January 29. <div class="advertisement " style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago police are investigating the attack on Smollett, who had been <a href="https://thatgrapejuice.net/entertainment/2019/01/jussie-smollett-hospitalized-homophobic-hate-attack/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">threatened </a>before his arrival in the Windy City. A note sent to Fox’s Chicago studio, according to TMZ, warned, “You will die, black fr.” But the pro-Trump Reddit page The Donald is full of <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/al5hfx/chicago_police_deny_claim_that_jussie_smollett/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Trump supporters</a> who insist that Smollett is lying.<div class="p3_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One of the Trumpistas on The Donald posted that Smollett “got mugged and is trying to turn himself into a race martyr.” And another described the attack as “another phony hate crime.”<div class="p4_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Far-right columnist Michelle Malkin, in a <a href="https://www.creators.com/read/michelle-malkin/01/19/the-manure-spreaders-of-media-sensationalism" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">January 30 piece</a> for Creators Syndicate, asserted that she was “skeptical” because descriptions of the attack on Smollett are full of “oddities and discrepancies.” And she believes that media accounts of the attack have all the signs of “manufactured ‘news’” and “smears first, facts later.”<div class="p5_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Malkin wrote, “Question: How many racist homophobic menaces wander around the upscale Streeterville neighborhood of liberal Chicago at 2 a.m. carrying rope and bleach, yelling about ‘MAGA country?’ Question: How many racist homophobic menaces have ever heard of ‘Empire,’ could recognize Jussie Smollett, or know or care anything about his sexuality?”<div class="p6_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> On Steven Crowder’s far-right Louder With Crowder website, editor at large Courtney Kirchoff wondered if TMZ had <a href="https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/theres-more-to-the-empire-star-jussie-smollett-hate-crime-story-than-meets-the-eye/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">fabricated the story</a>. Kirchoff wrote, “Is this a possible fake news story? Possibly.”<div class="p7_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Conservative Daily News website has been pushing the <a href="https://www.conservativedailynews.com/2019/01/tmz-lied-chicago-police-say-attackers-didnt-shout-this-is-maga-country-at-empire-star-jussie-smollett/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">“fake news” narrative</a> as well. Contributor Andrew Aleksi-Lankinen wrote, “The claim that two Trump supporters were just waiting with rope and bleach at 2 a.m. for some celebrity to attack makes absolutely no sense whatsoever…. This could all just be a P.R. stunt by Smollett.”<div class="p8_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Even right-wing Republicans who are expressing sympathy for Smollett are not safe from outraged Trumpistas and conspiracy buffs who believe that the attack on him is a hoax.<div class="p9_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On January 29, anti-Trump conservative Ana Navarro (a frequent guest on CNN) visited Twitter and posted, “I saw Jussie Smollett in Miami last week. I can’t believe this happened. It is <a href="https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/1090290999430168576" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">sad and disgusting</a> and deplorable.” And a Trump supporter who goes by Jali_Cat was furious with Navarro, tweeting, “You disgusting hateful bitch….. U r the epitome of fake news and of a FAKE REPUBLICAN! Can not WAIT til God knee jerks you down ten notches @ananavarro!”<div class="p10_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Another Twitter user, who goes by MidAtlantic Woman, posted, “@ananavarro doesn’t care if it is true, as long as it hurts our President.”<div class="p11_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2014, Smollett was cast as Jamal Lyon, a gay R&B singer. And the Northern California native came out as gay during a March 2015 interview with Ellen DeGeneres. In addition to his acting, Smollett has recorded an album: 2018’s Sum of My Music.furies candidate?<p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 25.2px; vertical-align: top;">Conservatives Throw a Temper Tantrum<p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 25.2px; vertical-align: top;">The loudest outcry came from the right-wing shock jocks like Rush Limbaugh, who claimed that Janet Napolitano and Barack Obama were "portraying standard, ordinary, everyday conservatives as posing a bigger threat to this country than al-Qaeda terrorists or genuine enemies of this country like Kim Jong-Il."  Sean Hannity warned his Fox News viewers that “if you have a pro-life bumper sticker on your car, if you have an 'America is overtaxed' bumper sticker, if you have a pro-Second Amendment bumper sticker, they're viewing you potentially as a radical.”In possibly the most deranged interpretation, conservative blogger Michelle Malkin wrote that the report was a “hit job on conservatives” and “one of the most embarrassingly shoddy pieces of propaganda I’d ever read out of DHS. I couldn’t believe it was real….the piece of crap report issued on April 7 is a sweeping indictment of conservatives.”<p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 25.2px; vertical-align: top;">In a sad sort of irony, Johnson told SPLC that the conservative media personalities who misinterpreted and attacked his report “would have been shocked to know that I personify conservatism. I'm an Eagle Scout. I'm a registered Republican. I'm Mormon. In fact, I was helping the Boy Scouts with a fundraiser when I heard the report being attacked on the news."<p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 25.2px; vertical-align: top;">Outrage over the report's findings quickly spread to Congress, where several conservative lawmakers demanded the ouster of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano. Among them was Rep. John Carter, R-Tex., who remarked, "We shouldn't even give her the respect of letting her resign. She should be fired by the administration for accusing honest, American citizens — because of their political beliefs — of being domestic terrorists."<p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 25.2px; vertical-align: top;">The self-described conservative and Christian non-profit Thomas More Law Center went even further and filed a lawsuit against Secretary Napolitano on behalf a Michigan-based anti-abortion group, claiming the DHS report was all part of a conspiracy between the Obama administration and liberal groups to violate their constitutional rights.<p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 18px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 25.2px; vertical-align: top;">The section of the report that stirred the most controversy referred to “disgruntled military veterans” and cautioned that “rightwing extremists would attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans to boost their violent capabilities.”had not heard a while, dtr healthuseful tool<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/smearing-blasey-ford-right-wing-media-finds-messaging-bonanza-in-prosecutor-memo">http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/smearing-blasey-ford-right-wing-media-finds-messaging-bonanza-in-prosecutor-memo</a>booktvprominent at regnery? book launch JOK?https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1706041/bio
oddly does not list films?Malkin was born on October 20, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA as Michelle Perez Maglalang. She is an actress and director, known for <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6753224?ref=nmbio_mbio" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 245);">Michelle Malkin Investigates</a> (2016), <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6459204?ref=nmbio_mbio" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 245);">Daniel in the Den</a> (2016) and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7558944?ref=nmbio_mbio" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 245);">Honor Killings: The Real War on Women</a> (2017). She has been married to Jesse Dylan Malkin since July 24, 1993. They have two children.onservative commentator/columnist and author of the books "Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores" and "In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror."crooks & liarsZombie Michelle Malkin Rises Again With New Movie, Voter Fraud ClaimsBy Karoli Kuns10/22/14 7:00amShe's baaaaaack and just in time for midterms, too! After months of blessed silence from her particular brand of harpy-ism, Malkin has returned with a new film about how four liberal billionaires have "taken over" Colorado.The trailer is about all sane people should be able to handle. They shoveled in as many wingnuts as possible to talk about guns, gays, God, and of course, voter fraud. That was part of the focus of her appearance with Megyn Kelly on Tuesday night, because we have an election coming up and what would an election be without Fox angst over brown people voting?Over the course of a decade, a once-red state has become more Democratic – and a new film, hosted by Michelle Malkin, tells the story of how that happened. “Rocky Mountain Heist,” produced by Citizens United, is a documentary which reveals how a wealthy liberal quartet took over the state.Malkin and Citizens United President David Bossie were on “The Kelly File” tonight to discuss the film.Malkin said that Citizens United and Bossie “have been absolute warriors in this fight” to inform the public. She said it was even a battle to get the film out, calling it a victory for conservative political speech.“What happened here in Colorado can happen in the rest of the country,” she warned, explaining that the “Gang of Four” coordinated and used “shady nonprofits” to plot to take over the state Legislature.“The hypocrisy reeks, it smokes, it burns," she said.She also blasted the new voting law “voter fraud Frankenstein.”Here's the trailer, so you can see how far over the top it goes. It's Tancredo-worthy.If you're Malkin, everyone in Colorado is just getting high and living on the dole, I guess. Here's more on the film:What was the result of the “Rocky Mountain Heist,” according to Citizen United?“Now, homelessness is at an all-time high, marijuana is smoked in once family-friendly parks, gun control is rampant and the state’s energy industry is under constant assault,” the group said in announcing the trailer Wednesday. “Unfortunately, the State of Colorado is now a perfect example of President Obama’s promise to ‘fundamentally transform America.’”The release was held up while Citizens United went to court in Colorado to fight the requirement that they disclose the financial backers to the film. Because of course, no one would be the slightest bit interested in who paid for this fine piece of election-year scare-mongering bullshit.Here's what has Malkin's panties in a twist about the voting laws in Colorado:About 16 months ago, the Democratic governor signed an election law which allows residents to print ballots from their home computers, then turn them over to collectors. Critics say this could lead to voter fraud, and they allege it was pushed through the state Legislature to keep Democrats in power.Oh noes! Let all the people vote and Democrats keep power! How terrible!Voter fraud is not an issue. 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line-height: 22.4px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Michelle Malkin</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_Fumento" title="Michael Fumento" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 22.4px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Michael Fumento</a> published "Rachel's Folly," which claims that dioxin is good for you.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> CEI's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jonathan_Tolman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jonathan Tolman (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 22.4px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jonathan Tolman</a> (who holds a bachelor's degree in political science), published a study that month titled "Nature's Hormone Factory," claiming that naturally-occurring chemicals produced by plants and other living organisms are as dangerous as industrial chemicals.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> In December of that year, CEI submitted comments opposing the EPA's proposed air quality rule to limit particulate emissions, claiming that "the EPA has failed to consider whether the proposed standard may actually increase mortality due to reductions in disposable income that compliance efforts may produce. ... At all times regulation imposes costs that mean less real income to individuals for alternative expenditure. That deprivation of real income itself has adverse health effects, in the form of poorer diet, more heart attacks, more suicides."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a>==

grotesque smear campaigns and a deluge of abuse. Recent examples include Michelle Malkin's smear campaign against a 12-year-old who testified in favor of SCHIP Rx; the bizarre multi-year campaign to discredit climate scientist Michael Mann; and the relentless haranguing of feminist video game critic Anita Sarkeesian. The goal often seems to be to “take out” the target by making the price of continuing to speak out in public so high that they quit entirely.

Not many political reporters have scored exclusives with both Sens. Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid. Scottie Nell Hughes, of the Tea Party News Network, has. She’s part of an emerging class of conservative news sites that mesh clickbait headlines and social media–friendly content with stories that bash President Obama, laud Sen. Ted Cruz, and rack up remarkable traffic.
Betsy Woodruff is a Slate staff writer.HMMN
The dirty secret of new conservative news sites is that the ones that get the most readers are practically ignored by their fellow media outlets. Sites like the Washington Free Beacon and the Federalist have quickly won fans among conservative D.C. insiders, and their work has drawn friendly coverage—and deservedly so—from outlets like Bloomberg and Politico Magazine. (Disclosure: I wrote a freelance piece for the Federalist last year, and I think it’s a smart, important publication.) But a bunch of sites you’ve probably never heard of outpace those sites when it comes to actual readership. These new-media operations generally have tiny staffs, low national profiles, and #TCOT-friendly sensibilities. What they lack in plaudits from their peers, they compensate for in eyeballs.
What this means for the future of conservative media is an open question. What it means for conservative media at the moment, though, is that there’s a voracious demand for viral-friendly, often-trashy news stories that reify right-wing ideas. Expect to see more of those stories in the future.If there’s one conservative news site that’s been sorely overlooked by media reporters, it’s Twitchy. Twitchy is an enigma: sometimes baffling, sometimes amusing, and—and this is really saying a lot—unlike anything else on the Internet.The site, which political commentator Michelle Malkin founded in 2012, aggregates tweets, basically Storifying them into short posts. Its tagline is “Who said what,” and it has verticals for U.S. Politics, Entertainment, Media, and (as of now) Ferguson. You might think this is a bad concept for a website. You would be wrong.The dirty secret of new conservative news sites is that the ones that get the most readers are ignored by their fellow media outlets.According to analytics website Alexa.com, Twitchy has more readers than the Weekly Standard, the Federalist, and the Free Beacon. It also trounces Roll Call, Reason, Commentary, and the left-wing feminist site Feministing in these rankings. Quantcast, an imperfect measure but one of the better publicly available traffic counters, estimates that Twitchy gets more than 2 million unique visitors  a month. Free Beacon’s Quantcast audience is less than half that size.And Twitchy generates that traffic with a teensy staff. Lori Ziganto, the site’s managing editor, said it has seven full-time employees and two part-time writers. The staff lives across the country, and they don’t have their own office. Ziganto, who lives in South Carolina, ran a blog called Snark & Boobs before Malkin tapped her to run the site, and still tweets from the same handle @snarkandboobs.“I keep that name because feminists hate it and it makes me laugh,” she said.According to Ziganto, the site can produce 40 to 45 stories on a busy day. The first writers get started at 6 a.m., and members of the team are hunting for news on Twitter until late into the night. Celebrity meltdown stories always do well, she said, as well as stories based on tweets from Fox News hosts and conservative stars like Adam Baldwin.“Also Jake Tapper,” she added. “Everybody seems to love Jake Tapper. He’s excellent at Twitter.”Twitchy stories come in a host of iterations. A number of their headlines use the term gigglesnort, which Ziganto says she coined (i.e. “Gigglesnort: Gov. Jerry Brown says fart”). Highbrow it is not. But the site boasts a few scoops, including chronicling Twitter death threats against Gov. Scott Walker that earned it a Drudge link and led to a police investigation.The site has also brought a new word into reporters’ lexicons: Twitchied, which refers to the often days-long onslaught of Twitter attention (and, sometimes, abuse) that journalists get after being featured on the site. One D.C.-based politics reporter, who didn’t want to go on the record, said one uncharitable Twitchy story about him came up on a date. His date had Googled him before they went out, and the Twitchy story bashing him was close to the top of his results.Igor Bobic, Huffington Post’s associate politics editor, has also faced Twitchy’s wrath. “It's become somewhat of an inside joke among reporters, and even prompts a round of congratulations,” he emailed. “What’s not fun is the avalanche of hate it immediately brings to your Twitter page, often forcing you to sign off for the next 24-48 hours.”For some left-leaning reporters, getting Twitchied is a rite of passage. “It’s one of my great professional failures that I’ve never been Twitchied,” emailed Salon’s Jim Newell. “I mean I’ve tried, I talk a lot of shit!”Newell’s Salon colleague Simon Maloy also rues that he’s never been Twitchied. “There’s nothing substantive to it; it’s rage just for the sake of it, fueled by ideological tribalism,” he emailed. “Were I to be Twitchy’d at some point, it would make me happy knowing that something I tweeted helped so many people fulfill that raw emotional need.”So Twitchy is the rare site that has both broad-based and cult appeal (though “appeal” may be a strong word in the latter sense). Regardless, it’s quickly carved out its own odd niche in the D.C. media world.
Tea Party News Network doesn’t get that kind of inside-the-Beltway attention, but its traffic is higher. TPNN gets more traffic than the Washington Examiner, Hot Air, and Town Hall, according to TopConservativeSites, which aggregates Alexa data. Most of the site’s content is clickbait-y news aggregation (“What This MSNBC Host Said About Ferguson Rioting and Looting Will Cause You to Shout, ‘Shame on You!’,” “No Wonder People Think He’s A Weakling: Wait Until You See Why Obama Was Hospitalized”) that’s free of original reporting.
It’s also one of the few news-oriented sites willing to give a platform to birther conspiracy theories; one October headline asked, “Could Barack Obama Be Deported Over Using a Fraudulent Birth Certificate? Yes, Says Former DOJ Attorney.” And on Dec. 8, it ran a story arguing that the president “benefits from ‘black skin privilege.’ ”  
More surprising, the site also has remarkable access to Republican lawmakers and activists, which sometimes garners buzzy tidbits (for instance, Wayne Allyn Root told TPNN he was thinking about running against Sen. Harry Reid in 2016). Talking with TPNN gives Republican politicians and candidates a chance to talk to the base; one assumes the Wall Street Journal editorial page’s overlap in readership with TPNN is not particularly large. Scottie Nell Hughes, the site’s news director, conducts most of the interviews. She said the site has a good working relationship with soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office. But Kentucky’s other senator hasn’t spoken to her yet.“I have yet to sit down with Sen. Rand Paul, and it’s not for the lack of trying,” she said. “And you’d think that would be very odd, that Mitch McConnell would have his doors open to us and Rand Paul wouldn’t.”
House Speaker John Boehner won’t talk to them either, she added, but Sen. Marco Rubio talks to them “all the time.” Sen. Ted Cruz, not surprisingly, is another favorite.Then there’s Independent Journal Review. It doesn’t seem to have TPNN’s access or Twitchy’s cult following, but it still tops all of them in traffic. (According to Quantcast, the IJReview brought in more than 25 million readers last month.) It also wins out over Breitbart News, Real Clear Politics, the Daily Caller, and the Washington Times. Per one of its founders, Alex Skatell, its aims are lofty.
“We’re presenting stories for every American to see in a way they’re more likely to click and share,” Skatell told BuzzFeed last year. “This helps because people who don’t care as much about politics can still stay informed through engaged friends.”
Readers also stay up to speed on stories that, um, have little discernible connection to conservative politics, like “Bikini-Clad Model Annoys ‘Tough Guy’ on Live TV & Finds Out in Russia You Can Get You Walloped for That” and “A Trashy Mom Runs Her Mouth a Little Too Much. Then a Security Guard Shows Her How a Taser Works” and “UK Man Thinks Guys Should Rule Barbershop Roost, No ‘Hens’ Allowed.”
Those stories intermingle with stories about how much it cost for the president to attend the G-20 summit and the latest from the Louisiana Senate race. The site doesn’t seem to have any anti-establishment animus, instead highlighting the president’s perceived foibles and missteps while touting the Republican lawmakers who needle him.
The site’s owners use a huge email list and the Conservative Daily Facebook page (more than 6 million likes) to promote their stories. Bubba Atkinson, the site’s editor-in-chief, is a Facebook savant. He always keeps an eye on the site’s analytics—“I never let that leave my sight for very long,” he says—and sometimes tweaks stories if he thinks they’re underperforming.
The most interesting thing about these sites might be their ability to rake in traffic without relying on links from the Drudge Report. They’ve scored a few links, but not nearly enough to explain their collective traffic bonanza. The best explanation for their success might be that there’s a huge, underserved population of would-be news consumers who care about national politics but aren’t interested in the inside-baseball coverage that dominates many conservative sites.
But will these new entrants reshape the conservative media landscape? I’m not so sure. I don’t have any empirical evidence for this claim, but it seems likely that the speediness of a site’s ascent could be inversely proportionate to its staying power. In other words, my suspicion would be that in the case of many viral news sites, clicks are easy come, easy go. And, in the case of sites like the Federalist and the Washington Free Beacon, slower growth could spell greater longevity. It may take a few years to see whether this hypothesis bears out, but I’d bet on it.=

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Michelle Maglalang Malkin is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)">conservative</a> nationally syndicated columnist for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creators_Syndicate&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Creators Syndicate (page does not exist)">Creators Syndicate</a> whose articles have been published by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Townhall.com" title="Townhall.com">Townhall.com</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jewish_World_Review" title="Jewish World Review">Jewish World Review</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=WorldNetDaily" title="WorldNetDaily">WorldNetDaily</a>. Malkin also writes a blog popular among conservatives. In April 2006, Malkin co-founded "conservative Internet broadcast network" HotAir.com.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

Michelle Malkin has focused much criticism on the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Winter_Soldier:_Iraq_and_Afghanistan" title="Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan">Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan</a> hearings held March 14-16 near Washington, DC. <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/14/winter-soldier-ii-the-curtain-opens-plus-more-on-the-anti-recruiter-war/" class="external autonumber" title="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/14/winter-soldier-ii-the-curtain-opens-plus-more-on-the-anti-recruiter-war/" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#What_Others_Say">1 What Others Say</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#Publications">2 Publications</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#Contact_information">3 Contact information</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#Resources_and_articles">4 Resources and articles</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#Related_SourceWatch_articles">4.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#References">4.2 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#Profiles">4.3 Profiles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#Websites">4.4 Websites</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#External_articles">4.5 External articles</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#Articles_by_Michelle_Malkin">4.5.1 Articles by Michelle Malkin</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#Articles_about_Michelle_Malkin">4.5.2 Articles about Michelle Malkin</a></li>

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<h2 style="font-weight: bold;">What Others Say</h2>

"Well, she (Malkin) came out with a book titled In Defense of Internment in 2004, highly touted in hard right circles, that not only seeks to justify the mass internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II but argues that the same procedure could be used against Arabs and Arab Americans today. Setting aside the squalor of her thesis, and the gross distortions of data to which she resorts in "supporting" it, the fact is that the bulk of her argument on the World War II internment .... derives from a fairly obscure <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Right-wing" title="Right-wing">right-winger</a> named Lillian Baker. Yet Baker's material is cited nowhere in Malkin's book. In fact, she isn't so much as mentioned (perhaps because Baker, who passed away some years back, was exposed by Deborah Lipstadt in Denying the Holocaust as having employed the same "scholarly methods" as neo-Nazi holocaust deniers).

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"What's the payout for Malkin? Let's start with a stint as a regular commentator-read, pet "minority" (she's Filipina)-on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clear_Channel_Communications" title="Clear Channel Communications">Clear Channel</a>. And let's end with an all but total silence about her "scholarly integrity" from the left. Because she is paid by [Malkin worked at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> until 1995], a right-wing <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect">think-tank</a>, rather than holding a regular faculty position somewhere? Her book is used in classes,(source needed) and she speaks regularly on campuses across the country.(source needed) If the left is going to indulge in condemning scholarly lapses -- real or imaginary -- where its own are concerned, it has at the very least an obligation to hold the right accountable to the same standards, and to do so to the best of its ability -- through alternative media, if nothing else -- using the same tools as the right." —Ward Churchill, Dissent Voice, September 20, 2005.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a>

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<h2 style="font-weight: bold;">Publications</h2>

<li>Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Regnery_Publishing" title="Regnery Publishing">Regnery Publishing</a>, September 2002, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special:BookSources/0895261464" class="internal">ISBN 0895261464</a>.</li>

<li>In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror, Regnery Publishing, August 2004, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special:BookSources/0895260514" class="internal">ISBN 0895260514</a>.</li>

<li>Unhinged : Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Regnery Publishing, October 2005, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special:BookSources/0895260301" class="internal">ISBN 0895260301</a>.</li>

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<h2 style="font-weight: bold;">Contact information</h2>

<li><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/" class="external text" title="http://michellemalkin.com/" rel="nofollow">MichelleMalkin.com</a>.</li>

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<h2 style="font-weight: bold;">Resources and articles</h2>

<h3 style="font-weight: bold;">Related SourceWatch articles</h3>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Appeal_for_Courage" title="Appeal for Courage" class="mw-redirect">Appeal for Courage</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gathering_of_Eagles" title="Gathering of Eagles">Gathering of Eagles</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Move_America_Forward" title="Move America Forward">Move America Forward</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pro-war_lobby" title="Pro-war lobby">Pro-war lobby</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Vets_for_Freedom" title="Vets for Freedom">Vets for Freedom</a></li>

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<h3 style="font-weight: bold;">References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/4/emw376471.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/4/emw376471.htm" rel="nofollow">"Conservative Internet Broadcast Network Debuts"</a> eMediaWire, April 24, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> Joshua Frank, <a href="http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Frank0919.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Frank0919.htm" rel="nofollow">"Accusations and Smear. An Interview with Professor Ward Churchill (Part 1 of 5),"</a> Dissident Voice, September 20, 2005.</li>

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<h3 style="font-weight: bold;">Profiles</h3>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin" rel="nofollow">Michelle Malkin</a> in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.creators.com/opinion_Shell.cfm?pg=biography.html&columnsname=mim" class="external text" title="http://www.creators.com/opinion_Shell.cfm?pg=biography.html&columnsname=mim" rel="nofollow">Michelle Malkin</a>, Creators Syndicate.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34769,00.html" class="external text" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34769,00.html" rel="nofollow">Michelle Malkin</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a>.</li>

<li><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/about.htm" class="external text" title="http://michellemalkin.com/about.htm" rel="nofollow">Bio</a>, MichelleMalkin.com.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BIOS/cbmalkin.html" class="external text" title="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BIOS/cbmalkin.html" rel="nofollow">Michelle Malkin</a>, Townhall.com.</li>

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<h3 style="font-weight: bold;">Websites</h3>

<li><a href="http://www.whereistand.com/MichelleMalkin" class="external text" title="http://www.whereistand.com/MichelleMalkin" rel="nofollow">Compare where Michelle Malkin stands on the issues</a> - whereIstand.com.</li>

<li><a href="http://malkin-watch.blogspot.com/" class="external text" title="http://malkin-watch.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Malkin Watch</a> Blogspot.</li>

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<h3 style="font-weight: bold;">External articles</h3>

<h4 style="font-weight: bold;">Articles by Michelle Malkin</h4>

<li><a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin.archives.asp" class="external text" title="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin.archives.asp" rel="nofollow">Column Archive (June 15, 1999-Present)</a> for Jewish World Review.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/archive.shtml" class="external text" title="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/archive.shtml" rel="nofollow">Column Archive (February 28, 2000-Present)</a> for Townhall.com.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.vdare.com/malkin/" class="external text" title="http://www.vdare.com/malkin/" rel="nofollow">Column Archive (November 8, 2002-Present)</a>, VDARE.com.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=222" class="external text" title="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=222" rel="nofollow">Column Archive</a> for WorldNetDaily.</li>

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<h4 style="font-weight: bold;">Articles about Michelle Malkin</h4>

<li>H.Y. Nahm, <a href="http://goldsea.com/Personalities/Malkin/malkin.html" class="external text" title="http://goldsea.com/Personalities/Malkin/malkin.html" rel="nofollow">"Michelle Malkin: The Radical Right's Asian Pitbull,"</a> goldsea.com, undated.</li>

<li>Greg Robinson and Eric Muller, <a href="http://www.isthatlegal.org/Muller_and_Robinson_on_Malkin.html" class="external text" title="http://www.isthatlegal.org/Muller_and_Robinson_on_Malkin.html" rel="nofollow">Muller and Robinson on Malkin</a>, IsThatLegal, 29 separate posts beginning August 2004.</li>

<li>TRex, <a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/30/late-nite-fdl-yes-miss-malkin-your-blog-is-a-hate-site/" class="external text" title="http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/30/late-nite-fdl-yes-miss-malkin-your-blog-is-a-hate-site/" rel="nofollow">"Yes, Miss Malkin, Your Blog Is a Hate Site,"</a> Firedoglake Blog, July 30, 2007.</li>

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Michelle Malkin’s hate sites

By Glenn Greenwald

Topics:Washington, D.C.

One of the lowest and most dishonest tactics is to attempt to smear and demonize a blog by exploiting statements left on the blog by commenters despite the fact that the comments have no relationship to the arguments made by the blogger. It is no surprise that right-wing pundits have made that deceitful tactic one of their most frequently invoked weapons. The most recent example, of course, is Bill O’Reilly’s campaign to pressure Jet Blue to withdraw its sponsorship of Yearly Kos due to statements made by Daily Kos commenters who have no connection to the site other than using it to comment.

Last night on his show, O’Reilly had on Clinton advisor Howard Wolfson — who, rather meekly, was justifying Clinton’s decision to attend Yearly Kos. O’Reilly read a few cherry-picked, inflammatory comments, labelled Daily Kos a “hate site,” and then said: “Every respectable blog in the country does not permit this hatred.”

Today, John Aravosis discovered several violence-inciting comments from Bill O’Reilly.com regulars, including ones threatening violence against Hillary Clinton. And O’Reilly was joined in his Decency crusade, as he always is, by his comrade and most frequent guest host, Michelle Malkin (who, oh-just-by-the-way, wrote a book defending the ethnicity-based imprisonment of innocent American citizens in interment camps). Malkin repeatedly helped to fuel the pressure on Jet Blue to sever their sponsorship of Yearly Kos.

Here is but a sampling of the views promoted by the Aribter of Upstanding Political Discourse, O’Reilly partner Michelle Malkin, on her two hate sites, MichelleMalkin.com and HotAir.com. The following comments which she promoted are all from this month, and because they are so representative of the filth she regularly promotes, they were easily found by a research assistant, Matthew Berman, in roughly an hour:

MichelleMalkin.com’s NAACP thread: Most blacks just want a free ride:

NAACP thread: “Colored gangs” are rampant:

NAACP thread: “MichelleMalkin.com on “negro culture”:

Hot Air’s call for a “jihad” against Democrats — including arresting them for treason and seizing their bank accounts:

From Malkin’s “Keith Ellison Watch” post — American Muslims should be banned from government:

Michelle Malkin.com on American Muslims:

MichelleMalkin.com copying Ann Coulter: John Edwards is a fairy:

Hot Air: John Edwards is a “butt pirate”:

MichelleMalkin.com promotes theory that John Kerry shot himself in Vietnam:

It goes on and on like that. On a daily basis, Michelle Malkin’s hate sites promote violence, rank bigotry, jihad against Muslim Americans, imprisonment of Democratic Party leaders. The comments are not deleted and are virtually never opposed. Her hate sites traffic in content which is the hallmark of white supremacism and violent groups targeting Muslims. And once she is done promoting that, she goes on Fox News and demands that corporate sponsors cut their ties with Daily Kos due to the comments left on that site.

UPDATE: From past experience, posts which employ the line of reasoning used in this post are fundamentally misunderstood by those who are, for whatever reasons, incapable of understanding this two-step logical train:

(1) Standard X is dishonest and corrupt.

(2) Those who advocate and apply Standard X to others ought to have that standard applied to them.

That is not all that complicated.

===wikifluffMichelle Malkin (née Maglalang; born October 20, 1970) is an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">conservative</a> blogger, political commentator, and author.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-pitts-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-kurtz-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> Her weekly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_syndication" title="Print syndication" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">syndicated</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column(newspaper)" title="Column (newspaper)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">column</a>appears in a number of newspapers and websites.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-pitts-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> She is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel" title="Fox News Channel" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Fox News Channel</a> contributor and has been a guest on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">MSNBC</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">C-SPAN</a>, and national radio programs. Malkin has written four books published by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing" title="Regnery Publishing" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Regnery Publishing</a>. She founded the conservative websites <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitchy" title="Twitchy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Twitchy</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Air" title="Hot Air" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Hot Air</a>.
<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#Early_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Early life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#Career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#Books" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Books</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#Blogging" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Blogging</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#MichelleMalkin.com" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1 MichelleMalkin.com</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#Jamil_Hussein" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1.1 Jamil Hussein</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#Students_Against_War_controversy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1.2 Students Against War controversy</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#Hot_Air" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.2 Hot Air</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#VDARE" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.3 VDARE</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#Viewpoints" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 Viewpoints</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#Citizenship" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5.1 Citizenship</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#Immigration_enforcement" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5.2 Immigration enforcement</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#Unemployment_benefits" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5.3 Unemployment benefits</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#Women.27s_issues" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5.4 Women's issues</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Early life[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Malkin was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pennsylvania</a>, to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_nationality_law" title="Philippine nationality law" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Philippine citizens</a> Rafaela (née Perez) – a homemaker and teacher – and Apolo DeCastro Maglalang, who was then a physician-in-training.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-nahm-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> Several months prior to Malkin's birth, her parents had immigrated to the United States on an employer-sponsored visa.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-lamb-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> After her father finished his medical training, the family moved<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absecon,New_Jersey" title="Absecon, New Jersey" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Absecon, New Jersey</a>. Malkin has a younger brother.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-MM-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> She has described her parents as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Reagan</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republicans</a> who were "not incredibly politically active."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-nahm-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>Malkin, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic" title="Roman Catholic" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Roman Catholic</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-nahm-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Spirit_High_School(New_Jersey)" title="Holy Spirit High School (New Jersey)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Holy Spirit Roman Catholic High School</a>, where she edited the school newspaper and aspired to become a concert <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pianist" title="Pianist" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">pianist</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-nahm-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>Following her graduation in 1988, she enrolled at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberlin_College" title="Oberlin College" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Oberlin College</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-nahm-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> Malkin originally planned to pursue a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">bachelor's degree</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music" title="Music" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">music</a>, but changed her major to English.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-nahm-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>During her college years, she worked as a press inserter, tax preparation aide, and network news librarian.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a> Her first article for the paper heavily criticized Oberlin's<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action" title="Affirmative action" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">affirmative action</a> program and received a "hugely negative response" from other students on campus.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-nahm-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> She graduated in 1992<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-bookshelf-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> and later described her alma mater as "radically left-wing."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-nahm-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-goliath-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Malkin began her journalism career at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Daily_News" title="Los Angeles Daily News" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Los Angeles Daily News</a>, working as a columnist from 1992 to 1994. In 1995, she worked in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Washington, D.C.</a>, as a journalism fellow at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a> a free-market, anti-government regulation, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">libertarian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">think tank</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a> In 1996, she moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Seattle</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington(U.S.state)" title="Washington (U.S. state)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Washington</a>, where she wrote columns for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seattle_Times" title="The Seattle Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Seattle Times</a>. Malkin became a nationally-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_syndication" title="Print syndication" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">syndicated</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columnist" title="Columnist" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">columnist</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creators_Syndicate" title="Creators Syndicate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Creators Syndicate</a> in 1999.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a>For many years, Malkin was a frequent commentator for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel" title="Fox News Channel" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Fox News Channel</a> and a regular guest host of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O%27Reilly_Factor" title="The O'Reilly Factor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The O'Reilly Factor</a>. In 2007, she announced that she would not return to The O'Reilly Factor, claiming that Fox News had mishandled a dispute over derogatory statements made about her by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldo_Rivera" title="Geraldo Rivera" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Geraldo Rivera</a> in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boston_Globe" title="The Boston Globe" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Boston Globe</a> interview.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a> Since 2007, she has concentrated on her writing, blogging and public speaking, although she still appears on television occasionally, especially with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Hannity#Television" title="Sean Hannity" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sean Hannity</a> on Fox News and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%26_Friends" title="Fox & Friends" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fox & Friends</a> once a week.Malkin founded the websites <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Air(news_site)" title="Hot Air (news site)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hot Air</a>, an internet broadcast network, and Twitchy.com, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Twitter</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_curation" title="Content curation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">content curation</a> site.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Books[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Books" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Malkin has written five books.<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Her first book, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion:How_America_Still_Welcomes_Terrorists,Criminals,and_Other_Foreign_Menaces" title="Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces</a> (2002)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a> was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" title="The New York Times Best Seller list" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York Times bestseller</a>.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In 2004, she wrote <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Defense_of_Internment" title="In Defense of Internment" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a> defending the U.S. government's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment" title="Japanese American internment" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">internment</a> of 112,000 Japanese Americans in prison camps during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">World War II</a>, and arguing that the same procedures could be used on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_people" title="Arab people" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arab</a>- and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim" title="Muslim" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Muslim</a>-Americans today. The book engendered harsh criticism from several <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_American" title="Asian American" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Asian American</a> civil rights organizations.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-imdiversity2004-19" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a> The Historians' Committee for Fairness, an organization of scholars and professional researchers, condemned the book for not having undergone <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review" title="Peer review" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">peer review</a> and argued that its central thesis is false.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[21]</a> As a result of the controversy, the Hawaii-based newspaper <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MidWeek" title="MidWeek" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">MidWeek</a> dropped her column in August 2004;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[22]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virginian-Pilot" title="The Virginian-Pilot" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Virginian-Pilot</a> called her "an Asian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter" title="Ann Coulter" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ann Coulter</a>" and dropped her column in November 2004.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[23]</a> Malkin responded: "I'm not Asian, I'm American," and described the comparison to Coulter as "a compliment."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[24]</a></li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Malkin's third book, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, was released in October 2005.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[25]</a></li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" line-height="line-height" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Corruption:Obama_and_His_Team_of_Tax_Cheats,Crooks,and_Cronies" title="Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies</a>, Malkin's fourth book, was released in July 2009<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a> and was a The New York Times Non-Fiction, Hardcover Best Seller for six weeks.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[27]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-malkin080509-28" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[28]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a> Malkin said she hoped the book would "shatter completely the myths of hope and change in the new politics in Washington," described the Obama administration as run by "influence peddlers, power brokers and very wealthy people," and called it "one of the most corrupt administrations in recent memory."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-hannityshow-30" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[30]</a> She later discussed chapter two of the book, "Bitter Half: First Crony Michelle Obama," on<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today(NBC_program)" title="Today (NBC program)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">NBC's Today show</a>. She described <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama" title="Michelle Obama" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Michelle Obama</a> as "steeped in the politics of the Daley machine," and as having based her professional career on nepotism and "old white boy" network connections.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[31]</a></li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs, released May 2015,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[32]</a> presents stories of American inventors and business people, directly challenging the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that" title="You didn't build that" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">you didn't build that</a>" statement made by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_Barack_Obama" title="President Barack Obama" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">President Barack Obama</a> on July 13, 2012.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[33]</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Blogging[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Blogging" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">MichelleMalkin.com<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: MichelleMalkin.com" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In June 2004 Malkin successfully launched a political blog, MichelleMalkin.com.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[34]</a> A 2007 memo from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Republican_Senatorial_Committee" title="National Republican Senatorial Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Republican Senatorial Committee</a> described Malkin as one of the five "best-read national conservative bloggers",<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[35]</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technorati" title="Technorati" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Technorati</a> ranks MichelleMalkin.com consistently in its "Top 100 blogs of all types".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[36]</a> In 2011, the people search company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeekYou" title="PeekYou" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">PeekYou</a> claimed that Malkin had the largest digital footprint of any political blogger.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[37]</a>After she criticized hip hop artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akon" title="Akon" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Akon</a> for "degrading women" in a Vent episode, Akon's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">record label</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Music_Group" title="Universal Music Group" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Universal Music Group</a>, forced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">YouTube</a> to remove the video by issuing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act" title="Digital Millennium Copyright Act" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">DMCA</a> takedown notice,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[38]</a> but decided to retract this notice<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[39]</a> after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> joined Malkin and Hot Air in contesting the removal as a misuse of copyright law.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[40]</a>In an interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Businessweek" title="Bloomberg Businessweek" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">BusinessWeek</a> magazine in July 2007, Malkin said, "We’re doing what few other blogs can do. We serve up terabytes of bandwidth... I'm shelling out for gold-plated servers. That's expensive, and we want to be able to withstand huge traffic surges."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[41]</a>She continued to contribute frequently to MichelleMalkin.com, and in June 2007, she revamped it, moving it to a larger server on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress" title="WordPress" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">WordPress</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[42]</a> With the new redesign, she re-enabled comments on her blog, which she said she had disallowed after February 2005 due to a high level of obscene and racist comments.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[43]</a> Malkin states her policy thus: "I may allow as much or as little opportunity for registration as I choose, in my absolute discretion, and I may close particular comment threads."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[44]</a><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jamil Hussein<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Jamil Hussein" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamil_Hussein_controversy" title="Jamil Hussein controversy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jamil Hussein controversy</a></div>Malkin was among the first of several bloggers who questioned the credibility and even the existence of Iraqi police Captain "Jamil Hussein" who had been used as a source by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Associated Press</a> in over 60 stories about the Iraq war. The controversy started in November 2006 when the AP reported that six Iraqis had been burned alive as they left a mosque and that four mosques had been destroyed, citing Hussein as one of its sources. In January 2007, Malkin visited Baghdad, and stated, "the Iraqi Ministry of Interior says disputed Associated Press source Jamil Hussein does exist. At least one story he told the AP just doesn’t check out: The Sunni mosques that as Hussein claimed and AP reported as 'destroyed,' 'torched' and 'burned and blown up' are all still standing. So the credibility of every AP story relying on Jamil Hussein remains dubious."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-malkin20070121-45" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[45]</a> Malkin has since issued a correction for her denial of Hussein's existence.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-MM6641-46" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[46]</a> Malkin contests the extent of damage to the mosques as reported by the AP. Malkin visited Iraq and stated, "several mosques did, in fact, come under attack by Mahdi Army forces." She further speculated that a corroborating witness to the Hussein account who had, according to the AP, recanted due to Iraqi government pressure, instead recanted because his story wasn't true. Malkin said the summary reports she obtained from US and Iraqi army officials didn't corroborate the claim about people being burned alive while Iraqi soldiers failed to intervene.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-malkin20070121-45" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[45]</a><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Students Against War controversy<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Students Against War controversy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>In April 2006, Students Against War (SAW), a campus group at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Santa_Cruz" title="University of California, Santa Cruz" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">University of California, Santa Cruz</a>, staged a protest against the presence of military recruiters on campus, and sent out a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_release" title="Press release" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">press release</a> containing contact details (names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses) of three student leaders for use by reporters. Malkin included these contact details in a blog column entitled "Seditious Santa Cruz vs. America".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-MM04974-47" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[47]</a>Malkin claimed the contact information was originally taken from SAW's own website, but that later SAW had removed it and had "wiped" the "cached version".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[48]</a> The students asked Malkin to remove the contact details from her blog, but Malkin reposted them several times<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-sentinel-49" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[49]</a> writing in her blog: "I am leaving it up. If you are contacting them, I do not condone death threats or foul language. As for SAW, my message is this: You are responsible for your individual actions. Other individuals are responsible for theirs. Grow up and take responsibility."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-MM04974-47" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[47]</a>SAW remarked: "Due to the continued irresponsible actions of some bloggers, members of the group have received numerous death threats and anti-Semitic comments through phone calls and emails."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-students-50" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[50]</a> A blog war ensued. Malkin claimed that she received hostile e-mails<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[51]</a> then her private home address, phone number, photos of her neighborhood and maps to her house were published on several websites. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Sentinel" title="Santa Cruz Sentinel" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Santa Cruz Sentinel</a> reported receiving an email from Malkin saying that this forced her to remove one of her children from school and move her family.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[52]</a>Another controversy involving private addresses began on July 1, 2006, when Malkin and other bloggers commented on a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York Times</a> Travel section article that had featured the town where Vice President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Dick Cheney</a> and Secretary of Defense <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Donald Rumsfeld</a> owned summer homes. The article included a picture of Rumsfeld's long tree-lined driveway that showed a birdhouse and small portion of the housefront.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[53]</a>Malkin declared that this story was part of "a concerted, organized effort to dig up and publicize the private home information of prominent conservatives in the media and blogosphere to intimidate them." The photos of Rumsfeld's house were taken with Rumsfeld's permission.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[54]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hot Air<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Hot Air" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Air(news_site)" title="Hot Air (news site)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hot Air (news site)</a></div>On April 24, 2006, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Air(news_site)" title="Hot Air (news site)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hot Air</a>, a "conservative Internet broadcast network," went into operation, with Malkin as founder/CEO.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[55]</a> She intended the blog to provide "content and analysis you can't get anywhere else on a daily basis–both on the blog and in our original video features".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[56]</a> Her staffers included '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allahpundit" title="Allahpundit" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Allahpundit</a>' and Bryan Preston, though the latter was replaced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Morrissey" title="Ed Morrissey" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ed Morrissey</a> on February 25, 2008.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[57]</a> In February 2010, Hotair.com was bought by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Communications" title="Salem Communications" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Salem Communications</a> and is no longer administered by Malkin.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[58]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">VDARE<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: VDARE" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDARE" title="VDARE" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">VDARE</a></div>Malkin has been a contributor to VDARE, a website which flowed out of the best-selling book <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Nation:Common_Sense_About_America%27s_Immigration_Disaster" title="Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[59]</a> since 2002. The book and the website criticize <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">US</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Immigration to the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">immigration policy</a> after 1965 from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_conservatism" title="American conservatism" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">conservative</a> perspective.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[60]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffington_Post" title="Huffington Post" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Huffington Post</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Kos" title="Daily Kos" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Daily Kos</a> have referred to VDARE as controversial because of its alleged ties to white supremacist rhetoric and because of what they see as its support of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism" title="Scientific racism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">scientific racism</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nationalism" title="White nationalism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">white nationalism</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-61" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[61]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Viewpoints[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Viewpoints" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Citizenship<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Citizenship" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Malkin believes that the custom of granting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_citizenship_in_the_United_States" title="Birthright citizenship in the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">automatic citizenship at birth</a> to U.S.–born children of foreign tourists, temporary foreign workers, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Illegal immigration to the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">illegal aliens</a> undermines the integrity of citizenship and national security. She argues that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_Clause" title="Citizenship Clause" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Citizenship Clause</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution</a>, "originally intended to ensure the citizenship rights of newly freed slaves and their families after the Civil War, has evolved into a magnet for alien lawbreakers and a shield for terrorist infiltrators and enemy combatants".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-62" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[62]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Immigration enforcement<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Immigration enforcement" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Malkin also opposes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city" title="Sanctuary city" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">sanctuary cities</a>, in which local authorities do not enforce all national <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_law" title="Immigration law" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">immigration laws</a> or coordinate with agencies such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement" title="U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Immigration and Customs Enforcement</a> (ICE). Following the August 2007 execution-style murder of three college students in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark,New_Jersey" title="Newark, New Jersey" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Newark, New Jersey</a>, she repeated her criticisms of politicians' posture toward sanctuary cities. In particular, she criticized former New York City Mayor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani" title="Rudy Giuliani" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rudy Giuliani's</a> proposal for a tamper-proof identification card with this comment:<blockquote class="toccolours" style="overflow: hidden; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; float: none; display: table; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div style="padding: 10px 15px;">"What Rudy-come-lately fails to comprehend is that there are already multiple alien tracking databases mandated by federal law that have yet to be fully implemented, integrated and used. The reason they don’t work is because open-borders interests have sabotaged them by restricting funding for them, objecting to them on civil liberties grounds, and pushing local and state governments to forbid public employees from checking them to verify citizenship status. Ring a bell, Rudy?"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-63" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[63]</a></div></blockquote>She supports coordination with federal authorities through the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_Section_287(g)" title="Immigration and Nationality Act Section 287(g)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Section 287(g)</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_Immigration_Reform_and_Immigrant_Responsibility_Act_of_1996" title="Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">IIRIRA</a> to investigate, detain, and arrest aliens on civil and criminal grounds.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-64" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[64]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-65" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[65]</a> Malkin supports the detention and deportation of some immigrants, regardless of legal status, on national security grounds.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-imdiversity2004-19" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Unemployment benefits<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=13&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Unemployment benefits" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>During an appearance as a news analyst on the roundtable segment of ABC's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Week(ABC_TV_series)" title="This Week (ABC TV series)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">This Week with George Stephanopoulos</a> on August 2, 2009, she explained why she opposed another 13-week extension of<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits" title="Unemployment benefits" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">unemployment benefits</a>: "If you put enough government cheese in front of people they are going to just keep eating it and kicking the can down the road... people will just delay getting a job until the three weeks before the benefits run out."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-66" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[66]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Women's issues<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=14&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Women's issues" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In a February 2012 column, Malkin called the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Women" title="War on Women" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">War on Women</a>" a false <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative" title="Narrative" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">narrative</a>, arguing rather that "It's the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism" title="Progressivism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">progressive</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_left" title="Political left" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">left</a> in this country that has viciously and systematically slimed female conservatives for their beliefs."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-67" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[67]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Personal life[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=15&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>At Oberlin, she began dating Jesse Malkin<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-just-68" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[68]</a> who was granted a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Scholar" title="Rhodes Scholar" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rhodes Scholarship</a> to begin study at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University" title="Oxford University" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Oxford University</a> in 1991.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-69" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[69]</a> They married in 1993, and have two children. Jesse Malkin worked as an associate policy analyst and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist" title="Economist" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">economist</a> focusing on healthcare issues for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation" title="RAND Corporation" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">RAND Corporation</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-70" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[70]</a> In 2004, Malkin reported on her website that her husband had left a "lucrative health-care consulting job" to be a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay-at-home_dad" title="Stay-at-home dad" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">stay-at-home dad</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-just-68" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[68]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-71" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[71]</a>In 2006, Malkin gave a lecture at her alma mater, Oberlin College, discussing racism, among other topics.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-Beckhardt-72" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[72]</a> She denied allegations that she had been insensitive to the "plight of minorities," listing several racial epithets that had been used against her, and by relating a lesson she learned from her mother for which she is "eternally grateful."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-Beckhardt-72" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[72]</a> When in kindergarten, Malkin went home in tears one day because her classmates had called her a racist name. But, her mother comforted Michelle by telling her that everyone has prejudices.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-Beckhardt-72" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[72]</a>Malkin and her family lived in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Bethesda,Maryland" title="North Bethesda, Maryland" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">North Bethesda, Maryland</a> until 2008 when they relocated to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs,Colorado" title="Colorado Springs, Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Colorado Springs</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs,Colorado" title="Colorado Springs, Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">, Colorado</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-73" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[73]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_note-74" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[74]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin&action=edit&section=16&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist columns references-column-width" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; column-width: 30em; list-style-type: decimal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-nahm-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_ref-nahm_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_ref-nahm_1-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">b</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_ref-nahm_1-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">c</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_ref-nahm_1-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">d</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_ref-nahm_1-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">e</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_ref-nahm_1-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">f</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_ref-nahm_1-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">g</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_ref-nahm_1-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">h</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#cite_ref-nahm_1-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">i</a></li></ol></div>

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In the face of a successful relay race of corporations dropping their membership with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" target="blank" style="line-height: 24px; text-decoration: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC), a Fox News contributor has called for her own campaign against these same corporations. Michelle Malkin asked her readers in the <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2012/04/dont-do-business-progressive-appeasers/471411" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Washington Examiner</a> to not "do business with progressive appeasers" and to boycott businesses that have decided to sever their relationship with ALEC.Malkin's call for action comes after a successful week of <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/04/11425/cmd-and-allies-urge-mcdonalds-johnson-johnson-and-state-farm-dump-alec" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">campaigning</a> by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), Color of Change, Common Cause, People for the American Way, Progress Now, CREDO, and other groups, which have urged ALEC's corporate funders to quit the organization for its role in promoting reckless gun laws, voter suppression, and other radical proposals. So far, <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/04/11426/mcdonalds-fifth-corporation-drop-alec-membership-week" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">McDonalds</a>, Kraft Foods, <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/04/11413/breaking-news-coca-cola-dumps-alec" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Coca-Cola</a>, Pepsi, <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/04/11416/breaking-intuit-out-alec-coke-kraft-pepsi-too-while-koch-stands-ground" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Intuit</a>, <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/04/11429/wendys-6th-firm-say-it-no-longer-member-alec" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Wendy's</a>, and the <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/04/11422/gates-foundation-drops-alec" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Gates Foundation</a> have announced they would not continue their support for ALEC. In her piece, Malkin characterizes groups like Color of Change as a "minority community activist outfit" and Progress Now as a "a militant group backed by billionaire George Soros."The recent storm of press about ALEC was prompted by the organization's support for Florida-style "Stand Your Ground" laws, which may be used as a defense by the shooter of 20-year old Trayvon Martin. While Malkin writes that it is, "simply wrong to try to score political points by taking advantage of a great tragedy like Trayvon Martin's death," Malkin was busy scoring her own political points when her website, Twitchy.com, <a href="http://twitchy.com/2012/03/25/why-teamdueprocess-is-important-for-justice/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">posted a picture</a> of a boy in his boxers holding up two middle fingers for the camera, falsely claiming that it was Trayvon. The site later acknowledged its mistake.- See more at: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/04/11431/foxs-michelle-malkin-goes-bat-alec#sthash.innQhcG3.dpuf

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