As expected, Michelle Malkin failed to respond to my e-mail of yesterday. It was one in which I pointed out while writing a post insisting that she would never stoop so low as to give out personal data on prominent N.Y Times reporters, she did exactly that a few sentences later with the sites to which she chose to link. I do realize that a dishonest post with a smear on top is her basic modus operandi. For example, I wasn't surprised by the deceipt in her post today on Joe Biden. She wrote that: "Honestly, I don't see what the big
deal is over Joe
Biden's remark about Indian-Americans
operating 7-11 and Dunkin' Donut stores" ." So far she might seem reasonable, even fair, but then goes for the smear: "Plus, it sure is weird how Dems are so comfortable making cracks at Indians' expense. Remember Hillary Clinton's bizarre joke about Gandhi and gas stations?" I do wish she had answered my e-mail. Everyday that I have to check her site for a response, means more exposure to toxic waste.
Listen, I like seeing a hot young Asian anchor baby in her cocktail camo outfit, beat up an old Republican as much as the next guy. I just dont want her filth to rub off on me. But it is fun to see wing-nuts at war. (Yes, even if only from their basements.) Michelle took on William F. Buckley for being too comfortable with immigration "amnesty", in her post of July 6 at 9:48 A.M. Michelle, the Philadelphia born, suburban Washington D.C. dweller, who graduated from the elite, private Oberlin College, writes that
"Buckley's idiocy is another reason, as Heather Mac Donald argues, that East Coast Elites Should Shut Up About Immigration." (The main reason they think the east coast should have no input is that the east knows nothing firsthand of immigration. When the anti-immigration blogger VDare speaks of the population of Los Angeles being 40.1% immigrant, you can be sure that they are much more knowledgeable than those easterners, like the Mayor of New York who noted recently that the population of his fair city is 40% foreign born.)
Although it is fun, it's not nearly as good as the cat fight between Peggy Noonan, of the Wall Street Journal, and our dear Michelle. Yesterday Michelle responded angrily to those who thought it sad that after she asked her rabid fans to go after Denton, Denton killed herself. It is well known that when Michelle asks her readers to become attack dogs, the victim will receive lots of obscene, life threatening communications. Weigel of "Reason"'s Hit and Run blog rose the point directly, suggesting Michelle could have said something civilized about the departed after her demise. True to form, Michelle grabs the opportunity - to repeat her smears against Denton. She defends her not mentioning the dead Denton, by saying she would only have been blamed "for not having the compassion to keep quiet about her various scandals and corruptocrat ways and let her loved ones mourn in peace." So while she is saying she does not want to be seen as lacking compassion, Malkin in fact links to three sites that attack Denton viciously. Weigel accuses Malkin of charging Denton with treason. She is outraged, writes ""Seditious," yes. Treasonous,no" - in this case a distinction without a difference.
Weigel tried a fairly direct criticism, which only gave Malkin an opportunity to smear her victim again. The combatant to watch in this fight is the saintly Peggy Noonan, who doesn't mention Denton or Malkin directly. Instead she writes of how itemizing Ken Lay's misdeeds upon his death would be "ungracious, lacking." This is, of course, exactly what Malkin did with Denton. Noonan goes on to paraphrase a friend who said "It's a dangerous thing to deliberately try to hurt someone because it's not possible to calibrate exactly how much hurt you're doing...One must be careful. We'll always hurt others by accident or in a passion but we mustn't do it with deliberation." Noonan suggests an example: how an attack with a two-by-four may cause a person far less lasting damage than a wounding snub.This is an accurate description of our Michelle.
Michelle can headline her piece: "Newsflash - I didn't Kill Denice Denton." But Ms Noonan can respecfully disagree.
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