Surprise! Michelle Malkin's attacking little kids again
August 12, 2009 8:29 am ET by Eric Boehlert
Wasn't Malkin's infamous, and creepy, 2007 Baltimore drive-by* bad enough? I guess not, because now Malkin's zeroing in on a young Massachusetts school girl. Why? Because she got to ask president Obama a question at a town hall forum. Bad idea! (She was an "in-the-tank questioner.") The girl may as well have painted a bull's eye on her back because Malkin and her online detective pals are takin' that kid down!!
Stay classy, Michelle.
And how much hate mail and how many angry phone calls to the house from wingnuts do you think the little girls' family is now going to receive thanks to Malkin's vilification? And all because the youngster participated in a town hall forum.
Malkin's larger point seemed to be that the Obama town hall wasn't diverse enough, and that too many Obama fans were in attendance. (i.e. It was all staged.) As HotAirPundit complained, "During the Town Hall at the end of Obama's speech nearly everyone gave Obama a standing ovation, on their feet clapping. This is propaganda 101."
Here's the friendly wager: If any reader can find a single example of Malkin or HotAirPundit ever leveling similarly pointed criticism of President Bush's town hall forums during his 2005 push to privatize Social Security -- town hall forums where Democrats were purposefully shut out or were even physically removed on the suspicion that they might disagree with the president -- then I'll send that reader a complimentary Media Matters bumper sticker.
But I'm not concerned about losing the wager because Malkin and HotAirPundit specialize in advertising their hypocrisy.
*I'm not using the "drive-by" phrase metaphorically the way Rush Limbaugh does. I'm using it literally. In 2007, Malkin drove all the way to Baltimore and cruised by the row house of a working class family -- she practically peered in their windows -- in an effort to undermine their public support for a federal insurance program designed to help poor kids.
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To be sure, that criticism doesn't prove that the event wasn't staged, or that staged events aren't bad.
It's a simple and straightforward accusation of using a double standard, or, in Latin, IOKIYAR.
As an alleged Political Prostitute i hope she won't Hook.
Now she attacks Magan McCain to highten her Fame.
If only her Mother had taught her some since of Shame.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
I'll confess to sometimes being more surprised when a woman is evil, like Betsy McCaughey, than I would if the same lies came from a man. That's because I'm relatively old, in my mid-40s. But it's a wrong way to think, it puts women on a pedestal. One of the consequences of full equality for women is that someday women will be running concentration camps and leading death squads. Such women will likely have souls similar to Malkin's. But placing women outside the pale of the world's horrors ultimately is belittling to them.
Then they fed them questions. And denied they did it when they got caught.
This Faux Outrage is just another textbook case of "CP" - Conservative Projection.
Good to know
Of course, that was back when dissent was patriotic.
But when it was W it was patriotic and if the crown hadn't given W a standing ovation they would have been vilified and called unamerican or worse.
>>'no plants here'
A new lie everyday from this
beer swillin' honky hating
Kenya resident.
Flotilla Labarge | 08.11.09 - 9:19 pm | #>>
EPIC WRONG. See: construction-worker attacks on war protesters in 1970s; police riot, Chicago 1968; repression of anti-McCarthyites, 1950 - 1954; Legionnaires' riot, Peekskill, NY, 1949 ...
Now that there is funny...I don't care who you are!
Better go do some Googl'n on this one. It was left wing malcontents who stormed the dem convention in '68. Hoffman and the hippies, CSN&Y wrote a song for it "Chicago/We Can Change The World", and all the ruffians storming the streets and fighting the cops.
No the LEFT owns Chicago '68!
Now calling Mayor Daley a leftist is amusing, calling the Chicago PD "the left" is hilarious, but calling a mechanized police charge into a peaceful crowd on the other side of town, cracking heads and running people over "ruffians fighting the cops" is an affront to history and honesty. You don't have a clue at all and you can go google yourself until your palms are raw, but you still don't have a clue.
if she were in a wheelchair and restrained ...
So here's the point. If Media Matters pretends to be a watchdog over media....why so dishonest in this column today. For check the facts; MM didn't write the whole truth here did they!
Besides Michele is not attacking the girl (like the dems attacking the Pres Bush's twins, or Gov Palin's girls, or etc), the messenger, but the one who wrote the message! you imbecile! how can you call yourself a writer and say such moronic things? i am angry that he (PBO) cant even do a "townhall" wihtout plants tossing him softball questions that he know will be asked! you have got to get your head examined to think that Michele Maulkin is the bad one here, when you did the SAME THING last year! do go F##K yourself!
Next, they'll look into their tax records and see if she is truly enrolled as a student and then ridicule and mock her as an idiot, a la Joe the Plumber.
Doesn't she know that she may already qualify for the SCHIPs program?