Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz gives readers of today's Style page a look at conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, and his portrait, at least to my eye, painted conservative blogger and author as paranoid, vindictive, obsessive and shrill.
Read and judge for yourselves.
This line was particularly annoying to me:
Over lunch at a Filipino cafe at Union Station, Malkin, who has two young children, is charming one moment and pugnacious the next.
I'd argue her charm as a blogger and author is entwined in her pugnacious personality.
What's more, can you imagine Kurtz or another media critic saying the same of feisty liberal pundits, like say Maureen Dowd?
Update 02:01 by Matthew Sheffield: Speaking of Dowd, here's a profile Kurtz wrote about her in 2005. Nowhere does he admit the obvious, that she's a lefty.
UPDATE (09:21 EST): For a more thorough critique of Kurtz's piece, check out See-Dubya's take at Hot Air.:
Kurtz goes on to dwell on her outrageous pugnacious in-your-faceousness, and doesn’t give Michelle much credit for being anything but a controversialist.
[...]
ONE MORE THING: We’re just coming off a major story about the two
blushing songbirds John Edwards hired and fired as campaign bloggers.
Kurtz’s “Michelle Malkin as Lone Wolf McQuade” piece looks utterly
risible when you compare Michelle to those genuinely venomous and bitter characters who just exited the national spotlight, stage left.
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... but wait! There's also a
February 16, 2007 - 01:52 ET by ferrarimanf355... but wait! There's also a quote in there from a Malkin critic who agrees that the ad homenim attacks against her are disgusting. Yeah, it would be wise to read the whole thing and get the whole picture.
Uzumaki/Ayanami '08. Because a ninja and an Eva pilot can govern the nation better that what we have now...
Is this really the best stuff
February 16, 2007 - 01:55 ET by blarsenIs this really the best stuff you can come up with?
Reduction
February 16, 2007 - 06:32 ET by UnsaneThis from one who cannot improve upon it.
Have you been finally reduced to a pathetic, whiny Leftist drive-by poster bereft of any substance whatsoever?
"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)
Blarsen is totally owned. I d
February 16, 2007 - 08:03 ET by PeskyDaneBlarsen is totally owned. I don't even know why he still shows up. More evidence that libtards simply don't have the ability to be embarrassed.
Pugnacious, I would think is
February 16, 2007 - 11:15 ET by blarsenPugnacious, I would think is a compliment.
Pugnacity
February 16, 2007 - 20:46 ET by UnsaneToo bad that your pugnacity does not make up for the fact you constantly swing and miss while your opponents constantly blast you with uppercuts and shots to the gut. You must have a masochistic streak.
"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)
Michelle Malkin is a patriot
February 16, 2007 - 03:16 ET by upcountrywaterMichelle Malkin is a patriot ! NYT calls her a firecracker. I think she's HOT Sooo there :P
You really should stop snor
February 16, 2007 - 07:33 ET by Jack BauerYou really should stop snorting viagra. It seems to be affecting your noggin.
So are you saying you're a ho
February 16, 2007 - 09:06 ET by fosstenSo are you saying you're a homosexual? You've already indicated that in another topic post.
He's saying he's hater. And
February 16, 2007 - 09:08 ET by sarcasmoHe's saying he's hater. And therefore incapable of any coherent debate around here...
JMR
iconoclast - you are obsess
February 16, 2007 - 09:13 ET by Dee Bunkiconoclast - you are obsessed with gayness and sex - you must not get much
Hater, he who hates women and
February 16, 2007 - 15:41 ET by kathleenirishHater, he who hates women and never got ANY.
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere" -Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, 4th Islamic Caliph
iconomorass 151 , Michelle
February 16, 2007 - 14:16 ET by upcountrywatericonomorass 151 ,
Michelle has heard this drivel over and over again, hurry up and finish the 151 rum.
upcountrywater - you're talking to a dead person.
February 16, 2007 - 14:27 ET by acaiguanaupcountrywater - you're talking to a dead person.
Nevermore to be seen here.
ACA
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Hillary Clinton says: "I want to take those profits."
bye bye
February 16, 2007 - 14:31 ET by florida_chadbye bye
Another troll bites the dust?
February 16, 2007 - 19:37 ET by MikeBAnother troll bites the dust? My heart is broken...oh, wait, that's my wristwatch that's broken. Iconoclast151 contributed so much (b.s.) to the debates...he/she/it will (not) be missed. I suppose if we really miss him/her/it, we can always sneak over to DailyKos, or the DummieUnderground, find the biggest pile of natural organic fertilizer, and there we'll find him/her/it.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
February 16, 2007 - 03:25 ET by upcountrywaterhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6ngsAWVKmY
In the case of those of us
February 16, 2007 - 04:12 ET by sarcasmoIn the case of those of us who kept saying "go get a warrant," Michelle, it wasn't the Bush administration that "pulled the rug out from under" you, it was (finally) the FISA court itself. Since the blogosphere is sometimes a "rough" place, I'll take this opportunity to say "I told you so" to all the mindless name-callers here on NB who -- unlike Michelle, who was simply wrong about the issue -- were unable to disagree with me in a civil way on this important legal issue. <Nelson Muntz> HA-HA</Nelson>
JMR
sarc -- talking Simpsons. H
February 16, 2007 - 06:02 ET by Jack Bauersarc -- talking Simpsons. Have you ever heard Jane Fleming: the spokesparrot Democrats regularly put up on Hannity & Colmes.
Apparently she represents the "Young" Democrats of America.
Apart from being an incredibly snidey little snot talking the most hackneyed nonsense, she does so in the voice of Lisa Simpson.
Cracks me up everytime. I just go Ha Ha, whenever she's on.
I just get the chills every
February 16, 2007 - 06:14 ET by sarcasmoI just get the chills every time I think about the fact that it's a female doing Bart's voice. :) One of the great things about The Simpsons (and an example for the news media to try to emulate) is the cartoon's actual-fairness to the Large-L Libertarian Party, as well as to various small-l libertarian ideas. BTW, people in the USA vastly-underestimate the power of The Simpsons for long-term political good worldwide, IMO, as well as better understanding of the USA by foreigners. If you get beyond the (this is gonna piss some people off, but I'll say it anyway) intellectually-shallow & humor-impaired critiques of people like Bill Bennett and just watch each episode, in amongst the jokes about Flanders (which are probably the bee under Bennett's bonnet!) you'll find that most Simpsons-episodes are actually morality-plays, where "good" wins out in the end. Please think about what I just said the next time you watch an episode, and see if you see it, too.
JMR
power of The Simpsons for
February 16, 2007 - 06:19 ET by Jack Bauerpower of The Simpsons for long-term political good worldwide,
Err, you mean amongst everyone but the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys as the French were so endearingly dubbed by Groundskeeper Willy?
Oh, I suspect the French an
February 16, 2007 - 06:51 ET by sarcasmoOh, I suspect the French and other cultures currently being overrun by radical Islam might benefit the most from it. Sadly, they seem to be neutering it for Islamic political correctness and removing references to beer & bacon, but hopefully the internet will solve that information-flow problem. The idea of Homer minus beer -- hell, minus Moe's Tavern -- is almost unthinkable, and Homer's alcohol-excesses (as well as entire-character Barney) are an essential part of the morality play stuff I'm harping-on here.
JMR
Full disclosure -- The Simp
February 16, 2007 - 07:05 ET by Jack BauerFull disclosure -- The Simpsons is the best TV comedy show ever. No contest.
And in the top ten of anything ever on TV.
I particularly enjoy looking for all the movie and other TV show references they slip in.
Have you seen the trailers for the Simpsons movie? They're hilarious
The Simpsons Movie: In 2-D
Sorry, but the voice of Lisa
February 16, 2007 - 07:38 ET by hs29fanSorry, but the voice of Lisa Simpson is Yeardley Smith. Always has been.
"Poor Liberal, he's educated beyond his intelligence"
D'oh!! Yep I know that hs--
February 16, 2007 - 07:48 ET by Jack BauerD'oh!! Yep I know that hs--
But... I didn't say spokesparrot Jane Fleming voiced the Simpsons character.
I said she SOUNDED like the voice of Lisa Simpson.
My bad, Jack. As Ned Flande
February 16, 2007 - 10:56 ET by hs29fanMy bad, Jack. As Ned Flanders would say, "I'm ding diddly sorry about that, Frienderino!"
Poor Liberal, he's educated beyond his intellegence
Okely dokely neighbor! See
February 16, 2007 - 11:08 ET by Jack BauerOkely dokely neighbor! See ya at the Leftorium.
It is an oddly skewed piece
February 16, 2007 - 05:53 ET by Jack BauerIt is an oddly skewed piece by someone who doesn't seem to know much about blogs, written for people who know even less.
You can't help but pick up his quaint astonishment that a conservative woman with kids shouldn't be bothering her pretty little head when she could be in the home tiied to the bed and/or kitchen.
But at least he actually talked to Ms. Malkin. Though someone should point out to Howard that she's...
#1. More famous than him.
#2. Is read and watched by more people than him.
Maybe she should be interviewing Howard Kurtz for her media outlets.
But the most idiotic idea in Kurtz's article was this.
Andrew Sullivan, a conservative blogger who has turned on the Bush administration,
Do me a favor. Okay gay obsessed Andy may have once been a "conservative," (though even that is open to debate).
But he's as much as conservative now as that other former conservative turned lib***l: Arianna Huffington.
How can you take anyone seriously who makes that howler.
Everyone who was jealous of
February 16, 2007 - 06:18 ET by sarcasmoEveryone who was jealous of her husband before is probably now even more jealous -- he gets to stay at home all day and play with his kids because she brings in a good income. Must be nice....
JMR
Up with that I could put. &
February 16, 2007 - 06:21 ET by Jack BauerUp with that I could put.
(Don't tell my girlfriend!)
She helped lead the charge
February 16, 2007 - 07:19 ET by Dave RShe helped lead the charge against two liberal bloggers who resigned
under pressure from John Edwards's presidential campaign after being
castigated for anti-Christian writing.
Ken, I have to give him credit here, as at least he didn't say "anti-Catholic comments" like most everyone else in the MSM.
I hate newspapermen.....I regard them as spies.....If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast. -Gen. William T. Sherman
Malkin
February 16, 2007 - 08:08 ET by Mulligan22Guys's like Kurtz have to belittle her in some way in an attempt to discount anything she might say. So when you see her or read someting she has written you're supposed to remind yourself she's just a wacko because people like Kurtz say so. Because he's a real "journalist".
Truth is guys like Kurtz can't tolerate diversity. So they try to marginal anyone they don't agree with. I hope she keeps doing what she's doing.
Kurtz is just frustrated beca
February 16, 2007 - 09:08 ET by fosstenKurtz is just frustrated because his dorky, hippie self could never have a woman like her.
i never read the ny times o
February 16, 2007 - 08:05 ET by buddyci never read the ny times or the wash post. i recognize his face on tv. when i see it, the channel gets changed. he is a partisan hack. why do we care what he says. M. Malkin has more talent in little finger that kurtz has in his entire body. he has the postion today because he is male, white, jewish and liberal. if he really supported affirmative action he would quit and let malkin take his position. she could do a better job.
Michelle is a liberal's worst
February 16, 2007 - 08:34 ET by EdhenryMichelle is a liberal's worst nightmare. Smart, tough, pretty, ethnic, honest, fact oriented, pretty, educated, direct, not PC, pretty, pro-american, well spoken, likeable, pretty.
She will be a US Senator (did I mention Pretty?)
This article is just more pat
February 16, 2007 - 08:35 ET by Atomic CrusaderThis article is just more patronizing liberal blarney like the tired old rag its published in.
In Kurtz's piece on Malkin, K
February 16, 2007 - 09:29 ET by TEIn Kurtz's piece on Malkin, Kurtz actually calls Andrew Sullivan a "conservative". Kurtz ain't the chief leftist useful idiot for the leftist useful idiots of the Washington press corps for nothing.
Malkin
February 16, 2007 - 10:22 ET by iveseenitallMalkin gets what any conservative gets from the highest (MSM) to the lowest ( average lliberal guy or gal) lefty. No substance, arguments replete with logical flaws, and ad hominem attacks. As a "journalist", Kurtz should be ashamed of what he wrote. But liberals know no shame; they're arrogant in their ignorance.
NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal
pugnacious
February 16, 2007 - 11:02 ET by PunditFighti would say that Michelle Malkin is one of the more tenacious pundits out there, definitelty the most out of the women (left and right). I say this because she is very vigorous and diligent with her blog and video site. She has a built in base and because she aggressively attacks/calls into question those in the media etc... she has more sway than lets say Ann Coulter who is not known for her 'investigative journalism'.
Thats of course not to say that she's always right on the matters she brings up, but speaks more to her influence.
See Michelle Malkin toe to toe with other pundits here:
http://myspace.com/p...
http://punditfight.b...
Jealousy, thy name is Kurtz.
February 16, 2007 - 11:19 ET by pocomocoJealousy, thy name is Kurtz.
Ms. Malkin
February 16, 2007 - 11:25 ET by cvgbuckeyeThis obviously chauvinistic (probably can't even spell it) post would probably insult Ms. Malkin as the professional that she is but I'll say it anyway. I think that she is the most attractive woman on the face of the earth; BAR NONE!
O'Reilly has Ms. Malkin on fr
February 16, 2007 - 11:44 ET by Chris NormanO'Reilly has Ms. Malkin on frequently, but then tries to talk over her with his pretentious and condescending lectures. I find myself yelling, "Shut up already, O'Reilly! Let her do the talking! She makes better points than you!" (looks a lot better, too).
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
Well,, Bill certainly let her
February 17, 2007 - 11:41 ET by Del DolemonteWell,, Bill certainly let her talk on Friday night-in fact, he let her host the entire show!
I don't think it's that bad
February 16, 2007 - 13:42 ET by Christopher FotosHere's my take.
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