HERE IS THE NEW Malkin(s)watch. GO THERE NOW.
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Michelle Malkin said at the time of the Baghdad lootings shortly after the invasion, "Peter Jennings and the New York Times couldn’t get enough of the looting stories out of Iraq"...
Now Malkin can’t get enough of the looting stories out of Hurricane Katrina:Things are spiraling completely out of control–and contrary to some naive observers, the crimes are not just being committed by people desperate for basic food and sustenance.
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"You should find Saddam and run him over with your tank ... I love you and don't die. Love, Kodee."And this from the Chicago Tribune:
In southern Illinois, the tale began in 2003, when student reporter Michael Brenner said he was handed a letter from a little girl saying she that saw an anti-war protest on the Southern Illinois University campus and that it bothered her because her dad was a soldier.This is a terrible hoax, and probably nonpartisan (the "little girl" also expresses some childlike anger at President Bush), but if it is partisan, it sure sounds a lot like the rah-rah, heartstring-tugging astroturf put out by the Right in the early days of the war.
They [the Blackhawks] skate and carry big sticks maybe like that presadent in history.Oh yeah. An eight-year-old writes better comedy than Brad Stine. I can see why this hoax was tough to sniff out.
Theres this thing that I hang coats on that looks like a dragin wen the lights are turned out.
We played batleship and Carson and me won. I think his dad forgot to think like a soldier for a minit. It's okay becuse he's had it rough.
Jack had a birthday and hes got one foot in a grave.
Ges what dad I lost a tooth. The tooth farys rates haven't gone up so I'm holding out. I figyer she'll evenchly have to give up and give the extra quarter.
You kno what last week was a fun week. So much stuff hapened. If you have to pee you shold do that before you read any more becuse its alot.
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Michael Graham, recently fired by ABC-owned WMAL for calling Islam a "terrorist organization," has been hired by Rightalk, one my advertisers. His show will air 12-1 pm eastern time starting on Monday.But Michelle. Don't you know that 9/11 changed everything?
Meanwhile, Brent Bozell helpfully reminds us that ABC News apparently had no objection to George Stephanopoulos' description of Jesse Helms as a "terrorist" on This Week in 1997...
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein has elected herself chief of the Democrat's anti-humor police.The point, Michelle, is not whether Roberts made a few jokes. The point is whether Roberts thinks womens' rights are a joke. It looks like there's a good chance that he does. Dahlia Lithwick:Feinstein, the only woman on the Judiciary Committee, pointed to one memo in which Roberts, while disparaging state efforts to combat discrimination against women, wondered whether "encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good."Next task for the Senate Democratic leadership: Investigating the hidden link between jocular Judge Roberts, the dangerous funnymen behind the Federalist Society, and the insidious humor writer who penned the most famous anti-feminist joke in American history:
"He ... had a sense of humor that is subject to interpretation, on women's rights for example," Feinstein told reporters after a speech at a downtown hotel.
"Whether that was a joke, or whether it represents his real view, I don't know. We'll try and find out," she said.
Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: That's not funny!
Roberts honestly seemed to think that humor or disdain were the only appropriate ways to think about gender. It's not that feminists can't take a joke. It's that Roberts can't seem to take feminists seriously.
The record seems to make it quite clear that Roberts—with his "perceived/purported/alleged" discrimination trope—simply didn't believe that gender problems were worthy of his serious consideration or scrutiny.
The emerging picture of Roberts is of a man deeply skeptical about federal efforts to equalize opportunity for women or minorities, be it through busing, housing, voting rights, or affirmative-action programs. He was even more skeptical of judicial efforts to engage in the same project. And that's a legitimate, if debatable, political theory. But if, as the memos suggest, Roberts' ideological views are the result of being too smart-alecky or dismissive to accept that these disparities were of serious national concern in the first place, he doesn't just have a gender problem. He has a reality problem.
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I have a very simple solution to the entire Cindy Sheehan affair.From the comments and trackbacks, it appears that the right thinks Simon has scored a major, deal-breaking point here. From the left it seems that Bush and Saddam have more in common than we ever imagined.
Let her meet with the President.
That's right. I've finally changed my tune.
Let her meet with the President who thwarted the United Nations Security Council and made the case for war.
Let her meet with the President who hindered the progress of United Nations weapons inspectors.
Let her meet with the President who lied about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction that they'd use on Americans...
[snip additional descriptions of George W. Bush]
Let her meet with the President who should be brought up on war crimes charges for his dastardly misdeeds.
Let her meet with the President who spent billions of dollars on weapons while social welfare programs went unfunded and the poor continue to suffer for it to this day.
Let her meet with the President who has a track record of invading Arab Muslim countries for oil.
Let her meet with the President who knew full well about the bloodthirsty torture and murderous horrors at Abu Ghraib.
That's right. Let her meet with Saddam Hussein.
1. Assume that anti-war arguments hinge on the idea that Saddam Hussein should have remained in power and was a nice guy 2. With that strawman firmly in place, imply that Cindy Sheehan should actually meet with Saddam Hussein so that she'd realize about the war being a good idea. Do this by weirdly "tricking" people into mistaking Bush for Saddam Hussein by exploiting the fact that they are both seen as human rights violators. 3. Magically convert cognitive dissonance into a sassy non-argument.
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Bartholdi manipulated the Statue of Liberty to ensure coherence with [an anti-French-conservative] agenda. He positioned her within New York Harbor to face outward toward Europe (and particularly, France), looking across the Atlantic in hope that Europe's countries might soon realize her strength. Not laden with the swords and shields of war and imperialism, but instead standing resolute with a torch to "enlighten the world" to democracy, the Statue of Liberty was built to be an icon of France's republican ideals.Michelle's been on quite a roll since August 2004. Just this month she became the #1 blog on the internet. (I just had a wonderfully terrible thought: When's Time's next Blog of the Year issue?) Something like 75,000 people visit michellemalkin.com every day. All this despite such worthies as Eric Muller, Greg Robinson, and the incomparable David Neiwert eviscerating her stances on internment and immigration at every turn.
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Could Pat Robertson be right about Chavez?
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The GWOT still seems to be going well in spite of Osama bin Laden's continued sprints from one Iranian safehouse to the next.Looks like Preston has some info the Pentagon might like to see. And since he's a U.S. citizen, he doesn't have to worry about extraordinary rendition!
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It has been 10 days since I first posted on Cindy Sheehan, and after sticking my neck out and taking massive amounts of ongoing abuse and ridicule for giving her the scrutiny she deserves, I am more than happy to let others pick up the slack.As I have noted repeatedly, I am appalled by those on the "left" who engage in actual attacks on Michelle Malkin's gender or ethnicity. But that doesn't mean that all attacks on Malkin - even those which take on an ad hominem nature - are automatically racist or sexist. Malkin is guilty, guilty, guilty of that conflation.
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Sheehan's shifting account of her meeting with Bush was reported by Matt Drudge five days ago.It's hard to tell if the Malkins are being facetious with this false dichotomy: either Sheehan is lying or the Washington Post is part of some anti-Lib conspiracy. Let's assume they're joking, and that they are just being their plain old righteously indidnant selves. The funny thing is that the link on the word "Liberals" above goes to a Media Matters article that proves the Malkins to be liars on this - perpetually.
For those of you who haven't followed the story closely, here's the complete report in Sheehan's hometown newspaper from June 24, 2004:...Now, here's what Sheehan told CNN last weekend (Sunday, August 7, 2005) about her meeting with Bush last year, according to a transcript on Nexis:
"I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis," Cindy said after their meeting. "I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss. And I know he's a man of faith."
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"That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together," Cindy said....Liberals continue to claim hysterically that it is a right-wing "lie" that Sheehan changed her story about her meeting with Bush. Guess the Post is now a member of the VRWC.
Every time we tried to talk about Casey and how much we missed him, he would change the subject. And he acted like it was a party.
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Dear Ms. Malkin,Considering what the tool wrote (I won't repeat it here), it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. We have to be better than that.
I am the Managing Shareholder of the law firm of Ogletree Deakins with offices located across the country. I was very disturbed to learn today that a legal secretary in our Los Angeles office sent you the vile e-mail referenced on your home page. Such remarks are clearly inappropriate in any context and an e-mail such as this certainly should not have been sent during working time using our firm's equipment. The comments of this employee are not reflective of the views or opinions of the firm and are directly in violation of our e-mail policy. As Managing Shareholder, I wanted to extend to you our apologies and let you know that this serious violation of our firm's work rules has resulted in the discharge of this employee.
Once again, let me offer you our deepest apologies for any discomfort that the referenced e-mail has caused. It will not happen again.
Sincerely,
Gray Geddie
posted by Auguste at 11:41 AM
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Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?My thoughts will be with Cindy Sheehan tomorrow as she officially becomes a 'threat to national security.' God forbid, but may I have the strength to be such a 'threat' should I be faced with the same situation.
The torrential rains of a mother's weeping will never be done
They call him a hero, you should be glad that he's one, but
Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?
Have you ever heard the sound of a father holding back his cries?
He must be brave because his boy died for another man's lies
The only grief he allows himself are long, deep sighs
Have you ever heard the sound of a father holding back his cries?
Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?
They say that he died so that the flag will continue to wave
But I believe he died because they had oil to save
Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?
Have you ever heard the sound of a nation being rocked to sleep?
The leaders want to keep you numb so the pain won't be so deep
But if we the people let them continue another mother will weep.
posted by Auguste at 1:13 AM
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The left-wing blog, Raw Story, claims that Drudge has taken the 2004 story on Sheehan's meeting with President Bush out of context. But the article excerpts Raw Story highlights, which quote Sheehan's husband, Pat, seem to bolster the case against Mrs. Sheehan even more:"We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled," Cindy said. "The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached."
"...But in the end, the family decided against such talk, deferring to how they believed Casey would have wanted them to act.
"...We have a lot of respect for the office of the president, and I have a new respect for him because he was sincere and he didn't have to take the time to meet with us," Pat said.
"That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together," she said in the story.I don't really get where the payoff is for the Malkins on this one. How would you ever come off well denigrating a gold star mother?
Drudge included that quote in his Monday morning report, but didn't explain that it referred to sharing time with her family, not the president...
The Reporter republished Henson's 2004 story on www.thereporter.com Monday. It drew hundreds of visits within the first hour.
"It's important that readers see the full context of the story, instead of just selected portions," said Editor Diane Barney. "We stand by the story as an accurate reflection of the Sheehans' take on the meeting at the time it was published"...
Sincerity was something Cindy had hoped to find in the meeting (with Bush). Shortly after Casey died, Bush sent the family a form letter expressing his condolences, and Cindy said she felt it was an impersonal gesture.
"I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis," Cindy said after their meeting. "I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss. And I know he's a man of faith..."
While meeting with Bush, as well as Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, was an honor (note: reporter Hansen's words, not attributed to the Sheehans), it was almost a tangent benefit of the trip. The Sheehans said they enjoyed meeting the other families of fallen soldiers, sharing stories, contact information, grief and support.
For some, grief was still visceral and raw, while for others it had melted into the background of their lives, the pain as common as breathing. Cindy said she saw her reflection in the troubled eyes of each.
"It's hard to lose a son," she said. "But we (all) lost a son in the Iraqi war."
The trip had one benefit that none of the Sheehans expected.
For a moment, life returned to the way it was before Casey died. They laughed, joked and bickered playfully as they briefly toured Seattle.
For the first time in 11 weeks, they felt whole again.
"That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together," Cindy said...
...(the) article, published June 24, 2004, was called into question on Monday following a story in the Drudge Report.
Under the headline, "Protesting soldier mom changed story on Bush," only portions of our story were printed. Left out were the Sheehans' reservations about the war.
The online report claimed Cindy Sheehan "dramatically changed her account about what happened when she met the commander in chief last summer!"
We don't think there has been a dramatic turnaround. Clearly, Cindy Sheehan's outrage was festering even then...
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...tomorrow we are planning to unveil a new, spinoff site that we think will be of great interest and value to its intended audience--i.e., the news junkies who read sites like ours.
Stay tuned. Barring any unforeseen glitches, the new site will go live tomorrow. It will supplement, but in no way change or impinge on, Power Line.
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Even in a town as small and out of the way as Bly, local folks find it hard to believe that Islamic militants might think they could train with assault rifles on a sheep ranch without anyone noticing.Hee hee hee. Look, I was in a town very much like Bly this weekend, and the townspeople took notice when a city boy came to town, never mind someone in Middle Eastern dress. I don't think a terrorist training camp would have lasted very long.
"Ridiculous," Marilyn Thomas, who runs the Pit Stop convenience store in Bly, a tiny ranching community in the high desert of south-central Oregon, said Monday in a telephone interview.
"I'm from Chicago, where I didn't even know my neighbors. Here they know what you're going to do before you do it. And if you don't do it, they get mad"...
Though a few miles outside town, the ranch is near a highway and surrounded by scattered rural homes, making it unlikely that sustained assault rifle fire could go on without someone taking notice, Bly residents said. They took notice in 1999 when people in Middle Eastern dress living at the ranch came to town.
An unidentified witness cooperating with prosecutors described Oregon in a fax as a state that supported militia activity and firearms, and "looks just like Afghanistan," according to the complaint.
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Far-right affirmative action hire who is so bigoted she'd arrest herself for trying to cross a border. Famously published a book praising internment of Japanese-Americans that was (a) incoherent and (b) probably not written by her. If she didn't have tits, she'd be stuck writing at Townhall.com.Hoo-doggie. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Mithras didn't quite expect the backlash he got from this post (not to say he's upset by it.) Interestingly, it wasn't until just this minute that I even realized that his original post was from a week ago today. Funny how, in a supposedly instantaneous medium such as the Internet, things can take as long as they sometimes do to get rolling.
Well, I didn't come here to get into a rehash of a 4-month-old short post series, but perhaps I misspoke if I led you to believe I was talking about 'secret information.' What I really meant was sources who prefer not to be identified who informed me about, for example, her post of Sept. 8th which was posted while she was on a plane to Berkeley for a speech; pointed out that she posted within minutes of another talk; that "Michelle's" most in-depth posts are often about health care, Jesse's particular area of professional experience; that Jesse has at least once defended something "Michelle" wrote by writing a defensive e-mail to a critic - without her knowledge; that, yes, the royal we has been problematic; that her output is amazing for someone who has repeatedly claimed that she has no help whatsoever; what the topic of her next book would be four months before it was announced; that "Jesse Malkin is the driving force behind Michelle. He is a control freak. Michelle is no innocent victim either. She chose to be with the guy, and apparently they have been successful as this wingnut juggernaut. She needs him as much as he needs her"...all of which were mentioned in my posts - and the Liberal Avenger's - of the time.
This surely sounds defensive, and it probably is. But whatever. Unlike (the) Malkin(s), I don't generally consider myself part of some "new media." I also am not trained, nor do I plan to be, in the proper crediting and/or protocol regarding confidential sources.
That's okay, though, because I'm pretty sure I could open my entire e-mail account for examination and it still wouldn't end this discussion. Hope you all come and visit my blog again.
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The Vacaville, California Reporter told of how Sheehan was invited to meet with Bush and given "VIP treatment" from the military. But even when the article was published, it's clear that Sheehan and her husband had serious questions about Bush -- and were not adulatory as the article by Drudge suggests...
"But as their meeting with the president approached, the family was faced with a dilemma as to what to say when faced with Casey's commander-in-chief."
"We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled," Cindy said. "The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached."
"...But in the end, the family decided against such talk, deferring to how they believed Casey would have wanted them to act..."
Since the meeting, Cindy has soured on Bush; she feels that she didn't convey her true feelings at their first meeting, and is holding vigil outside Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch.
"I plan on staying here the entire month of August or until he comes out to talk to me," she told reporters.
Sheehan told reporters she wants to ask "why (Bush's twin daughters) Jenna and Barbara and the other children of the architects of this disastrous war are not in harm's way, if the cause is so noble."
The woman is clearly anguished about her son's death, as any parent would be. But in her grief, she has lost sight of the fact that her 24-year-old son, Casey, proudly and willingly served. Sheehan's father told the press in April 2004 that his son had re-enlisted the previous August, planned to make a career in the military, and "loved the Army because it gave him a chance to serve his country." I can't imagine Army Spc. Casey Sheehan would stand for his mother's crazy accusations that he was murdered by his commander-in-chief, rather than the Iraqi terrorists who ambushed his convoy. I can't imagine Army Spc. Casey Sheehan would stand for a bunch of strangers glomming onto his mother's crusade and using him to undermine the war effort as they shouted "W killed her son" in front of countless TV cameras.I can't imagine Malkin thinks she knows Casey Sheehan better than his own mother, or has the disgusting gall to call her "crazy."
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Won't be long now before the Left starts peddling Ohio conspiracy theories...Erick at RedState writes that the "Kossacks Are Now 0-16."While Michelle busies herself once again finding random commenters to turn into a broad anti-left brush, those of us that live in the real world know a moral victory - yes, they do occur in politics occasionally - when we see one. Bring on 2006!
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