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In an interview with ''Business Week'' magazine in July 2007, Malkin remarked "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." <ref> http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/07/0714_bloggers/source/14.htm"Michelle Malkin and Hot Air", Businessweek.com, July 14, 2007</ref>
In an interview with ''Business Week'' magazine in July 2007, Malkin remarked "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." <ref> http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/07/0714_bloggers/source/14.htm"Michelle Malkin and Hot Air", Businessweek.com, July 14, 2007</ref>


==Controversies==
Bronwyn Lance Chester, an editorial writer at ''[[The Virginian-Pilot]]'', stated in November 2004 when the newspaper dropped Malkin's column that Malkin "habitually mistakes shrill for thought-provoking and substitutes screaming for discussion. She's an Asian [[Ann Coulter]].&nbsp;[...] She’s the worst of what's wrong with punditry today. She adds absolutely nothing to genuine political discourse."<ref>
[http://web.archive.org/web/20050312041405/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000724900 "Virginia Paper Drops Columnist Malkin"], ''[[Editor and Publisher]]'', November 22, 2004</ref> Malkin responded "I'm not Asian, I'm American, for goodness' sake. I would take the comparison to Ann Coulter as somewhat of a compliment. I have a lot of respect for Ann Coulter."<ref name=NewsMax2004>
[http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/11/28/124846.shtml "Malkin: Liberal Bigotry on the Rise"], [[NewsMax Media|NewsMax.com]], November 28, 2004</ref>


===Students Against War Controversy===

In April 2006, Students Against War (SAW), a campus group at [[University of California, Santa Cruz]], staged a protest against the presence of military recruiters on campus, and sent out a [[press release]] containing contact details (names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses) of their three-person "[[ad-hoc]] press team" for use by reporters. Malkin included these contact details in a blog post criticizing SAW and UCSC.<ref name=MM04974>
[http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004974.htm "Seditious Santa Cruz vs. America"], MichelleMalkin.com, April 12, 2006</ref>
Malkin claims the contact information was originally taken from SAW's own website, but that later SAW had removed the information and had "wiped the info from the cached version."<ref>
[http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004999.htm "More Thuggery from Santa Cruz"], MichelleMalkin.com, April 17, 2006</ref>
SAW "politely asked"<ref name=SAW51>{{Citation broken|date=November 2008}}
[http://saw.revolt.org/node/51 "Death Threats and Harassment"], UCSC Students Against War, April 14, 2006</ref>
her to remove the contact details; Malkin refused, 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."<ref name=MM04974/> Malkin noted that none of the three students contacted her with that request, and posted a screenshot from one of several [[Indymedia]] websites where the complete press release was still available.<ref>
The contact details were removed [http://perth.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=18037 "as per request"] after Malkin posted this.</ref>
After Malkin's post, the three SAW contacts received abusive emails and phone calls, including death threats.<ref name=SAW51/>{{Citation broken|date=November 2008}} Malkin claims that she received hostile e-mails regarding this matter.<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005008.htm "The Moonbats Strike Back"], MichelleMalkin.com, April 17, 2006</ref>
Subsequently, people opposed to Malkin published her private home address, phone number, photos of her neighborhood and maps to her house on several websites. Malkin has alleged that this forced her to remove one of her children from school and move her family.<ref>
[http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/April/22/local/stories/02local.htm "Cyber war over UCSC protest heats up"], ''[[Santa Cruz Sentinel]]'', April 22, 2006</ref>{{Citation broken|date=November 2008}}

In July 2006, Malkin noted that the ''[[New York Times]]'' had printed photos and other details of the summer homes of [[Dick Cheney]] and [[Donald Rumsfeld]], and alleged that "[t]here is a concerted, organized effort to dig up and publicize the private home information of prominent conservatives in the media and blogosphere to intimidate them."<ref>
[http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005473.htm "When the Left invades our privacy"], MichelleMalkin.com, July 1, 2006</ref>
Two days later, the [[Center for American Progress]] reported that Rumsfeld's office had given permission for the ''Times'' story and that the Secret Service said there was no security threat.<ref>
[http://google.com/search?q=cache:http%3A//www.prospect.org/horsesmouth/2006/07/post_193.html "Exclusive: Secret Service says ''Times'' article on Cheney, Rumsfeld homes is not a security threat; Rumsfeld's office confirms giving permission for photo of his house"], ''The Horses Mouth'' blog, [[Center for American Progress]] website, July 3, 2006</ref>

===Jamil Hussein===
{{main|Jamil Hussein controversy}}

===Leaving ''The O'Reilly Factor''===
On September 1, 2007, [[Geraldo Rivera]] was asked in a ''Boston Globe'' interview about [[Fox News Channel]] contributor and substitute host Malkin, to which he was quoted as replying:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://michellemalkin.com/2007/09/01/geraldo-rivera-unhinged/|title=Michelle Malkin » Geraldo Rivera unhinged<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref>

<blockquote>Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life. She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in NY. I’d spit on her if I saw her.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/09/01/making_waves/|title=Making waves - The Boston Globe<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref></blockquote>

Rivera later apologized for his words explaining that he was overcome with emotion at the time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2007/09/15/geraldo-rivera-apologizes-saying-hed-spit-michelle-malkin|title=Rivera Apologizes for Saying He had Spit on Malkin | NewsBusters.org<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref> Michelle Malkin stated that she felt that ''The O'Reilly Factor'' mishandled the situation, the apology was staged and that she had decided not to return to the show.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/15/stiiiiill-going/|title=
Michelle Malkin » Stiiiiill going<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref>

===Dunkin' Donuts===
Malkin created a stir with a May 28, 2008, entry on her website which described a neck scarf worn by [[Rachael Ray]] in a [[Dunkin' Donuts]] advertisement as "a jihadi chic [[keffiyeh]]".<ref>{{Citation
|url=http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/23/of-donuts-and-dumb-celebrities/
|title=Of donuts and dumb celebrities
|author=Michelle Malkin
|date=May 23, 2008
|publisher=michellemalkin.com
|accessdate=2008-05-29}}</ref>
Dunkin' Donuts subsequently pulled the advertisement, issuing the following statement:
:In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design. It was selected by her stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2008/05/28/dunkin_donuts_yanks_rachael_ray_ad/
|title=Dunkin' Donuts yanks Rachael Ray ad
|author=Carol Beggy and Mark Shanahan |publisher=''[[The Boston Globe]]''
|date=[[May 28]], [[2008]] |accessdate=2008-12-29}}</ref>


== Viewpoints ==
== Viewpoints ==

Revision as of 16:28, 13 February 2009

For the model and television host with a similar name, see Michele Merkin.
Michelle Malkin
Born
Michelle Maglalang

(1970-10-20) October 20, 1970 (age 54)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
EducationOberlin College
Occupation(s)Author, syndicated columnist, television personality and blogger
SpouseJesse Malkin
WebsiteMichelle Malkin, Hot Air

Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang) is an American commentator and blogger.[1][2] Her weekly syndicated column appears in nearly 200 newspapers and websites.[1] She has been a guest on MSNBC, Fox News Channel, C-SPAN, and national radio programs. Malkin has written three books.

Biography

Malkin was born Michelle Maglalang on October 20, 1970 in Philadelphia to Filipino parents, Rafaela and Dr. Apolo Maglalang, while they were in the United States on student visas.[3] She grew up in Absecon, New Jersey.[4] Malkin graduated from Oberlin College which she described as a "radically left-wing, liberal arts college."[5]

In 1993 she married Jesse Malkin, a Rhodes Scholar and former economist for the RAND Corporation.[6] As of 2004, Jesse was a stay-at-home dad raising their two children.[7]

Career

Malkin began her career at the Los Angeles Daily News, working as a columnist from 1992 to 1994. In 1996, she moved to Seattle, Washington, where she wrote columns for The Seattle Times. She became a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate in 1999.[8] [9] She also has been a frequent commentator for FOX News Channel and has guest-hosted The O'Reilly Factor.

Her first book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces, was published in 2002 and was a New York Times bestseller.

In 2004, she wrote In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror, defending Japanese American internment by the United States Government during World War II. She related the theme to the contemporary War on Terrorism, taking some heat from Asian American civil rights organizations who had been uniformly opposed to this historical policy. The "Historians' Committee for Fairness," a group of professors, condemned the book for not having undergone peer review and argued that its central thesis is false.[10] An attempt to ban the book from the Manzanar National Historic Site failed.[11]. Malkin's third book, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild was released in October 2005.

Blog

In June 2004 she launched a political blog which quickly became a popular conservative blog, at most times residing among the top five conservative political blogs.[12] After initially allowing reader comments, she disabled them, attributing her decision to an intolerable level of obscene and racist comments.[13] A 2007 memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee described Malkin as one of the five "best-read national conservative bloggers."[14] In June 2007, she revamped the blog, moving it to WordPress and a larger server.[15] With the new redesign, subscribed readers can once again post comments, but only if they registered before 5 p.m. on June 22, 2007.[16]

Malkin's blog occasionally highlights investigative reports from other sites, most notably an investigation into financial irregularities at Air America Radio.[17] She is frequently used as an example of the blurred line between bloggers and reporters, given such investigations and her widely distributed columns and appearances on multiple media outlets.

Hot Air website

On April 24, 2006, Hot Air, a "conservative Internet broadcast network" went into operation, with Malkin as founder/CEO.[18] 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."[19] Other staffers include "Allahpundit" and Bryan Preston. The latter was replaced by Ed Morrissey on February 25, 2008.[20]

After Malkin criticized hip hop artist Akon for "degrading women" in a Vent episode, Akon's record label, Universal Music Group, forced YouTube to remove the video by issuing a DMCA takedown notice,[21] but decided to retract this notice[22] after the Electronic Frontier Foundation joined Malkin and Hot Air in contesting the removal as a misuse of copyright law.[23]

In an interview with Business Week magazine in July 2007, Malkin remarked "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." [24]


Viewpoints

In a 2003 Jewish World Review column[25] about Yaser Esam Hamdi, she questioned "whether Hamdi should even be considered an American at all" and argued that the legal doctrine of birthright citizenship, which grants automatic U.S. citizenship to "anchor babies" (a term for children born in the U.S. to non-citizens), "undermines the integrity of citizenship—not to mention national security".

She also opposes sanctuary cities, in which local authorities do not enforce all national immigration laws, such as the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) or coordinate with agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In light of the August 2007 execution-style murder of three college students in Newark, New Jersey, she has repeated her criticisms of politicians' posture towards sanctuary cities. (The prime suspect in the murders is an illegal immigrant with a history of violent felonies.) In particular, she criticized former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani, then a Republican candidate for the 2008 presidential election. She responded to his proposal for a tamper-proof identification card with this comment:

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?[26]

She supports coordination with federal authorities through the use of Section 287(g) of the IIRIRA to investigate, detain, and arrest aliens on civil and criminal grounds. [27] [28]

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b Pitts, Jonathan (2008-03-09). "Right at home". The Baltimore Sun. p. E.1. Cite error: The named reference "pitts" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. ^ A Hard Right Punch; Michelle Malkin's Conservative Fight Has Others Coming Out Swinging; [FINAL Edition] Howard Kurtz - Washington Post Staff Writer. The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: Feb 16, 2007. pg. C.1
  3. ^ Michelle Malkin interview re Invasion, Brian Lamb, Booknotes, December 8, 2002
  4. ^ "Michelle Malkin of 'The Seattle Times'", The Masthead, Winter 1998. Accessed October 25, 2007. "Malkin, originally from Absecon, New Jersey, is a graduate of Oberlin College."
  5. ^ "Michelle Malkin: as a book author, newspaper columnist, television commentator, and blogger, this young first-generation American has used a pull-no-punches style to criticize U.S. immigration and war-on-terror policies.", The American Enterprise, September 1, 2005. Accessed October 25, 2007.
  6. ^ "RAND". {{cite web}}: Text "Authors" ignored (help); Text "Jesse Malkin" ignored (help); Text "M" ignored (help); Text "Reports & Bookstore" ignored (help)
  7. ^ America’s broken health insurance system, MichelleMalkin.com, August 27, 2004 ("After my husband quit his job earlier this year (to become a full-time stay-at-home dad).")
  8. ^ "Opinion Michelle Malkin" (HTML). Creators Syndicate.
  9. ^ "Opinion Michelle Malkin" (RSS). Creators Syndicate.
  10. ^ "Open Letter to Michelle Malkin" from the "Historians' Committee for Fairness"
  11. ^ "A Book-Banning Dodged--Thank You!", MichelleMalkin.com, May 7, 2005; has links to Malkin's responses to criticisms of In Defense of Internment
  12. ^ Ranking details for Malkin's blog at The Truth Laid Bear
  13. ^ "Comments, Trolls, and the Left's Continued Whore Fixation", MichelleMalkin.com, February 8, 2005
  14. ^ "GOP issues rules to avoid Macaca moments", Carrie Budoff, The Politico, June 13, 2007
  15. ^ "Welcome to the new michellemalkin.com!", June 18, 2007
  16. ^ "Comment registration is open", June 21, 2007, updated June 22, 2007
  17. ^ "Inside Air America: An Investigative Blog Report", Michellemalkin.com, August 17, 2005
  18. ^ "Conservative Internet Broadcast Network Debuts", PRWeb.com, April 24, 2006
  19. ^ "Hot Air turns One", Michelle Malkin, HotAir.com, April 24, 2007
  20. ^ "The Road Goes Ever On"
  21. ^ "Akon's record company abuses DMCA to stifle criticism on YouTube", MichelleMalkin.com, May 3, 2007
  22. ^ "UMG & YouTube retreat over Akon report", MichelleMalkin.com, May 14, 2007
  23. ^ "Malkin Fights Back Against Copyright Law Misuse by Universal Music Group", Electronic Frontier Foundation press release, May 9, 2007
  24. ^ http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/07/0714_bloggers/source/14.htm"Michelle Malkin and Hot Air", Businessweek.com, July 14, 2007
  25. ^ "What makes an American?", Michelle Malkin, Jewish World Review, July 4, 2003
  26. ^ Michelle Malkin (August 15, 2007), Sanctuary Nation or Sovereign Nation: It’s your choice Update: Illegal alien deportation evader Elvira Arellano will leave church sanctuary to participate in amnesty march, retrieved 2008-09-27 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |source= ignored (help)
  27. ^ "Michelle Malkin » BUSH'S OPEN-BORDERS NOMINEES".
  28. ^ "Gee! Let Us Just Enforce 287(g) ... Really! :: MAXINE". {{cite web}}: Text "The News is NowPublic.com" ignored (help)

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