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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy is Michelle Malkin so mean?
According to her our First Lady is another Marie Antoinette. Malkin has no class and is just so mean.
Your thoughts my friends? I am tired of talking about the pope so I figured this is a way of starting a new topic we could all agree on.
OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)If your career amounted to being the discount version of Ann Coulter.
Hey,
Thanks for the morning laugh, good one!
Peace
Archaic
(273 posts)Say something outrageous. Get headlines.
Get headlines. Get invited to talk shows, speaking engagements, book deals.
Cash in.
Rinse, repeat.
rurallib
(62,426 posts)Welcome to DU
Johonny
(20,852 posts)all an act but you eventually become the part you play. She is the soulless mean spirited wind bag she plays.
trumad
(41,692 posts)I find that most no talent hacks who take up the douchebag cause do well in Repuke circles.
She is no different that Hannity, Coulter, Rush, etc.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)elleng
(130,974 posts)Said Michelle has ALWAYS led a life of privilege!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)No common sense whatsoever.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)She is Ann Coulter without the sense of humor.
Paladin
(28,265 posts)mokawanis
(4,443 posts)but something is definitely wrong. Maybe she just can't stand the fact that others don't conform to what she sees as her perfect logic and opinions.
I haven't watched her for years. I hit the mute button or change channels the instant she appears.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)Maybe she needs more fiber or a good dose of Preparation H. Or, maybe she's just an unhappy person and wants to take the entire country down with her.
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)I think half of it is a schtick. These people get on TV, run their mouths off, and make a living out of it. I think it is all about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)And ugliness.
I think she's an example of a type of individual who is minority living amongst the majority and who tries to push the envelope for those in the majority who feel they can't, or won't because it would be inappropriate for social reasons. That's how she makes her money - she is willing to say what most people who are on the Dark Side are thinking, but won't say. Sort of like Ann Coulter's schtick.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Every time I hear her, I just cringe. She's just beyond pathetic.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Her self hatred leads her to become a vicious, cold-hearted "conservative," but I agree that she's in it for the money as well.
Sadiedog
(353 posts)That is interesting and so sad! I really cannot stand her, so like when Coulter comes on ,I turn off the TV or change channels. I used to try to listen to Hannity, Limbaugh Coulter and the rest but it made me so angry I have stopped. I was attempting to understand their hatefullness... But anyway I think it`s all about making money!
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)In 2004, she wrote In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror,[22] defending the U.S. government's internment of 112,000 Japanese Americans in prison camps during World War II, and arguing that the same procedures could be used on Arab- and Muslim-Americans today. The book engendered harsh criticism from several Asian American civil rights organizations.[23] 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.[24][25] As a result of the controversy, the Hawaii-based newspaper MidWeek dropped her column in August 2004;[26] The Virginian-Pilot called her "an Asian Ann Coulter" and dropped her column in November 2004.[27] Malkin responded: "I'm not Asian, I'm American," and described the comparison to Coulter as, "a compliment."[28] Critics of Malkin's theory attempted to get the Manzanar National Historic Site, (a former relocation and internment camp), to ban her book from its store, but failed.[29]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin
Catherine Vincent
(34,490 posts)That can't be true.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Catherine Vincent
(34,490 posts)Imo, she isn't denying her Asian heritage. She's one of those that don't like the hyphenated American perhaps? Regardless, I can't stand her. And I hate the fact that she and I share the same birthdate.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)like this. I get what you're saying, though. Sad that you share the same birthdate, but you're on the right side and that's all that matters.
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Warpy
(111,277 posts)In any case, I am indifferent to people like that who live on spite and think spitting bile into the press is a good way to earn a paycheck. I don't seek them out, ever, and if they intrude, I push them away.
RZM
(8,556 posts)Actually, on second thought . . . .
Charlotte Little
(658 posts)She and Ann Coulter have figured out how to milk the Right Wing Nut Jobs' money cow by just being horrific human beings, being really loud and saying outrageous things and spewing vitriol toward the Democrats/Liberals (whom they lump all together). Malkin is vicious when it comes to the POTUS and FLOTUS. I'm truly surprised that she hasn't come right on out and called them n------ given how much she hates them. Michelle Obama in particular gets under Malkin's skin. Michelle Obama is in a whole different league than Malkin, and Malkin knows it. Michelle Obama is pure class, whereas Malkin is nothing but shit.
Personally, I think Malkin is actually nastier and far dumber than Coulter, whom turns my stomach as well. Malkin vomits Fox News' bullshit over and over and then plays victims when people call her names and talk about how they wish she'd swallow a lit grenade. And that video of her mocking Michelle Obama's Mom Dance is garnering her the exact attention she was hoping it would. The video in and of itself is oddly pretty tame for Malkin and shows that she at least knows what a sense of humor is even though she isn't at all funny - at least not in the way she thinks she is.
madokie
(51,076 posts)I'd be mad too
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)Same problem in the UK; cf Richard Littlejohn, Melanie Phillips, Simon Heffer, Rod Liddle, Cristina Odone, Ed West, James Delingpole, etc., etc., etc.
Left-wing journalists can be nasty, but the right-wing ones are much worse - and it's not just that I don't agree with them; many of them are professional hate-merchants.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It is occupying her entire skull.
Pancho Schneider
(42 posts)Her stupidity hurts the GOP but is good for her pockets.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)he/she Coulter. Who knows but she is a witch.
Hatchling
(2,323 posts)Courtesy of Ron Obvious.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)Hatchling
(2,323 posts)A typical day on DU
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018315910
Admin: * User Brand New Du'er has been PPR'ed *
Du'ers #7-14 (in unison): Yaaaay!!!! Ding Dong, the witch is Dead!
Du'er #15: As a practising Wiccan....
I thought it a humorous way of mildly objecting since the use of "witch" is a mild annoyance to those of us who are practicing witches. I probably wouldn't have responded at all except for the Ron Obvious thread. I just thought it cute.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)Women got upset so now I say witch. Sorry to all the Wiccas.
wandy
(3,539 posts)What makes the Malkingater so mean?
Well she has a head on each end of her body.
Then how does she.........
That's what makes her so mean. She don't.
Seriously. Just another well paid Teabublican tool.
Yup! Sure does have the same thing at each end of her body.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)but it isn't a head.
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)that house falling on her sister?
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)pitbullgirl1965
(564 posts)Isn't she a so called "anchor baby"? She is much worse then Coulter too.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)I only hope I get the chance to debate her one day on the air.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)But her mean is a special sort of self-hatred. Repuke women are very frustrated in many, many ways.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)There are a lot of people out there who do that schtick. The meaner you are, the more provocative your position, the more attention you get.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)That was easy.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)for young-ish attractive women to push their viewpoints and make them palatable. For so-called conservative men, they get to have their hate, AND have it dished out by a pretty 'girl'. Win-win!
There's a niche market just waiting to be filled, and no shortage of willing customers. But for Malkin, Coulter, et al looks alone don't suffice for long, so the more they age and the more exposure they get, the more outrageous they have to become. It's how they earn their living, and it's a fairly lucrative one.
It's a shame to focus so much on their looks, but we all know that if these women were, shall we say, "homely", they would get almost no exposure. Let's not kid ourselves about what's really in play here.
JHB
(37,161 posts)Javaman
(62,531 posts)Until the mouth breathing masses understand the are being swindled, people of the likes of malkin will always make bank on stupidity.