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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 05:45 PM Feb 2013

Why 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.

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Why is Michelle Malkin so mean? (Original Post) hrmjustin Feb 2013 OP
Malkin is a total mean-spirited horse's ass. nt. OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #1
You'd be mean too... Scootaloo Feb 2013 #2
boom frylock Feb 2013 #23
ouchie hibbing Mar 2013 #53
It makes her money. Just like Coulter. Archaic Feb 2013 #3
that is the bottom line rurallib Feb 2013 #37
pretty much Johonny Mar 2013 #39
Because it makes her money... trumad Feb 2013 #4
yes Rosa Luxemburg Feb 2013 #32
Mean and ignorant. elleng Feb 2013 #5
I just was shocked when she said that. hrmjustin Feb 2013 #9
She's a republican n/t SoCalDem Feb 2013 #6
+1 mwrguy Feb 2013 #15
+2! gateley Mar 2013 #52
Ann Coulter Wannabee CBGLuthier Feb 2013 #7
+1 (nt) Paladin Feb 2013 #16
I don't know what's wrong with her mokawanis Feb 2013 #8
Could be several reasons. Wait Wut Feb 2013 #10
Because people pay her money to be mean. madaboutharry Feb 2013 #11
It was a way for a Filipina to stand out at Oberlin? FarCenter Feb 2013 #12
She is the textbook example of arrogance. closeupready Feb 2013 #13
I agree.. AsahinaKimi Mar 2013 #58
I think it's self loathing manifesting itself. She denies that she has an Asian background. Liberal_Stalwart71 Feb 2013 #14
She denies her Asian background? Really? Sadiedog Feb 2013 #33
Here... Liberal_Stalwart71 Mar 2013 #42
What? Catherine Vincent Feb 2013 #36
It's true! Yep. Sad. Liberal_Stalwart71 Mar 2013 #41
I read her remark Catherine Vincent Mar 2013 #56
I don't have that much faith in those words. It's not the first time I've heard her say something Liberal_Stalwart71 Mar 2013 #57
Message auto-removed srogers Feb 2013 #17
Maybe Mama took her binky away once too often Warpy Feb 2013 #18
I don't know. But she's a hell of a dancer RZM Feb 2013 #19
Money Charlotte Little Feb 2013 #20
If I had a head on my shoulders like she does madokie Feb 2013 #21
Because being a right-wing journalist and being mean-spirited and nasty are virtual synonyms LeftishBrit Feb 2013 #22
I think she has a brain tumor. smirkymonkey Feb 2013 #24
It sells Pancho Schneider Feb 2013 #25
Maybe her momma didn't give her the attention she needed. Maybe she can't keep up with southernyankeebelle Feb 2013 #26
"As a practicing Wiccan..." Hatchling Feb 2013 #34
Ok who is the Wiccan? You. The momma or the crybaby? southernyankeebelle Feb 2013 #35
Me. and a link to Ron's post. Hatchling Mar 2013 #47
LOL, well I said witch because the last time I said (take a "b" in place of "w") I got jump on. southernyankeebelle Mar 2013 #50
Is it time for the Malkingator joke......... wandy Feb 2013 #27
She may have the same thing at both ends.... Wounded Bear Feb 2013 #30
She's never gotten over Spirochete Feb 2013 #28
LMAO! Aerows Mar 2013 #40
I feel bad for her kids. She is ALWAYS so angry and mean-spirited. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #29
Self loathing? She's a flaming hyprocrite pitbullgirl1965 Feb 2013 #31
Because she is Michelle Malkin. nt geek tragedy Feb 2013 #38
I'd be mean too if I had to go out and deliver that schlock she calls political opinion each day stevenleser Mar 2013 #43
I would love to see you debate her. hrmjustin Mar 2013 #46
All repukes are mean. Zoeisright Mar 2013 #44
It draws attention to her. Same as with Coulter. nyquil_man Mar 2013 #45
Because her audience is made up of teabaggers. MineralMan Mar 2013 #48
It pays well Capt. Obvious Mar 2013 #49
As everyone else has mentioned, among conservatives there is a market Sheldon Cooper Mar 2013 #51
Because it pays well. JHB Mar 2013 #54
Grifters grift and snake oil salesmen sell snake oil... Javaman Mar 2013 #55

Archaic

(273 posts)
3. It makes her money. Just like Coulter.
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 05:48 PM
Feb 2013

Say something outrageous. Get headlines.

Get headlines. Get invited to talk shows, speaking engagements, book deals.

Cash in.

Rinse, repeat.

Johonny

(20,852 posts)
39. pretty much
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 12:22 AM
Mar 2013

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)
4. Because it makes her money...
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 05:49 PM
Feb 2013

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.

mokawanis

(4,443 posts)
8. I don't know what's wrong with her
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 05:51 PM
Feb 2013

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)
10. Could be several reasons.
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 05:51 PM
Feb 2013

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)
11. Because people pay her money to be mean.
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 05:56 PM
Feb 2013

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 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
13. She is the textbook example of arrogance.
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 05:57 PM
Feb 2013

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.

 

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)
14. I think it's self loathing manifesting itself. She denies that she has an Asian background.
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 06:13 PM
Feb 2013

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)
33. She denies her Asian background? Really?
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 10:18 PM
Feb 2013

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)
42. Here...
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 12:53 AM
Mar 2013

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)
56. I read her remark
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 07:37 PM
Mar 2013

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)
57. I don't have that much faith in those words. It's not the first time I've heard her say something
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 09:43 AM
Mar 2013

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.

Response to hrmjustin (Original post)

Warpy

(111,277 posts)
18. Maybe Mama took her binky away once too often
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 06:50 PM
Feb 2013

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.

Charlotte Little

(658 posts)
20. Money
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 07:47 PM
Feb 2013

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.

LeftishBrit

(41,208 posts)
22. Because being a right-wing journalist and being mean-spirited and nasty are virtual synonyms
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 07:52 PM
Feb 2013

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.

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
26. Maybe her momma didn't give her the attention she needed. Maybe she can't keep up with
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:20 PM
Feb 2013

he/she Coulter. Who knows but she is a witch.

Hatchling

(2,323 posts)
47. Me. and a link to Ron's post.
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 12:50 PM
Mar 2013

A typical day on DU
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018315910

Du'ers #7-14 (in unison): Booo!!! Tomsbstone! Tombstone! Tombstone! Down with the animal-torturing Nazi!

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)
50. LOL, well I said witch because the last time I said (take a "b" in place of "w") I got jump on.
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 01:27 PM
Mar 2013

Women got upset so now I say witch. Sorry to all the Wiccas.

wandy

(3,539 posts)
27. Is it time for the Malkingator joke.........
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:36 PM
Feb 2013

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.

pitbullgirl1965

(564 posts)
31. Self loathing? She's a flaming hyprocrite
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 10:14 PM
Feb 2013

Isn't she a so called "anchor baby"? She is much worse then Coulter too.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
43. I'd be mean too if I had to go out and deliver that schlock she calls political opinion each day
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 12:57 AM
Mar 2013

I only hope I get the chance to debate her one day on the air.

Zoeisright

(8,339 posts)
44. All repukes are mean.
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 12:58 AM
Mar 2013

But her mean is a special sort of self-hatred. Repuke women are very frustrated in many, many ways.

nyquil_man

(1,443 posts)
45. It draws attention to her. Same as with Coulter.
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 01:08 AM
Mar 2013

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.

Sheldon Cooper

(3,724 posts)
51. As everyone else has mentioned, among conservatives there is a market
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 01:31 PM
Mar 2013

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.

Javaman

(62,531 posts)
55. Grifters grift and snake oil salesmen sell snake oil...
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 01:43 PM
Mar 2013

Until the mouth breathing masses understand the are being swindled, people of the likes of malkin will always make bank on stupidity.

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