defend the indefensible: MICHELLE MALKIN

yeast infections generally are.

b/w (a) going on a crusade against (illegal?) immigrants (when she's the child of immigrants herself); (b) writing a sloppily-researched, ahistorical book about interning japanese-americans during WWII; and (c) outright slander vis-a-vis john kerry's vietnam injuries ...

I sort of feel sorry for Ann Coulter, who I think is really disturbed. I don't feel that way about Malkin, who I think is merely filled with hate.

but the fact that we are even discussing her means that the terrorists have won, so i'll stop now.

why is this?

It really bugs me when people pretend that Michael Moore, say, or Al Franken is just the leftwing counterpart to Coulter/Malkin/etc. That's like saying Charlie Chaplin was the leftwing counterpart to Joe McCarthy.

I don't think Moore comes off nearly as hate-filled as Malkin. He is just more likely to get caught up in his tangeled conspiracy theories.

That said, Moore has never impressed me with his intellect--he's more schtick than substance, and he's relied as much on hyperbole, half-baked conspiracy theories, disinformation, and crude manipulation of fact as Limbaugh has. I can't really think of many original ideas Moore has brought to popular discourse.

First:

A number of us in the blogosphere have been catching wind of rumors that a surface-to-air missile was fired at an America West flight originating out of New York. Here's a post at Little Green Footballs, where many commenters are wisely skeptical but wanting more info.

I just got off the phone with Phil Gee, associate manager of media relations at America West, who promptly returned my late evening call. Here's what he told me:

On Sept. 15 (Thursday), America West Flight 17 took off from JFK Airport at 6:05pm EDT [Update: The actual time of departure was 6:49 pm. -MM]. The captain "took the initiative," says Gee, and reported an "irregularity" to air traffic control as the plane was ascending. The plane continued to Phoenix and landed safely at 8:55pm MST. FBI and other authorities met and interviewed all of the crew and passengers on the plane. The investigation is continuing.

Then:

Update: A government aviation official who asked me not to reveal her name says the "missile siting was [a] false alarm:"

The sighting was reported near Colt's Neck, NJ, which is a major route south out of NY. FAA set up a small temporary flight restriction around the area while checking radar files. Turned out to be nothing more than birds, and [a] big game of "telephone."

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003563.htm

That pretty much sums it up.

http://worldnetdaily.com/images2/NEWMalkin.jpg

I have a question for the hordes of bleeding-heart Hollywood stars who joined the "Save Tookie" brigade, who bowed their heads in prayer with ex-Crip gangster Snoop Dogg and the Rev. Jesse Jackson and pleaded to protect convicted Death Row murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams, and who lobbied so hard for the government to err on the side of life.

Where are you now?

In Boston, an innocent girl was sentenced to death by the state. Her name is Haleigh Poutre. Last fall, she was hospitalized after her stepfather allegedly burned her and beat her unconscious with a baseball bat. Haleigh was kept alive by a feeding tube and ventilator. Doctors said she was "virtually brain dead." They said she was in a "persistent vegetative state." The medical professionals pronounced her "hopeless."

Less than three weeks after Haleigh's hospitalization, the Massachusetts Department of Social Services was raring to remove Haleigh's feeding and breathing tubes. Even her biological mother (who had been deemed unfit to care for Haleigh and whose former boyfriend was accused of sexually abusing the child) wanted her to be put to death. The only person who wanted Haleigh alive was her stepfather, who will likely be charged with murder if Haleigh dies.

Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in favor of killing Haleigh, saying it was "unthinkable" to give the power to make a life-and-death decision to the man accused of putting Haleigh in a coma. Instead, the court did something just as unthinkable: It handed that power over life and death to the same child-welfare agency that had failed time and time and time again to protect Haleigh from her abusers in the first place. According to the Boston Herald, a report by her court-appointed guardian showed that the Department of Social Services had received 17 reports of abuse or neglect involving Haleigh in the three years before her adoptive mother and stepfather were charged with pummeling her into a coma.

"State can let beaten girl die," the headlines trumpeted. But there was just one small complication for all of those who, for whatever reason, were in such a rush to "let Haleigh die":

Haleigh is fighting to live.

As state officials prepared to remove Haleigh's life support, the supposedly impossible happened. She began breathing on her own, responding to stimuli and showing signs of emerging from what the medical establishment had deemed her hopeless condition. Everyone had given up on Haleigh – except Haleigh. ''There has been a change in her condition," announced a DSS spokeswoman, Denise Monteiro. ''The vegetative state may not be a total vegetative state."

Unbelievably, the state had weaned Haleigh off her breathing tube before the state Supreme Court had made its ruling – but the government failed to inform the court of the development. Haleigh's medical records and the social service agency's brief remain sealed.

Politicians in Massachusetts are vowing full-scale investigations of the state's incompetent child-welfare bureaucrats. But where's the accountability for the medical experts whose faulty diagnosis led to Haleigh's court-approved death sentence? Will they step forward and reveal themselves? Will they explain how they erred? Will they apologize?

It was The Experts' unequivocal assessments that led the court to declare Haleigh in "an irreversible vegetative state" and to assert that "the child could not see, hear, feel or respond." Now, they admit they were wrong. And now, Haleigh's life depends on the whims of a hopeless government agency that didn't think the court needed to know that the child was breathing on her own.

Haleigh's story is a wake-up call to "right-to-die" ideologues who recklessly put such unlimited trust in the medical profession and Nanny State. With such uncertainty surrounding persistent-vegetative-state diagnoses, the presumption must be in favor of life. Yet, the "right-to-die" lobby's mantra seems to be: When in doubt, pull it out.

While Haleigh clings to life, I've pondered how we might help persuade the plug-pullers to put off the child's state-sanctioned death sentence. I propose nominating her for a Nobel Prize. It bought Tookie Williams five extra years.

Jamie Foxx and Susan Sarandon, will you join me?

Michelle Malkin's newest book, "Unhinged: Exposing Liberals GoneWild," is now available from the WorldNetDaily Book Service.

Though personally I like this post more re: Foley because of this howler:

all parents must be vigilant and immunize their children against predators early and often

Never knew there was a vaccination!

n/m. i found out.

Damn honey! I forget to get little Johnny his pedophile shot! Now he's all covered with congressmen!

Hey, you want to kick down a bit of the proceeds, it's all good. (Like I said elsewhere, I enjoy [in a very blackly humorous way] observing what the aliens are saying.)

I was under the impression that even plenty of conservatives decided, once Joe started talking about stuff left and right, that he was kind of a tool.

I mean, there's like a spectrum from "hypothetical example" to "real-person example" to "actual real person who talks about stuff," and Joe completely missed that he was supposed to be the middle item in that list.

dunno why he'd want to be in israel now since back in october he said if obama wins israel will be destroyed

lol, someone said that yesterday (was it you?)

He and everyone else also are eliding the obvious point that all these other gigs he's getting into must mean that the non-Obama economic plan = not so much money for people to spend on plumbers, huh? JUST LIKE OBAMA SAID.

Actually guys it just dawned on me that it's possibly better that the guy is trying to seize his fifteen minutes and attention-whoring himself into a settled corner now -- it'd have been really horrible if he'd stayed quiet and uninvolved and then next election cycle people did horrible "where is Joe now" and "how has Obama's administration been for Joe" pieces.

i'm still not 100% convinced that this guy wasn't a plant from the get go

he so was

I dunno, he struck me as being self-planted, if that makes sense.

like he walked over to obama to ask a question, the idea to do such being his own?

how'd she forget to mention d.l. hughley?

Like he was a committed partisan who saw the candidate would be available near him and constructed a plan to go up to Obama in the guise of an ordinary concerned citizen and ask a question he had carefully constructed to make a particular point.

(Not precluding the possibility that it was someone else's idea or talked over with many or whatever else, I just don't presume he was some big RNC ploy.)

it'd have been really horrible if he'd stayed quiet and uninvolved and then next election cycle people did horrible "where is Joe now" and "how has Obama's administration been for Joe" pieces.

who's to say that these scenarios STILL won't happen after joe's israel gig?!?

well, we are assuming he will be shot

They might, but they'll be kinda ruined by (a) common knowledge of the guy's political sensibilities, and (b) dude's excellent efforts to make everyone way too sick of him to care

also, getting shot in the face by someone in a warzone

I mean, the "what happened to Joe" story isn't nearly as good if the answer is something like "he works on pointless right-wing media crap now, remember?"

guys, how can we be sure that joe the plumber isn't jeff gannon??

Ah, Malkin. Never fails to think the exact opposite of what I think. I'm still having a hard time keeping myself from LOLing when I remember she was all "You go, girl!" the instant Palin's name was announced. Later, after hearing Palin talk, her support quietly but funnily faded away.

uncredentialed journalists and bald-headed sex workers everywhere xp

well, we are assuming he will be shot

leading to a truly fantastic REMEMBER JOE video montage at the '12 convention

HE DIED TO KEEP FREEDOM FREE

http://www.dga.org/news/v27_2/images/featuresjuly02/shield4_full.jpg

YOUR NEW TAX PLAN'S GONNA TAX ME MORE, ISN'T IT?

http://mydailyclarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/malkintinfoil2fp-300x204.jpg

( http://mydailyclarity.com/2009/01/is-the-us-media-making-americans-stupid/ )

apparently she thinks lindsay graham is too liberal?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01312009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_rush_revival_152941.htm?page=0
that's at least entertaining. bring on civil war ii

Meeting of the minds: http://www.pjtv.com/video/PJTV_Daily/Conservatism_20%3A_Rush_vs_Steele_%26_A_National_Tea_Party_Movement/1465/5167/

surprise! michelle malkin is a randroid!!

Those poor families with incomes of just $250,000 a year or more...

A moment of realization

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/09/alec-baldwin-and-michelle-malkin-both-lose-troy-davis-twitter-fight/42819/

Michelle Malkin is an awful person, but regarding that Haleigh Poutre article upthread, the girl is about 17 years old now. I don't know how much she's recovered; back in 2006 she could talk by typing into a machine and had some mobility, though none in her legs.

So she's decided to start a new site called...

http://twitchy.com/

Uh.

Twitchy is a ground-breaking Twitter curation site powered by a kinetic staff of social media junkies. We mine Twitter to bring you “who said what” in U.S. politics, global news, sports, entertainment, media, and breaking news 24/7. If it’s news, we’re on it. If it should be news, we’re ahead of it. Get Twitchy and stay connected to our twire — the news wire of the 21st century.

"Hey, Andrew's dead. Time for my own little Breitbart.com!"

oh my God lol.

If it's news, we're on it. If it should be news, we're ahead of it.

See also.

Pepsi Blue is people?

^^^wtf this response:

I noticed Pepsi has tasted a bit different over the last few years. I really hope this isn`t true.

Isn't twitchy synonymous with being neurotic and disturbed? Maybe she knows herself better than I suspected.

The art design is what gets me. "We need to be cuddly or something."

Jesse Malkin

Former health economist and marathon runner now recovering from hip surgery. Doesn’t really know how to use Twitter, so is relying on Twitchy’s editors to tell him who said what. Hopes to someday beat his wife at Boggle.

I don't know how I missed "at Boggle" the first time I read that

Former health economist

"So honey, turns out providing health care to everyone's a good idea!"

"YOU QUIT YOUR JOB NOW YOU LYING SACK OF LEFTIST SHIT."

I don't know how I missed "at Boggle" the first time I read that

FTW

http://wonkette.com/499250/michelle-malkin-fights-for-truth-can-gun-grabber-gabby-giffords-even-write-stuff

she remains one of the worst people ever

I have probably said it before he but fuck she really gets me with her meanness. It's like, the way she would like the world to be is the absolute worst place imaginable.

I almost pity her because she is so filled with poisonous hatred towards everyone and everything that I imagine she leads a pretty miserable existence.

Michael Moore doesn't have half the brainpower of Coulter or Malkin.

I wonder about her kids, really. And her husband.

this is just venom ... no decency at all.