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

Michelle Malkin (born October 20, 1970, née Maglalang) is an American commentator, blogger, and author. Her weekly syndicated column appears in a number of newspapers and websites. She has been a guest on MSNBC, Fox News Channel, C-SPAN, and national radio programs. Malkin has written four books published by a leading conservative publisher, Regnery.

Biography

Early years

Malkin was born in Philadelphia to Philippine citizens Rafaela and Dr. Apolo Maglalang, who had arrived in the U.S. in early 1970. At the time, her father was a physician-in-training with an employer sponsored visa. She grew up in the small, southern New Jersey town of Absecon, where she was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. Malkin has recently described a formative event when she was in Kindergarten. One day, the other children called her a racist name, and she came home crying. Her mother comforted her and told her that "everyone has prejudice." She has said that she is "eternally grateful" for that advice.

Education

She attended Holy Spirit Roman Catholic High School where she edited the school paper, and planned to become a concert pianist.

In 1988, Malkin enrolled at Oberlin College, a small college in Ohio noted for its performing arts training and as the first college in the United States to grant bachelors degrees to African American women. While at Oberlin, she changed her major from music to English, and began writing for an independent newspaper whose editor was her future husband, Jesse Malkin. In her first article for the paper, she attacked Oberlin's affirmative action program, and received a "hugely negative response" from her fellow students. She graduated in 1992 and later described her alma mater as a "radically left-wing, liberal arts college."

In 1993 she married Jesse Malkin, a Rhodes Scholar who later worked as associate policy analyst and economist for the Rand Corporation. As of 2004, Jesse was a stay-at-home dad raising their two children.

Career

Malkin began her career at the Los Angeles Daily News, working as a columnist from 1992 to 1994. In 1995 she worked in Washington, DC as a journalism fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute , a think tank which is dedicated to the promotion of free enterprise without government regulation and which disputes the idea that human activities are contributing to global climate change. 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. She also has been a frequent commentator for FOX News Channel and former guest-host of The O'Reilly Factor. In 2007 she announced that she would not return to The O'Reilly Factor, claiming that the show had mishandled a dispute over derogatory statements made about her by Geraldo Rivera in a Boston Globe interview.

Books

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, minimizing the hardships of the detention camps, and arguing that the same procedures could be used against Arab and Muslim Americans today. The book engendered harsh criticism from several Asian American civil rights organizations. As reported by Michelle Malkin, an attempt to ban the book from the Manzanar National Historic Site, (a former relocation and internment camp), failed. 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. The Hawaiian-based newspaper Midweek dropped her column as a result of the controversy. In November 2004, The Virginian-Pilot dropped her column, calling her, among other things, "an Asian Ann Coulter." 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".

Malkin's third book, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild was released in October 2005.

Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies, Malkin's fourth book, was released on July 27, 2009. She has embarked on a media tour, covering both TV and radio outlets, to promote the book. Malkin described the thesis of the book in a recent interview with Sean Hannity, saying "what I have done is to help shatter completely the myths of hope and change in the new politics in Washington by scouring every nook and cranny, every inch of this administration, and showing how in a very short span of six months they have betrayed every principle and every promise that they have made by installing these influence peddlers, power brokers and very wealthy people". Discussing her theme of corruption Malkin said: "you have to judge them by their rhetoric, and if you look at the gap between the rhetoric and the reality, this has to be one of the most corrupt administrations in recent memory." Malkin also appeared on NBC's Today show on July 29 and was a guest panelist on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos on August 2, where she claimed that extending unemployment benefits was the cause of the high unemployment rates of 2009.

Blog

In June 2004 she launched a political blog, MichelleMalkin.com. A 2007 memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee described Malkin as one of the five "best-read national conservative bloggers", and today on Technorati, her blog ranks as one of the top 100 blogs of all types.

After initially allowing reader comments, she disabled them, attributing her decision to an intolerable level of obscene and racist comments. In June 2007, she revamped the blog, moving it to WordPress and a larger server. With the new redesign, subscribed readers can once again post comments, however, comments registration is rarely open. Malkin states her policy thusly: “I may allow as much or as little opportunity for registration as I choose, in my absolute discretion, and I may close particular comment threads”.

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 three student leaders for use by reporters. Malkin included these contact details in a blog column entitled "Seditious Santa Cruz vs. America". Malkin claimed the contact information was originally taken from SAW's own website, but that later SAW had removed it and had "wiped" the "cached version." The students asked Malkin to remove the contact details from her blog, but Malkin reposted them several times 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."

SAW remarked: "Due to the continued irresponsible actions of some bloggers, members of the group have received numerous death threats and anti-Semitic comments through phone calls and emails." A blog war ensued. Malkin claimed that she received hostile e-mails, then her private home address, phone number, photos of her neighborhood and maps to her house were published on several websites. Malkin has alleged that this forced her to remove one of her children from school and move her family.

Another controversy involving private addresses began on July 1, 2006, when Malkin and other bloggers commented on a New York Times Travel section article that had featured the town where Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld owned summer homes. The article included a picture of Rumsfeld's long tree lined driveway that showed a birdhouse and small portion of the housefront. Malkin declared that this story was part of "a concerted, organized effort to dig up and publicize the private home information of prominent conservatives in the media and blogosphere to intimidate them." Within two days, 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.

Jamil Hussein

Main article: Jamil Hussein controversy

Malkin was one of several bloggers who questioned the credibility and even the existence of Iraqi police Captain "Jamil Hussein" who had been used as a source by the Associated Press in over 60 stories about the Iraq war. The controversy started in November, 2006 when the AP reported that six Iraqis had been burned alive as they left a mosque and that four mosques had been destroyed, citing Hussein as one of its sources. In January, 2007, Malkin visited Baghdad herself, and stated that: "the Iraqi Ministry of Interior says disputed Associated Press source Jamil Hussein does exist. But at least one story he told the AP just doesn’t check out: The Sunni mosques that as Hussein claimed and AP reported as “destroyed,” “torched” and “burned and blown up” are all still standing. So the credibility of every AP story relying on Jamil Hussein remains dubious."

Scarf Controversy

In late May 2008, celebrity chef Rachel Ray appeared in a web advertisement for Dunkin' Donuts iced coffee wearing a thin nylon neck scarf. The following day, conservative bloggers, led by Michelle Malkin, described the scarf as a "keffiyeh", (which is a traditional Arab male headdress made of heavy cloth woven with a checked pattern, and which has come to represent the Palestinian uprising or intifada). Malkin dubbed the scarf "jihadi" chic, implying that Ray and Dunkin' Donuts were promoting Islamic extremism. Malkin's opinion spread widely through the internet, and conservatives began to condemn Dunkin' Donuts and organize a boycott.

The company withdrew the ad within one day, and several days later stated: "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." A backlash by liberal bloggers and readers ensued mocking the conservatives' concerns. An article in The New York Times called this a "peculiarly Internet-age controversy..

Hot Air website

On April 24, 2006, Hot Air, a "conservative Internet broadcast network" went into operation, with Malkin as founder/CEO. 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." Her staffers included "Allahpundit" and Bryan Preston, though the latter was replaced by Ed Morrissey on February 25, 2008.

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, but decided to retract this notice after the Electronic Frontier Foundation joined Malkin and Hot Air in contesting the removal as a misuse of copyright law.

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."

In recent years Malkin's videos have appeared less and less frequently on Hot Air, and she is referred to infrequently—only in links, or allusions to "The Boss."

Viewpoints

In a 2003 Jewish World Review column about Yaser Esam Hamdi, Malkin questioned "whether Hamdi should even be considered an American at all" and argued against the legal doctrine of birthright citizenship, asserting that "the custom of granting automatic citizenship at birth to children of tourists and temporary workers such as Hamdi, tourists, and to countless 'anchor babies' delivered by illegal aliens on American soil, 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?

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.

References

  1. ^ Pitts, Jonathan. "Right at home", The Baltimore Sun, March 9, 2008, page E 1.
  2. Kurtz, Howard. "A Hard Right Punch: Michelle Malkin's Conservative Fight", The Washington Post, February 16, 2007,page C1.
  3. Lamb, Brian. " Booknotes Transcript on "Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists", Booknotes, December 8, 2002.
  4. ^ Nahm, H Y. "Michelle Malkin: The Radical Right's Asian Pitbull", "Goldsea Asian American", Accessed July 16, 2009
  5. Beckhardt, Jon. "Michelle Malkin, Alumna Pundit, Lambastes the Left", The Oberlin Review, February 17, 2006.
  6. Article preview. "Michelle Malkin", The American Enterprise, September 1, 2005.
  7. Associated Press. "Rhodes Scholars Selected for 1991", The New York Times, December 10, 1990.
  8. Goldman, Dana P, and Malkin, Jesse D. "The Health Savings Account Mirage", United Press International, February 20, 2006.
  9. Malkin, Michelle. "America’s broken health insurance system, MichelleMalkin.com, August 27, 2004.
  10. Fox News Bios. “Fox News Contributor”,”FoxNews.com”, accessed July 23, 2009.
  11. Competitive Enterprise Institute“Competitive Enterprise Institute”
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  13. Malkin< Michelle. "Michelle Malkin's Latest Opinion Column RSS", Creators Syndicate.
  14. Shanahan, Mark. "Making waves: controversial celebrity newsman Geraldo Rivera", The Boston Globe, September 1, 2007.
  15. Malkin, Michelle. "Geraldo Rivera unhinged", MichelleMalkin.com, September 1, 2007.
  16. Malkin, Michelle. "Michelle Malkin » Stiiiiill going". "MichelleMalkin.com", October 15, 2007.
  17. Japanese American citizens League. "JACL Responds to 'Defense of Internment, Case for Race Profiling'","IMdiversity.com", August 24, 2004.
  18. Malkin, Michelle."A Book-Banning Dodged--Thank You!", "MichelleMalkin.com", May 7, 2005, has links to Malkin's responses to criticisms of In Defense of Internment
  19. Historians' Committee for Fairness. "Open Letter to Michelle Malkin" History News Network, August 31, 2004.
  20. Malkin, Michelle. "BOOK BUZZ","MichelleMalkin.com", August 27, 2004.
  21. Editor & Publisher Staff."Virginia Paper Drops Columnist Malkin", Editor and Publisher, November 22, 2004.
  22. Malzberg, Steve. "Malkin - Liberal Bigotry on the Rise", NewsMax.com, November 28, 2004.
  23. Malkin, Michelle.http://www.foxnews.com/hannity/index.html "Interview on the Sean Hannity Show","Fox News Channel", FoxNews.com, July 27, 2009, accessed July 29, 2009.
  24. Matt Lauer, Michelle Malkin (2009-07-29). Today show (Flash) (Television production). NBC News. Retrieved 2009-07-29. {{cite AV media}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  25. George Stephanopoulos, Al Hunt, Michelle Malkin, Gerald Seib, Cynthia Tucker (2009-08-02). This Week with George Stephanopoulos (Flash) (Television production). ABC News.
  26. Malkin, Michelle. "Extreme Makeover", "MichelleMalkin.com", June 8, 2004.
  27. Budoff, Carrie. "GOP issues rules to avoid Macaca moments", The Politico, June 13, 2007.
  28. Blogger Central. "Top 100 Blogs", Technorati, accessed July 19, 2009.
  29. Malkin, Michelle. "Comments, Trolls, and the Left's Continued Whore Fixation", MichelleMalkin.com, February 8, 2005
  30. Malkin, Michelle. "Welcome to the new michellemalkin.com!","MichelleMalkin.com", June 19, 2007.
  31. Malkin, Michelle. “Terms of Use”
  32. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "Seditious Santa Cruz vs. America", "michellemalkin.com", April 12, 2006
  33. Malkin, Michelle. "More Thuggery In Santa Cruz", MichelleMalkin.com, April 17, 2006
  34. Sentinel. < "Malkin moves, takes child from school, as SC students retaliate", "Santa Cruz Indymedia", April 22, 2006.<!accessed July 20, 2009>
  35. Students Against The War. "Far-Right Threats Fail to Distract from Santa Cruz Protest Successes", April 19. 2006.
  36. Malkin, Michelle."The Moonbats Strike Back", MichelleMalkin.com, April 17, 2006.
  37. Sideman, Roger. "Cyber war over UCSC protest heats up", Santa Cruz Sentinel, April 22, 2006.
  38. Kilborn, Peter T."Weekends with the President's Men" New York Times June 30, 2006.
  39. Media Matters Research. "O'Reilly, Ingraham baselessly attacked NY Times for publishing photo of Rumsfeld's summer home", "MediaMatters.com", July 13, 2006.
  40. Malkin, Michelle. "Fact-checking the AP and Jamil Hussein", MichelleMalkin.com, January 21, 2007.
  41. Malkin, Michelle. "Of Donuts and Dumb Celebrities", "MichelleMalkin.com", May 23, 2008.
  42. ^ Clifford, Stephanie. "For Dunkin’, a Tempest in an Iced-Coffee Cup", New York Times, May 30, 2008.
  43. Beggy, Carol and Shanahan, Mark. "Dunkin Donuts Yanks Rachael Ray Ad", The Boston Globe, May 28, 2008.
  44. "Conservative Internet Broadcast Network Debuts", PR Web, April 24, 2006
  45. Malkin, Michelle. "Hot Air turns One", HotAir.com, April 24, 2007.
  46. Morrissey, Ed."The Road Goes Ever On"February 25, 2008.
  47. Malkin, Michelle. "Akon's record company abuses DMCA to stifle criticism on YouTube", MichelleMalkin.com, May 3, 2007.
  48. Malkin, Michelle."UMG & YouTube retreat over Akon report", MichelleMalkin.com, May 14, 2007.
  49. Press release. "Malkin Fights Back Against Copyright Law Misuse", Electronic Frontier Foundation, May 9, 2007.
  50. Small Business. "Michelle Malkin and Hot Air", Businessweek.com, July 14, 2007.
  51. Malkin, Michelle. "What makes an American?","Jewish World Review, July 4, 2003.
  52. Malkin, Michelle. "Sanctuary Nation or Sovereign Nation: It’s your choice", "MichelleMalkin.com", August 15, 2007.
  53. Malkin, Michelle. "Bush's Open Borders Nominees"
  54. Jenks, Edmund. "Gee! Let Us Just Enforce 287(g)" "NowPublic.com", August 16, 2007.

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