Michelle Malkin (1970- ) is a right-wing American political writer and all-round capitalist running dog. She has one of the most read political blogs in the world (michellemalkin.com), making her one of the chief voices of the American right on the Internet. She is a strong supporter of President Bush, the military and the war in Iraq.
At least some on the left seem to see her as an Asian woman with a loud, angry mouth who has nothing of substance to say. While she does freely call people names, her arguments do have serious substance.
She likes to point out the faults of the left. She has little patience for political correctness and does not mind getting people angry at her. That makes her a delight to read even if you do not agree with her.
Her blog, surprisingly, is a good place to get American news if balanced with something like the New York Times. The two together are far better than either alone.
She sees the left as brainless and out of touch with reality. She calls those on the left “moonbats” and those on the far left “barking moonbats”. She does not trust them to defend the country (they are cowards) or even to tell the truth.
Her blog is full of examples of how the press twists the truth to serve the left. If you doubt the left controls the American press, read her blog.
While she knows there are peaceful, sensible Muslims, she says there are all too many Muslims bent on destroying America in the name of Islam. She sees it as a serious threat that has to be squarely faced, not something to cover over with politically correct noises.
Like George Bush, Pat Buchanan and Anne Coulter, Malkin is a Christian, and not just in name only: it colours her view of the world and makes her feel certain of her opinions.
Malkin does not like being called “Asian” or “Filipina”. She is American, for goodness sake, and proud of it. Her parents are from the Philippines, but she was born and brought up in America. She is no less American than, say, the “European” Frank Sinatra or the “Jamaican” Colin Powell, both of foreign parents.
In her book “In Defense of Internment” (2004) she argues that the American government was right to send Japanese Americans to live in prison camps during the Second World War. She says that given what the government knew then (and not what we all know now) and given that it was at war with Japan, it made the right decision. To some this makes her a disgrace to her race.
Nezua the Unapologetic Mexican says of her:
Michelle Malkin, the Queen of Colorblind, has successfully become White®, at least temporarily. At least until she pulls her own type of Gonzales, and is reminded that her Whiteness was only an honorary award, one that not even marrying a White man, becoming a Brown-hater, and getting cozy in Bethesda, MD can make permanent.
See also:
- michellemalkin.com – her blog
- A Michelle Malkin glossary
- New York Times
- political left and right
- shovelware
- The white club
- Rented Negroes
- Japanese American internment
She is quite a character but HOT! Hotter than even Anne Coulter!
Yes, much hotter. I found myself watching her on hotair.com as much interested in hearing what she had to say as in looking at her.
Do most Christians in the US align themselves with the Republicans?
I find that I understand their stance on moral issues like abortion and gay marriage, I cannot agree with all the lies and bad judgement displayed by Pres Bush.
How many Christians in the US are Democrats?
And how do they explain the stance on the issue like the ones above?
In America most white Christians who go to church once a week vote Republican. It comes down to abortion and other moral issues like same-sex marriage. These issues are settled (kind of) by the Supreme Court. Whenever a judge on the Supreme Court dies, it is the president who chooses a new judge.
In 2004 Bush won in part because he was squarely against same-sex marriage, which became an issue that year. So he won in spite of the mess in Iraq. He even got a greater share of the black vote and, in the cases I know of personally, it was for just that reason – same-sex marriage.
Moral issues like that are pretty simple and clear-cut for many Christians, unlike foreign affairs, so it tends to get more weight. It has nothing to do with bitterness or anything like that (like what Hillary Clinton said Barack Obama said).
Most black Christians are Democrats: the Republicans are generally seen as being racist. If you saw the Republican party convention this week you saw the sea of white faces.
Most whites who are not very religious and take their ideas of right and wrong from society instead of the Bible tend to be Democrats. Generally speaking.
Thanks!
Just curious about it since watching things play out on CNN the last couple of months. I must say American politics is interesting.
Stay tuned! It is just warming up!
“She is quite a character but HOT! Hotter than even Anne Coulter!”
Even Ann Coulter? Am I unaware of this concept of Ann Coulter is hot? [shudder]
It doesn’t matter how you look on the outside anyway.
I know I’m past late but I was reading through your blog and I found this. Are these people real? Michelle, Anne, Pat they sound like characters you find in a cheesy over the top drama movie by thier attitudes.
Quite real, though I do not claim that I present their thought in all of its subtlety.
I have yet to write a post on Pat Buchanan, but I have examined his thinking at greater length:
http://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/whites-built-america-not/
http://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/buchanan-on-the-kindness-of-white-people/
The kind of racist argument he used in that last post is examined in two other posts:
http://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/go-back-to-africa/
http://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/the-barbara-bush-award-for-deluded-whiteness/
He is a member of what I call the Sarah Palin Kool-Aid Drinking Society:
http://abagond.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/the-sarah-palin-kool-aid-drinking-society/
The stuff coming out of her mouth is pure garbage. Most Filipinos are embarrassed by her including yours truly. She’s considered a disgrace.
Btw, is it acceptable to spell “Filipino” with either and “F” or a “Ph”? I’m never really sure which it is.
@tulio:
I’ve always spelled Filipino with an “F”. From my understanding, the Filipinos back in the motherland spell it as Pilipino without the added “h”.I hope I’m able to explain this properly, but the spelling difference is due to the pronunciation in the English language. The F’s are pronounced as P’s in the Philippines.
I hope these examples clarify everything:
In the west, it would be Filipino (fil-ee-pee-no)
In the Philippines, it would be Pilipino (peel-ee-pee-no)
@leigh204
You are right. She is a disgrace… I watched her on Fox News once and was shocked and the kinds of things she had to say about people who looked like her. Just brimming with self-hate.
@Trackstre:
The first time I heard her speak, I was thinking, “Who the hell does she think she is?” She the Asian version of an Uncle Tom…an honorary white if you will.
Leigh, have you even read “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”?
Because it doesn`t seem like you have. Say what you like about him, I hardly think Uncle Tom was filled with self hate.
Asian Uncle Tom, yes, she is.
Michelle Malkin is so eager to win white approval. She should be ashamed of herself.
I can’t stop laughing.
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/06/13/terror-suspects-mom/
Michelle Malkin’s outer beauty is in stark contrast to her inner ugliness.
As the ladies at Disgrasian would say, “she’s a disgrace to the race”. Yes, I know races don’t really exist.
As a half Japanese-American, I’m enraged and disgusted by her defending internment. Of which 2/3rds of them were U.S. citizens. Like Michael Steele, I hope there’s a day where she can’t escape her ethnicity. People of color should be sticking together, and fighting white supremacy. Not worshiping it.
Yep, Michelle makes it almost impossible for a sensible person to maintain a crush on her.
She’s a typical white worshipping (married to one) self hating asian woman; I know this post is from 2006 but I can’t understand how you seem to be fawning over that banana even if she has good figure.
Her blog balanced news??? Last time I checked, it was filled with venom against People of color.
Honestly Abagond, I’m disapointed; If she had been a white guy, you’d be crucifying her for her views, she’s like a meaner, nastier Bill O’reilly clone, but with boobs.
Naima:
I think she is more like Pat Buchanan, but point taken.
On the other hand I did not say she had balanced news. I said this:
“Her blog, surprisingly, is a good place to get American news if balanced with something like the New York Times. The two together are far better than either alone.”
Meaning that each is unbalanced but in opposite ways, politically speaking. “Surprisingly” means I did not expect that – since I thought of her as just a right-wing blogger. This was the case in 2006. I do not know about now.
If you look at websites with American news you see the same stories covered in the same way over and over again. That is largely because of AP, the Associated Press news wire, the crack cocaine of American news editors. Yahoo! News and USA Today are the worst – they are just warmed-over AP newsfeeds. Malkin, to her credit (it does make me cringe to say this), pushes beyond that. Partly because, unlike most Americans, she does not trust AP.
I think you haven’t really adressed the real issue: Michelle Malkin is basically an enabler of racism; she’s white privilege hiding behind a yellow mask.
Usually you don’t go easy on PoC who sell their souls to the system for their place in the sun.
It doesn’t matter that she goes beyond news dispatch, it’s the message she conveys that disturbs me, she’s using her own minority status to bash PoC.
The great majority, if not all her commenters are crypto racist whites, the same sort who trolls your blog.
I’m just asking why do you go so easy on her?
Is it because she’s an attractive young woman?
She seems to belong to the class of self-hating individuals who believe the best way to become accepted is self-deprecation. She hates being Asian, married white, changed her Asian name, and goes out of her way to prove how “white” she is by attacking non-whites.
I hope the day comes when her honorary white card is taken away and she’s reminded that she’s an Asian chick.
I bet she hates seeing herself in the mirror.
Political prostitute. That’s all she is. And she is trying to hard to win white folks approval. Way to hard.
@ Mel, I would have loved to read Abagonds answer.