Matt Ortega

It has been over two weeks since David Neiwert dismantled Michelle Malkin’s book, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, and still not one word from Malkin herself. He made this observation sixteen days ago, and other bloggers are picking up on the silence.Here’s a quick fact sheet on her:

Author of In Defense of Internment in which she “defends both the evacuation and relocation of ethnic Japanese from the West Coast (the so-called “Japanese American internment”)… during World War II” and subsequently supports racial profiling back then and now, including the use of internment camps for Arab-Americans in the same fashion

–Eric Muller
“So Let Me Get This Straight: Michelle Malkin Claims to Have
Rewritten the History of Japanese Internment in Just 16 Months?”
History News Network (George Mason University)
September 9, 2004

More reading on her book: “Muller and Robinson on Malkin”

Publicly supports Steve Sailer’s racist “IQ and the Wealth of Nations,” in which light-skinned nations are slated to have higher IQs than that of darker nations, such as Africa

–Liberal Avenger
“Michelle Malkin Defends White Supremacist”
Liberal Avenger
September 26, 2004

Alleges that a “radical alliance” of “Japanese-American civil libertarians teaming up with Arab-Americans to betray America”

–John Gorenfeld
“Michelle Malkin says the Japanese and the
Arabs are conspiring to destroy America!”
The Gadflyer
October 4, 2004

Margaret Cho discusses the “revelation and revolution” that is Michelle Malkin

–Margaret Cho
“In Defense of Michelle Malkin”
Margaret Cho’s Blog
September 27, 2004

Michelle is her own worst enemy in an expose of her own contradictory words

–Greg
“Michelle vs. Michelle”
The Talent Show
August 15, 2005

From “fellow columnist” Bronwyn Lance Chester:

“I think [Malkin] habitually mistakes shrill for thought provoking and substitutes screaming for discussion… She’s the worst of what’s wrong with punditry today. She adds absolutely nothing to genuine political discourse.” [Wikipedia: Michelle Malkin]

For more background information, here’s a bit of personal history on Malkin here. Media Matters for America has plenty on her. It is important to note that many speculate that her husband Jesse Malkin ghostwrites her blog - which is possibly why she contradicts herself so much.

From Malkin’s book as highlighted by Neiwert:

“And while conservatives zealously police their own ranks to exclude extremists and conspiracy theories, extremism and conspiracy theories have become the driving force of the Democrat Party.” [p. 169]

This coming from the woman who supports Bill O’Reilly’s asinine belief that there is a “secular progressive movement” that has “a secret plan … a very secret plan” to rid the U.S. of Christianity and that there is a “radical alliance” between Japanese and Arab Americans to “destroy America.”