Michelle Malkin Not Invited To McCain Conference Calls

Think Progress:

Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) campaign has begun an effort to reach out to both liberal and conservative bloggers, perhaps attempting to repair the senator's past slights against new media. However, one blogger upset at not being included in the project is Michelle Malkin, who yesterday complained that she wasn't invited to take part:

Yesterday, I learned that several far left-wing blogs were invited to participate in The Maverick's blogger conference call session (it's part of that Big Vision Thing). I e-mailed McCain's New Media guy, Patrick Hynes, asking if I could participate in the next blogger conference call.

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Comments

[KarateKid]

Michelle Maglalang Malkin owns 3000 pairs of shoes. Her hate filled xenophobia belongs back in the PI.

I went to her site, to be fair and see what she has to say, and know what I found out? She posts names and addresses of those who disagree or disparage her on her site so they will be harassed by the woofdogs that support her.

I had to take a shower afterwards and disinfect my computer and wipe my hard drive clean.

I guess the imbeciles and cretins of the world have to have someplace to vent, so her site serves a purpose. I just never thought the blogger would be the most venom filled bigot.

What a far cry from Huffington Post.

[sandiegoconservative]

At least she criticizes both sides, unlike on here. Obama is not fair game, just Hillary.

And if you are going to reveal your opinion on a site, you should expect your name and information to be posted. You are giving it to the site, so that is completely fair.

[evekendall]

"...And if you are going to reveal your opinion on a site, you should expect your name and information to be posted. ..."

So what is yours? Name and address, that is.

[ChicagoDMT]

BARF BARF

Rabid dogs like Malkin and Coulter have been excluded from the political dialogue this election, and are now whining in their kennels.

They've needed a good lesson in being house broken for a long time.

It's about time someone rolled up a newspaper.

[KarateKid]

It reinforces how McCain is caught between a rock and a hard spot. If he allows them to join the conference call, he gets labeled as a hate filled neocon. If he doesn't, as he's done, he'll now get excoriated by the extreme right, and not in a nice way, either.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy, or party.

[Ramirez]

And I bet you're just the one to do it.

[hnealehcn]

Because she disconnected herself from Bill O'Reily but who cares.

[cmaff05]

It couldn't have happened to a better person. Malkin is pure evil.

[mexamerican]

uggghhhh, that picture of the malkinator curdled the milk in my stomach. could the huff please warn its readers, perhaps a "malkin alert," before we're subjected to her nauseous visage.

[Trollstakeyourmeds]

Yeah...it's interesting. Here in Atl. we rarely get any of her columns printed, (hard to believe, I know), but when we do, I am always surprised by her abject hatred for immigrants to this country. One only need look at her to figure out that she "ain't one of us", (A JOKE...DON'T MAUL ME). Wassup' with that?

[Testtubebaby]

This is her party's guy and her fight...ha­haha...but it's nice to sit on the sidelines and watch, huh? lmao!!!!

[mellene]

She's one sick puppy.

[sco8d]

If the sewer backed up after wing bowl malkin would still be the worst thing to come out of Philly.

[SeriousBlack]

Hunh. Finally one tiny indication of sanity on the part of the McCain campaign. LOL.

[GoodGuysandBadGuys]

in the words of nelson: HA HA

[iBgood]

lol! That says it best.

[noneIn2008]

McCain does not want to be challenged by anyone, right or left. He does not want to be held accountable. He does not want to be asked tough questions or be pinned down on positions. It is stunning at the number of persons on the right and left giving McCain a free pass. McCain uses a carefully scripted group to run his Double Talk Express.

[JulieSA]

Incorrect:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/02/25/080225fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all

"It is bracing to drop in on the McCain campaign after covering the overly managed productions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The Democratic candidates rarely speak to the travelling press. McCain not only packs his bus with reporters (whom he often greets with an affectionate “Hello, jerks!”) but talks until the room is filled with the awkward silence of journalists with no more questions. The Obama campaign, like the Bush White House, prides itself on message discipline and tracks down leakers with a frightening intensity. McCain and his aides openly discuss strategy, whether it’s Brooke Buchanan, McCain’s travelling press secretary, prepping him for a press conference (“ABC might ask about that”) or McCain discussing his targeting strategy for Tampa (“I thought we did a robo-call to tell people about Schwarzkop­f”—referri­ng to the endorsement by General Norman Schwarzkopf).

The intimacy of the bus means that McCain’s family life is an open book. (Cindy is dismayed that their son Jack recently split up with his girlfriend; John has turned his daughter Meghan’s status as an unemployed art-history grad into a punch line.) The chumminess with the press usually spills into the evenings, and McCain’s senior advisers dine almost nightly with the people covering the candidate."

[theMightyT]

ya it would have been more accurate to say that mccain gets a free pass on his constantly changing positions on issues. I have to agree that he's been very open with the press... it's the unchallenged maverick myth, and the constant flipflopping, that aren't challenged. Too bad the media can't seem to ask the right questions...

[KarateKid]

He pre-screens the reporters to make sure no one asks him tough questions that he can't answer. Yeah, he's real "open" all right.

[sco8d]

Newsweek does a story they don't like and the McCain people threaten to throw them off the bus. If the McCain family life is an open book, what about tax returns?

[apoyo]

When it comes to Michelle, the first thing you notice about her is not her skin color, it's her vitriol.

[robXdion]

Which makes her skin color all the more an issue because of the content of her words.

[Ramirez]

Why is her skin color an issue at all?

[Chas53]

This chick is not a fun girl. She takes things way too seriously. She needs to lighten up.

[SuiginTou7]

Sucks to be you, eh Michelle.

[KarateKid]

Can you imagine what her kids are going to be like???

[HuffingandPuffing]

Awww...Our Lady of the Concentration Camps and Perpetual Outrade was feeling left out? Three words: Suck.It.Up.