Michelle Malkin And The Warbloggers Get Everything Wrong -- Again

Two colossal, Iraq-based media embarrassments in just over one year. Michelle, you're en fuego! And I'm not even going to mention how you Swift Boated that 12-year-old boy a few months back. (You're welcome.)

Malkin and her online lynch mob have been waging war on Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein for nearly four years. (Very Captain Ahab/Moby Dick-ish, don't you think?) For four years they called him a terrorist sympathizer and much, much worse, and condemned the AP in every imaginable way for sticking up for Hussein. And now -- poof! -- it's all for naught because there was nothing to the warbloggers' endless claims.

So now Bilal Hussein joins the ranks of Jamil Hussein (no relation), and the two names, I hope, will be permanently linked to the warbloggers' sad brand of pseudo-journalism.

Read the full Media Matters column here.

Comments

[lisakaz2]

I knew Ms. Malkin was pretty ridiculous when she offered that supposedly researched revisionary work on Japanese internment camps. She claimed she did such meticulous research in like less than a year. Frankly, the secondary literature by reputable historians might take that long to read (I think research to book took about a year total). The archive she claimed to have used was much larger and possed much more in terms of documentation than what I used for my PhD research -- and THAT took me about an academic year to go through most of it. My take (and I figured she merely made the classic blunder of journalists thinking serious research is so slapdash straightforward) was solely based on the excessiveness of her claim of revising what others had missed in such record time. (Remember for example that Doris Kearns Goodwin took about 10 years to research a book on Lincoln, though I'm sure it wasn't 10 years w/o break.) It seemed to me she had a foregone conclusion in mind and she made a decision only to look at certain items in a way to reinforce that view.

And I said this WITHOUT knowing her politics. Now I can say with 100% certainly that this was her intent. I just can't believe anyone seriously supported this tripe of a story she told then -- or now.

[KarateKid]

Her maiden name is Maglalang, and her father escaped the Philippines along with Ferdinand Marcos and the rest of his gang. It's little wonder she has grown up with such a bias.

She says she is so patriotic, yet writes a book defending the profiling of Japanese Americans and suspected Arab terrorists. Someone should water board her so she can experience it and write about it.

[Bluedog12]

Malkin the GOP’s "Miss Jingoism" is suffering from patriotic Oedipus syndrome. Her insecurity about her love of this country is palpable.

[cla62]

Yes that kind of commentary ranks right up their with your junk!!

[CatfishAndGrits]

Your kidding right......

Michelle "Our Lady Of Concentration Camps Are OK" Malkin is NOT a journalist even though she pretends to be. If you make a charge you have to have evidence to back it. Even moreso if you are going to call someone a terrorist. Alas, cla62, I know those little thingies called facts are like kryptonite to you and malkin.

[KarateKid]

And typically of your ilk, cla62, you can't even get your grammar correct......ranks right up "there", imbecile.