Michelle Malkin

WATCH: Meghan McCain Fights Conservative Attacks For Her Sandra Fluke

Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Sandra Fluke, Meghan McCain, Meghan Mccain Sandra Fluke, Video, Meghan Mccain Michelle Malkin, Meghan-Mccain, Michelle Malkin, Media News

On Tuesday's "Politics Nation," Meghan McCain criticized conservatives who she said had attacked her after she tweeted supportive messages about Sandr...

Read Whole Story

Right-Wing Bullies Continue to Attack Children

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Right Wing Media, Race, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News Channel, Trayvon Martin, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Bill O'Reilly, Tucker Carlson, AM Talk Radio, Politics News
Bob Cesca

It's difficult to assign psychological motive when it comes to political tactics, but based upon the collective behavior of far-right conservative Republicans, we can only deduce that a considerable number of them are bullies and ought to be treated as such.

Read Post

Rush Limbaugh's Three-Week Train Wreck

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Media Matters, Dana Loesch, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh Slut, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Fueled by a heady bout of denial as practiced by an egomaniac, and cheered on by a fan base of enablers, Rush Limbaugh's Sandra Fluke saga is still generating national headlines on its 22nd day. How has the story of an AM talker's offensive chatter been able to sustain itself for so long?

Read Post

Limbaugh and the Right-Wing Nervous Breakdown

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, Media Matters for America, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Republicans know this "slut" controversy has been a disaster for them politically, yet they were powerless to do anything about it. Powerless to stop it. That's because Republicans can't turn off the Noise Machine, even when it's in the throes of a nervous breakdown.

Read Post

Confirmed: Nutrition Doesn't Explain Right-Wing Attacks on Michelle Obama

Eric Boehlert | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Michelle Obama, Michelle Malkin, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Michelle Obama's critics claim she's to blame for pushing an activists health agenda. But history shows us that nutrition doesn't explain the unhinged conservative attacks on Michelle Obama.

Read Post

The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show, 11/11/11

Bob Cesca | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Bob Cesca, Rush Limbaugh, Chez Pazienza, Violent Rhetoric, Sexual Harassment, Herman Cain, Glenn Beck, Eliminationism, Bullying, Michelle Malkin, Tea Party, Election 2012, Republican Party, Rick Perry, The Bubble Genius Bob and Chez Show, Media News
Bob Cesca

This week we discuss Rick Perry's latest brain fart; the fact that Republicans often elect idiots; the Michigan bullying law; the Penn State fiasco; and much more!

Read Post

Alec Baldwin, Conservative Blogger Get Into Vicious, Ugly Twitter Feud

Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Troy Davis Alec Baldwin, Michelle Malkin Alec Baldwin, Michelle Malkin, Alec Baldwin Troy Davis, Alec Baldwin Michelle Malkin Twitter, Alec Baldwin Michelle Malkin, Alec Baldwin, Troy Davis, Video, Media News

Alec Baldwin and conservative blogger Michelle Malkin are embroiled in an ugly Twitter feud over the execution of Troy Davis. Baldwin had been post...

Read Whole Story

What Gardasil Says About Perry's Concern for Our Daughters' Welfare

Amy Siskind | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Michele Bachmann, Merck, GOP Debate, Sarah Palin, Gardasil, Crony Capitalism, Teenage Girls, Michelle Malkin, Rick Perry, Politics News
Amy Siskind

While conservatives and progressives will clearly disagree on the government's role in mandating vaccines, here's what we can agree on: Rick Perry did not have the best interest of our daughters' in mind at the time of his executive order.

Read Post

We Can Do Better Than Matt Damon

Lee Kolbert | Posted 10.07.2011

Read More: Education, Teachers, Matt Damon, Michelle Malkin, Educationnation, Education News
Lee Kolbert

One of the reason educators have been holding tightly to this Matt Damon thing is because of that feeling of helplessness. Will THIS will be the moment that people will really listen?

Read Post

Police Search For Missing University Of Washington Student

Seattle Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marizela Perez News, Marizela Perez Update, Marizela Perez Seattle, University of Washington, The West, Marizela Perez Facebook, Michelle Malkin, Marizela Perez, Marizela Perez Missing, College News

SEATTLE -- Seattle police are now investigating the disappearance of an 18-year-old Marizela Perez, a University of Washington student who hasn't been...

Read Whole Story

Fact: Tina Fey Was Right About Palin and the Rape Kits

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media Matters for America, Michelle Malkin, Sarah Palin, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Before the story completely fades from view, it's important to note that Fey's claim about Palin and rape kits was accurate, no matter what right-wing bloggers say as they continue their ongoing effort to whitewash the thorny issue.

Read Post

The $200 Million Hive Mind of Bachmann, Beck, Rush, and Imus

Edward Murray | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Conservative Media, India, White House, Michele Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh, $200 Million, Michelle Malkin, John Boehner, Don Imus, Anderson Cooper, Michael Savage, Cable News, Glenn Beck, Barack Obama, Media News
Edward Murray

In short, if someone in the political media acts like the two of you are buddies, they have another agenda in mind.

Read Post

In Defense of Meghan McCain

Mona Gable | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meghan McCain, Delaware Senate Race, Rachel Maddow, Nancy Pelosi, Christiane Amanpour, Michelle Malkin, Christine O'donnell, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Politics News
Mona Gable

I'm all for more women running for office. God knows, we need more women in Congress. But when did it become acceptable for female candidates not to be smart? Or accomplished? Or able to think?

Read Post

Glenn Beck Mocks Fire Victims, Reaches New Depths of Awfulness

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wingnuts, Glenn Beck Radio, Pat Gray, Graeme Frost, Glenn Beck Fox News, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Bill O'Reilly, Gene Cranick, Fox News Channel, Media News
Bob Cesca

A matter of days after losing everything they owned, including their home, their pets -- everything -- and all because of a delinquent $75 fee, Gene Cranick and his family were excoriated and teased by multimillionaire celebrity televangelist Glenn Beck.

Read Post

The Sacred Ground of Deep Seated Hate

Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, Ground Zero Mosque, Rabbi Marc Schneier, David Paterson, Russell Simmons, Imam Rauf, Fox News, Harry Reid, Howard Dean, Park 51, Michelle Malkin, Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, Politics News
Russell Simmons

Now that we have politicized Park51 and the world is watching, there can be no wavering of our support of the First Amendment and, in turn, the proposed community center. Build it.

Read Post

Memo to the Media: The Tea Party Movement Has Collapsed

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, Tea Party, Michelle Malkin, Gateway Pundit, Sarah Palin, Media News
Eric Boehlert

How many people actually showed up last Saturday for the national Tea Party rally? One local report put the number at 300. That's right, 300, or less than one-tenth of the expected turnout.

Read Post

A Few Basics You Need to Know When Watching TV News

Bill Mann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Local Tv News, Albuquerque, Cnn, Michele Bachmann, San Francisco, Fox News, Joe Biden, Michelle Malkin, Rick Sanchez, Media News
Bill Mann

On cable news, people of moderate views don't draw as well as political extremists. Also, It's imperative to keep controversies going and, if necessary, manufacture them.

Read Post

Right-Wing Terrorism Stoked by Conservative Leaders Again

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Net Daily, Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Right Wing Extremism, John Lewis, Terrorism, Michelle Malkin, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Racism, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Domestic Terrorism, Health Care, Republican Party, Right-Wing Extremism, Politics News
Bob Cesca

The far-right fringe is out of its mind about health care reform. And throughout the week, its behavior has gone from irresponsible, to racist, to unapologetically dangerous.

Read Post

Yea! Ten Unexpected Pleasures to Come With Health Care Reform!

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bart Stupak, Ben Nelson, Teabaggers, Rush Limbaugh, Dick Morris, Michelle Malkin, Wellness, Politics, Health, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Chuck Grassley, Bill O'Reilly, Comedy, Michelle Bachmann, Blanche Lincoln, Comedy News
Lea Lane

This hard-fought reform offers several immediate and eventual bonuses you may not have thought of.

Read Post

Michelle Malkin Enraged at Mere Arab Winning Miss USA

Barrett Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Racism, Arabs, Michelle Malkin, Politics News
Barrett Brown

It wouldn't occur to Malkin to question an expression of pride on someone else's part in seeing someone of their own heritage accomplish some notable thing, unless that someone happens to be a black or even the stray Arab.

Read Post

Gone Fishin': Right-Wing Media Hook Another Dubious Obama Conspiracy Theory

Karl Frisch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joshua Rhett Miller, Robert Montgomery, Rush Limbaugh, Espn, redstate.com, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Fishing, Michelle Malkin, ESPNOutdoors.Com, Barack Obama, Media News
Karl Frisch

After Robert Montgomery wrote in an ESPNOutdoors.com column that the federal government had a strategy in the works that "could prohibit U.S. citizen...

Read Post

Why We Need the Guantanamo Lawyers

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lindsay Graham, Andrew McCarthy, War on Terror, Rule of Law, Eric Holder, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Boumediene v. Bush, Dick Cheney, Boston-Massacre, Sean Hannity, Liz Cheney, Charles Krauthammer, Michelle Malkin, John Adams, William Kristol, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News
Jesse Larner

Without the rule of law, without fair trials even for the despised, there is nothing else that can be called civilization, nothing else that civilized people can live, fight, or die for.

Read Post

The Pentagon Shooter, Insurrectionism, And Right-Wing Bloggers

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Erick Erickson, Glenn Beck, Pentagon, Michelle Malkin, Alex Jones, Bedell, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Under scrutiny for the anti-government rhetoric of the Tea Party movement and its often violent imagery, right-wingers seemed anxious to hold up the Pentagon killer as proof they weren't responsible for every political act of violence.

Read Post

Hayworth, Norquist and CPAC: The Republican Fork in the Road on Immigration

Frank Sharry | Posted 02.19.2010

Read More: John McCain, Latino Voters, America's Voice, Michelle Malkin, Tom Tancredo, Dave Weigel, Immigration Reform, Border War, Mario H. Lopez, Whit Ayres, Cpac, Grover Norquist, Chris Simcox, J.D. Hayworth, Harry Mitchell, Tea Party, Think Progress, Anti-Immigrant, Politics News
Frank Sharry

Does the GOP choose the backward-looking, anti-immigrant route led by Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth, or the path toward real immigration solutions, led by Grover Norquist, who is supporting Hayworth's primary opponent John McCain?

Read Post

With The New York Times Now Monitoring, Right-Wing Media Goes Bonkers

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, Redstate, Clark Hoyt, Bill Keler, Erick Erickson, New York Times, Jawa Report, Jill Abramson, Michelle Malkin, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Like a proud peacock showing off its feathers, the right-wing media was in full bloom, showing the Times all the tricks that have made the movement's trade so renowned.

Read Post