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For the model and television host with a similar name, see Michele Merkin.
Michelle Malkin
at the RightOnline Summit in Dallas, Texas (2008)
Born
Michelle Marie Maglalang

(1970-10-20) October 20, 1970 (age 53)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materOberlin College - (B.S., 1992)
Occupation(s)Author, syndicated columnist, television personality and blogger
SpouseJesse D. Malkin (m. 1993)
ChildrenVeronica Mae - (b. 1999)
Julian Daniel - (b. 2003)[1]
WebsiteMichelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang; born October 20, 1970) is an American conservative blogger, political commentator, and author.[2][3] Her weekly, syndicated column appears in a number of newspapers and websites nationwide.[2] She has been a guest on MSNBC, Fox News Channel, C-SPAN, and national radio programs. Malkin has written four books published by Regnery.

Early life

Malkin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the first of two children to Philippine citizens Rafaela (née Perez) (born 1945), a homemaker and schoolteacher, and Apolo DeCastro Maglalang (born 1942), a physician-in-training.[4] Earlier that year, her parents had immigrated to the United States on an employer-sponsored visa.[5] After her father finished his medical training, the family moved to the small southern New Jersey town of Absecon, where she and her younger brother were raised in the Catholic faith.[6] She has since converted to Evangelical Christianity.[7] Malkin has described her parents as Reagan Republicans who were "not incredibly politically active”.[8]

Malkin has spoken of a formative event: while she was in kindergarten, the other children called her a racist name, and she went home crying. Her mother comforted her and told her that "Everyone has prejudice." She has said that she is "eternally grateful" for that counsel.[9] Malkin attended Holy Spirit Roman Catholic High School, where she edited the school newspaper and planned to become a concert pianist.[8] Following her graduation in 1988, she originally planned to pursue a bachelor's degree in music at Oberlin College, but changed her major to English. Malkin was employed as a press inserter, tax preparation aide, and network news librarian before graduating from college.[10]

At Oberlin, she began writing for an independent newspaper that was being started by Jesse Dylan Malkin, a Rhodes Scholar with established conservative leanings; the two eventually began dating.[11] Malkin's first article for the paper heavily criticized Oberlin's affirmative action program, which received a "hugely negative response" from other students on campus.[8] In June 1992, Malkin graduated from Oberlin College.[12][13] She later described her alma mater as a "radically left-wing, liberal arts college".[8][14]

Career

Malkin began her journalism career at the Los Angeles Daily News, working as a columnist from 1992 to 1994. In 1995, she worked in Washington, D.C., as a journalism fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute,[15] a libertarian think tank[16] which is dedicated to the promotion of free enterprise without government regulation.[17] In 1996, she moved to Seattle, Washington, where she wrote columns for The Seattle Times. Malkin became a nationally-syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate in 1999.[18][19]

For many years, Malkin was a frequent commentator for Fox News Channel and a regular guest host of The O'Reilly Factor. In 2007, she announced that she would not return to The O'Reilly Factor, claiming that Fox News had mishandled a dispute over derogatory statements made about her by Geraldo Rivera in a Boston Globe interview.[NB 1][21] Since 2007, she has concentrated on her writing, blogging and public speaking, although she still appears on television occasionally, especially with Sean Hannity on Fox News and Fox & Friends once a week. In December 2009, Malkin began writing for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

In August 2004, following claims by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that presidential candidate John Kerry had exaggerated his record during the Vietnam War, Malkin appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and stated that there were "legitimate questions" over whether Kerry's wounds were "self-inflicted." When host Chris Matthews pressed her eleven times over his interpretation of 'self-inflicted' to imply that Kerry had shot himself on purpose, she said that other soldiers had made this claim, referring to other injuries.[22] Matthews said "No irresponsible comments are going to be made on this show"; Malkin criticized Matthews and the MSNBC staff in her blog the following day.[22] Georgia Senator Zell Miller accused Matthews of "browbeating" Malkin.[23]

Books

Her first book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces, was published in 2002 and was a New York Times bestseller.

In 2004, she wrote In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror, defending Japanese American internment by the United States government during World War II, and arguing that the same procedures could be used on Arab- and Muslim-Americans today. The book engendered harsh criticism from several Asian American civil rights organizations.[24] The "Historians' Committee for Fairness," a group of professors, condemned the book for not having undergone peer review and argued that its central thesis is false.[25][26] It was announced in August 2004 that the Hawaii-based newspaper MidWeek dropped her column as a result of the controversy.[27] Beginning in November 2004, this move was followed by The Virginian-Pilot, with criticism that she was "an Asian Ann Coulter."[28] Malkin responded, "I'm not Asian, I'm American, for goodness' sake. I would take the comparison to Ann Coulter as somewhat of a compliment. I have a lot of respect for Ann Coulter".[29] Malkin's opponents attempted to get the Manzanar National Historic Site (a former relocation and internment camp) to ban her book from their store, but failed.[30]

Malkin's third book, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, was released in October 2005.

Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies, Malkin's fourth book, was released on July 27, 2009, and attained #1 best seller status by August 5, 2009. The book spent six weeks at #1 on the hardcover non-fiction section of the New York Times Best Seller list.[31][32][33] Malkin embarked on a media tour, covering both TV and radio outlets to promote the book. Malkin described an objective of the book in a July 27, 2009 interview with Sean Hannity, saying "what I have done is to help shatter completely the myths of hope and change in the new politics in Washington by scouring every nook and cranny, every inch of this administration, and showing how in a very short span of six months they have betrayed every principle and every promise that they have made by installing these influence peddlers, power brokers and very wealthy people". Discussing her theme of corruption Malkin said: "you have to judge them by their rhetoric, and if you look at the gap between the rhetoric and the reality, this has to be one of the most corrupt administrations in recent memory."[34]

Malkin appeared on NBC's Today show on July 29, 2009 where she explained the title for chapter 2 of her book, "Bitter Half: First Crony Michelle Obama" as deriving from her view that Michelle Obama "was steeped in the politics of the Daley machine" and that she "is beholden to the type of hardball politics that Barack Obama says he is against." Stating that Michelle Obama's "entire professional career was based on nepotism", Malkin went on to say that "despite Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis where she whined and moaned about the old boy network and how she couldn't get ahead because of her skin color, in fact it was a farce because it was one of those old white boys who put her in that position in the first place."[35]

Blogging

MichelleMalkin.com

In June 2004 she launched a political blog, MichelleMalkin.com.[36] A 2007 memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee described Malkin as one of the five "best-read national conservative bloggers",[37] and Technorati ranks MichelleMalkin.com consistently in its "Top 100 blogs of all types".[38]

After Malkin criticized hip hop artist Akon for "degrading women" in a Vent episode, Akon's record label, Universal Music Group, forced YouTube to remove the video by issuing a DMCA takedown notice,[39] but decided to retract this notice[40] after the Electronic Frontier Foundation joined Malkin and Hot Air in contesting the removal as a misuse of copyright law.[41]

In an interview with Business Week magazine in July 2007, Malkin said, "We’re doing what few other blogs can do. We serve up terabytes of bandwidth... I'm shelling out for gold-plated servers. That's expensive, and we want to be able to withstand huge traffic surges."[42]

She continued to contribute frequently to MichelleMalkin.com, and in June 2007, she revamped it, moving it to a larger server on WordPress.[43] With the new redesign, she re-enabled comments on her blog, which she said she had disallowed after February 2005 due to a high level of obscene and racist comments.[44] Subscribed readers could once again post comments, although registration for the comments is rarely open. Malkin states her policy thus: "I may allow as much or as little opportunity for registration as I choose, in my absolute discretion, and I may close particular comment threads".[45]

Jamil Hussein

Main article: Jamil Hussein controversy

Malkin was one of several bloggers who questioned the credibility and even the existence of Iraqi police Captain "Jamil Hussein" who had been used as a source by the Associated Press in over 60 stories about the Iraq war. The controversy started in November 2006 when the AP reported that six Iraqis had been burned alive as they left a mosque and that four mosques had been destroyed, citing Hussein as one of its sources. In January 2007, Malkin visited Baghdad, and stated that: "the Iraqi Ministry of Interior says disputed Associated Press source Jamil Hussein does exist. At least one story he told the AP just doesn’t check out: The Sunni mosques that as Hussein claimed and AP reported as “destroyed,” “torched” and “burned and blown up” are all still standing. So the credibility of every AP story relying on Jamil Hussein remains dubious."[46] Malkin has issued a correction for her denial of Capt. Hussein's existence [47] but still contests AP claims of destroyed mosques and civilians burned alive.

Students Against War controversy

In April 2006, Students Against War (SAW), a campus group at University of California, Santa Cruz, staged a protest against the presence of military recruiters on campus, and sent out a press release containing contact details (names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses) of three student leaders for use by reporters. Malkin included these contact details in a blog column entitled "Seditious Santa Cruz vs. America".[48] Malkin claimed the contact information was originally taken from SAW's own website, but that later SAW had removed it and had "wiped" the "cached version."[49] The students asked Malkin to remove the contact details from her blog, but Malkin reposted them several times [50] writing in her blog: "I am leaving it up. If you are contacting them, I do not condone death threats or foul language. As for SAW, my message is this: You are responsible for your individual actions. Other individuals are responsible for theirs. Grow up and take responsibility."[48]

SAW remarked: "Due to the continued irresponsible actions of some bloggers, members of the group have received numerous death threats and anti-Semitic comments through phone calls and emails." [51] A blog war ensued. Malkin claimed that she received hostile e-mails[52] then her private home address, phone number, photos of her neighborhood and maps to her house were published on several websites. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported receiving an email from Malkin saying that this forced her to remove one of her children from school and move her family.[53]

Another controversy involving private addresses began on July 1, 2006, when Malkin and other bloggers commented on a New York Times Travel section article that had featured the town where Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld owned summer homes. The article included a picture of Rumsfeld's long tree-lined driveway that showed a birdhouse and small portion of the housefront.[54] Malkin declared that this story was part of "a concerted, organized effort to dig up and publicize the private home information of prominent conservatives in the media and blogosphere to intimidate them."

Hot Air

Main article: Hot Air (news site)

On April 24, 2006, Hot Air, a "conservative Internet broadcast network" went into operation, with Malkin as founder/CEO.[55] She intended the blog to provide "content and analysis you can't get anywhere else on a daily basis–both on the blog and in our original video features."[56] Her staffers included 'Allahpundit' and Bryan Preston, though the latter was replaced by Ed Morrissey on February 25, 2008.[57] In February 2010, Hotair.com was bought by Salem Communications and is no longer administered by Malkin.[58]

Viewpoints

Citizenship

Malkin believes that the custom of granting automatic citizenship at birth to children of tourists and temporary workers, and to "anchor babies[NB 2]" delivered by illegal aliens on American soil, undermines the integrity of citizenship. She argues that the custom of blanket birthright citizenship is supported neither by the Fourteenth Amendment nor by legal precedent.[59]

Immigration enforcement

Malkin also opposes sanctuary cities, in which local authorities do not enforce all national immigration laws or coordinate with agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Following the August 2007 execution-style murder of three college students in Newark, New Jersey, she repeated her criticisms of politicians' posture towards sanctuary cities. In particular, she criticized former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's proposal for a tamper-proof identification card with this comment:

What Rudy-come-lately fails to comprehend is that there are already multiple alien tracking databases mandated by federal law that have yet to be fully implemented, integrated and used. The reason they don’t work is because open-borders interests have sabotaged them by restricting funding for them, objecting to them on civil liberties grounds, and pushing local and state governments to forbid public employees from checking them to verify citizenship status. Ring a bell, Rudy?[60]

She supports coordination with federal authorities through the use of Section 287(g) of the IIRIRA to investigate, detain, and arrest aliens on civil and criminal grounds.[61][62] Malkin supports the detention and deportation of some immigrants, regardless of legal status, on national security grounds.[24]

Unemployment benefits

During an appearance as a news analyst on the roundtable segment of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos on August 2, 2009, Malkin suggested that extending unemployment benefits was a cause of the high unemployment rates of 2009. She explained why she opposed another 13-week extension of unemployment benefits: "if you put enough government cheese in front of people they are going to just keep eating it and kicking the can down the road... people will just delay getting a job until the three weeks before the benefits run out."[63]

Books

Personal life

She married Jesse Dylan Malkin on July 23, 1993. Eventually, he worked as an associate policy analyst and economist focusing on healthcare issues for the Rand Corporation.[64][65] The Malkins have two children: daughter Veronica Mae (born 1999) and son Julian Daniel (born 2003). In 2004, Malkin reported on her website that her husband had left his "lucrative health-care consulting job" to be a stay-at-home dad.[1][66][67][68][69]

The family initially lived in North Bethesda, Maryland,[70][71] but relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado[72][73] in November 2008.[74]

Notes

  1. ^ Rivera said, in part, "Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life, ... She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people" and "It's good she's in D.C. and I'm in New York, I'd spit on her if I saw her."[20]
  2. ^ "Anchor baby" is a term used by immigration reductionists in the United States to describe a child born in the U.S. to illegal aliens.

References

  1. ^ a b In Depth With Michelle Malkin, January 23, 2010, C-Span Vi8deo library.
  2. ^ a b "Right at home" Pitts, Jonathan. The Baltimore Sun, March 9, 2008, page E 1.
  3. ^ Kurtz, Howard. "A Hard Right Punch: Michelle Malkin's Conservative Fight", The Washington Post, February 16, 2007,page C1.
  4. ^ Michelle Malkin: The legal name change for her and her husband is official, webofdeception.com
  5. ^ Lamb, Brian. " Booknotes Transcript on "Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists", Booknotes, December 8, 2002. (archived from the original on 2007-10-13)
  6. ^ Malkin, Michelle (December 3, 2004). "Maglalangadingdong this". MichelleMalkin.com. Retrieved May 24, 2010. {{cite web}}: More than one of |author= and |last= specified (help)
  7. ^ Malkin, Michelle (December 3, 2004). "Maglalangadingdong this". MichelleMalkin.com. Retrieved May 24, 2010. {{cite web}}: More than one of |author= and |last= specified (help)
  8. ^ a b c d Nahm, H Y. "Michelle Malkin: The Radical Right's Asian Pitbull", "Goldsea Asian American". Retrieved July 16, 2009.
  9. ^ Beckhardt, Jon. "Michelle Malkin, Alumna Pundit, Lambastes the Left", The Oberlin Review, February 17, 2006
  10. ^ "Michelle Malkin". Fox News. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
  11. ^ Associated Press. "Rhodes Scholars Selected for 1991", The New York Times, December 10, 1990.
  12. ^ "Oberlin College honors Bill Cosby, Stevie Wonder as it celebrates new jazz music building". Cleveland.com. April 30, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
  13. ^ "Official Oberlin Alumni Magazine". Summer 2003. Retrieved September 25, 2010. "I was pleased to see the detailed and fair-minded review of Invasion by Michelle Malkin ’92 in the spring issue. This book is indeed essential reading, as the reviewer states. Malkin must be the most noteworthy journalist Oberlin has produced in decades, and it is good that this review of her book will bring it to the attention of alumni."
  14. ^ Article preview. "Michelle Malkin", The American Enterprise, September 1, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-10-25.
  15. ^ Fox News Bios. “Fox News Contributor”,”FoxNews.com”. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
  16. ^ Europe Advises U.S. Officials on Climate, Washington Post, March 6, 2009
  17. ^ Competitive Enterprise Institute “Competitive Enterprise Institute”
  18. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "Michelle Malkin's Latest Opinion Column HLML", Creators Syndicate
  19. ^ Malkin< Michelle. "Michelle Malkin's Latest Opinion Column RSS", Creators Syndicate.
  20. ^ Shanahan, Mark. "Making waves: controversial celebrity newsman Geraldo Rivera", The Boston Globe, September 1, 2007.
  21. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "Geraldo Rivera unhinged", MichelleMalkin.com, September 1, 2007.
  22. ^ a b Bauder, David (September 13, 2004). "He really gets under their skin: Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's 'Hardball,' seems to be hitting his stride as the presidential race heats up". Article Collections, Presidential Elections (2004). Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
  23. ^ de Moraes, Lisa (September 3, 2004). "Matthews and Miller: Spitballs at 10 Paces". The Washington Post. p. C.07 (page 3 online).
  24. ^ a b Japanese American citizens League. "JACL Responds to 'Defense of Internment, Case for Race Profiling'","IMdiversity.com", August 24, 2004.
  25. ^ Historians' Committee for Fairness. "Open Letter to Michelle Malkin" History News Network, August 31, 2004.
  26. ^ Brown, Douglas (September 2, 2004). "In disgrace or in defense?". Denver Post. p. F.01.
  27. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "BOOK BUZZ","MichelleMalkin.com", August 27, 2004.
  28. ^ Editor & Publisher Staff."Virginia Paper Drops Columnist Malkin", Editor and Publisher, November 22, 2004.
  29. ^ Malzberg, Steve. "Malkin - Liberal Bigotry on the Rise", NewsMax.com, November 28, 2004.
  30. ^ Malkin, Michelle."A Book-Banning Dodged--Thank You!", "MichelleMalkin.com", May 7, 2005, has links to Malkin's responses to criticisms of In Defense of Internment
  31. ^ Best Sellers, Hardcover Nonfiction, The New York Times, September 11, 2009
  32. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "Lead Story: Culture of Corruption hits #1: Thank you!", michellemalkin.com, August 5, 2009.
  33. ^ Hardcover Nonfiction - List - NYTimes.com
  34. ^ Malkin, Michelle."Interview on the Sean Hannity Show","Fox News Channel", FoxNews.com, July 27, 2009. Retrieved July 29, 2009.
  35. ^ Matt Lauer, Michelle Malkin (2009-07-29). Today show (Flash) (Television production). NBC News. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
  36. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "Extreme Makeover", "MichelleMalkin.com", June 8, 2004.
  37. ^ Budoff, Carrie. "GOP issues rules to avoid Macaca moments", The Politico, June 13, 2007
  38. ^ Technorati Top 100
  39. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "Akon's record company abuses DMCA to stifle criticism on YouTube", MichelleMalkin.com, May 3, 2007.
  40. ^ Malkin, Michelle."UMG & YouTube retreat over Akon report", MichelleMalkin.com, May 14, 2007
  41. ^ Press release. "Malkin Fights Back Against Copyright Law Misuse", Electronic Frontier Foundation, May 9, 2007
  42. ^ Small Business. "Michelle Malkin and Hot Air", Businessweek.com, July 14, 2007.
  43. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "Welcome to the new michellemalkin.com!","MichelleMalkin.com", June 19, 2007.
  44. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "Comments, Trolls, and the Left's Continued Whore Fixation", MichelleMalkin.com, February 8, 2005
  45. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "Terms of Use"
  46. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "Fact-checking the AP and Jamil Hussein", MichelleMalkin.com, January 21, 2007.
  47. ^ Malkin, Michelle."Corrections", MichelleMalkin.com, January 6, 2007.
  48. ^ a b Malkin, Michelle. "Seditious Santa Cruz vs. America", "michellemalkin.com", April 12, 2006
  49. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "More Thuggery In Santa Cruz", MichelleMalkin.com, April 17, 2006
  50. ^ Sentinel. < "Malkin moves, takes child from school, as SC students retaliate", "Santa Cruz Indymedia", April 22, 2006.
  51. ^ Students Against The War. "Far-Right Threats Fail to Distract from Santa Cruz Protest Successes", April 19. 2006,
  52. ^ Malkin, Michelle."The Moonbats Strike Back", MichelleMalkin.com, April 17, 2006.
  53. ^ Sideman, Roger. "Cyber war over UCSC protest heats up", Santa Cruz Sentinel, April 22, 2006.
  54. ^ Kilborn, Peter T."Weekends with the President's Men" New York Times June 30, 2006.
  55. ^ "Conservative Internet Broadcast Network Debuts", PR Web, April 24, 2006 Accessed July 18, 2009
  56. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "Hot Air turns One", HotAir.com, April 24, 2007.
  57. ^ Morrissey, Ed."The Road Goes Ever On" February 25, 2008
  58. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "A note on the acquisition of Hot Air" February 21, 2010
  59. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "What makes an American?", Jewish World Review, July 4, 2003. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
  60. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "Sanctuary Nation or Sovereign Nation: It’s your choice", "MichelleMalkin.com", August 15, 2007. Retrieved December 4, 2009.
  61. ^ Malkin, Michelle. "Bush's Open Borders Nominees" Retrieved July 18, 2009.
  62. ^ Jenks, Edmund. "Gee! Let Us Just Enforce 287(g)" "NowPublic.com", August 16, 2007. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
  63. ^ George Stephanopoulos, Al Hunt, Michelle Malkin, Gerald Seib, Cynthia Tucker (2009-08-02). This Week with George Stephanopoulos (Flash) (Television production). ABC News.
  64. ^ INCORPORATIONS : Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), Feb 7, 2010, findarticles.com
  65. ^ Goldman, Dana P, and Malkin, Jesse D. "The Health Savings Account Mirage", United Press International, February 20, 2006.
  66. ^ Inside the Beltway - page 4, November 19, 2003, The Washington Times.
  67. ^ Michelle Malkin, America’s broken health insurance system, August 27, 2004, michellemalkin.com.
  68. ^ Michelle Malkin, JUST A YELLOW WOMAN DOING A WHITE MAN’S JOB, November 19, 2005, michellemalkin.com.
  69. ^ Malkin, Michelle, "America’s broken health insurance system, MichelleMalkin.com, August 27, 2004.
  70. ^ "Home-Schooling Under Siege". Capitalism Magazine. May 21, 2001. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
  71. ^ "Michelle Malkin: Grace, gratitude, and G-d". Jewish World Review. November 24, 2004. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
  72. ^ Lloyd Grove, Michelle Malkin Has Feelings, Too, September 22, 2009, The Daily Beast.
  73. ^ Malkin Tells Face The State Radio She Moved to Colorado
  74. ^ "Columnist isn't smiling over swastika in rally photo". Rocky Mountain News. February 19, 2009. Retrieved September 25, 2010.

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