Posted on 11/23/2004 8:37:58 AM PST by FairfaxVA
Norfolk's Virginian-Pilot is dropping columnist Michelle Malkin because, according to the paper's editorial board, she's an "Asian Ann Coulter" whose columns are too "anti-liberal" and "seemingly mean-spirited."
Responding to a reader's complaint about the conservative scribe, the paper's public editor, Marvin Lake, announced on Monday that "she's outta here."
In quotes cover by Editor & Publisher, Lake explained that the Virginian-Pilot's editorial board had concluded Malkin was "too stridently anti-liberal" and that readers objected to her "seemingly mean-spirited rantings and suggested that she be dropped." Malkin's meticulously researched columns have covered a variety of topics, including exposing Sen. Robert Byrd as a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer years after he formally left the organization, and warning how America's failed immigration system has left the country vulnerable to another terrorist attack.
Malkin has also authored two landmark books and immigration and the Japanese internment during World War II.
Still, editorial writer Don Luzzatto was unimpressed, telling Lake: "I was really put off by her penchant for name-calling and ad hominem attack. I think we can do much better.”
Virginian-Pilot editorial board member Bronwyn Lance Chester went so far as to invoke Malkin's race.
"She’s an Asian Ann Coulter. . . . She says outrageous things just to get TV appearances and book deals. She’s the worst of what’s wrong with punditry today. She adds absolutely nothing to genuine political discourse.”
And we all know that the libs are never mean-spirited!
/sarcasm
Sounds like discrimination to me
Fairfax has gone to the dogs. It was the first Virginia County to go for John F*ckin' since Lyndon Johnson won it in 1964.
Of course the Virginian-Pilot editorial board endorsed John Effen Kerry for President.
Liberals don't like minorities that don't mind their place.
Yeah, gotta love the newspaper of one of the biggest Navy towns in the country being so stridently liberal. The Virginian-Pilot isn't worth being used as toilet paper at the Naval Base.
}:-)4
"anti-Liberal" = "mean-spirited"
ONE reader's complaint??? Sounds like they were just waiting for an excuse to show her the door. Jerks.
It's news to me that she's "Asian." That's a form of thinly-disguised racism, so far as I'm concerned.
A lot of libs in Fairfax County. They had more of Michelle Malkin than they could stomach. I wonder how it took them so long to get around to firing her.
"She adds absolutely nothing to genuine political discourse."
If she adds nothing to genuine political discourse, then the liberals aren't liberals.
LOL
You mean like Michael Moore?
The County's a lost cause.
If they had called her an Ann Coulter clone, or a copy of Ann Coulter, or even an Ann Coulter wannabe - then fine. But they choose to make a special point of her being Asian.
People, it's time to open the Wuppass.
A reader's complaint?? I should check and see if they run Doonesbury and bitch about that then...
Yeah affluent northern Virginia and its liberal values. Times used to be different. Now its just an extension of DC and Maryland.
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