Malkin ping!
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Posted on 10/04/2006 10:43:18 AM PDT by oxcart
Let’s see if we get a retraction out of Wonkette now.
Thanks to Sean Gleeson for finding this.
Update: How did Sean do it?
I set up a Facebook account, and followed the trail, from Ashley Herzog, to Megan Del Corral, to Meredith Chan, to “Princess Nina” (whoever that is). I had to do a lot of e-mailing private messaging and stuff.
Update: Let’s just get this posted before it mysteriously disappears from Webshots.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
The actual girl is not nearly as pretty as Michelle. It is a good thing the photoshopped out the navel ring, however, or there would have been a spontaneous meltdown of half the FR membership!
Why isn't this in "Breaking News"? /sarc
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Bad Photoshop job.
I'm at a loss... What's this all about???
Malkin ping!
Another once-sorta-respectable lefty blogger enters The Ted Rall Zone Of Unmentionable Sleaze. (Previous examples include Glenn "Sock Puppet" Greenwald.)
Wonkette posted a photoshopped picture supposedly of Michelle Malkin in a "girls gone wild" type of situation and calling her a slut. It's all part of a campaign against her by Wonkette and some loser College Professor.
I think MM needs to post some pics of herself in a bikini so we can judge for ourselves.
On that, I think all (men) can agree, liberal and conservative alike. ^^
are we supposed to vote on which one we like better?
Michelle wrote a column last week decrying the "sluttification" of young girls nowadays, using Charlotte Church as an example--once she was a fantastically-talented fresh-faced singer, now she's basically Christina Aguilera with a British accent.
Well, somebody out there on the Intardweb posted a fake Flickr photo site with a bad Photoshop of Michelle's head on a girl posing in a bikini, and said it was a picture of Michelle taken during college spring break in 1992. This nutburger UNC-Chapel Hill law professor spread it far and wide and Wonkette picked it up as proof that Michelle is a hypocrite--how can she possibly call out Charlotte Church for being a skank when *she* (Michelle) posed for a cheesecake picture 14 years earlier!
The picture is a horrendous fake, and the UNC dweeb later retracted his statements. But the Wonkette writers never did.
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I have to admit watching this has been amusing. Wonkette god bless their souls got this right. They post a shot of her supposly in a bikni(horrors). Michlee pretends to be outraged thus getting her readers outraged and creating a story line. This goes back and forth for days. No one takes a step back and goes "who cares" lol
Since when does wearing a bikini make a girl a slut, anyway?
She was plenty outraged. You should take your smarmy accusation elsewhere.
Smarmy? lol. Forgive me if I think perhaps she is a pretty good marketer. I like alot of the stuff she prints but I think a person like her has a pretty high tolerance for being outraged in this hard hitting political game. It would be very unusual for someone to be so thin skinned.
However that is my humble opinion and I shall be quiet from down on. Proceed on
LOL, that is a classic...I love the pink flamingo, that adds a touch of class/s
"Wonkette god bless their souls got this right."
Have you ever been to Wonkette and seen the trash and filth they spew?
It doesn't. That's the stupid thing about the entire "hypocrisy!!!" screed. Even if the picture was real, they're literally comparing a college student on spring break, posing in a fun picture wearing a bikini for her friends...to Charlotte Church's TV-show behavior as documented in Michelle Malkin's column (a Madonna-like fake crucifixion, eating communion wafers looking like Ecstasy pills and hallucinating, wearing sleazy clothing all the time, etc.).
Cries of "hypocrite" are nothing but a liberal reflex. They never think about degrees. If a conservative does one little thing "wrong" or even worldly, liberal moral relativists pounce and yell "see! see! hypocrite!". They've forgotten that whole thing about removing the plank in their own eye before pointing out the mote in someone one else's.
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I agree , Michelle needs to post some pix of herself. If she kept her fans happy,though, half the bandwidth of FR could become a MM fansite. She is as close to the ideal girl as I have ever seen.
Interesting that the original was found. No offense or anything, but who really cares about getting a retration - - or anything else - - from the cows at Wonkette?
I believe your right. I'm not totally convinced yet. We need more proof.
Yea thats it more proof.
That is great detective work. Malkin is awesome!
You can almost predict which Freepers will giggle at this sophomoric prank.
World-class sizzlin'! Babes just don't get any hotter'n 'at...
Her husband must be very happy with her. She's got brains and beauty. And the gal in the bikini was nowhere near as petite and attractive as her.
Future women leaders of America: Beware of Photoshop
By Ashley Herzog
Thursday, October 5, 2006
Future women leaders of America beware: if you plan on a career in politics, don’t allow yourself to be photographed in a bikini. Especially if you’re the type of woman who speaks out against the sexualization of young girls, the media will be eager to use it against you.
That is what we learned from conservative author Michelle Malkin last week. After she wrote a column criticizing once-wholesome singer Charlotte Church for her slide into pop star hedonism, left-wing Internet blogs discovered photographs of Malkin on spring break fourteen years ago. Accompanied by headlines like “Michelle Malkin gone wild” and “Michelle, you ignorant slut,” the blogs linked to a photo-sharing page that featured Malkin cavorting with girlfriends and posing in a string bikini.
It seemed like the perfect “gotcha” moment for the liberal blogosphere. But there was a problem: the photo page wasn’t real. I know this because most of the pictures on it belong to me.
Whoever made the photo page apparently wasn’t content to insult Malkin, an Asian woman, with racial slurs – a popular activity among her critics. Instead, they aimed to expose her as a hypocrite. Using pictures stolen from various Webshots.com accounts, including mine, the creator wrote captions to imply that I had had been a classmate of Malkin’s at Oberlin College in the early 90s – and that she was anything but a moralist back then.
By the time I discovered the hoax, liberal blogs were already hard at work smearing Malkin as a “slut,” “hussy,” and “b-tch.”
I was shocked as I scrolled through posts and reader comments about my pictures, some of them photoshopped or falsely labeled as pictures of Malkin. Racist jokes and sexual denigration were common themes.
Beneath a picture of me with a close friend from high school, someone had written, “She looks so happy back then…I wonder what made her become such a bitch? Maybe her grandma never sent her a care pack of adobo and lumpia shanghai.”
When someone commented that the photo of Malkin in a skimpy bikini appeared to be photoshopped, a reader responded, “A too small head on Malkin's body doesn't mean it's Photoshopped. It just means that she has to put in the extra effort when she gives blow jobs.” The malicious posts did not appear on obscure blogs serving the political fringe. In fact, the most aggressive attacks came from a law professor at the University of North Carolina and a blog conglomerate valued at $76 million. Despite Malkin’s insistence that the photo site was an obvious forgery, the blogs continued to deride her as a hypocrite and, above all, a “skank.”
Still, I was confident that I could put an end to the hoax by coming forward as the owner of the photographs. I wrote an e-mail to Wonkette, the blog that first posted the pictures. I explained that only one picture on the page showed the real Michelle Malkin – I took it at the Conservative Political Action Conference last February, where I briefly met her. The others had been stolen from my webpage.
Three days later my letter remained unanswered, and the smear campaign against Malkin raged on. I sent a second request to Gawker, the media empire that owns Wonkette, detailing the theft of my pictures. I was optimistic that a conglomerate worth tens of millions of dollars would show some accountability toward its audience.
Two days have passed, and my inbox is still empty.
This is the brave new world of Internet media. Like many Americans, I entered it with a naïve notion of bloggers as modern-day pamphleteers, throwing the cover off stories that the establishment media won’t touch. I believed that Internet blogs, being far more democratic mediums than mainstream television networks and newspapers, would show respect for the truth.
But after visiting a few popular blogs, I realized I was sadly mistaken. At best, many zero in on political gossip and absurd non-issues, such as whether a conservative author ever posed in a swimsuit. At worst, many political blogs are cesspools of racism, misogyny, and obscenity, not to mention vicious lies.
The posts and links to my pictures are still up, and I’m no longer anticipating a response from Gawker. They are a multimillion-dollar behemoth; I’m a college kid with a claim to a few stolen photographs. They have nothing to lose by ignoring me.
However, it seems the fallout from the Malkin hoax is far from over. This morning, I received an anxious message from an Ohio State student who had just discovered the fake photo page.
She identified herself as “the girl in the bikini” and explained that Malkin’s face had been photoshopped onto her body. She asked what we could do to stop the pictures from being circulated.
The answer, unfortunately, is probably “nothing.” Gawker and its ilk appear willing to perpetuate bald-faced lies in order to advance an agenda. And they don’t mind taking a few innocent college girls along for the ride.
Ashley Herzog is a junior at Ohio University, studying journalism, and lives in Avon Lake, Ohio.
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