A Hard Right Punch (WaPo profiles Michelle Malkin)

WaPost ^ | 2/16/06 | Howard Kurtz

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Michelle Malkin has seen her head electronically grafted onto a photo of a bikini-clad body.

She had to cancel a Berkeley book signing in the face of 200 shouting protesters.

YouTube banned one of her videos. And she felt compelled to move after critics posted online her Gaithersburg area address and pictures of her home.

Clearly, this is a woman who arouses strong emotions.

"They'll ridicule my looks, ridicule my ethnicity, go after my family," the 36-year-old blogger says of her critics. "They've attacked my husband relentlessly. There's a strong sexist strain among my liberal critics, who think it isn't possible I could have gotten anywhere without my Svengali husband, or some white man, embedding ideas in my head."

Make no mistake, though: This daughter of Filipino immigrants plays pretty rough herself. Whether on her blog, her Internet talk show or her Fox News appearances, Malkin delights in sticking her finger in the eye of the liberal establishment. And she is convinced that her detractors don't play fair.

"Particularly when you're a minority conservative," she says, "you get a lot of ugly, hysterical, unhinged attacks, because you're challenging so many liberal myths about what people of color should think."

Plenty of folks find Malkin's rhetoric overheated as well. "The donkey party," she wrote last fall, "is led by thumb-sucking demagogues in prominent positions who equate Bush with Hitler and Jim Crow, call him a liar in front of high school students and the world, fantasize about impeachment and fetishize the human rights of terrorists who want to kill me. Put simply: There are no grown-ups in the Democrat Party."

Andrew Sullivan, a conservative blogger who has turned on the Bush administration, regularly bestows a "Malkin Award" for excessive attacks. "Sometimes you just can't believe what she writes --

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Andrew Sullivan, a conservative blogger who has turned on the Bush administration...

An ample demonstration of how far LEFT Kurtz is. Sullivan is about as right wing as Katrina Vanden heuvel

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HOT CHILE PEPPER

[MadAnthony1776]

The loons don't like her because the truth hurts.

[magellan]

Andrew who?

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She pulls no punches, and she does not lie.

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A poofer who used to run the Atlantic Monthly

[Zack Nguyen]

There's a strong sexist strain among my liberal critics, who think it isn't possible I could have gotten anywhere without my Svengali husband, or some white man, embedding ideas in my head.

This is a key point in my view. The left is not nearly so free of racism and sexism as it likes to pretend.

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The left are a bunch of stalinists at heart.

[isthisnickcool]

Andrew who?

Sullivan is a fake conservative and lover of manly fudgecicles.

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You sir, are a blithering idiot.

[khnyny]

Hate the WaCompost, but love Michelle. You know you're on the right track if the WaPo does a hit piece on you.

At least when Michelle writes, every other word isn't the "f-bomb" like some liberal bloggers who shall remain nameless, but who just got fired from a Dem presidential campaign. Read the liberal skreeds, and the hysteria, hate and vitriol are enough to make you think these people are all in front of their computers chain smoking and wearing diapers.

[sine_nomine]

She is even prettier live than in her photograph.

Her blog is my favorite after Free Republic. Her message and her style are perfect.

[onyx]

Hitting abuse on your ugly post.

[Zack Nguyen]

When they co-authored an article questioning the value of affirmative action -- and outraged students dumped bundles of papers in the trash -- "it was an awakening" for Michelle, says Jesse.

Such tolerance from the peace-loving left. Scratch a liberal, get a totalitarian.

[TBP]

some liberal bloggers who shall remain nameless, but who just got fired from a Dem presidential campaign.

In a stunning display of liberal hypocrisy.