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Paper Drops 'Asian' Malkin, Too 'Anti-liberal'
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/11/23/85244.shtml ^ | Nov. 23, 2004

Posted on 11/24/2004 8:35:26 AM PST by Maria S

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 covered by Editor & Publisher, Lake explained that the Virginian-Pilot's editorial board had concluded that 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 about how America's failed immigration system has left the country vulnerable to another terrorist attack.

Malkin has also authored two landmark books, one on immigration and the other on 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.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiliberal; asian; drops; hamptonroads; malkin; michelle; michellemalkinlist; norfolk; noteworthy; paper; presstitutes; too; virginia
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To: Maria S

In other words, Malkin's columns are too anti-Virginian-Pilot.


21 posted on 11/24/2004 8:48:42 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all)
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To: ko_kyi

22 posted on 11/24/2004 8:51:31 AM PST by weenie ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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To: Maria S

As long as the liberal national socialist demoncraps run the news papers in this country, reporters are going to have to tow the line that they are commanded. I live in domoncrap infested Birmingham, Alabama and we vote and elect republican, reading the rags that pose as newspapers you would think it was 1850 when the demoncrap liberals were about to plunge this state and the nation into a stupid civil war. The party of Jeff Davis and Lyndon Johnson tell the Black race how and when to vote. These slimeballs (naional socialist dems) are responsible for the murder-abortion of thirteen million black babies. Slavery in the U.S. is alive and stinking. The news paper industry shares a major portion of the blame.


23 posted on 11/24/2004 8:52:25 AM PST by Lewite (Praise YAHWEH and Proclaim His Wonderful Name, His Son Yahshua Messiah is coming soon!)
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To: nhoward14

She's attractive enough to be an Asian Ann Coulter!!!


24 posted on 11/24/2004 8:52:51 AM PST by jdsteel
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To: Maria S

Do what? Michelle Malkin is a strictly "Just the facts, ma'am" type of writer in my opinion. In fact I found her book to be boring for that reason. But what she does is "is" she tells it like it is and isn't too concerned if someone may be offended, and for that I love her.


25 posted on 11/24/2004 8:55:03 AM PST by johnb838 (And Allawi replied "To Hell They Will Go")
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To: Maria S

So vote with your subscriptions! Surely no one's daily survival depends on the delivery of this paper.


26 posted on 11/24/2004 8:55:12 AM PST by Mach9 (.)
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To: warchild9
also factually BS, and I know, since my new PhD (YES! YES! IT'S OVER!) was born out six years of hard research into the U.S. domestic policies during WWII.

Well, since you have that new Ph.D., I'm sure you won't mind backing up your assertions with FACTS!

27 posted on 11/24/2004 8:56:59 AM PST by johnb838 (And Allawi replied "To Hell They Will Go")
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To: Maria S

We can't have "anti-liberal"/conservative Asians and blacks like Michelle Malkin and Condoleezza Rice, now can we?


28 posted on 11/24/2004 8:57:05 AM PST by Ex-Dem (AFL-CIO - Where organized labor becomes organized crime.)
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To: warchild9
also factually BS, and I know, since my new PhD (YES! YES! IT'S OVER!) was born out six years of hard research into the U.S. domestic policies during WWII.

Well, since you have that new Ph.D., I'm sure you won't mind backing up your assertions with FACTS!

I mean citations.

29 posted on 11/24/2004 8:57:28 AM PST by johnb838 (And Allawi replied "To Hell They Will Go")
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To: Maria S

Uppity colored slave women are not permitted to wander off the democrat party plantation. Her massa at this newspaper says so.


30 posted on 11/24/2004 8:58:03 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: Maria S

He's wrong. They can't do much better.


31 posted on 11/24/2004 8:59:49 AM PST by Inwoodian
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To: Maria S

32 posted on 11/24/2004 8:59:50 AM PST by freepatriot32 (http://chonlalonde.blogspot.com)
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To: Lewite
Slavery in the U.S. is alive and stinking.

There is probably a lot to what you are saying, at least allegorically. Do you write? You ought to flesh out that thesis and see what you come up with.

33 posted on 11/24/2004 9:00:10 AM PST by johnb838 (And Allawi replied "To Hell They Will Go")
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To: johnb838

Read her book so we'll have common ground for discussion. I've discovered people who overcapitalize and end their comments with exclamation points aren't ready for calm debate.


34 posted on 11/24/2004 9:01:04 AM PST by warchild9 (Please, refer to me as DOCTOR Warchild. I've got the certificate to prove it, now! Yipee!)
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To: Maria S
When I read this part in the story: 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."--I said to myself, this editor decided to do this base upon one reader's complaint; what would the editor do if we of the Free Republic were to jam that paper's email with our objection to the decision. At least the editorial policy of the paper is showing itself to be too thin skinned. To be a champion of freedom, the press should be tougher than what this mouseburger paper shows itself to be.
35 posted on 11/24/2004 9:08:49 AM PST by jonrick46
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To: Maria S
Michelle Malkin should feel happy her column is no longer running in the Virginian-Pilot.

After all, she is probably grateful her coulumns are not also in The Blade.

36 posted on 11/24/2004 9:09:33 AM PST by Gritty ("Once an unabashedly pious land, we've been transformed into historically clueless ingrates-M.Malkin)
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To: Fatalis; Klickitat; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard; mickie; lainde; international american; sauropod; ...
Pinging Michelle's list...(thanks for the head's up fatalis!)

Malkin Ping!


37 posted on 11/24/2004 9:55:38 AM PST by cgk (The Left was beaten by Pres Bush twice & will never have another shot at him... who's dumb?)
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To: cgk

Whew! Now I feel better.


38 posted on 11/24/2004 10:04:51 AM PST by international american (Proudly posting without reading the article since 2003.)
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To: Maria S

Wait til they find out that wholesale subscription cancellations trump 3 or 4 complaints by the losers and the perverts...


39 posted on 11/24/2004 10:05:42 AM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
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To: Maria S

""seemingly mean-spirited.""

Hmmmm....another Harvard grad??


40 posted on 11/24/2004 10:06:04 AM PST by international american (Proudly posting without reading the article since 2003.)
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