‘Way Out There With Them!’ (Leftist view on Michelle Malkin)

OC Weekly ^ | Dec. 6 - 12, 2002 | Gustavo Arellano

[Sabertooth]

NEWS | FEATURE	Vol. 8 No. 14 December 6 -12, 2002
‘Way Out There With Them!’ Columnist Michelle Malkin finds home amongst local immigrant-bashers by Gustavo Arellano

Malkin

The way the young woman with the flaming-red hair sees it, the War on Terror should make an immigrant-hater out of any leftist.

"I thought I used to be liberal," the Fullerton resident says, her backpack a marquee of her abandoned politics—a rainbow patch and an alien giving the peace sign. "I used to believe in welfare, peace and helping out the poor. But if you allow unfettered immigration, this is what happens."

She points to an anti-immigration pamphlet with a picture of the exploding Twin Towers.

Such reasoning finds an especially receptive audience at meetings of the fanatically anti-immigration California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR).

The former liberal was one of about 250 people who packed CCIR’s Garden Grove meeting room Nov. 27 to hear syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin promote her new book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores.

In the book, Malkin goes after the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Muslims and Latinos. She dismisses claims that anti-Muslim hate crimes rose after Sept. 11 (Muslims, she said, invoked a "hate-crime mantra") and blames Latino day laborers for the Twin Towers attack.

A Filipina-American, Malkin is best known hereabouts for her opinion column, syndicated for three years in The Orange County Register. But she has won national celebrity for her role as a kind of female Clarence Thomas. She recently explained Christina Aguilera’s new look as the bitter fruit of a "radical feminist sexual liberation" movement that has produced "a generation of shameless skanks." She has blasted indigenous Hawaiians’ efforts to gain U.S. tribal recognition by observing, "Some people will do anything to get their hands on federal wampum."

Like fellow model minorities Thomas Sowell, Dinesh D’Souza and Linda Chavez, Malkin’s hostile attitudes make her a darling of white conservatives, and her photogenic face ensures regular appearances on talk shows.

Malkin took the stage after being introduced to a who’s-who of local anti-immigrant activists (including infamous Anaheim cop Harald Martin, who later in the evening would call his police chief a "coward"). CCIR chairwoman Barbara Coe—dressed in a baptism-day white blazer—noted that Malkin was "born to Philippine parents who came to the U.S.—legally, I might add." Much applause ensued.

"You here know full well or probably more than any other region of the country that this illegal invasion has been taking place a lot longer than Sept. 11, 2001," Malkin began dramatically. "If not, then your eyes were opened for the first time when those planes hit the buildings that killed thousands of Americans on American soil. Illegal invaders have been doing that for a long time."

She spent the remainder of her 20-minute speech faulting the mainstream press for ignoring illegal immigrant-caused murders. ("They’re all too happy to tell the sob stories of poor illegal immigrants," Malkin asserted. "We get plenty of those stories. And how come those journalists get Pulitzer Prizes?!") She frequently seemed on the verge of tears.

Malkin repeatedly stressed that she wasn’t anti-immigrant, just anti-illegal invader. "Not only is [illegal immigration] the ruination of us culturally and economically, but what an insult it is to all the naturalized citizens here!" she told the mostly white audience, many wearing stickers proclaiming themselves "citizen." But Malkin proceeded to mock these same "good" immigrants—because as a good minority, she can. She told jokes about Ethiopians and—in the interests of equal time—a similar howler about a Swede.

Having built her rapport with the audience on a foundation of ethnic jokes and terror, she concluded with a story about her trip to Orange County: "When I told people I was coming here, there were some people from the mainstream media who said, ‘You shouldn’t go there. Those people are way out there,’ they told me. And I said, ‘I’m way out there with them!’"

[dirtboy]

But Malkin proceeded to mock these same "good" immigrants—because as a good minority, she can. She told jokes about Ethiopians and—in the interests of equal time—a similar howler about a Swede.

Having built her rapport with the audience on a foundation of ethnic jokes and terror

What a bald-faced lie. From mercuria's transcript:

When I was in Houston, I met an Ethiopian taxi driver. He came here legally, he had an advanced math degree, but he was willing to do that job nobody else wanted to do. And we were talking because he asked me what I was doing, what kind of business I was doing, and I talked about my book. He was very enthusiastic about it. And actually, he talked about how he was really annoyed with other people from his country who come here and don't speak our language, and he said, "I don't understand what they're doing here. It's like they don't want to be an American!"

Now, I've heard that same refrain wherever I've gone. I'm not making this up. When I was in Palm Beach, Florida, I met a guy at my hotel who was Swedish. I mean he said the same thing. There is a huge Swedish population, apparently, in Palm Beach. Eleven thousand. And when new Swedish emigres come here legally, they settle in this part of Palm Beach, and it's sort of like the ghetto. I mean, it's Balkanized, everybody speaks Swedish and stays with their favorite Swedish customs and families, and after a couple of weeks, after he arrived here, some 13-14 years ago, he said, "They don't want to be American. I want to be an American!" This Swedish guy!

These are ethnic jokes? This is a classic liberal reporting trick - fabricate a lie to influence the intended readership. Even if someone researches the details and provides the truth later, the impression has already been set and the target slimed.

[skeeter]

Is there a way to contact this walking, talking Anus Gustavo Arellano?

Thats the last thing I'd advise you do.

Nothing good ever comes from a walking talking anus. That goes double for a race baiting leftwing one.

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[RonDog]

Is there a way to contact this walking, talking Anus Gustavo Arellano?

He does not seem to rate his own e-mail address, but from http://www.ocweekly.com/about/:

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[gubamyster]

Is there a way to contact this walking, talking Anus Gustavo Arellano?

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[gubamyster]

ping

[dennisw]

BTW> She cussed mildly on C-Span. She said the INS "didn't do squat" about something. I liked the CSPAN piece because it was one hour without interruption. Compared to the usual sound bites you get on FoxNews and elsewhere.

So thanks again for the Michelle Malkin alert

[martin_fierro]

Man, I gave up on pointing out duplicate posts.

All it does is to get the emotionally-vested poster to flame you, and the AdminMods don't appear to give a damn anyway.

[RonDog]

MINE was the duplicate post.

**I** posted a link on MY thread to this one, and **I** asked the Admin Moderator to lock my thread.

FWIW.

You are correct, though. MANY here get insulted easily, so I prefer SELF-correction. :o)

[Sabertooth]

Man, I gave up on pointing out duplicate posts.

All it does is to get the emotionally-vested poster to flame you, and the AdminMods don't appear to give a damn anyway.

I am NOT emotionally invested!!!!!!!!!!

BTW, RonDog, I beat you by five minutes, not four.
Burn. I'm faster, and better at math.

[martin_fierro]

I am NOT emotionally invested!!!!!!!!!!

... he says, with no fewer than TEN (10) exclamation points! <|:)~

[Howie]

Every time I read something like this I am further convinced this country needs to be split in half, literally. The left side would go to the lefties and everything East of the Rockies? would go to us sane folks. It would require a move on my part but California is sinking anyway.

Two countries side by side living in peace and harmony! One set of tax laws on one side etc. etc.

regards,

[Sabertooth]

...and blames Latino day laborers for the Twin Towers attack.

*This came completely out of left field, and was never followed up. Obviously, Malkin has never said any such thing.

IIRC, couple of the 9/11 hijackers boarded their planes with fake ID purchased from Illegals. It's in her book.

[dirtboy]

IIRC, couple of the 9/11 hijackers boarded their planes with fake ID purchased from Illegals. It's in her book.

That's a far cry from blaming "Latino day laborers".

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Sabertooth]

... he says, with no fewer than TEN (10) exclamation points! <|:)~

Back in college I was living in a house with two guys and two girls. We were all in our early to mid 20s, except for one girl who was 19.

One night she brought a guy home from a party. After he left the next day, she complained that she had been nice enough to let him sleep on the floor in her bedroom, but he kept trying to climb into bed with her all night, and what was he thinking anyway?!

A couple of us pointed out that while the guy should have gotten the hint, she set herself up with an unrealistic expectation that he wouldn't expect sex in the first place.

She didn't get it, so we suggested that she trust the few extra years we had on her in that regard.

She raised her voice and asked, "are you guys saying I'm immature?!" With a great stomp of her foot, she proclaimed, "I am SO mature!!" and stormed from the room.

[SupplySider]

When I saw that picture of Michelle Malkin with Mercuria, I thought I was on the Miss World thread.

[Sabertooth]

That's a far cry from blaming "Latino day laborers".

You'll get no disagreement from me.

On the other hand, it's also a far cry from saying that 9/11 had nothing to do with the greater problem of Illegal Aliens in general.

In part, the terrorists were able to exploit the black market and security lapses precipitated by the presence of millions of Illegals.

[martin_fierro]

Heh -- College Daze.

I'd rather forget mine. <|:)~