Thursday
Jun122008
Michelle Malkin - Teflon For Racism?
Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 14:33 | baratunde | tagged Barack Obama, Election 2008, Fox News, Michelle Malkin, Michelle Obama, Racism, Self-Hating Brown People in Election 2008
cross-posted to jack and jill politics
Liza Sabater over at Culture Kitchen breaks down another problem with the Obama Baby Mama Drama unfolding at Faux News: Michelle Malkin. (background on the baby mama drama)
Liza gets at who's really behind Malkin and why it's more effective to have a brown person hating on other brown people
It's an historical pattern, this getting brown people to tear down other brown folks. There's no shock value in brown folks demanding rights for immigrants or fair wages or justice of any kind. As much as people dis the professional black spokespeople for jumping on victimhood, there's a lot more money in denying racism and actually blaming the victims of systemic racism for their own oppression.
I wrote and performed about this years ago in my piece, "I'll Be A Black Conservative For $240,000"
Full video here:
Update from Comment From Left Field. a great reminder that while the Baby Mama lower third was up, Malkin was saying attacks on Michelle are ok so long as they are substantive. Fox is so triflin.
Liza Sabater over at Culture Kitchen breaks down another problem with the Obama Baby Mama Drama unfolding at Faux News: Michelle Malkin. (background on the baby mama drama)
Liza gets at who's really behind Malkin and why it's more effective to have a brown person hating on other brown people
Yet what's most important about all this mess is the other Michelle. La Malkin. Why do you think Fox News has on their payroll a dark-skinned Filipina who is not only their quite giddy and willing cover for the racist rants you pass as news, but also something of a news maker herself?
Michelle Malkin seems to be racist Pygmalion who has been molded by her husband, Jesse Malkin. Two years ago four bloggers documented what many people were wondering at the time about the increasingly prolific Malkin : That MichelleMalkin.com and most probably Michelle Malkin the syndicated journalist and columnist and
are not Michelle Malkin but the woman, her husband, Jesse Malkin and maybe indeed a small team of interns and researchers.
That nowadays she has people guest blogging at MichelleMalkin.com is a complete turnaround from the early days. Michelle Malkin in 2006 had just given birth and was slugging across the country interviews and book readings all the while writing a syndicated column, making TV appearances and peppering her blog with about 6 posts a day. Every day. Including Sundays. And she would do this and boast about how she didn't have nannies, how she didn't have interns or assistants working for her. She was the super brown woman, spokeswoman for anti-immigrants and white supremacists at large.
It's why finding out who really is Michelle Malkin the author became so important. Was this a xenophobic genius or is she a front for a larger right-wing juggernaut?
It's an historical pattern, this getting brown people to tear down other brown folks. There's no shock value in brown folks demanding rights for immigrants or fair wages or justice of any kind. As much as people dis the professional black spokespeople for jumping on victimhood, there's a lot more money in denying racism and actually blaming the victims of systemic racism for their own oppression.
I wrote and performed about this years ago in my piece, "I'll Be A Black Conservative For $240,000"
[Black conservatives] are in very short supply, but they're a must-have accessory for every ass backwards policy. Need to undo affirmative action? Find a black Supreme Court judge. Wanna bomb poor people? How bout a black National Security Advisor. Need to pimp one of the greatest underfunded federal policies since 40 acres and a mule? Armstrong Williams is your dawg!
Full video here:
Update from Comment From Left Field. a great reminder that while the Baby Mama lower third was up, Malkin was saying attacks on Michelle are ok so long as they are substantive. Fox is so triflin.
Reader Comments (8)
Baratunde, this is really wrong. It's racist to declare that a woman of color who doesn't kowtow to the left-wing line is being manipulated by white supremacists somewhere along the way. Michelle Malkin is tough and smart, and I don't always agree with her but this sort of comment is unworthy of you.
Baratunde, this is really wrong. It's racist to declare that a woman of color who doesn't kowtow to the left-wing line is being manipulated by white supremacists somewhere along the way. Michelle Malkin is tough and smart, and I don't always agree with her but this sort of comment is unworthy of you.
i'm afraid we'll never agree on anything again joel. i can't remember the
last thing i wrote that you did agree with. kinda sad. michelle malkin is
not worth your defense. she's actually a terrible person. she wrote a book
called IN DEFENSE OF INTERNMENT. you're seriously going to come here and
tell me that i'm the wrong one?
michelle malkin is one of the worst people promoting "ideas" in the public
sphere. she helped start the STUPID STUPID pressure on dunkin donuts to pull
the rachel ray ad. i have absolutely zero tolerance or sympathy for her. she
is NOT smart if this is the sort of argument she's making. She's an
opportunist and quite dumb quite often.
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i'm afraid we'll never agree on anything again joel. i can't remember the
last thing i wrote that you did agree with. kinda sad. michelle malkin is
not worth your defense. she's actually a terrible person. she wrote a book
called IN DEFENSE OF INTERNMENT. you're seriously going to come here and
tell me that i'm the wrong one?
michelle malkin is one of the worst people promoting "ideas" in the public
sphere. she helped start the STUPID STUPID pressure on dunkin donuts to pull
the rachel ray ad. i have absolutely zero tolerance or sympathy for her. she
is NOT smart if this is the sort of argument she's making. She's an
opportunist and quite dumb quite often.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/29/dunkin-donuts-caves-to-the-rights-fear-of-clothing-accessories/">http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/29/dunkin...
I don't disagree with everything you write, Baratunde, but I also don't think it's sad if we do disagree politically. One thing I admire about South Africans is their ability to maintain friendships even when they are on different sides of an issue (or many issues). I would hope we could do the same. I do think that there is a difference between attacking the substance of someone's arguments (like Malkin's position on internment) and attacking the person herself by suggesting she is being manipulated--"molded by her husband" and others.
I don't disagree with everything you write, Baratunde, but I also don't think it's sad if we do disagree politically. One thing I admire about South Africans is their ability to maintain friendships even when they are on different sides of an issue (or many issues). I would hope we could do the same. I do think that there is a difference between attacking the substance of someone's arguments (like Malkin's position on internment) and attacking the person herself by suggesting she is being manipulated--"molded by her husband" and others.
oh we can definitely remain friends. will make it more interesting. as for malkin's manipulation, i certainly cannot KNOW it. but given the absolute idiocy and lunacy of her commentary, it seems plausible that she's not doing all this herself. it frustrates me that people like her are never on the defensive. they take joy in willy nilly destruction of someone else's image, and the perpetrators prosper from such filth.
i'm down for challenging her patriotism, intelligence, independence, morals and anything else because she's shown a remarkable absense of most of these attributes
oh we can definitely remain friends. will make it more interesting. as for malkin's manipulation, i certainly cannot KNOW it. but given the absolute idiocy and lunacy of her commentary, it seems plausible that she's not doing all this herself. it frustrates me that people like her are never on the defensive. they take joy in willy nilly destruction of someone else's image, and the perpetrators prosper from such filth.
i'm down for challenging her patriotism, intelligence, independence, morals and anything else because she's shown a remarkable absense of most of these attributes