Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang ; born October 20, 1970) is an American conservative commentator, blogger and author. Her weekly, syndicated column appears in a number of newspapers and websites nationwide. She has been a guest on MSNBC, Fox News Channel, C-SPAN, and national radio programs. Malkin has written four books published by a leading conservative publisher, Regnery.
Personal life
Malkin was born in Philadelphia to Rafaela, a schoolteacher, and Apolo, an aspiring doctor, both Philippine citizens who had arrived in the U.S. earlier that year. At the time, her father was a physician-in-training with an employer-sponsored visa. She grew up in the small southern New Jersey town of Absecon, where she was raised in the Catholic faith. Malkin cited a formative event when she was in kindergarten: One day, the other children called her a racist name, and she went home crying. Her mother comforted her and told her that, "everyone has prejudice." She has said that she is "eternally grateful" for that counsel.
Malkin attended Holy Spirit Roman Catholic High School, where she edited the school newspaper and planned to become a concert pianist.
In 1988, Malkin enrolled at Oberlin College. She later described her alma mater as a "radically left-wing, liberal arts college". While at Oberlin, she changed her major from music to English and began writing for an independent newspaper, the editor of which was her future husband, Jesse Malkin. In her first article for the paper, she attacked Oberlin's affirmative-action program and received a "hugely negative response" from her fellow students.
In 1993, Malkin married Jesse Malkin, a Rhodes Scholar, who later worked as associate policy analyst and economist for military think-tank, the Rand Corporation. Jesse was an Oxford classmate of Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, who was also a Rhodes Scholar during his graduate years there.As of 2004, Jesse was a stay-at-home dad raising their daughter, Veronica, and a son.
In November 2008, Malkin announced that she had moved from Germantown, Maryland, to El Paso County, Colorado, in August 2008.
Career
Malkin began her journalism career at the Los Angeles Daily News , working as a columnist from 1992 to 1994. In 1995, she worked in Washington, D.C., as a journalism fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Libertarian think tank which is dedicated to the promotion of free enterprise without government regulation. In 1996, she moved to Seattle, Washington, where she wrote columns for, The Seattle Times . Malkin became a nationally-syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate in 1999. Since 2002, she regularly contributes to the controversial, VDARE website with a focus on race issues and opposition of legal and illegal immigration.
For many years, Malkin was a frequent commentator for Fox News Channel and a regular guest host of The O'Reilly Factor . In 2007, she announced that she would not return to The O'Reilly Factor , claiming that Fox News had mishandled a dispute over derogatory statements made about her by Geraldo Rivera in a Boston Globe interview. Rivera, while objecting to her views on immigration, says, "Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life. She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people." He added, "It's good she's in D.C., and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her." Since 2007, she has concentrated on her writing, blogging and public speaking, although she still appears on television, occasionally.
Books
Her first book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces , was published in 2002 and was a New York Times bestseller.
In 2004, she wrote In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror , defending Japanese American internment by the United States government during World War II, minimizing the hardships of the detention camps, and arguing that the same procedures could be used on Arab- and Muslim-Americans today. The book engendered harsh criticism from several Asian American civil rights organizations. As reported by Malkin, an attempt to ban the book from the Manzanar National Historic Site, (a former relocation and internment camp), failed. The "Historians' Committee for Fairness," a group of professors, condemned the book for not having undergone peer review and argued that its central thesis is false. The Hawaiian-based newspaper Midweek dropped her column as a result of the controversy. In November 2004, The Virginian-Pilot dropped her column, calling her, among other things, "an Asian Ann Coulter." Malkin responded, "I'm not Asian, I'm American, for goodness' sake. I would take the comparison to Ann Coulter as somewhat of a compliment. I have a lot of respect for Ann Coulter".
Malkin's third book, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild , was released in October 2005.
Culture of Corruption book release and tour
Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies , Malkin's fourth book, was released on July 27, 2009, and attained #1 best seller status by August 5, 2009. Malkin has embarked on a media tour, covering both TV and radio outlets to promote the book. Malkin described an objective of the book in a July 27, 2009 interview with Sean Hannity, saying "what I have done is to help shatter completely the myths of hope and change in the new politics in Washington by scouring every nook and cranny, every inch of this administration, and showing how in a very short span of six months they have betrayed every principle and every promise that they have made by installing these influence peddlers, power brokers and very wealthy people". Discussing her theme of corruption Malkin said: "you have to judge them by their rhetoric, and if you look at the gap between the rhetoric and the reality, this has to be one of the most corrupt administrations in recent memory."
Malkin appeared on NBC's Today show on July 29, 2009 where she explained the title for chapter 2 of her book, "Bitter Half: First Crony Michelle Obama" as deriving from her view that Michelle Obama "was steeped in the politics of the Daley machine" and that she "is beholden to the type of hardball politics that Barack Obama says he is against." Stating that Michelle Obama's "entire professional career was based on nepotism", Malken went on to say that "despite Princeton thesis where she whined and moaned about the old boy network and how she couldn't get ahead because of her skin color, in fact it was a farce because it was one of those old white boys who put her in that position in the first place."
Hot Air website and MichelleMalkin.com
In June 2004 she launched a political blog, MichelleMalkin.com. A 2007 memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee described Malkin as one of the five "best-read national conservative bloggers", and today on Technorati, her blog ranks as one of the top 100 blogs of all types.
On April 24, 2006, Hot Air , a "conservative Internet broadcast network" went into operation, with Malkin as founder/CEO. She intended the blog to provide "content and analysis you can't get anywhere else on a daily basis–both on the blog and in our original video features." Her staffers included Allahpundit" and Bryan Preston, though the latter was replaced by Ed Morrissey on February 25, 2008.
After Malkin criticized hip hop artist Akon for "degrading women" in a Vent episode, Akon's record label, Universal Music Group, forced YouTube to remove the video by issuing a DMCA takedown notice, but decided to retract this notice after the Electronic Frontier Foundation joined Malkin and Hot Air in contesting the removal as a misuse of copyright law.
In an interview with Business Week magazine in July 2007, Malkin said, "We’re doing what few other blogs can do. We serve up terabytes of bandwidth... I'm shelling out for gold-plated servers. That's expensive, and we want to be able to withstand huge traffic surges."
In the late 2000s, Malkin's videos appeared less and less frequently on Hot Air, and she is referred to infrequently—only in links, or allusions to "The Boss."
She continued to contribute frequently to MichelleMalkin.com, and in June 2007, she revamped it, and moved it to WordPress and a larger server. With the new redesign, she re-enabled comments on her blog, which she had disallowed after February 2005 due to a high level of obscene and racist comments. Subscribed readers could once again post comments after that, although registration for the comments is rarely open. Malkin states her policy thus: "I may allow as much or as little opportunity for registration as I choose, in my absolute discretion, and I may close particular comment threads".
Students Against War controversy
In April 2006, Students Against War (SAW), a campus group at University of California, Santa Cruz, staged a protest against the presence of military recruiters on campus, and sent out a press release containing contact details (names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses) of three student leaders for use by reporters. Malkin included these contact details in a blog column entitled "Seditious Santa Cruz vs. America". Malkin claimed the contact information was originally taken from SAW's own website, but that later SAW had removed it and had "wiped" the "cached version." The
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