Wacky Michelle, my pet name for her, calls the liberals 'unhinged' and even wrote a eponymous book about it. Anyone left of right suffers from either PEST (Post Election Selection Trauma) or BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) – you gotta love these cute acronyms.
But let's take a look at Myriam-Webster's definition of unhinged:
Main Entry: un•hinge
Pronunciation: -'hinj
Function: transitive verb
1 : to remove (as a door) from the hinges
2 : to make unstable : UNSETTLE, DISRUPT [unhinge the balance of world peace] [pressure that would unhinge a less experienced person]
Unsettle, disrupt, unhinge the balance of world peace. I'm wondering if publishing the names, numbers and other identifying information of SAW (Students Against War) on her blog qualifies as unhinged? And I use the word blog loosely. Not long ago I made a little calculation using MS Word Statistics. Once I had removed all the copy/pasted material, the hat-tips and link-lists, there was barely one fifth of "original content".
She defends her actions by stating that it was already posted on another site. Which may be truthful but she should know that people who read her "blog" tend to be on the extreme side of the right, like herself. She thinks she's done nothing wrong. "She refused to remove the information, even after she was politely asked and the safety concerns were brought to her attention." (Taken from SAW's Website)
Crooks and Liars reports that Keith Olberman in his usual cantankerous manner, awarded her the "World's Worst," today "for her posting private phone numbers from the UC Santa Criz students."
Is it just me or this going too far? Sure we can disagree, but do we need to take measures to endanger the lives of others? Was this just another big publicity stunt to sell more books, get more hits on her site and get more TV time on FOX? Over at The Daily Kos they call her "the dark-haired, lashy, Ann Coulter understudy", calling for better ethics in journalism in an accolade called "Minimize Harm", which clearly states the obvious, that journalists should "recognize that private people have a greater right to control information about themselves than do public officials and others who seek power, influence or attention." But as the article continues, it states that the obvious again: Malkin has no moral code and should be stripped of the title journalist.
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Dave Nalle
I actually saw a serious discussion of BDS on DailyKos the other day. Apparently the term has caught on with some of the more rational people on the left to describe their brethren who go off the deep end in hating Bush just because he's Bush, which even they feel is counterproductive. You can't really discuss Bush's genuine flaws when people start spouting some of the arrant silliness which is characteristic of those with BDS.
Dave
2 - JELIEL³
Yes. Personnaly I love to laugh at Bush when he does what he does, like stare aimlessly into the hanging camera for example. But in truth I can be highly critical, but because of his decisions which seems that I disagree with by defacto, but I think it through. But in the end I still think he's one of the worse leaders the US has ever had. He's too cavalier and arrogant and certainly not running on all cylinders. And all the corruption scandals that surround him lead most to conclude to the speculative obvious.
3 - Dave Nalle
If you think about it and reach those conclusions then more power to you. Sadly most of those who oppose Bush haven't had a single original or analytical thought on the subject in their lives. They're like hate-lemmings doing what the Chomskyites tell them to do. That phenomenon is what has generated terms like BDS and what makes them so effective.
Dave
4 - JELIEL³
Well anyone screaming off their soapbox like madmen/women (aka the likes of wacky Malkin) lack any credibility and sort of blur everything, on both sides, right or left.
And I think that publishing private info of people that disagree with you is "unhinged derangement".
5 - Nancy
Ah, but Dave, the reason those of us infected with BDS are infected with BDS is because we loathe all his qualities as a (putative) human being: his dishonesty, smugness, arrogance, stupidity, corruption, cronyism, incompetence, etc. etc. etc. I mean, there's so MUCH to loathe, he's almost in a class by himself, when you factor in what he should be capable of in terms of positives, and which he signally fails to achieve because he's never had to actually perform & achieve on his own dime. Mind you, even I don't put him in a loathing class like Kim Il; that's beyond even W's capabilites. But he's certainly doing his slacker best to bottom out.
6 - themole
This website has now posted Malkin's home address and someone has published a graphic of her house. All information was allegedly found on the internet and publically available. Touche
7 - JELIEL³
THat's not right either (And I don't think you should have linked it either) but it doesn't excuse her actions
8 - Dave Nalle
But he's certainly doing his slacker best to bottom out.
The problem here is that you seem to have formed the bizarre belief that a president doing something is actually better than a president not doing anything.
Dave
9 - troll
*Sadly most of those who oppose Bush haven't had a single original or analytical thought on the subject in their lives. They're like hate-lemmings doing what the Chomskyites tell them to do.*
'most of' - ?
Dave - one can't do calligraphy with a pint roller....(unless he's very very good)
concerning #4 and all complaints against M - true...so how come she's making the $
troll
10 - JELIEL³
Troll, because shitkickers always draw attention. If Paris Hilton can be popular just for being popular, imagine what someone who and can read and write can accomplish. The POTUS is a C student and he still gets to sit in the big chair.
11 - Maurice
I think there were plenty of people with CDS. People that just hated Clinton because he was Clinton. They accused Clinton of "dishonesty, smugness, arrogance, stupidity, corruption, cronyism, incompetence, etc. etc. etc."
JELIEL(cubed) I have to agree with your accessment of anyone that would stoop to such levels.
12 - JELIEL³
Indeed, Maurice. He's been out of office for years and he still comes up as a point of contention to difuse critics or reorient attention onto something else than the task at hand when it concerns the administration.
13 - Maurice
Speaking of people being baggered until they just give up:
Rove and McClellan just resigned.
14 - JELIEL³
WOOHOO. That's good news. But Rove seems that he'll just be attached to other projects
White House shakeup touches McClellan, Rove
A shakeup in President Bush's administration widened today as White House press secretary Scott McClellan announced his resignation and a senior administration official said longtime Bush confidant Karl Rove will no longer oversee policy development. News of McClellan's exit comes shortly after the departure of White House chief of staff Andrew Card and amid calls for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. (CNN)
15 - MCH
JELIEL3;
So true, re Karl Rove...Stromboli (from Pinocchio) comes to mind...
16 - Nancy
Rove isn't quitting: he's been reassigned to assassinate anybody attempting to run outside the GOP/administration aegis, as usual, i.e. he's back into the dirty politics business, where he started.
17 - MCH
Don't think so, Nancy. He's too afraid of guns, as proved by his draft-dodging during Vietnam.
18 - gonzo marx
i think Nancy meant "character assasination" there, MCH...geeez d00d, give it a rest...we all know
but i digress...
as for Malkin and her ilk...they continue the Rovian doctrine of "distract,distort,deny and destroy"
not that Rove invented it, nor was he the first one to bring it to the modern GOP machine...he just perfected it beyond previous iterations...
to me, it starts hardcore in '93...allow me to Quote poetic to make the point...
"wear the Grudge like a crown,
negativity;
calculate what you will, or will not
tolerate;
desperate to control,
all and everything;
unable to forgive,
this Scarlet Letter."
TOOL
just some Thoughts
Excelsior!
19 - Nancy
*sigh* I need to get literal? Thanks, Gonzo, for the amplification, altho MCH is right, too: a cowardly maggot like Rove would never heft a gun. How come of everybody who gets mugged or assaulted in DC, no one ever goes after Rove? What's wrong with these stupid criminals, anyway?
20 - MCH
gonz;
NEVER!!!
21 - Dawn
Michele Malkin is just using her own minority status to gain exposure to herself. There is nothing that racists like more than when someone within a race group turns on their own.
It just gives creedance to the racist viewpoint. She is really just an imitating hack and a screeching harpy. Women who spew that much hate at the general populous just for attention give other women a bad name
22 - Dave Nalle
Dave - one can't do calligraphy with a pint roller....(unless he's very very good)
I beg to differ. I can do it. But the letters are going to be 3 feet high.
Dave
23 - Christopher Rose
I think you'll find that's graffiti not calligraphy!
24 - JELIEL³
Dawn, I tend to agree and anyone with so much vitriol in their soul, has truly deeper issues than the political ones she whines on and on about. Sometimes I feel she's just angry and would do the same in any other kind of forum other than political.
25 - Lumpy
Michelle Malkin iz a Hottie, She rocks. I love her for her multiethnic hotness and her beautiful wrinkly brain. I would like to make sweet skull-love to it.