Comments on: Quiz

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:10:03 +0000

Malkin is way hotter than Coulter, but the point is … oh wait, was there a point?

By: Drake

Drake — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:04:35 +0000

Oooohhhh…a Hotney sighting.

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:41:39 +0000

R. Neal:
They�ll all grow up to be republicans, just like the last time.

Ha!

By: JustinB

JustinB — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 01:23:46 +0000

I’m thinking that I’d nail Malkin before Helen Thomas anyday….

By: R. Neal

R. Neal — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:54:21 +0000

Now that Helen Thomas. Now there�s a handsome woman.

You got that right. A homely woman of character, intelligence, and accomplishment is far, far more attractive than a shrill, egotistical, intellectual lightweight who thinks she’s attractive and is desperate for everyone else to agree.

By: R. Neal

R. Neal — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:13:37 +0000

Look at her blog photo and the standard issue fashion shoot softening/lighting photoshop treatment. Then get back to me.

By: brittney

brittney — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:07:13 +0000

Wow. It’s too bad that women’s appearances must be brought into this.

By: Gandalf Mantooth

Gandalf Mantooth — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:29:26 +0000

Funny, R. Neal, that’s almost exactly what I posted about her in my blog. I don’t know about Malkin’s pretentions of real journalism. Her books are not exactly what I’d call journalism.

By: smantix

smantix — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:54:33 +0000

Now that Helen Thomas. Now there’s a handsome woman.

By: R. Neal

R. Neal — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:05:38 +0000

She’s trying to be the Ann Coulter (except less attractive, if that’s possible) of the blogosphere, and hopefully someday beyond in the fantasy world that exists only in her small mind. The e-mails were pretty much inexcusable though. On the other hand, it’s the same tyep of stuff young, immature, radical students used to paint on signs and cheap flyers and underground papers before the internets. They’ll all grow up to be republicans, just like the last time.

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:21:42 +0000

Answer: Both.

First and foremost, nothing excuses the type of crude, often racist and/or sexist hate mail Malkin received. Not even Malkin deserves that. Period.

But there’s quite a bit of tarnish to Malkin’s halo here. Had she merely reprinted the information and moved on, that would be one thing. But when the information had been taken down (and “scrubbed from cache,” I believe she said) and she went out of her way not only to find it at another source, but also to print a screen shot in case that site went down, she crossed a line into unethical behavior and journalistic irresponsibility. It would be bad enough if some two-bit blogger — left or right — did something like this, but someone like Malkin, who pretends to be a real journalist, out to know better.

Sure, it was stupid of them to publish personal information and not expect some kind of nasty response. But that doesn’t excuse someone of Malkin’s influence intentionally fanning those flames — and I find it hard to believe she’s doing anything else here. She’s essentially inviting her readers to attack the messengers rather than the message — far too common a tactic in modern politics, in my estimation.

By: Adam Lawson

Adam Lawson — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:53:14 +0000

I love how the liberal response, such as Lean Left, is pretty much blaming Malkin for the crap she’s getting, when all she did was publicize… a public flyer…

By: Manish

Manish — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:46:52 +0000

Reprinting their names and numbers after asking that they be taken down is not right.

By: Rustmeister

Rustmeister — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:01:53 +0000

Not to mention that same information is still up on other websites.

By: Justin Buist

Justin Buist — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:48:49 +0000

I agree, though, that once the protestors told Malkin they were getting death threats and asked her to take down their contact info that she should have done so. Leaving it up is irresponsible.

It would be… if they had contacted her. From Malkin’s blog:

Oh, and for the record–not that the facts matter to the unhinged–not one of the three SAW students whose contact information is still publicly accessible across several websites has e-mailed me [*or phoned me or contacted me in any other way*] as of 12:30am EDT 4/18 [*as of 10:00am EDT*] to request that I remove anything.

By: drstrangegun

drstrangegun — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:02:54 +0000

The only thing really “shocking” to me is how quickly the “sensitive” left devolved into using racial and sexist slurs. True colors, you know?

By: Les Jones

Les Jones — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:37:43 +0000

Printed by mistake, my foot. Here's a scan of the press release. That contact information was included intentionally in a press release marked "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE" and with their names listed as the ad-hoc press team. I agree, though, that once the protestors told Malkin they were getting death threats and asked her to take down their contact info that she should have done so. Leaving it up is irresponsible.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:17:18 +0000

Trick question. The answer is, it depends on which side you’re trying to score political points for.

By: Lean Left

Lean Left — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:09:07 +0000

[...] Oh, Uncle has shown me the light! How could I have been so wrong! It’s okay because someone said something mean to her! I guess that makes it okay for me to do the same thing to someone because I have gotten nasty emails. Wow, thanks — I hadn’t known it was all right to participate in the harassment of someone at their home because some had written me a mean email. That has the potential to make my life so much more interesting. And, hey, if someone gets harassed or has to move or gets hurt, well, hey — not my fault. I mean, the info I will use will be in the public domain and hey, someone wrote me a mean email calling me a “worthless f*cking traitor” and hurt my little feelings. Because we all know that mean emails are exactly and precisely the same thing as knowingly keeping up the personal information of people I know to be receiving death threats and harassment. Exactly and precisely the same. No difference at all. Nope. Mean email == making it easy for people to harasses someone at home. Well known fact, that. I am sorry, what could I have been thinking? [...]