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Michelle Malkin 

Malkin was born Michelle Maglalang in Philadelphia to Filipino parents, Dr. Apolo and
Rafaela Maglalang, in the United States on a work visa. Her maternal
grandfather fought under General Douglas MacArthur. She grew up in Absecon,
New Jersey, and graduated from Oberlin College. In 1993, she married Rhodes
Scholar and RAND Corporation economist Jesse Malkin, with whom she has two
children. Her husband now looks after their children, as well as helping her
with her work "for a few hours a week"

She began her career at the Los Angeles Daily News, working as a columnist from
1992 to 1994. In her column, she once described her early career thus:
"How can anybody live on $25K/year?? When I was 24 and making less than that,
I did it by eating Spaghetti-O's, Ramen noodles and Swanson pot pies for dinner;
driving a Toyota Tercel with no air conditioning; and sleeping on a $30 futon."
In 1996, she moved to Seattle, where she wrote columns for The Seattle
Times, and participated in a panel at an Asian American professional
conference with John Carlson debating Initiative 200, a ban on racial preferences.
She became a nationally syndicated columnist in 1999. Malkin's column,
syndicated by Creators Syndicate, appears in over 200 newspapers nationwide
as of 2005. She is also a frequent commentator for FOX News Channel.

In June 2004 she launched a political blog which quickly became highly popular,
at most times residing among the top five conservative political blogs.
Like many political bloggers, she has disabled comments on her blog because
of a torrent of obscene (and, in her case, racist) comments.
Malkin's blog occasionally highlights investigative reports from other
sites, most notably an investigation into financial irregularities at Air America Radio.
She is frequently used as an example of the blurred line between bloggers
and reporters, given such investigations and her widely distributed columns
and appearances on multiple media outlets.

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, defending Japanese American
internment by the United States Government during World War II and relating this
theme to the contemporary War on Terrorism, taking some heat from Asian
American civil rights organizations who had been uniformly opposed to this
historical policy. The "Historians' Committee for Fairness", a group of professors,
condemned the book for not having undergone peer review and containing
a central thesis they argued was false. Opponents also attempted to ban the book
from the Manzanar relocation center National Historic Site but failed when
the management refused to "censor dissenting viewpoints".

Malkin's third book, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild was released
in October 2005. On April 24, 2006, Hot Air, a "conservative Internet broadcast network"
went into operation, with Malkin as founder and CEO. She has a daily newscast on
Hot Air called "Vent With Michelle Malkin."
—Wikipedia

  Spooky Ghost

No one beneath you can offend you.
No one your equal would.

— Jan Wells

Write injuries in sand,
kindnesses in marble.

— French Proverb

 

 

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