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Michelle Malkin
Born	Michelle Maglalang (1970-10-20) October 20, 1970 (age 54) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation(s)	Author, syndicated columnist, television personality and blogger
Spouse	Jesse Malkin
Website	Michelle Malkin, Hot Air

Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang) is a conservative Filipina-American commentator. In addition to a widely read blog, Malkin posts regular video blogs. Her weekly syndicated column appears in nearly 200 newspapers and websites. She has been a frequent guest on MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and C-SPAN, and on national radio programs. Malkin has written three books.

Biography

Malkin was born on 20 October 1970 in Philadelphia to Filipino parents, Rafaela and Dr. Apolo Maglalang, while they were in the United States on student visas. She grew up in Absecon, New Jersey. Malkin graduated from Oberlin College which she described as a "radically left-wing, liberal arts college."

In 1993 she married Jesse Malkin, a Rhodes Scholar and former economist for the RAND Corporation. As of 2004, Jesse stays home and raises their two children: daughter, Veronica, and a son.

Career

Malkin began her career at the Los Angeles Daily News, working as a columnist from 1992 to 1994. In 1996, she moved to Seattle, Washington, where she wrote columns for The Seattle Times. She became a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate in 1999. She also has been a frequent commentator for FOX News Channel and has guest-hosted The O'Reilly Factor.

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. She related the 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 argued that its central thesis is false. An attempt to ban the book from the Manzanar relocation center National Historic Site failed.. Malkin's third book, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild was released in October 2005.

Blog

In June 2004 she launched a political blog which quickly became a popular conservative blog, at most times residing among the top five conservative political blogs. After initially allowing reader comments, she disabled them, attributing her decision to an intolerable level of obscene and racist comments. A 2007 memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee described Malkin as one of the five "best-read national conservative bloggers." In June 2007, she revamped the blog, moving it to Wordpress and a larger server. With the new redesign, subscribed readers can once again post comments, but only if they registered before 5 p.m. on June 22, 2007.

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.

Hot Air website

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." Other staffers include "Allahpundit" and Bryan Preston. 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 backed down 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 remarked "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."

Controversies

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As a blogger, journalist and television personality, Michelle Malkin has been the source of several public controversies.

Malkin has been criticized for defending the forced internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

As a result of the controversy, Hawaiian-based newspaper Midweek dropped her column. Midweek editor, Don Chapman stated:

In light of her new book and guest column in the Star-Bulletin justifying the internment of Japanese-American families in WWII, we felt she had become a detriment to our reputation and to our business.

Malkin occasionally posts hate mail she received, which often consists of racist or sexist epithets. Malkin says she has been "attacked as an 'Aunt Thomasina and a sellout and a race traitor' by liberals of Asian background"</ref>

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Leaving The O'Reilly Factor

According to her blog, Michelle Malkin left the O'Reilly Factor in response to the Geraldo Rivera controversy and what Malkin considered to be the "poor handling" of the matter.

Viewpoints

Malkin opposes the granting of automatic U.S. citizenship to babies born to illegal aliens, tourists, and temporary workers. Malkin discussed her position on these children, which she called "anchor babies" in a 2003 Jewish World Review column. The column ended, "Citizenship is too precious to squander on accidental Americans in Name Only."

She also opposes sanctuary cities, in which local authorities do not enforce all national immigration laws, such as the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) or coordinate with agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In light of the August 2007 execution-style murder of three college students in Newark, New Jersey, she has repeated her criticisms of politicians' posture towards sanctuary cities. (The prime suspect in the murders is an illegal immigrant with a history of violent felonies.) In particular, she criticized former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani, then a Republican candidate for the 2008 presidential election. She responded to his proposal for a tamper-proof identification card with this comment:

What Rudy-come-lately fails to comprehend is that there are already multiple alien tracking databases mandated by that have yet to be fully implemented, integrated and used.

She contended that the databases have not been successful because politicians opposed funding them. She further noted that the 1996 immigration law prohibited local governments from barring employees from coordinating with the INS (the predecessor to the ICE). She supports coordination with federal authorities through the use of Section 287(g) of the IIRIRA.

Notes and references

1. ^ Pitts, Jonathan (2008-03-09). "Right at home". The Baltimore Sun. p. E.1. Cite error: The named reference "pitts" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
2. A Hard Right Punch; Michelle Malkin's Conservative Fight Has Others Coming Out Swinging; Howard Kurtz - Washington Post Staff Writer. The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: Feb 16, 2007. pg. C.1
3. ^ Michelle Malkin interview re Invasion, Brian Lamb, Booknotes, December 8, 2002
4. "Michelle Malkin of 'The Seattle Times'", The Masthead, Winter 1998. Accessed October 25, 2007. "Malkin, originally from Absecon, New Jersey, is a graduate of Oberlin College."
5. "Michelle Malkin: as a book author, newspaper columnist, television commentator, and blogger, this young first-generation American has used a pull-no-punches style to criticize U.S. immigration and war-on-terror policies.", The American Enterprise, September 1, 2005. Accessed October 25, 2007.
6. "RAND". {{cite web}}: Text "Authors" ignored (help); Text "Jesse Malkin" ignored (help); Text "M" ignored (help); Text "Reports & Bookstore" ignored (help)
7. America’s broken health insurance system, MichelleMalkin.com, August 27, 2004 ("After my husband quit his job earlier this year (to become a full-time stay-at-home dad).")
8. "Opinion Michelle Malkin" (HTML). Creators Syndicate.
9. "Opinion Michelle Malkin" (RSS). Creators Syndicate.
10. "Open Letter to Michelle Malkin" from the "Historians' Committee for Fairness"
11. "A Book-Banning Dodged--Thank You!", MichelleMalkin.com, May 7, 2005; has links to Malkin's responses to criticisms of In Defense of Internment
12. Ranking details for Malkin's blog at The Truth Laid Bear
13. "Comments, Trolls, and the Left's Continued Whore Fixation", MichelleMalkin.com, February 8, 2005
14. "GOP issues rules to avoid Macaca moments", Carrie Budoff, The Politico, June 13, 2007
15. "Welcome to the new michellemalkin.com!", June 18, 2007
16. "Comment registration is open", June 21, 2007, updated June 22, 2007
17. "Inside Air America: An Investigative Blog Report", Michellemalkin.com, August 17, 2005
18. "Conservative Internet Broadcast Network Debuts", PRWeb.com, April 24, 2006
19. "Hot Air turns One", Michelle Malkin, HotAir.com, April 24, 2007
20. "The Road Goes Ever On"
21. "Akon's record company abuses DMCA to stifle criticism on YouTube", MichelleMalkin.com, May 3, 2007
22. "UMG & YouTube retreat over Akon report", MichelleMalkin.com, May 14, 2007
23. "Malkin Fights Back Against Copyright Law Misuse by Universal Music Group", Electronic Frontier Foundation press release, May 9, 2007
24. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/07/0714_bloggers/source/14.htm"Michelle Malkin and Hot Air", Businessweek.com, July 14, 2007
25. "Michelle Malkin » BOOK BUZZ".
26. "Minority Conservatives And The Sellout Smear", MichelleMalkin.com, January 12, 2005
27. "Maglalangadingdong this", MichelleMalkin.com, December 3, 2004
28. "Malkin: Liberal Bigotry on the Rise", NewsMax.com, November 28, 2004
29. http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/15/stiiiiill-going/ Michelle Malkin.com Stiiiiill Going, October 15, 2009
30. "What makes an American?", Michelle Malkin, Jewish World Review, July 4, 2003
31. Michelle Malkin (August 15, 2007), Sanctuary Nation or Sovereign Nation: It’s your choice Update: Illegal alien deportation evader Elvira Arellano will leave church sanctuary to participate in amnesty march, retrieved 2008-09-27 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |source= ignored (help)
32. Michelle Malkin, "Sanctuary Nation or Sovereign Nation: It's Your Choice," Cybercast News Service, August 15, 2007
33. "Michelle Malkin » BUSH'S OPEN-BORDERS NOMINEES".
34. "Gee! Let Us Just Enforce 287(g) ... Really! :: MAXINE". {{cite web}}: Text "The News is NowPublic.com" ignored (help)

Books

• Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Regnery Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-89526-030-1
• In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War On Terror, Regnery Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-89526-051-4
• Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces, Regnery Publishing, 2002, ISBN 0-89526-075-1

External links

Malkin's sites

• Malkin's official site
• Archive of Malkin's columns at Townhall.com
• Archive of Malkin's columns at Jewish World Review

Critiques of Malkin

• Stories on Malkin from Media Matters for America

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