RightOnline: Michelle Malkin

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 12:20 pm

PITTSBURGH – The author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling “Culture of Corruption” closed out the morning of RightOnline, where she’s the undisputed star. She relished the attacks on conservative activists, sarcastically repeating what she claimed were left-wing assaults: “You, the teeny tiny fringe minority of fringe conservative activists — you have seized control of the domestic policy debate in this country.”

Malkin recited a litany of Democratic blunders, but one of them seemed misleading. “They’re charging $25 to attend town halls to hear Obamacare talking points,” she said. The source for that? A post on Malkin’s blog, linking to the news that business-friendly Blue Dog Democratic Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.) was speaking at a $25 breakfast for a local Chamber of Commerce.

Multi-Chamber Breakfast meeting hosted by the Lake Zurich Area Chamber of Commerce will feature guest speaker Congresswoman Melissa Bean, September 2, 2009, @ Concorde Banquets, Kildeer.
Congresswoman Bean will also be presented the US Chamber’s Spirit of Enterprise Award given annually to members of Congress based on their support of key business issues.

Open only to representatives of Chamber member businesses in good standing in District 8.  $25 cost includes a full breakfast.

Based on that: Hey, Democrats across the country are charging for town hall meetings!

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Mark
Comment posted August 16, 2009 @ 2:52 am

How did Michelle Malkin become #1 on the New York Times bestseller?

I mean in a true red state and I've NEVER seen anybody who owns a book by Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, etc…


justhefacts3
Comment posted August 16, 2009 @ 2:48 pm

Here is the Lake Zurich Area Chamber of Commerce page in question in it's first form:

Town Hall Breakfast meeting with Congresswoman Melissa Bean. Hear her positions on Healthcare, Railroads, Taxes and more. Questions and answers following. Multi-Chamber event.

Includes Full Breakfast. Advance registration required. $25 per person. Includes full breakfast. RSVP required by August 24.

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It has since been changed to:

Multi-Chamber Breakfast meeting hosted by the Lake Zurich Area Chamber of Commerce will feature guest speaker Congresswoman Melissa Bean, September 2, 2009, @ Concorde Banquets, Kildeer.

Congresswoman Bean will also be presented the US Chamber’s Spirit of Enterprise Award given annually to members of Congress based on their support of key business issues.

Open only to representatives of Chamber member businesses in good standing in District 8. $25 cost includes a full breakfast. Make payments to the Lake Zurich Area Chamber of Commerce. Advance reservation and payment required.

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Looks like a “Town Hall Breakfast” changed to a “Multi-Chamber Breakfast”


winston_oboogie
Comment posted August 16, 2009 @ 3:37 pm

How did Barack Obama become President? I don't know anyone who would consider voting for a “Senator” who made no significant contributions to either the IL or US Senate, wrote two books when he should have been teaching, and was running for the next office as soon as he forced his opponent out of an election.

Seriously, what kind of egomaniac writes their autoboiography at 40-something?

Libs will finally get a clue when it hits them in the wallet and purse. The culture of entitlement has to end. We can't afford all the deadwood. Pull your weight or move on. I understand Cuba and Venezuela have great entitlement plans.

As it was said by Obama's inspiration: In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.


daveofdetroit
Comment posted August 16, 2009 @ 7:55 pm

Malkin told the RightOnline audience about the ways members of congress were avoiding open meetings with their constituents. From her speech:

“And on the White House healthcare take-over plan, you have the majority running scared. Think about this, contemplate this, Democrat lawmakers, on recess now, are hiding from their constituents, in SEIU offices. They are taking sanctuary in children's hospitals. They're phoning it in, in teleconference calls, instead of face to face meetings. They're charging voters $25 to attend town hall events for the privilege of hearing ObamaCare talking point recitations. And they're stacking their audiences with fake doctors. … “
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/15/video-mic…

Malkin never said “Hey, Democrats across the country are charging for town hall meetings!” She singled-out Congresswoman Bean for charging this fee, but later she pointed out that Congresswoman Bean changed “the title of the meeting to lessen the embarrassment” from “town hall” to “chamber breakfast.”
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/16/pretty-sne…

The only thing “misleading” is your blog entry.


Irish_Wake
Comment posted August 16, 2009 @ 11:31 pm

1) Barak Obama became president because more people voted for him that for any other candidate.
2) Writing books is a peculiarity in academia, commonly referred to as 'publish or perish.'
3) Running for the next highest job is a common practice in both business & government.
4) His autoboiography (sic) introduces himself as he steps up to the national stage.
4a) The author is Barak Obama.
5) This last paragraph of bile seems to be for the author's benefit, as the opening 'As it has been said by (President) Obama's inspiration' lacks meaning, and the balance of the thought is confused, finishing with a socialist slogan.

This post does not take issue with M. Malkin's lying about easily checked facts; it seems to come from the same barrel of…stuff. Do you suppose this is why the Democrats are in the White House?


Brewlord
Comment posted August 17, 2009 @ 12:48 am

ussualy its because jagoffs from the Heritage Foundation buy 30,000 copies that they give away to their puppets. This moves the NYT non-fiction list (fiction sells more), propelling her to the top of the list, causing more book sales to those who can't read. The Anchorbaby's book should probably be lised as fiction, but she's not really of the reality based community


fishypoo
Comment posted August 17, 2009 @ 1:34 am

“The Heritage Foundation is buying Michelle Malkin's books”….???

It takes a real cobbhead intellect to come up with that one.

Isn't there a lot of angst in the liberal community about the overwhelming sale of conservative books?

Probably much gnashing of teeth over the face that conservative books SELL…how many liberal-oriented books do you see on the best seller list? Certainly there's no lack of liberal organizations that could use taxpayer money to buy THEIR books.

It takes a real cobbhead intellect not to realize Malkin has millions of fans!!


willieu
Comment posted August 17, 2009 @ 1:43 am

you must not get out much.
turn off the Playstation and go outside


willieu
Comment posted August 17, 2009 @ 1:45 am

love it how you condemn the “illiterate” buy misspelling your first word.


parable
Comment posted August 17, 2009 @ 8:39 pm

Love how you condemn the writer's spelling by misspelling by. Two letters. Pretty difficult.


Brewlord
Comment posted August 18, 2009 @ 2:04 am

notice he didn't refute the point of my post. That point has been made by many others not just me. I'm actually amazed your head didn't explode from me calling her “Anchorbaby”


Tuci78
Comment posted August 18, 2009 @ 10:53 am

Nope.

1) Barry Soetoro slimed into the White House because the Republican Party struggled manfully and succeeded in nominating the single most “bipartisan” RINO lump of incompetence in the running – good old Crash Test Johnnie, who in 2000 was contemplating pulling an Arlen Specter and jumping over completely into the arms of his good buddies in the National Socialist (nobody calls 'em “Democrat” any more) Party. The Republican Secret Masters of Pork, having viciously participated in the inflation-fueled “Boom” of the business cycle government creates, wanted to be entirely clear of the bloody wreckage in the “Bust” that began early in 2007, and which they managed to hand-wave out of the public eye until about midway through 2008. The last thing they wanted was someone with an “(R)” after his name in either the White House or the Congress when the avalanche came down. Thus the electorate was given a Republican “choice” who was really no choice at all.

2) And perhaps those who voted for Barry Soetoro are deep in “buyer's remorse,” horrible shame, and acute awareness that if they told any of their neighbors they'd made that mistake, they'd be given the pariah treatment they deserve.

3) Barry Soetoro can't write for the proverbial pile of sour owl guano. What little of his actual writing – chiefly scholarly stuff done while a student – demonstrates this abundantly. When his literary agent got him the contract for his first book (and an advance of $125,000 dollars – something so miraculous considering the nature of the proposed work and the fact that Barry submitted effectively nothing but an outline for consideration, and that horribly ill-written) he couldn't complete the manuscript, and had to give back that part of the advance he hadn't already blown. Yet another contract was negotiated by the same agent with another publisher, this time again for an advance (though much smaller), and still Barry couldn't get print on paper. His “mentor” in socialism and criminality, Bill Ayers, almost certainly ghosted the majority of that manuscript (for the style of Dreams From My Father is Ayers' to the max), and when first published it tanked and was swiftly relegated to the remainder piles. Said book only made the best-seller list when its lies became part of Barry's run for the presidency, which he more or less announced when he slimed from Springfield IL to Washington DC in 2004.

By the bye, Barry Soetoro's experience “in academia” is virtually bereft of any undergraduate, law school, or postgraduate publications. The guy is a zero, a ghost, a vacuum, a nothing insofar as the “publish or perish” side of academia goes. Brilliant as a snake-oil salesman, inept as a “poverty pimp” (the proper term for “community organizer”), unable to write fluidly or coherently, and a fake of a sham of a counterfeit in all aspects of his carefully “sealed” and secretive excuse for a life.

4) Seeking power to violate the lives, liberties, and property of one's neighbors is the sign of a pathological personality.

5) Barry's autobiography is – like all such autobiographies – a carefully crafted instrument of deceptive propaganda. A pack of lies from an National Socialist lawyer. Jeez, who'da thunk?

6) Barry Soetoro's “inspiration” may lack “meaning” – if by “meaning” is meant consequentiality, acknowledgment of the laws of economics, and respect for human rights – but it certainly packs plenty of malice, ample contempt for the people of this nation, and levels of fraudulence that make Bernie Madoff's long and predatory career look like the antics of a carny grifter.


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Irish_Wake
Comment posted August 19, 2009 @ 1:04 am

I apologize. I see the details I used in an attempt to illustrate a deflection from the article's point created confusion rather than clarity. Instead of trying to have a discussion that starts off with egomaniacal and poverty pimp, let's return to the beginning.

I had intended to show Mr. oboogie's comments were feelings not opinions, and did not address the premise of the article: Madam Malkin lies with malice aforethought, stating ideas that were intended to misguide a portion of the electorate that hungers for aggressive misrepresentation of ideas. Indeed, sections of the GOP in my own state have tried to portray the President as fascist – ironic since fascism is by definition a right-wing authoritarian form of government. This Orwellian use of words without regard for their meaning is perverse.

But you knew that. Democrat labels: slimed, shamed, socialism, criminality and more ad nauseum, unable to tolerate any person or group that is not in agreement with an idea contrary to your own. M. Malkin is assured a long career.


Brewlord
Comment posted August 19, 2009 @ 2:18 am

Tuci, good to see your meds still need adjusting. Seek professional help, seriously. Your venom is starting to make Savage and Malkin seem like poster children for the well adjusted


Tuci78
Comment posted August 19, 2009 @ 8:28 am

Got content, Brew? No? Didn't think so.


Tuci78
Comment posted August 19, 2009 @ 8:36 am

Truth to tell, I've no higher an opinion of Ms. Malkin than you apparently do.

But I'd suggest that you stop thinking “left-right” and put the picture on a plane – a Nolan chart or a Pournelle diagram (look 'em up; they're both on Wikipedia).

I prefer Dr. Nolan's appreciation, as it bags and tags fascists and communists – the so-called “extreme right” and the so-called “extreme left” of the socialist spectrum – together, where (as von Ribbentrop and Molotov proved in 1939) they manifestly belong.

As for calling the the leader of our national socialist party a National Socialist (and therefore a fascist), where the heck have you been for the past decade or so? That plain-speaking tactic – much distressing to the tender, sensitive “Liberal” brand of fascist – has been rumbled for a bunch of years. It's only become current of late among the cement-headed Republicans like Ms. Malkin, but then how don't we expect someone like Malkin to be late to the game?


winston_oboogie
Comment posted September 6, 2009 @ 4:25 am

Mr/Ms Wake,

You master the obvious in point one. More people voted for BHO, but how many of those were actually legal voters, versus, for lack of a better catch all term, “all other voters?”

I know which of my friends and coworkers voted for BHO, as they know I did not. Lets not go to polite, which is only convienient to Democrats and/or Liberals when they are offended by it. All others are simply told to “get over it. We won.”

Better for someone to have a body of work or some achievement to write a book about rather than all their (non)accomplishments. That dog don't hunt bub.

“Running for the next highest job” once you have mastered your current job is understandable. BHO was running for POTUS from the day he forced his opponent out of the Senate race in IL. How many times can you vote “present?” How many bills do you need to author or at least sponsor before becoming a respected member of the Senate? Evidently not too many.

Most people do not use an autobiography to introduce themselves. They use their body of work and achievements. But since BHO had none, I see your point. And it's nice that he took the time to write it on the U of Chicagos' dime.

The last paragraph is for those who think this hopey-changey poop is real. People like you.

I suppose Dems are in the White House because as you pointed out, BHO got more votes counted for him than McCain. How many of those votes were illegal, and how many were not counted for McCain is water under the bridge.

I hope your wallet/purse is full right now so you too and experience the hopey-changey thing. And you too will hope there is some change left over for a bottle of water.

Go forth and do good things, but for God's sake don't multiply. The kiddie end of the gene pool is in need of chlorine. And don't eat those Baby Ruth bars you find in the pool, eh.

Have a splendid day. Mine in Iraq will be….oh yeah, I am home because we were supposed to be pulled out by now. Wonder what happened there???


Irish_Wake
Comment posted September 9, 2009 @ 6:40 pm

Irish_Wake, please. Gender is as unimportant as party affiliation. Truth and honor are to be respected regardless of where they originate.
I find that when I eliminate the unnecessary and bilious wording, posts such as these are much shorter, less incendiary, and occasionally have a point. I heard many people state that Candidate Obama was an unknown; his attempts to address this are dismissed as communist ravings or some such drivel. The balance of your post is similarly looking for evidence to confirm your tightly held beliefs: illegal votes, either a naive or calculating politician, not enough Senate time…
This is why I have problems with the Michelle Malkin. Her list of objections is primarily inconsequential, and borders on the petty.
I do solemnly salute your current assignment. What happened there is factual evidence for a change in leadership. That card was cynically played in 2004; I fell for it myself. I wish you well; be safe.


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