Michelle Malkin: I am not a (paid) whore

[Cocoa]

pro bono, I guess...



http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20050112.shtml

No. Never. Not one penny.

In the wake of reports last week that the Bush Education Department paid Republican pundit Armstrong Williams $241,000 to flack for its "diversity"-friendly policies while Williams posed as an independent commentator, readers have begun sending e-mails asking whether I am also on the GOP take. There seems to be an orchestrated campaign now because I've received several letters with the exact same wording:

"Have you, at any time, taken money from the Bush administration in exchange for promotion of the administration's policies?"

Hostile readers assert that if I ignore their e-mails, they'll assume I am getting paid off by the Bush administration. So, here I am, answering this question instead of reporting on the Michael Chertoff nomination (smart move) or Kid Rock's invitation to the inaugural celebration (dumb move) or the CBS/Memogate scandal (they're still in dinosaur media denial).

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[meegbear]

1. Wasting her time answering payola questions?

All of her columns are a waste of time.

[The Zanti Regent]

20. It is a total waste.

I will never forgive this whore and her pimps for sending my only child to die.

[liberal N proud]

2. Does she get paid by a corporate mogul to write this propaganda?

If the answer is yes she gets paid to write, then she is a paid Whore.

[Skittles]

10. well yes but

I think the difference is are they paid specifically to whore for an issue; I agree it is a very fine line since regardless, she does earn her pay being a GOP whore. There is no way these whores can believe half the drivel they write.

[JHB]

3. Speaking of dinosaur media denial...

...Michelle conveniently forgets that the sloppy reporting practices in "Memogate" that the conservatives are so upset about were quite exemplary compared to the standards maintained of many "liberal" media outlets during the Ken Starrlost's Whitewater "investigation".

See the "Gene Lyons" thread elsewhere on this board.

[KoKo]

4. hmmm... there are other forms of payola besides $$$$'s. She does

sound like she protests a little too much.

[realFedUp]

6. yeah, tit for tat

other ways to grease the spinning wheels.

[zbdent]

5. You know, they could update her photo

What's that, hear 1956 High School yearbook junior photo?

[Skittles]

12. Dorian Gray comes to mind

nt

[zbdent]

15. Naw, the photo aged as he stayed youthful in appearance

Have you seen her? ewwyugh!

[Skittles]

24. aw man you are correct!

yes, she is thoroghly nasty and it disgusts me no end to hear some DUers refer to her as HOT. The hatred is ETCHED into her face.

[DemoVet]

7. Well maybe she's not getting paid by the Bushies to whore for them

but she still makes a good living from it.

[nashville_brook]

8. whoever smelt it dealt it

why the mea culpa?

"i am not a crook"

[Skittles]

9. as much as I despise her

kudos to her for taking the lead in letting us know she whores for free

[bunkerbuster1]

11. And as much as I loathe her politics

and I think she deserves every one of those nasty comments she reprinted, I'll take as genuine her outrage over the actual payoff. She managed a decent final graf, which I'll paste here:


As a result of the Williams/Department of Education payoff, the rhetoric against the rest of us will get even nastier. In the name of "minority outreach," the Republican education bureaucrats who cooked up their pathetic scheme with Williams have done more damage to our credibility than all the unhinged liberal cartoonists and race-baiters and grievance-mongers could ever hope to do.

Now, Ms. Malagang, if you could only spare some of that outrage for Chimpy, who made this all possible, I might have a smidgeon of respect for you.

Then I'd remember you're pro-concentration camps...

[rooboy]

18. exactly. She's not a whore, she's a slut. n/t

[indepat]

13. What ever she is, she is a high-paid one

[nosmokes]

14. so she's letting 'em know she's available?

:shrug:

[kclown]

16. Wonkette's delicious quote:

"Michelle Malkin takes a break from staring into a wind machine."

[MichiganVote]

17. No matter what her profession is, she's cheap.

[Slyder]

19. Less than knowledgeable

Her columns appear in the KC Star, where I read her regularly. Good to know what the enemy is up to. (She gets my heart going in the morning as I scream at the newspaper!) I also find that she apparently flunked poly sci and knows little about U.S. polity. While she constantly disses immigrants, she is too ignorant to pass a citizenship test. What are we to make of this statement from her July 16, 2003 column:

Puerto Rican national Luz Morales-Cotto, who claimed that her daughter had a job interview at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 and that she had not heard from her since. The "grieving" mother collected $16,500 from the Red Cross and Safe Horizon and $5,000 in Social Security survivor benefits. Morales knew all along that her daughter was alive and well in Puerto Rico.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20030716.shtml

What the heck is a "Puerto Rican national"? The last time I looked Puerto Ricans were American citizens. If she knows better and assumes Americans are this stupid, then I am truly worried about this nation.

[MADem]

21. She wasn't under oath,either, when she wrote that column

But of course, a rightwinger would NEVER lie, would they?

[GoldenOldie]

22. Where do they get these talentless wannabee's????

[Maat]

23. Michelle, let's play a fun game ..

tracing your pay to right-wing benefactors of the 'think tanks' and 'foundations,' such as Richard Mellon Scaife and members of the Coors family. For example, Townhall.com is the baby of the Heritage Foundation, one of whose founding members was Joe Coors, and townhall.com carries your column. These same benefactors contribute to Bush and the RNC. NOW, are you saying that you have no relationship with the Bush Administration?