who committed suicide:
MALKIN SMEARS DEAD WOMAN, SAYS SHE'S A "CORRUPTOCRAT." SERIOUSLY.
You may have missed this story, but it's worth a look. It appears that Michelle Malkin is taking some heat from her compadres on the right because she failed to apologized after heaping a great deal of vitriol on a woman who subsequently committed suicide.
Well, now Malkin has lashed back at her critics. Her response? She smeared the dead woman again, calling her a "corruptocrat."
This is quite a tale. Here's what happened: Not long ago the news broke that some military recruiters fled a University of California Santa Cruz job fair after some protestors forced their way into the fair. Malkin immediately sprang into action. She wrote that "UC Santa Cruz hates our troops," described the school as "seditious" and instructed her on-line army of pod people to direct their wrath at UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denise Denton, even though it wasn't at all clear why she should be held responsible for the protests. Naturally, Malkin posted contact info so the pod people could more easily shriek and howl about what a traitor this Chancellor apparently was.
Well, on June 24, Denton, 46, went and jumped from the roof of one of the tallest buildings in San Francisco. The reasons are murky, though news reports say that politics, scandal and her high public profile may have played a role. Did the attacks from Malkin and her marching followers play a role, too? No one has alleged that, in fairness. On the other hand, being fingered by the Malkin gang wouldn't exactly ease one's mental anguish, obviously.
Either way, Reason magazine's David Weigel has now pointed out that it might have been, you know, in good form if Malkin expressed some sort of remorse or something for directing so much vitriol her way preceeding her suicide. Weigel wrote: "It might become her to apologize for smearing an academic, and directing people to direct their outrage to her office, in what were the final troubled months of her life."
Well, needless to say, Malkin didn't like that. An hour or two ago she lashed back, instructing her army of pod people to now point their fingers at Weigel and bellow and shriek at him, too. And wouldn't you know it, in defending herself Malkin just couldn't resist one more parting shot at the dead woman. She wrote:
http://www.prospect.org/horsesmouth/2006/07/post_202.html#003098
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