Little help please - suggestion on who is a comparable left wing Michelle Malkin...

[HardWorkingDem]

I'm sort of tired hearing about Michelle Malkin as if she is some truthful journalist, but I'm trying to throw in the face of a rethug the statement like,

"The right's Michelle Malkin is like the left's .........".

Can anyone toss me a couple of names? Thanks.

[YOY]

1. Micheal Moore? That's a stretch even though...

He has been known to pull shit from his ass on occasion.

Sorry, I just can't even begin to fathom as most lefties have gotten no way near the lee-way that the RW has gotten for the past 26 years.

[Erika]

4. Michael Moore never favored concentration camps

Malkin did. She's one hateful slug.

[YOY]

5. Like I said it's a stretch...

He does do that shmultz thing though... Sorry can't stand it.

[hlthe2b]

11. You' ve got to be kidding...

Well, they are both Americans, I guess.... Other than that, where is the similarity?

[YOY]

19. Like I said for the 3rd time "IT'S A STRETCH"

Or do you not understand what I mean by 'It's a stretch.'?

And regretfully, Moore does pull stuff out of his tail on occasion. (No where near as much as the Fox News crowd though.)

[Erika]

2. Malkin is a racist neocon

The left has no one like her.

[Syncronaut Seven]

3. Sorry friend, Michelle is in a class all by her self.

Propagandist is not a worthy goal for which to aspire.

[Bobbie Jo]

6. Hmmm....No one comes to mind.

She occupies a class of stupidity all her own. :shrug:

[Erika]

17. Stupidity and venomous hatred towards any who

dare disagree with her. She's one hateful woman.

[Mabus]

7. Zell Miller?

Okay, it's a stretch. :shrug:

[Maraya1969]

8. To suggest that there is anyone on the left that is like Michelle Malkin is an insult to the

Democratic party. How can you compare a person who blatantly states that she couldn't care less about the torture of prisoners with anyone in the Democratic party.

The woman is missing a soul.

[Erika]

12. Amen, she and the likes of Coulter, Ingraham, etc

are like ice cubes when it comes to compassion or caring.

[HardWorkingDem]

13. sigh, what I'm looking for.....

is a liberal journlist or talk show host who is known to embellish the truth or do shabby research or just sort of always spout the company line.

I know we have to have some out there, both sides do, but right now I'm running a blank.

I guess Jason Leopold or Jayson Blair might work.

[Erika]

15. Malkin is venomous in her hate columns

to include incarceration of Muslims. What does that have to do with Leopold or Blair.

[HardWorkingDem]

18. Trying to find someone who's reporting is....

more or less discredited.

Blair is toast because of his plagarism, but Leopold does have his own issues.

I'm not really going toward the vile and disgusting parts of her work, but of the accuracy and truthfulness.

[Erika]

21. What does Leopold and Blair have to do with anything?

Malkin and her cohorts are shameful to this country. She, Coulter, and Ingraham, ought to be all tossed out for the damage they have done to this country with their out landish hate filled spewing against anyone who isn't neocon.

[HardWorkingDem]

25. Blair/Leopold...

Blair had his plagiarism issues and Leopold the accuracy of his reporting.

I'm not really after the political content of her comments, but more so of the accuracy of her reporting.

Though I will use the parts DUers have provided about the internment camps and the like.

[hfojvt]

55. but I think the key complaint with Malkin

is not about her inaccuracy, but about the way she hates and encourages hate.

Was Blair even on the left? He did not plagiarize as much as he made sh*t up. As in, he would write an article and quote William Pitt as if he interviewed him, but he never actually interviewed him, just made up a plausible sounding quote. Just too lazy to do the actual work I guess, but he was not out there on TV pretending to know something that he did not know.

[MannyGoldstein]

9. Stalin? n/t

[alittlelark]

27. Good answer! But Stalin was hardly a leftist, he was a power

hungry sociopath. He was in no way progressive, and seemed to destroy all he touched.

The Malkin comparison is not so far 'in left field' to be dismissed.

[TheWraith]

29. Stalin was a leftist the way Bush is a conservative. In name only.

Neither of them has/had the least respect for the philosophies they claim(ed) to espouse.

[alittlelark]

38. They are both power hungry and ENTITLED

I wish our childrens' history books were more realistic....kids get it.

[GreenZoneLT]

10. Mike Malloy

He pitches screaming hissy fits on the air, beats up straw men and demonizes Republicans.

[Erika]

14. Huh? Not that I've seen

And he's not a woman. Try again.

[samfishX]

26. Malloy doesn't throw out straw men

He screams and rages and demonizes Republicans to the point where it's laughable (which is the point), but he never really tosses up straw men.

Well, I shouldn't say NEVER never, because sooner or later, everyone does in the talk radio business, if only to make a point.
...but you get what I mean.

[butterfly77]

53. But,he is honest and is telling the truth...

and he really does care about America.

[Fridays Child]

16. Where are you going with the comparison you're trying to make?

I'm not sure I understand. There may be some pundits or journalists who are as compassionate and progressive as Malkin is vile and fascistic. But there's really no one on the left who's similar to her.

[HardWorkingDem]

20. Trying to.....

From what I've learned, Malkin is preparing to make a trip to Iraq. Also, on some blogs I go to she is quoted quite a bit as her word being gospel.

I'm trying to counter that Malkin to the right is like "......" is to the left, and mainly with the lack of credibility.

[Erika]

22. Malkin is a neocon

Her own writings shows her hatred of anything that isn't neocon. The dumb ----- even supported concentration camps.

[ComerPerro]

23. anti-immigrant Michelle Malkin is the RWs favorite anchor baby, just remind the Repig of that

[dweller]

24. me

i bite your ankles.

dp

[TheWraith]

28. Noam Chomsky?

He's pretty batty about many things, though he's right about some others.

[Chomskyite]

37. I'll bite

What has he been "batty" about? Just list some of those.

[blonndee]

39. Thank you!

I can't wait for the answer, if there is one.

[ConsAreLiars]

40. You can find a lot of Chomsky at

http://chomskytorrents.org/

Maybe you can point the sane folks here at some excerpts that justify your comparison to the insane hatemonger Malkin? No? Can't do it? I thought not. You may not know it, but posting a baseless smear is not very convincing to us reality-based folk.

[Warren Stupidity]

45. OK you are certifiably insane.

I can back up that statement about as well as you can back up what you just wrote.

[mwb970]

49. I think Chomsky is a lot smarter than Malkin.

In fact, to mention them in the same sentence is kind of comical.

[HardWorkingDem]

30. And this isn't "flamebait" - but an exercise in comparison (if possible)

I'm really trying to come up with an answer because often times people just don't get how off the wall some folks are without some sort of comparison.

[Erika]

32. The left has no comparison with the likes of Malkin

Coulter, Ingraham, and the rest of those hateful idiots.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

43. Anybody who doesnt see what a toxic wastedump Malkin is

will not be swayed by some goofy comparison.
Plus, youre barking up a tree that aint there.

[ConsAreLiars]

31. Only a liar would assert that any well known lefty is in any way comparable

to a lying right wing whore. If you can't come up with one, why do you think there is one? You may as well ask "Which pacifist is comparable to Hitler?" That question would make just as much sense as your original garbage. How disgusting to think there is possibly any comparison.

[Erika]

34. Amen

Malkin is a hate-filled neocon.

[ConsAreLiars]

41. Thanks.

I seem to recall a (semi)friendly head butting with you over some nuance or other, but when it comes to the basics, we get to be reminded of our common vision. Posts like the OP serve the purpose of reminding us of those shared goals.

[Judi Lynn]

42. Garbage is the perfect word. Thanks for finding it! Agree wholeheartedly. n/t

[HardWorkingDem]

52. Thinking along the lines of Stephen Glass of TNR fame...

And I think you are being pretty disengenous when you claim the left doesn't have people who do shoddy research work - that is what I'm after - I'm not talking about political content but general reporting honesty.

Oh, and thanks for calling my stuff "original garabage" - thought the left was supposed to be different than the right? So much for free speech.

[Judi Lynn]

33. You're working with a proposition that there should be an equivalent

of a hate-spewing lunatic in the Democratic Party. Since WHEN has anyone sensible imagined that for every Republican sociopath, there is ALSO a corresponding Democrat, for honking Christ's sake?

What god-forsaken universe would create someone who believes there is a mirror image of everything in the party of racist, materialistic, rigid idiots in the Democratic Party? How could ANYONE be that stupid?

Sounds like a very slow-witted, non-thinking child attempting to enter an adult conversation.

Just because there are so many right-wing child molesters, does it follow there would also be the same number of perverts within the Democrats? PROBABLY NOT.

[Kickin_Donkey]

35. There isn't anyone ...

Liberal pundits (and I'm not sure you can even call Malkin a pundit) use facts, logic, reasoning, research, sourcing, evidence, etc.

Malkin and her evil twin, Ann Coulter, just make shit up that will appeal to the emotions of the knuckle-dragging crowd.

[Chomskyite]

36. My suggestion: the GCN people

Alex Jones and many of others on the GCN network who are certainly anti-imperialists, but do their share of shoddy research and exaggeration so their stories can be so much more outrageous. Many of them, for example, believe Bush signed some sort of agreement with the Mexican and Canadian heads of state back in 05 to dissolve the US southern and northern borders and merge the US with both our bordering countries.

Alex's website: http://prisonplanet.com

There's another host named Jeff Rense who mixes in the anti-imperialism with a goodly serving of anti-Semitism. He recently hosted David Duke who called in from the Holocaust Deniers' Meeting in Tehran.

http://rense.com

GCN is something for all of us on the Left to pay attention to. They have dangerous potential.

[HardWorkingDem]

54. Thank you....

Appreciate the help....

[Warren Stupidity]

44. We don't have self-loathing hate-filled idiots,

at least none who regularly get media notice and space for propagating their loathsome bile.

[maine_raptor]

46. Apples and Oranges...........n/t

[mwb970]

47. We have no Malkins.

No Savages either, no Limbaughs, no Coulters. The batshit-crazy commentator field has been left entirely to the right wing.

[seabeyond]

48. coulter. no that is right. ingram... no right. rush... right again

savage, on the right. i guess we dont have anyone to compare. but the right does

[treestar]

50. You could say Molly Ivins, then let them compare the tone and

content - IOW, journalists on this side have reason and humor, while journalists on that side exaggerate and lie. Female journalists, right wing ones act like Malkin and left wing ones act like Ivins. Shows the left is more intellectual and truthful than the right.

[Vogon_Glory]

51. I Like Randy Rhodes--BUT

I like Air America's Randy Rhodes, but I think she's a woman who is careless with her facts and I think she's someone who makes accusations that don't hold up.

I would point out one important difference between Randy Rhodes and Malkin: Randy Rhodes served in the US military, Michelle Malkin is a classic right-wing chickenhawk.