Michelle Malkin

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Michelle Maglalang Malkin is a conservative nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate whose articles have been published by Townhall.com, Jewish World Review, and WorldNetDaily. Malkin also writes a blog popular among conservatives. In April 2006, Malkin co-founded "conservative Internet broadcast network" HotAir.com.^[1]

Michelle Malkin has focused much criticism on the Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan hearings held March 14-16 near Washington, DC. [1]

1 What Others Say
2 Publications
3 Contact information
4 Resources and articles

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What Others Say

Well, she (Malkin) came out with a book titled In Defense of Internment in 2004, highly touted in hard right circles, that not only seeks to justify the mass internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II but argues that the same procedure could be used against Arabs and Arab Americans today. Setting aside the squalor of her thesis, and the gross distortions of data to which she resorts in "supporting" it, the fact is that the bulk of her argument on the World War II internment .... derives from a fairly obscure right-winger named Lillian Baker. Yet Baker's material is cited nowhere in Malkin's book. In fact, she isn't so much as mentioned (perhaps because Baker, who passed away some years back, was exposed by Deborah Lipstadt in Denying the Holocaust as having employed the same "scholarly methods" as neo-Nazi holocaust deniers). What's the payout for Malkin? Let's start with a stint as a regular commentator-read, pet "minority" (she's Filipina)-on Fox News and Clear Channel. And let's end with an all but total silence about her "scholarly integrity" from the left. Why? Because she is paid by [Malkin worked at the Competitive Enterprise Institute until 1995], a right-wing think-tank, rather than holding a regular faculty position somewhere? Gimme a break on that one. Her book is used in classes, and she speaks regularly on campuses across the country. If the left is going to indulge in condemning scholarly lapses -- real or imaginary -- where its own are concerned, it has at the very least an obligation to hold the right accountable to the same standards, and to do so to the best of its ability -- through alternative media, if nothing else -- using the same tools as the right.—Ward Churchill, Dissent Voice, September 20, 2005.^[2]

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Publications

Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores, Regnery Publishing, September 2002, ISBN 0895261464.
In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror, Regnery Publishing, August 2004, ISBN 0895260514.
Unhinged : Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Regnery Publishing, October 2005, ISBN 0895260301.

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