Malkin Slides Deeper And Deeper Into Self-Parody
April 26, 2007 -- 9:32 AM EST // //
It's hard to be surprised by the antics of the wingnut bloggers, but every now again you come across something that proves them to be so utterly without irony -- so completely lacking in basic literacy and self-awareness -- that you can only sit back and marvel in amazement at the spectacle they make of themselves.
Case in point: Here's Michelle Malkin, attacking this blog because of this post yesterday previewing David Broder's column today. Malkin is blasting us over the fact that the post began with the words "blogswarm alert!" -- which she took as a sign that we were literally ordering the "nutroots" to wage "preemptive" war on the WaPo over the Broder column.
Michelle, please take a moment to bone up on the meanings of the words "literal" and "irony." This was not a literal call for a blogswarm, you silly figure of fun. It was meant ironically -- that is, as a gently self-mocking way of acknowledging that this column would create yet another anti-Broder blogswarm in the liberal blogosphere. Hence the word "alert," as in, "tornado alert" -- you know, as if to say, "here comes a blogswarm."
What makes this really rich, though, is that Malkin herself has in fact commanded her readership of pod people to march into battle against her foes -- she has ordered blogswarms of her own. Remember when Malkin ordered a blogswarm of some antiwar students in California by posting their names and addresses on her blog?
After nationally syndicated columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin posted the e-mail addresses and phone numbers of three members of Students Against War, they received a flood of obscene and harassing messages from around the country, including death threats..."I woke up in the morning and my cell had 14 new messages, 25 missed calls and it kept going on," said SAW member David Zlutnick, estimating the group's three media contacts have already sifted through 500 e-mails, more than 100 with death threats.
After a troubled woman who was involved in that political fight committed suicide (no, I'm not blaming you, Michelle, sorry), Malkin actually smeared the dead woman, calling her a "corruptocrat." This is the person who's pillorying this blog for allegedly ordering a blogswarm. Meanwhile, here is another wingnut blogger, congratulating Malkin for breaking "the story" of our alleged blogswarm command, as if this was somehow a scoop.
Really, the silliness and lack of self-awareness on the part of these jokers just defy belief and parody.
Update: And let's not forget this bit of Malkin buffoonery posted yesterday by Atrios.
Update II: Some readers ask why we bother engaging the likes of Malkin. Good question. Answer: Purely for the entertainment value. Nothing more.
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