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[[Image:MichelleMalkinFox1.jpg|frame|Michelle Malkin on Fox News discussing her book [[Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild]]]]

Michelle Malkin (born October 20, 1970) is a prominent American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. She is a social and political conservative.

She makes frequent guest appearances on national syndicated radio programs and on television networks such as MSNBC, The Fox News Channel, and C-SPAN.

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Background

Malkin was born Michelle Maglalang in Philadelphia to Filipino parents, Dr. Apolo and Rafaela Maglalang, in the United States on a work visa. She grew up in Absecon, New Jersey, and graduated from Oberlin College. In 1993, she married Rhodes Scholar and RAND Corporation economist Jesse Malkin with whom she has two children. Her husband now looks after their children, as well as helping her with her work for a few hours each week.[Just a Yellow Woman Doing a White Man's Job], MichelleMalkin.com, 19 November 2005

Career

She began her career at the Los Angeles Daily News, working as a columnist from 1992 to 1994. In her column, she once described her early career thusly:
"How can anybody live on $25K/year?? When I was 24 and making less than that, I did it by eating Spaghetti-O's, Ramen noodles and Swanson pot pies for dinner; driving a Toyota Tercel with no air conditioning; and sleeping on a $30 futon." [The Skanks on Capitol Hill], MichelleMalkin.com, 26 May 2004
In 1996, she moved to The Seattle Times before becoming a nationally syndicated columnist in 1999.

Malkin's column, syndicated by Creators Syndicate, appears in over 200 newspapers nationwide as of 2005. She is also a frequent commentator for FOX News Channel and occasional contributor to the VDARE.com editorial collective. In June 2004 she launched a political blog which quickly became highly popular, at most times residing among the top five conservative political blogs.[List of highest-traffic blogs] and [traffic details for Malkin's blog] at The Truth Laid Bear; [Malkin's blog] at Alexa

Her first book, [[Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces]], was published in 2002 and was a New York Times bestseller.

In 2004, she wrote In Defense of Internment, defending Japanese American internment by the United States Government during World War II and relating this theme to the contemporary War on Terrorism. The book provoked strong reactions, including an unsuccessful attempt to ban the book from the Manzanar relocation center National Historic Site.[A Book-Banning Dodged--Thank You!] MichelleMalkin.com, 7 May 2005; has links to Malkin's responses to criticisms of In Defense of Internment A group of professors calling themselves the "The Historians' Committee for Fairness" condemned the book for not having undergone peer review and containing a central thesis which they argued was false.[Open Letter to Michelle Malkin] from the "Historians' Committee for Fairness", signed by 40 professors In response, Malkin posted a letter from a Manzanar and National Park Service representative, Alisa Lynch, on her website which stated that while no former detainees or scholars could be found to substantially agree with Malkin's scholarship or conclusions, Lynch did not feel it was the place of Manzanar or the NPS to censor such views outright.

Malkin's third book, [[Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild]] was released in October 2005.

Malkin's blog occasionally highlights investigative reports from other sites, most notably an investigation into financial irregularities at Air America Radio. [Inside Air America: An Investigative Blog Report], Michellemalkin.com, 17 August 2005 She is frequently used as an example of the blurred line between bloggers and reporters, given such investigations and her widely distributed columns and appearances on multiple media outlets.

On April 24, 2006, Hot Air, a "conservative Internet broadcast network" went into operation, with Malkin as founder and CEO.[Conservative Internet Broadcast Network Debuts], PRWeb.com, 24 April 2006 She has a daily newscast on Hot Air called "Vent With Michelle Malkin".

Beliefs and controversies (a selection)

After the arrest of alleged spy Leandro Aragoncillo was announced, Malkin wrote, "If it means now that the White House will be applying extra scrutiny to naturalized Americans of Filipino descent working at the top levels of government and in the military, well, yes, I support that. It's obviously overdue." [Espionage in the White House], MichelleMalkin.com, 5 October 2005

Malkin has criticised the media for being preoccupied with cases in which attractive white girls go missing, and referred to this phenomenon as "Missing Pretty Girl Syndrome" or "Damsel in Distress" Syndrome.[Missing Pretty Girl Syndrome], MichelleMalkin.com, 11 June 2005

In 2004, Malkin and several other bloggers accused blogger and columnist Andrew Sullivan of making bogus fund-raising claims.[Sullivan's Gold-Plated Bandwidth?], MichelleMalkin.com, 26 July 2004 [The Real Dish on Andrew Sullivan], MichelleMalkin.com, 3 February 2005 Shortly thereafter, Sullivan created a parody Malkin Award for "cliché-ridden writing from the left and right intended to insult."[The Malkin Award], AndrewSullivan.com, 8 December 2004

Malkin occasionally posts hate mail she received, which often consists of racist or sexist epithets.[Minority Conservatives And The Sellout Smear], MichelleMalkin.com, 12 January 2005 [Maglalangadingdong this], MichelleMalkin.com, 3 December 2004 According to Malkin, she has been labelled an "Aunt Thomasina and a sellout and a race traitor" by some Asian-American liberals.[Malkin: Liberal Bigotry on the Rise], NewsMax.com, 28 November 2004 Others have accused her of "bleaching her skin," or trading in her Asian ethnicity for acceptance by Caucasians.

In November of 2004, the Norfolk, Virginia-based Virginian-Pilot ceased running Malkin's nationally syndicated column.[Pilot error], MichelleMalkin.com, 24 November 2004 Fellow columnist Bronwyn Lance Chester explained, "I think [Malkin] habitually mistakes shrill for thought-provoking and substitutes screaming for discussion. She's an Asian Ann Coulter."[Michelle Malkin dropped by Virginia paper], Media Matters for America, 23 November 2004 Malkin responded "I'm not Asian, I'm American, for goodness' sake. I would take the comparison to Ann Coulter as somewhat of a compliment. I have a lot of respect for Ann Coulter."[Malkin: Liberal Bigotry on the Rise], NewsMax.com, 28 November 2004

When University of Kansas religion professor Paul Mirecki claimed to have been beaten up by two male attackers because of his criticism of creationism and "intelligent design", after linking[What Happened to Paul Mirecki?], MichelleMalkin.com, 10 December 2005 to a newspaper report with a photo showing Mirecki's injuries,[Professor blasts KU, sheriff’s investigation], Laurence Journal-World, 10 December 2005 Malkin (along with others) raised the possibility that the claimed attack was a hoax.[The Mirecki Files], MichelleMalkin.com, 14 December 2005

In April 2006, Students Against War, a campus group at University of California, Santa Cruz, staged a protest against the presence of military recruiters on campus, and sent out a press release containing contact details (names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses) of their three-person "ad-hoc press team" for use by reporters. However they also posted the complete press release on their website where anyone could read it. Malkin included these contact details in her coverage of the incident.[Seditious Santa Cruz vs. America], MichelleMalkin.com, 12 April 2006 SAW claims[SAW on Malkin and abusive e-mails], 14 April 2006 that they "politely asked" her to remove the contact details; Malkin claimed [Malkin on SAW and abusive e-mails], MichelleMalkin.com, 17 April 2006 that none of the three students contacted her with that request, and pointed out that the complete press release was still available from multiple Indymedia websites.The contact details were removed ["as per request"] after Malkin posted this After Malkin's post, the three SAW contacts claim they received abusive emails and phone calls, including death threats. Malkin also received hostile e-mails. Subsequently, Malkin's opponents published her private home address, phone number, photos of her neighborhood and maps to her house on several websites, mainly as blog comments. Malkin has stated that this forced her to remove one of her children from school and move her family.[Cyber war over UCSC protest heats up], Santa Cruz Sentinel, 22 April 2006 After Denice Denton, the chancellor of UC Santa Cruz, committed suicide[link] on June 24 2006 following months of criticism for costing the university huge sums of money for (among other things) her de facto spouse and months of demonstrations against her by left-wing students, a contrarian Libertarian, David Wiegel, criticized Malkin for her failure to acknowledge that she had once accused Denton of "sedition" and published[link] the address and phone number of Denton's office, which Wiegel connected to Denton's suicide with no mention of any of Denton's other problems. [link] [link] [link]

Despite being born in the US to parents visiting on a work visa, Malkin is outspoken in opposition to the granting of automatic U.S. citizenship to babies born to tourists and temporary workers (so-called "anchor babies"), saying, "Citizenship is too precious to squander on accidental Americans in Name Only." Malkin articulated her position on "anchor babies" with regards to the case of Yaser Esam Hamdi, an American citizen born to Saudi parents who were working in the United States on temporary work visas.[What makes an American?], Michelle Malkin, Jewish World Review, July 4 2003

Malkin has expressed support for Joshua Belile, the Marine who has been investigated for composing and performing his controversial song Hadji Girl.[Vent with Michelle Malkin (video)], hotair.com, June 15 2006

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