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baratunde.com: Michelle Malkin - Teflon For Racism?

  • Joel Pollak · 1 year ago
    I don't disagree with everything you write, Baratunde, but I also don't think it's sad if we do disagree politically. One thing I admire about South Africans is their ability to maintain friendships even when they are on different sides of an issue (or many issues). I would hope we could do the same. I do think that there is a difference between attacking the substance of someone's arguments (like Malkin's position on internment) and attacking the person herself by suggesting she is being manipulated--"molded by her husband" and others.
  • baratunde · 1 year ago
    oh we can definitely remain friends. will make it more interesting. as for malkin's manipulation, i certainly cannot KNOW it. but given the absolute idiocy and lunacy of her commentary, it seems plausible that she's not doing all this herself. it frustrates me that people like her are never on the defensive. they take joy in willy nilly destruction of someone else's image, and the perpetrators prosper from such filth.

    i'm down for challenging her patriotism, intelligence, independence, morals and anything else because she's shown a remarkable absense of most of these attributes
  • Joel Pollak · 1 year ago
    Baratunde, this is really wrong. It's racist to declare that a woman of color who doesn't kowtow to the left-wing line is being manipulated by white supremacists somewhere along the way. Michelle Malkin is tough and smart, and I don't always agree with her but this sort of comment is unworthy of you.
  • baratunde · 1 year ago
    i'm afraid we'll never agree on anything again joel. i can't remember the
    last thing i wrote that you did agree with. kinda sad. michelle malkin is
    not worth your defense. she's actually a terrible person. she wrote a book
    called IN DEFENSE OF INTERNMENT. you're seriously going to come here and
    tell me that i'm the wrong one?

    michelle malkin is one of the worst people promoting "ideas" in the public
    sphere. she helped start the STUPID STUPID pressure on dunkin donuts to pull
    the rachel ray ad. i have absolutely zero tolerance or sympathy for her. she
    is NOT smart if this is the sort of argument she's making. She's an
    opportunist and quite dumb quite often.

    http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/29/dunkin...