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April 20, 2006

In which Michelle Malkin discovers that karma is in fact a bitch

When Michelle Malkin posted names, email addresses and phone numbers of college students who protested Bush policies on her website--even after knowing full well that these students were recieving hate mail and death threats from her readers--she published them again. The righties came to Malkin's defense claiming that press releases are fair game.

As Roxanne made mention the other day, press releases have names and contact information on them for follow ups and interviews, etc. Its not to abuse the releasers by pushing readers to contact them and threaten them.

That would, of course, be unethical and immoral. But it didn't stop Malkin.

The push back against Malkin from the left has been hard. And its making her supporters cry like whiney babies:

Whether or not you care for Michelle Malkin’s political positions, you should be honest enough to admit that this crusade to try to intimidate her and her family—a crusade being waged by mostly anonymous cowards who no person in the blogosphere, left OR right, should encourage or countenance—is both disgraceful and, in the long run, dangerous. Not only that, but the pretext upon which it is based—the reprinting of a press release (which last I checked was INTENDED to be disseminated, and was in fact, as of yesterday, still available in its entirety on a number of leftwing sites)—is so laughable as to be insulting to anyone with even a spark of electricity traveling across his or her grey matter.

So. I am now calling for the very public condemnation and ostracizing of those who would post satellite photos and personal addresses of a their political opponents on the web. I am also calling for the public condemnation and ostracizing of those hyperpartisan bloggers / media figures who condone or applaud such actions.

This is disingenuous to the point of being a complete joke. The "logic" here is its perfectly acceptable to print phone/email information from a press release for the purposes of intimidation...but the moment you print an address you've crossed the line.

No one should be publishing other people's personal information without their permission. None of it. Period. I have no respect for anyone who's publishing Malkin's personal information.

But this consistent rightwing exercise in parsing out BS because their side experienced blowback is so typically irresponsible and whiney.

Malkin screwed up. She won't own it and Goldstein making excuses for her. Grow some stones and learn to accept that what goes around comes around, Jeff. Malkin is getting hers.

Either condemn them all or don't bother to show up.

Posted by Carla at April 20, 2006 07:16 AM

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