Michelle Malkin made a fool of herself in front of her Alma Mater,

[johnaries]

And the sad thing is that I don't think she even realizes it!

Thanks to Viva La Revolution for posting this was on so I could watch it:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=522085&mesg_id=522085

During the Q&A which most included discussions of "institutionalized racism", she made several racist statements, which drew audible responses from the audience. Her "deer-in-the-headlights" look after the responses showed me that she didn't have a clue what she had just said. I'm about as White as you can get, and even I recognized the racism in her statements.

There was even one instance when her response was so outrageous, a hush of disbelief came over the crowd, and no one could say anything in response because they were obviously flabbergasted. But it appeared that Michelle took the lack of response as "having made her point."

She railed against the current "diversity" admissions policies, mentioning briefly "reverse discrimination" (what is wrong with trying to make college campuses a representative sample of the total population? If we can achieve that successfully, that would one indicator we are getting better at doing our job!). She claimed that "institutionalized racism" is much less than it was in the 50's and 60's. As a child of the 50's and 60's, my opinion is that it has gotten better although being white I am only speaking as an outside observer. But I remember how bad it was back then. But, we still have a long way to go. And, Michelle, why is it better than it once was? Because of the very policies to which you are opposed! I pray for the day we can dispose of these policies because they are no longer necessary. But that won't be for a long time, if ever.

As further evidence of her insensitivity and total obliviousness of what comes out of her mouth, when she was trying to demonstrate that she "didn't always agree with the current administration" the very first point she mentioned was that she thought the administration was spending too much on EDUCATION! In front of an auditorium of college students!

This was also contradictory to some of her earlier statements. Another reason she was opposed to diversity admissions programs was the fact that in many cases, minorities who were admitted under the program ended up dropping out because they were under-prepared and could not compete academically.

Michelle, why were these students under-prepared? Because the college preparation programs for minorities are UNDER-FUNDED! Thank you for making the Liberal point for us.

After the group response to her "education funding" statement, Michelle did make a statement that I agree with whole-heartedly:

"Wow! We really DO live in different realities!"

Yes, Michelle, YOU live in a different reality. One based on spin and, apparently, racism. Perhaps one day you would should consider accepting a reality based on facts.

I got the overall impression that most of her new book that she was hawking was a response to criticism over her previous book on immigration and her support of racial profiling and even racial detention camps. Her views and ideas were dismissed as racist, which she feels was just a "tactic". Michelle, perhaps you should accept that you ARE a racist, even though you are so racist that you don't even realize it in your "reality".

Finally, the book she is hawking is about Dem's being "out of control" and making racist statements that are supposedly not being reported while Repub racist comments are being over-reported. Of course, the Dem incidents that she referred to were well known to the group, despite the fact that she claimed they were "ignored".

Michelle, simply because Republican "unfortunate statements" are reported more than you would like (which is obviously "not at all") and similar Democratic statements are not reported as much as you would like (which would be "media saturation") does not mean that there is an actual discrepancy - except in YOUR "reality".

I know she lurks here at DU sometimes, and I hope she sees this post and does a little introspection. However, I'm sure that she will continue her past reactions and consider me an "idiot" rather than question her only carefully constructed and fragile reality.

[Imalittleteapot]

1. Thanks for watching and

reporting. I can't stomach the woman and turned her off. Don't count on any introspection from that arrogant witch.

[Mythsaje]

5. Not a witch!

Call her anything but that.

;) Witches deserve better.

[Wetzelbill]

56. yes! Down with the anti-witch language

:)

See you taught me well, Mythsaje!

[bahrbearian]

2. Is this the Deer in the Headlights look?

[johnaries]

13. Actually, no. That pic shows at least emotion, if no thought.

This look was a very blank expression. More of a "what did I say?" look.

[bahrbearian]

16. Oh, it must be this one then ?

[johnaries]

18. That's almost it, except her head was pushed back instead of

forward. Same wide eyes, though.

[Somawas]

25. That's the "I eat my own young" look. nt

[kevinbgoode]

35. What does Malkin really know about anything anyway?

I mean, it's not like she has ever done anything productive for America. One would think that someone would have gone up to the microphone and cut her off, explaining that he/she is embarassed to interrupt Michelle's speech, but in keeping with her views on women and minorities, the University respectfully understands why she should really be at home baking an apple pie.

I think we should let EVERY woman wingnut columnist know that they wouldn't HAVE a career doing this if it wasn't for the feminists who fought for the right to type something more than recipes at the local newspaper.

[PsN2Wind]

45. Not a deer

Every time I see that picture, I can't help but think she looks just like a triggerfish. And that ain't pretty. (except maybe a Queen Triggerfish) and she ain't no queen.

[sui generis]

3. we need to keep her stupid and ill informed

she's our own best weapon against her, just the way she is.

Oddly, I wouldn't change a thing about Phelps either . . . Darwin will take care of the rest. These people are so out of touch with reality that they serve as living reminders to moderates of all stripes just how far away from the middle the fringes are.

[Dr Fate]

4. She should wear her Nazi She-Wolf outfit to these events...

You know- the one w/ the officers cap, tall boots & riding crop?

Shoot-I might actually go.

[mac56]

6. I read through the thread you referenced.

Lots of comments about the racist statements she made, but no mention of what they actually were. Can you elaborate?

[Lochloosa]

9. I thought the same thing.

Not to defend her by any means. But a few quotes would help the OP.

[johnaries]

17. Nothing really blatant. I watched it late last night and went to bed

afterwards so I don't really remember exact quotes.

More a general attitude, such as talking about the "black experience" in respone to a black student's question as if she were an expert - which he immediately called her on, and asked her not to "single him out" but to discuss reacism in general. Although she quickly went back to "black" examples.

She criticized using the "race card" and cited a few instances of false claims of racism. A couple of students called her on this one, one asking if these were "representative" and the second actually getting some numbers out of her, did some quick math in her head and then pointed out how infrequent these "false claims" were. Michelle responded by comparing the number to acts of anti-Semitism, to which the student pointed out that anti-Semitism was racist.

Michelle also stated that she regularly read reports on racist incidents and "they weren't as high as you might think". I don't know why no one pointed out that the vast majority of racist incidents go unreported.

She also defended racial profiling in the "war on terror" (Michelle, just because a terrorist is more likely to be Middle Eastern does not mean that someone who is Middle Eastern is likely to be a terrorist!) and the WW2 Asian Detainment camps.

Most of her statements showed more of a lack of understanding (despite her obvious attitude of being an "expert") rather than a blatant denigration.

You would really have to see it. I'm hoping C-Span or someone archived it. If I can find it, I'll post the link.

[mac56]

19. Thank you.

I agree with your assessment.

[ClayZ]

7. We watched part of it. She is so bamboozled!

[belpejic]

8. Malkin doesn't count

She needs to be roundly ignored. Why an idiot like this has a voice in national debate is simply beyond me. I have never detected the remotest bit of logic or sense in anything she's written.

She is kind of hot, though.

[mac56]

10. ewwwww

[belpejic]

11. OK, get your point (n/t)

[scot]

12. I'm with you.

You can snap a bad picture of anybody. Her politics aside, I think she's a babe.

[mac56]

14. "Beauty" is only skin deep.

Ugly goes right through to the bone.

[Skittles]

26. she is ugly to the core

ugh

[johnaries]

28. She's a Concubus!

an evil demon who takes on a sexy and attractive human female form.

[Skittles]

30. it kills me guys find her sexy and attractive

see for me a man can be hot as all hell but as soon as he shows ugliness inside he loses ALL appeal

[mac56]

32. All she has to do is open her mouth once

and any illusion of prettiness vanishes.

[Skittles]

34. thanks mac

that woman is HIDEOUS

[scot]

38. Isn't that a succubus?

[johnaries]

39. Ya know, you're right. I thought that a Succubus was the male

version and Concubus was the female version. But after looking it up, Incubus was the male version and Succubus was the female version. A concubus is actually a submissive female in a Dominant/Submissive realtionship.

But, she is a concubus for the RW. :evilgrin:

[Hardrada]

40. You can be her Valentine

if she'll be your concubine!

[johnaries]

42. I'll go for that, if can I muzzle her first! n/t

[Somawas]

27. There ain't enough liquor to drink that pretty. nt

[boobooday]

15. "Wow! We really DO live in different realities!"

Yes, Michelle, we do.

If you call your delusional dreamworld a "reality."

[Serenades]

20. Makes me upset

She's a cute and more tamed version of Ann Coulter.

Ms. Malkin is disturbingly misguided. I feel sorry for her. I find it strange when minorities such as myself embrace ridiculous ideology in terms of racial profiling and detention camps. It is horrible unbelievable.

[burythehatchet]

21. those kids gutted and fileted her with ease

Proud of those youngsters. They had no mercy, and rightfully so. They ridiculed her and laughed at her grotesquely clownish presentation.

[johnaries]

22. Yes, but I don't think she even realized it.

I got the impression that she didn't even realize how they destroyed her arguments and that she might have even thought she "made her point".

Did you get that impression?

[burythehatchet]

33. I think their laughter probably tipped her off

though she did do a good job of not flying into a rage like Mann Coulter would have. Suffice to say it was very enjoyable to see her called out on her utter bullshit theories.

[Skittles]

23. I think the term "reverse-discriminiation" is racist

discrimination is discriminaiton, PERIOD. Why the need for the "reverse" bit - to draw a line between "traditional" discrimination and "non-traditinal" discrimination ?

[Golden Raisin]

24. Its a dark day for America

when we have people like Malkin openly supporting the idea of internment camps. Dark that she says it, dark that she is given newspaper space and TV air time to say it, and darkest of all that more Americans aren't freaked out and angered by it. Its still a free country (don't know how much longer though if BushCo has its way) so Malkin is free to say what's on her mind, but she's a real piece of fascist filth. If I were a conservative/neocon I would be mortified to have people like Malkin & Coulter on my team.

[msgadget]

36. I read Coulter and Malkin

because they are the party zingers, the ones who think its their job to keep republicans thinking party affiliation determines sanity and credibility. Ironic, isn't it, that two cynical, hateful females can get attention for saying outlandish things when rational folk with legitimate views can't get a quote repeated in a local paper? They not only give republicans a bad name but women as well.

Malkin and Keyes and all other nonwhites who dismiss speaking to racism, bias and discrimination as 'victim think' are stone crazy and dillusional. How is it so many people with mental disorders are flourishing in this century??

She's an extremely attractive woman and it always throws me when she says the things she does!

[ROakes1019]

29. WWII internment camps

This was her first hobby-horse--she thinks they were prefectly justified. Being an Asian herself, I think she's over-compensating for her possible feelings of inferiority

[mac56]

31. Absolutely true.

She and her family are Filipino, right? I suspect they would have been incarcerated themselves. Does she ever address this?

[Hardrada]

41. We have some Philipino acquaintances who remember

the Japanese beheading people in WWII. They still hate the Empire of Japan. Might be some of this in Malkin makeup.

[msgadget]

37. Over compensating, maybe, but in DEEP denial fer sure n/t

[Lefty48197]

43. I didn't know Walmart offered degrees.

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[RandomKoolzip]

46. Are you too frail to enable your profile?

[tabasco]

47. More fuzzy math from the Bushbots.

Bush's education secretary is just as good at fuzzy math as Bush!

"The Department of Education is improperly counting as unexpended funds billions of dollars in resources that the states have already designated for school renovation, teacher salaries and the purchase of testing system and curriculum for k-12 education."

http://edworkforce.house.gov/democrats/releases/rel21104b.html

http://www.nea.org/esea/eseafunding.html

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/31/sotu-bush-has-cut-science-education-funding/

http://edworkforce.house.gov/democrats/releases/rel21104b.html

HEY IAM_IBIZA - WHY AREN'T YOU IAM_IRAQ?

I did my time in hell.

[johnaries]

48. "Encounter an argument"? Oh, they responded - with laughter!

A very approprate response, I thought.

The biggest complaint about NCLB is that it is underfunded.

I agree that low-income students OF ALL RACES (not just blacks) "are the biggest losers when educators fail to educate", although I do not possibly see how you can say that "courts" are creating legal obstacles. Courts merely rule on existing laws. It is a RW fallacious fantasy that courts "rule from the bench".

And I also agree that "when students are accepted into colleges for which they are ill prepared, they inevitably fail", but that is NOT the fault of the diversity programs, that is the fault of the UNDERFUNDED NCLB program.

Michelle, is that you? :hi:

[Nevernose]

49. The teacher's unions?

You mean, those folks who actually KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT TEACHING? Christ, why would we listen to THEM? I mean sure, we go to doctors when we have a medical question, and lawyers when we have a legal question, and we go to plumbers when we have a leak, and astronomers when we have a question about the sun, but going to teachers when we have a question about teaching? Ridiculous!

Do you want to know the REAL reason that shitty teachers aren't fired from most districts? It's because there's no one else to replace them, and most districts figure that a bad teacher is better than no teacher at all. Mostly the unions are just involved in making sure that management adheres to the contract. After all, unions are made up of teachers, hard-working professionals who are as ashamed of the bad teachers and the worse working conditions as anyone else would be.

Why is there no one else to replace them? Because of people like you, who claim that the failure with our educational system is "educators fail to educate." A convenient scapegoat, and one that has been going on for a hundred years or more. There's no respect.

But it's not entirely your fault, or even mostly your fault. The districts can't replace them, because they don't pay enough. They don't have the cash to woo someone from the private sector in to teach math or science. It's entering a life of service: they'll never be respected, always get paid less, and always have to work more than someone else with the same degree and abilities in a similar field.

And they'll do it in substandard conditions. Rats. Power shortages. Random violence. Gang-and-drug related violence. Parents who can't read, and are actually proud of that fact. Money doesn't make a difference? Then why is it that "Low-income black students" are the big losers? Could it be that they don't have enough copies of Macbeth or To Kill a Mockingbird lying around? That those schools don't have the best teachers because the best teachers have already moved on to better-paying districts or easier schools? And what about the condition of our society itself? All someone has to do to see the anti-intellectual, superficial, valueless society we have created is to turn on the cable television for a few minutes.

The only thing I agree with you on is the lack of discipline in schools -- but you've still got it wrong. It's not judicial fiats that have caused this mess, it's the well-intentioned legislatures of all fifty states and the federal congress. Everytime they pass a law about education, I fond myself saying, "Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do."

[Hardrada]

55. Excellent points.

Here in Iowa the state legislature repugs always SAY they want to pay teachers more and they never do but this is a fraudulent promise to because they are always trying to tie teacher pay to "merit" or "performance" and are always trying to adapt an unsuitable INDUSTRIAL mass production model to education. And, of course, behind this intolerable charage is the fact that most of US state leg repugs really want to throttle public education entirely and help the private school biz meaning that even fewer educated Americans. My wife is a teacher and we have been well acquainted with the BS politicians come up with re: education. I think the RW think takes specially employ clever soulless people to come up with the most damaging schemes possible to impose on public education.

[johnaries]

50. Gee, that was fast!

Bye-Bye! :hi:

[goodboy]

51. She's a Female Filipino "uncle tom" If she were a Native American,

in the 1830's...she would've been the one who got drunk on firewater and led the soldiers back to her village only to see every one of them slaughtered.

She's like a jewish Nazi, a black KKK member.

most of all, she's an ignorant beligerant fucker.

pond scum.


Look in the mirror Michelle...

See the monster you really are. Or are you too afraid?






Michelle, if you're reading this and you decide to use my post to demonize "liberals" or "progressives" or "democrats" think again. You may not reproduce it in whole or in part, describe it, or give an account of it...don't even let the thought of my post enter your mind..

[goodboy]

54. .

:kick:

[johnaries]

52. One last kick for the night. I'm hoping Michelle will read this and

"trash" me in her blog.

Hi, Michelle! :hi:

[Oilwellian]

53. The hubster and I watched it

She started off by asking how many in the audience voted for Bush. You couldn't see the initial reaction from the crowd, but you could tell by the look on her face, very few had raised their hands. Her first of many deer in the headlight expressions.

The camera finally panned to the audience, you couldn't see anyone with a raised hand, and the students were all smiling. My husband and I just busted out laughing.

The students made very good points, my favorite being, working towards solutions to racism. They were far more cognitive of the issues than Malkin will ever be, and yes, I kinda felt sorry for her too. She didn't have a clue how foolish she looked.

I wish someone had asked if she could explain why there isn't one single black republican congressman/woman in the House or Senate.