Michelle Malkin
has the dubious distinction of being, in
one fell swoop, female, ethnic minority
(Filipina), an anchor baby, and a close second to Ann Coulter for the person
who, if they ran in front of my car, would most likely be road kill. She ranks fifth, in the Clare
Booth Luce Policy Institute's list of influential Conservative woman writers. Interestingly
enough, ahead of Ms. Malkin are the names Palin, Bachmann, Schlafly and
Coulter, which is indicative of the company she keeps. This is especially meaningful
since Palin is barely literate and Bachmann is just bat shit insane.
Like all of them she is a darling of the Far Right,
actually alt.right, crowd for her
diatribes against essentially anything not politically hard right. What actual
philosophical tenets she espouses are reminiscent of Ayn Rand, tempered with liberal doses of Margaret Thatcher and Joe
Arpaio. She has no use for feminists, concern for minorities, or any government
which is not rigidly capitalist. Much of her screed is vicious and laden with
harshly critical and hurtful blasts
against whatever or whomever the day's foe might be. Based on her background,
perhaps the biggest riddle is how she became so vindictive and bitter towards
immigrants and minorities.
What triggered
this response is a recent op-ed in which she felt compelled (for some obscure
reason) to chastise Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for remarks he made in
regard to Fidel Castro's recent demise. For the record, I never thought much of
Fidel, never cared for Communism, but then it wasn't my country, was it? Had we (the USA) not buttressed up the
dictatorial regime of Fulgencio Batista,
corrupt friend of the mafia and usurper of control in Cuba, it might well have
been that the name of Fidel Castro would be just the heading of the obituary of
a mediocre minor league pitcher and his cross dressing brother. As in other places, such as Vietnam, the very same
sort of rabid anti-communist fervor led
us to support some extremely bad people in Cuba, and both Cuba and the US paid
the price. Along the way (Bay of Pigs, Missile Crisis) we came very close to
paying an even more exorbitant price.
A significant number of Americans and
even more others have died because as a matter of national policy we (the USA)
regarded all Communists as identical and that identity was as clones of Josef
Stalin. For the record we have tourism, normalized political relations and
burgeoning trade with Vietnam today. The fact that they retain a Communist
government seems to matter much less now than 45 years ago, no? North Korea and
Vietnam could hardly be more different. Not all Communists are the same and
they don't all want to kill us. Period.
Malkin's op-ed
is so badly written in some aspects that it is a little laugh provoking. It is
also, however, indicative of just how far off the rails some Americans have
fallen in their sense of realpolitik and their understanding of real world realities.
First off, Malkin is a BA holder from Oberlin College, which institution she
has later lambasted as "Ultra-liberal." Her degree is in English,
which eases one's struggle to understand her lack of nuance in geo-political
understanding, but makes one gasp at some of her more heinous efforts at
writing. The fact that she is a best- selling author simply means that there
are more that think like her than we might care to acknowledge.
The Trudeau
hatchet job begins with analogizing two Canadian Justins - Trudeau and Beiber, with the Beeb declared the victor
because he's "eye candy" (Malkin's words, not mine.) She characterizes
Trudeau as "the twinkly- eyed boy toy who makes informed adults want to
hurl." And I thought that was
Beiber! She them reflects on Trudeaus
"drool stained global press coverage", but declares him instead to be
simply a "baby faced commie apologist, and a naked twit" The mind
reels at such sophisticated prose. Along the way one is reminded that it's been
a while since we saw "Commie" used as an adjective. How long? Well, how
about the McCarthy era? Or perhaps a 1950's Mike Hammer novel - ol' Mike was always
fighting "dirty Commie heels."
Apparently the
terrible comment made by Trudeau that triggered this splenetic outpouring was
his characterization of Castro as "A
larger than life leader" and that he "served his people for almost
half a century" Wow! That pinko bastard!
She then, simply because a day without an Obama slur is for Ms. Malkin a day
without sunshine, says "Our neighbors to the north are discovering what
disillusioned Obama worshippers realized
too late.........same old decrepit culture of corruption." I haven't seen
that old Obama corruption, but his probable successor, on the other hand? Just
watch the news any day, any time.
She says a lot
of other drivel as well, but she ends up with a masterpiece of purple prose
unrivaled even by Sarah Palin: "The self aggrandizing commie fan-boy apple
doesn't fall far from his Marxist tree". For this alone, she should be
awarded the Joseph McCarthy chair at the Mickey Spillane School of Journalism
and Shoe Repair. Whatever will she do when Herr Trump makes nice with Putin? If
there's a God, her head will explode.
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