Michelle Malkin

Yesterday on Fox News—America's Election HQ!—Megyn Kelly interviewed Fox News contributor and New Yorker profile rejecter Michelle Malkin about potential First Lady Michelle Obama. During the course of her echo chamber-like criticism of Ms. Obama (that's not a metaphor: someone should've checked Ms. Malkin's mic before putting her on air), Ms. Malkin said, "it's not just Republicans who are criticizing some of her comments, but also statements have been made in the left-leaning blog Salon about her comments."

That darn Salon!

Not so fast, Ms. Malkin. Alex Koppelman, Salon's War Room blogger, searched his site and couldn't turn up "anything like what Malkin is talking about." After posting a clip of her appearance and emailing Ms. Malkin, he solved the mystery:

Malkin responded to my e-mail; she says she misspoke and that she meant to refer to Slate, not Salon.

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Junot You Can't Wait Amazon's Omnivoracious blog has an interview with Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz (Does he still smile every time he hears that?) and an excerpt from a work-in-progress he's calling Dark America. New York's Vulture Blog (which tipped us off to the link) says "It's pretty rad..."

Mixed Wingnuts Writer Roy Edroso compiles The Official Village Voice Election- Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere for the New York alt.weekly. Notables include Rod Dreher ("Cheerful when discussing food or “sluts”; otherwise, grimly millenarian"); Jonah Goldberg ("Goldberg's comical persona—once pretty much all he had—is now mainly a fallback position in his attempts at serious commentary."); and the always fun Michelle Malkin ("STUPID/EVIL RATIO: 97/3").

I Love the 80s Newsweek's Jonathan Alter talks to Mediabistro's Kathryn Carlson and shares this career high: "When I started covering the media in 1984, there were very few media critics in the United States. At one point, I was named one of the top ten media critics in America and my parents were very pleased—but I had to tell them that there were only ten media critics in America."  read more »

“There have been a number of occasions where we said, ‘This story’s bullshit,&rsqu  read more »

That Spitzer blog reportedly run by New York Post editorial board member, Tom Elliot, is now defunct. Feel free to speculate on a conspiracy (Mercury Affairs blogger takes out fellow right-wing, pro-Spitzer blogger!) while I wait for Eliot to return my email.

Karol Sheinin of Alarming News is guest blogging for Michelle Malkin while she's on vacation. Karol, in true Malkin fashion, rips into Howard Dean for not being angry enough at Sadam Hussein.

Guest blogger Errol Lous wants to know what questions to ask the attorney general candidates before thier debate.

And a frustrated Democratic operative asks, "Are they replacing you at 51st state--i am getting sick of looking at cynthia mckinney already."

-- Azi Paybarah

In today's New York Post, Brian Maloney and Michelle Malkin take a hatchet to the straw man that is Air America Radio. The right wing dynamic duo look at the liberal radio station's dealings with the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club of the Bronx (See: Investigators probe community center loan to Air America Radio, AP, Newsday, Aug. 12, 2005) and its checkered financial past.

But what's really got Maloney and Malkin worked up is a gushy quote from The New York Times—cough, cough, The Liberal New York Times—that seems to gloss over the station's financial problems:

Air America, the much-hyped liberal media venture that was supposed to revolutionize talk radio, is "solvent and apparently stable": So claim the gullible cheerleaders at The New York Times, who made that unsubstantiated assertion in a recent glowing profile of Air America host Janeane Garofalo.

Seems like an egregious oversight, no? How could The Times see fit to print such a phrase in a recent profile if the station is being probed by Eliot Spitzer?

Well, it all depends on what your definition of 'recent' is. The above quotation comes from a Times 'Arts & Leisure' profile of Garofalo, by Paula Span, And Don't Even Get Her Started on the War, from March 27—nearly four months before the whole Air America/Gloria Wise story broke in late July.

Related: From the online edition of Maloney and Malkin's piece, as of 10:30 AM, EST:

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The dispute made national headlines in April 2004, when Multicultural Radio booted Air America off its stations in Chicago and Los Angeles over bounced checks. [cun: may lose this stuff: ] A New York judge ruled against Air America and castigated it for its "meritless" legal actions against Multicultural Radio in June 2004 — yet the network has since remained mum about its failure to pay up.

Or, hey, you could keep it in there. (Emphasis added)

—Matt Haber