Michelle Malkin decided to punish some student activists by publishing their contact information at her blog, after dumping a load of invective about how they were violent seditionists. From Ezra Klein:
…a crew of students at UC Santa Cruz … protested some military recruiters, and Malkin got hold of a press release with their personal contact information — a poorly conceived inclusion on the students’ part, but then, these are undergraduates, not trained media flacks. Rather than calling and speaking to them herself, which is what members of the press are supposed to use such releases for, [blogger Michelle] Malkin published their personal information on her website, prompting her hordes of orcish mouth-breathers to brandish their pitchforks and inundate the unsuspecting students with death threats (some of which you can read here). When the students frantically called on Malkin to remove their numbers, she posted their contact information again.
Klein links to a page listing some of the communications the students received here. Scary and totally predictable. What Malkin did was utterly despicable. Malkin now asserts that she in turn is receiving “filth and threats against her family.” While I’d like to think she is lying, because liberals do not lower themselves to that sort of vile tactic, recent experience suggests otherwise. From behind a veil of pseudo-pseudonymity, people will say horrible things, particularly if they feel validation and encouragement from bloggers they follow. If what Malkin did was wrong (and it was!) then doing the same thing to her is also wrong. Charting her dishonesty, stupidity and flat out meanness could be a full time job, so I wish liberals wouldn’t waste time making threats that reflect badly upon the entire left. They aren’t going to make Malkin even the tiniest bit smarter or nicer.
–Ann Bartow
Update: Here is an example of “liberal male humor” in reaction to Malkin’s unequivocally repulsive actions that makes me wonder what exactly “liberal” means:
Michelle is cute (and crazy)! And perky (and crazy)! And her soul is deader than Bob Dole’s dick (…and she’s crazy!). She deserves the big bucks and if she has to write like a tweaker with a raging yeast infection to get some attention, well, deal with it. She’s not going to be ignored! No slight to America is too small for Michelle not to fake a back-arching ragegasm guaranteed to engorge her loyal one-handed readers as they alt-tab back and forth between her site and bukakebitches.com.
I know some people will consider that an amusing and appropriate response. I’m just not one of them.
