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nonbeliever's picture

We all knew she was a punk.

dan's picture

Well, she does have a point. After all her and her anti-American ilk are so indoctrinated that no matter what facts are presented to them they will always deny reality.

Bocephus's picture

Can someone post the text? I'd really rather not go to her site.

smass's picture

For those of us who refuse to give her site any traffic whatsoever, can we get a summary? I mean, something other than "Malkin, as expected, refuses to debate"

mackiddo5's picture

I knew she was a motherclucker! Bok! Bok! Bok!

Ahhh, that's better. That little cute chicken butt beats looking at Ann and Karen. Thank you, Nicole. :)

I kinda don't want to have to go to Michelle's site. I just had one shower and I don't want to have to take another right now.

Of course she won't do it, for all the reasons we mentioned yesterday.

Margaret's picture

I am. I'm surprised that she even addressed the challenge.

Ruthless People's picture

They are scared to the fight on the front lines in wars they champion and they are scared to debate in an open an unbiased forum. These bedwetting conservatives really are a low life cowarding bunch aren't they.

Harry Tuttle's picture

We all knew she was a punk.

If I may quote Tasty T: "Did I say punk? I meant PUSSY!"

Doggiebobo's picture

Run, run, run "bitch", but you cannot hide.

Margaret's picture

I agree. There are a lot of things I'll do that are unpleasant but watching Coulter and Tucker blather and going to Malkin's site are two which I just can't bring myself to endure.

Roket's picture

Unfortunately, the succubus is correct. It would be a waste of Ezra’s time to debate the frigging lunatic.

Dean's picture

Malkin says debating Ezra would be a waste of time…

Well of course it's a waste of time...for Ezra.

wijg's picture

I guess this makes Malkin a "chicken... hawk."

Del Capslock's picture

She's just a small, petty, mean person at her core, just like her wingnut colleagues.

Can we find a volunteer who will visit her site and copy paste a bit of it here? We'll have a warm bath and fresh clothes waiting for you when your return. We'll also have a cold cocktail waiting too if you need it.

earl's picture

Is it possible to replace that picture of the talking golden retriever on the top right side blog-ad? Opera "No images" wont nuke it ...

Margaret's picture

I think she should address why it's okay to slime a 12 year old boy but corrupting a general's name is tantamount to treason. Or is it corrupting a general who agrees with the chimp that is treasonous and all of the rest are fair game? Why do these "people" still have a platform outside of FAUX "News"?

sully18's picture

Is not spreading hatred a waste of time? I sully18 will debate her if she wants, and I have ADD, so she will have a slight advantage that she will lose quickly because she is basically dishonest. So,Michelle,you may contact C&L if you`re interested in debating truth.They will pass you acceptance of my challenge along to me,and we`ll get into some truth talk.I`m ready when you are.

Doggiebobo's picture

wijg @ 15:

I guess this makes Malkin a "chicken... hawk."

Or more like a "bitch in heat" and instead of being fucked over by Erza, is running away
as fast as she can.

ysbaddaden's picture

Some almonds, some chopped celery and rice, we'd have an almond chicken dinner.

ThunderMonkey's picture

I just glanced through it and from what I gather... Malkin attacked Ezra by saying that he's too elitist (has friends in DC) to debate properly and that he would never succumb to giving her a fair chance. She then went off on some sort of tangent of how she was taking out of context, but I lost interest after that.

mrogi's picture

Michell Malkin is smart enough to recognize that Ezra Klein is a non entity attempting to use her as a ploy to establish national name recognition for himself. A debate is a recreational activity for entertainment purposes only. Anybody with debating skills can argue either side of any issue with equal dexterity. So what's the point?

Ruthless People's picture

Malkin is .....now what was that word used by the coporate media at CNN to describe Hillary?......oh yes, shrill.

Bud's picture

I'm not surprised the "anchor baby" won't debate.

Doggiebobo's picture

ThunderMonkey @ 23:

I just glanced through it and from what I gather... Malkin attacked Ezra by saying that he's too elitist (has friends in DC) to debate properly and that he would never succumb to giving her a fair chance. She then went off on some sort of tangent of how she was taking out of context, but I lost interest after that.

You have more guts than most of us here inasmuch as I for one refuse to click on her site.

leslie's picture

I am shocked, shocked to know that there is to be no debate!

/snark

Greg's picture

She's great at attacking when she doesn't have to face the people she attacks. Rush Limbaugh comes to mind.

Doggiebobo's picture

Greg @ 29:

She's great at attacking when she doesn't have to face the people she attacks.
We already know she is a butt-hole,so why would she want to go ass to face w/anyone.

Tony's picture

Stop linking to that mentally ill idiot.

Weaseldog's picture

Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter debating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GxuHV9XHuc

pissed off patricia's picture

Maybe that little 12 year boy would debate her regarding the schip. Would she run from him too?

Thank you ThunderMonkey for carrying out the task of visiting her site. Your hot bath and change of clothes are waiting for you, and the bar is open too :)

MargeAggedon's picture

I started reading the site. Are you sure it's not meant to be satire? How can anyone be that angry, misguided and ignorant and be still be serious? How do you even begin to debate people who are living on the ragged fringe of their own little reality? How do you begin talking about health care when in the land of malkavia the word alone has been designated as synonymous with a full blown socialist take over? How do you talk about anything with someone who turns a splinter into a redwood and vice versa without straining a single brain cell in the process?

Anne's comment about Jewish people is going to be discussed on Wolf's show. I guess negative attention is better than none.

wijg's picture

How 'bout, Malkin, The Chickenhawk That Balked.

Natabus's picture

pissed off patricia @ 17:

Can we find a volunteer who will visit her site and copy paste a bit of it here? We'll have a warm bath and fresh clothes waiting for you when your return. We'll also have a cold cocktail waiting too if you need it.

Details of Malkin's refusal, for those who just can't bear to click a link! :)

Readers Digest version: Pointing to past interactions with Ezra, she claims it would not be a good faith debate on his part, and thus a useless distraction.

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On behalf of all liberal bloggers of purported good faith, the Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein has chivalrously stepped up to the plate to challenge me to a debate about S-CHIP.

I’m. Trrrrembling.

With. Laughter.

A good-faith debate would require that Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein actually be a person of good faith. He is treated as such in some elite conservative circles, where his work is linked frequently and intellectual repartee among the Beltway boys’ club is warm and chummy. He is free to continue traveling in those cozy circles where highbrow right-wingers are not so mean and scary.

But I’d just as soon share a stage, physical or virtual, with Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein as I would with Chris Matthews, Geraldo Rivera, or an overflowing vat of liquid radioactive waste.

[excerpted long details of of previous arguments and back and forth]

“Debate” Ezra Klein? What a perverse distraction and a laughable waste of time that would be. And that’s what they really want, isn’t it? To distract and waste time so they can foist their agenda on the country unimpeded.

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jtmonty46's picture

Just waded through her site (Did somebody step in something? Check your shoes!). I couldn't glean any logical reason for not entering into a debate.

ThunderMonkey's picture

I got a little braver... I didn't want to be accused of misquoting Malkin.

I'm not sure, but this may be the reason why she won't debate:
"A good-faith debate would require that Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein actually be a person of good faith. (Ezra) is treated as such in some elite conservative circles, where his work is linked frequently and intellectual repartee among the Beltway boys’ club is warm and chummy. He is free to continue traveling in those cozy circles where highbrow right-wingers are not so mean and scary."

"But I’d just as soon share a stage, physical or virtual, with Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein as I would with Chris Matthews, Geraldo Rivera, or an overflowing vat of liquid radioactive waste."

That's it... she augmented that by saying Ezra selectively quoted a 2004 post about her getting private health insurance. I'm not that familiar with Ezra's original post on the matter, to see if she provided a counter-punch... personally, it didn't make much sense to me.

Malkin said that she and her husband were able to purchase a private high-deductible plan that was coupled with a MSA (Medical Savings Account). She had to pay higher because she was underweight... and then blamed liberals for that (paying higher... not her being underweight).

... I need more asprin.

ysbaddaden's picture

Weaseldog @ 32:

Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter debating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GxuHV9XHuc

Here too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub4nR5UdqzE

bob's picture

Great yesterday "we" were the lefty blogosphere, today we are RLBs. Next thing you know they'll find a way to use Liberal or Democrat as a slur.

Wage an e-campaign to debate the "chickenhawk that balked". Then see which side uses, and knows the facts and who is fed their scripts.

jtmonty46's picture

ThunderMonkey @ 39:

I got a little braver... I didn't want to be accused of misquoting Malkin.

I'm not sure, but this may be the reason why she won't debate:
"A good-faith debate would require that Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein actually be a person of good faith. (Ezra) is treated as such in some elite conservative circles, where his work is linked frequently and intellectual repartee among the Beltway boys’ club is warm and chummy. He is free to continue traveling in those cozy circles where highbrow right-wingers are not so mean and scary."

"But I’d just as soon share a stage, physical or virtual, with Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein as I would with Chris Matthews, Geraldo Rivera, or an overflowing vat of liquid radioactive waste."

That's it... she augmented that by saying Ezra selectively quoted a 2004 post about her getting private health insurance. I'm not that familiar with Ezra's original post on the matter, to see if she provided a counter-punch... personally, it didn't make much sense to me.

Malkin said that she and her husband were able to purchase a private high-deductible plan that was coupled with a MSA (Medical Savings Account). She had to pay higher because she was underweight... and then blamed liberals for that (paying higher... not her being underweight).

... I need more asprin.

At least she can afford insurance. Hell, should could probably afford to pay cash for her care. Try paying for Cobra

Major Mel Funkshun's picture

All of that snorting, is she a pig or a coke whore?

underdog's picture

Ezra,

You should offer to let her have Jesse give her a feed on an earpiece, you know, they the Presidunce does it. She might think she could handle it with some surrogate balls. I can hear her now, "No wait, let me finish! You can write that tomorrow, Jess... I mean Ezra"

LongTooth's picture

That's exactly what my cat said yesterday after I challenged her to a chess game.

Margaret's picture

"liquid radioactive waste"? Now there's something you don't hear every day. Malkin is a coward and as I've said, I'm astounded that she summoned the courage to even address the challenge far enough to dismiss it. This person is a mother? A mother what? If she was my mom, one of us would have been dead decades ago.

tcpits's picture

I followed the link and read her rant. Based on her prose, I don't think she'd be able to contain her ad hominem approach to all contrary points of view but am glad there will be no debate simply because she would simply declarevictory no matter how badly she had her *ss handed to her by EK or anyone else.

pinkobait's picture

Bocephus @ 3:

Can someone post the text? I'd really rather not go to her site.

Yes,well I MADE THAT MISTAKE.
Dear God I need a shower.
The woman is certified.

Bonkers's picture

A waste of time is her retarded blog and that coward's degenerate posters. Jesus, they project everything the Republics[sic] do on a daily basis right onto Ezra and every other Dem/progressive they can swing a stick at. Most of them seem certifiable. Hey, folks: Da Nile is a river in Egypt.

I need shower now.

Lefty Lefty's picture

Malkin writes her blog like my mother-in-law writes emails. All the caps and italics and exclamation points hurt my eyes.

She basically says that EK called her a hypocrite, even though he didn't. (I think his point was that she spelled out the problem previously and then ignored her defined problem when it came to the Frosts. It's really lame on her part, but it's not hypocrisy.) She also mentions that EK is chummy with beltway right-wingers who aren't as scary as she. So she apparently plays up the crazy mean scary nutjob angle as a selling point. I thought that maybe she was unaware of her batshit-crazy facade and considered herself Serious, but she and her fans relish loony side fully.

Here's a clip:

"Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein and his Pavlovian (Yet Respectable) boosters are treating my 2004 post as proof-positive of my utterly flabbergasting HYPOCRISY!

"Look! The wingnut complained about the health insurance market! Ergo, she is a HYYYYPPPPOCRITE. And stupid! And a Nazi bitch!

"Continue flinging your peas. I do have a spit shield now.

"Grown-ups, on the other hand, will be able to grasp effortlessly that if I had decided not to buy private insurance and then demanded that the government cover my medical expenses and insure me after a catastrophic accident, then, yes, why, yes, you could flap two HYPOCRISY! cards up and down in each hand until your feet lifted off the ground."

mrogi's picture

Here is the final tally of a Malkin vs Klein debate:

Everybody who supports Malkin's world view claims she won the debate.
Everybody who supports Klein's world view claims he won the debate.

I just saved everybody a lot of wasted time. Now go do something productive like getting drunk and getting laid.

neil's picture

A waste of time for Ezra maybe. Like shooting a particularly stupid fish in a teensy little barrel.

Weaseldog's picture

She should do it. The could get a spanking for free, rather then the usual $200 it costs her downtown.

nigel's picture

funny but until seeing that picture it was Coulter that reminded me of a chicken......... watching her head "peck" when she tries to emphasize a point. Think of why Al Bundy calls marcy a chicken

Dahgrostab'ph-r-i's picture

Surprised? That Malkin is a cowardly Republican? I already knew that...all Republicans are coward and that is why they are Republicans.

Margaret's picture

There are people cogent enough to write who post on her blog? There's another surprise. I had a boss once who said that "it's a poor day when you don't learn something new". After learning that, I'd have just as soon stayed in the dark.

cage free brown's picture

debating moonbats is irrashanul!

habukkuk's picture

Why anyone is giving this pea brain Malkin the time of day is beyond me. She's just another kook-aid drinking, addled brained neo-fascist whore.

TimV's picture

So I just drudged through her nauseating post. Turns out the debate already happened, just with a strawman Ezra Klein (or "phony" Ezra?), which she simultaneously molests and covets. She's a strange creature. What species is she?

Get your barf-bags ready kids. Here it is for those of you who don't want to give her traffic!

"Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein and his Pavlovian (Yet Respectable) boosters are treating my 2004 post as proof-positive of my utterly flabbergasting HYPOCRISY!

Look! The wingnut complained about the health insurance market! Ergo, she is a HYYYYPPPPOCRITE. And stupid! And a Nazi bitch!

Continue flinging your peas. I do have a spit shield now.

Grown-ups, on the other hand, will be able to grasp effortlessly that if I had decided not to buy private insurance and then demanded that the government cover my medical expenses and insure me after a catastrophic accident, then, yes, why, yes, you could flap two HYPOCRISY! cards up and down in each hand until your feet lifted off the ground.

In fact, I advocated MSAs and noted approvingly the Wall Street Journal’s suggestion that the cure for limited market choices was less government intervention. Not more.

This is perfectly consistent, in other words, with my INHUMAN, FASCIST, CAPITALIST, WINGNUT views.

Is it Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein’s view that only commentators and analysts who adore the current state of the market are allowed to criticize S-CHIP’s mission creep? If anything, health care entitlement growth will make the problems I wrote about three years ago worse–problems due in significant part to the government regulations the WSJ spotlighted. Herd more people into government-subsidized health care and the private (unsubsidized) individual market will become even more dysfunctional.

True to form, however, other Respectable Liberal Bloggers are mindlessly promoting Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein’s discovery of my observations as the Holy Grail of Hypocrisy Cards–and falsely characterizing my post to boot. Respectable Liberal Blogger Jonathan Cohn at TNR’s The Plank claims that “I couldn’t find health insurance” and that “there was no affordable coverage to be had.”

Reading comprehension grade: F.
Nutroots pandering grade: A+ with an unhinged smiley face!

RLB Cohn thinks he has another trump card in noting that “[i]t’s the insurers who sell individual and small business coverage that screen carefully for pre-existing medical conditions, raising premiums or denying coverage for those whom they deem high medical risks.” Other left-wing blogs have zeroed in on the Frosts’ reported inability to obtain affordable insurance after their car accident.

Well, yes, it sucks. But Earth to liberals: That’s how insurance works–if you don’t buy it before you need it, you shouldn’t be shocked if it’s impossible to get after you need it.

Yet, somehow, I’m the HYPOCRITE for acting responsibly by considering alternative health insurance plans before anyone in my family required catastrophic care. As I wrote in my post, I wasn’t too happy about the choices at the time, especially the most expensive plans, but instead of expecting Big Nanny and American taxpayers to be our insurer, we made the decision to shell out for an inexpensive, high-deductible plan. (Yes, such plans do exist.)

Most noxious is the continued sanctimony of left-wing bloggers positioning themselves as champions of the children of working-poor in their embrace of S-CHIP expansion. Notice how they say nothing about the entitlement creep that has this working-poor children’s health insurance program covering a growing number of adults."

Dahgrostab'ph-r-i's picture

mrogi @ 51:

I just saved everybody a lot of wasted time. Now go do something productive like getting drunk and getting laid.

Or in the case of Republicans they can go and have a Toe-Tapping Good Time in the Public Restroom of their choice.

habukkuk's picture

Isn't it amazing how easily one can tell one's party affiliation these days?? Just look at the hate-filled, bigoted eyes....the sphinctered wardrobe details....the smirk....and the altered brain. They almost don't have to open their mouths and anyone can guess that they're sleazy Republicans.

Max-1's picture

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Malkin is a waste of time.

WHY validate her by giving her a platform? Attention? The-time-of-day?

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Max-1's picture

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Why does Michelle Milkin'it hate America?

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Tom Sawyer's picture

mrogi @ 24:

Michell Malkin is smart enough to recognize that Ezra Klein is a non entity attempting to use her as a ploy to establish national name recognition for himself. A debate is a recreational activity for entertainment purposes only. Anybody with debating skills can argue either side of any issue with equal dexterity. So what's the point?

That's a good one. Use Malkin as a stepping stone? The only scenario in which that could happen is if he crushed her, which you seem to think couldn't possibly occur. But I'll bet she does.

Redradar's picture

Ignore Malkin. She is unworthy of debate or attention. Flush her.

Captain Kangaroo's picture

After trying to decipher why she would not debate Ezra Klein it just comes down to she is a chicken shit poltroon. She can hide on Faux News or on a self owned web site but when it comes down to brass tacks she is s chicken shit poltroon. She is afraid. She confirms that she has no credibility. None. Of course this is not news to the incredibly intelligent, insightful and well researched people on this fabulous and highly informative web site.

Tom Sawyer's picture

mrogi @ 51:

Here is the final tally of a Malkin vs Klein debate:

Everybody who supports Malkin's world view claims she won the debate.
Everybody who supports Klein's world view claims he won the debate.

I just saved everybody a lot of wasted time. Now go do something productive like getting drunk and getting laid.

Thank for the insight to your "productive" life.

Mike Donnelly's picture

pathetic, but as predictable as the morning sun

pinkobait's picture

I don't know if anyone else posted this,but some muscle bound nitwit Malkinbot challenged Ezra...wait for it...to a "boxing match".Ezra suggested that maybe they could just compare penis size!

mrsisk's picture

Ha, ha, ha! I just read through some of the comment on her blog...She tells one of them that she won't debate because "Facts won't sway them."

Michelle Malkin! Facts!

Ha, ha, ha! Oh, that's rich. I never realized she's doing a Steven Colbert act!

wxgeek's picture

I suppose there would be nothing to gain from debating a blowhard like Malkin. People of her ilk are well versed in sticking to their cue cards and avoiding certain talking points. Its pointless to try and persuade or argue against someone whose singular focus is petulance....Screw her!!!!!

DonkeyKong's picture

Read her "comment" section below her "eck,eck,eck it's ezra" post. It's like the blind, leading the deaf, leading the asinine, leading the incontinece.

Deighved H Stern MD's picture

Please do not link to that idiot. Don't you think she gets a little more attention than she deserves already?

Patty's picture

Michelle always has that horrible look of total disgust and anger. Must be hard to hold all that in all the time. At least Ann Coulter can laugh at herself every once in a while, but Michelle is just so serious and stubborn. Couple that with her ignorance and you have one disgusting individual.

THeDRiFTeR's picture

What a surprise! Like I said before, piece of shit of the worst order.

patthemonkey's picture

I never heard of this Ezra guy before yesterday. Why am I suppose to care about him? Malkin might be a C list rag mouth, but this Ezra guy doesn't seem to have the gravitas to get into a debate with anyone.

Trittydi's picture

We all know whose time would be wasted too.
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Dr. Matt's picture

mrogi @ 51:

Here is the final tally of a Malkin vs Klein debate:

Everybody who supports Malkin's world view claims she won the debate.
Everybody who supports Klein's world view claims he won the debate.

I just saved everybody a lot of wasted time. Now go do something productive like getting drunk and getting laid.

Stalkin Malkin is too cowardly to debate Klein....hence, she already lost.

Trittydi's picture

pissed off patricia @ 6:

Ahhh, that's better. That little cute chicken butt beats looking at Ann and Karen. Thank you, Nicole. :)

I kinda don't want to have to go to Michelle's site. I just had one shower and I don't want to have to take another right now.

Of course she won't do it, for all the reasons we mentioned yesterday.

Agreed - another vote here for the chicken butt. I am SO tired of looking at Malkin's teeth.
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Trittydi's picture

ysbaddaden @ 22:

Some almonds, some chopped celery and rice, we'd have an almond chicken dinner.

Gently sauteed over HIGH HEAT.
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Trittydi's picture

ThunderMonkey @ 23:

I just glanced through it and from what I gather... Malkin attacked Ezra by saying that he's too elitist (has friends in DC) to debate properly and that he would never succumb to giving her a fair chance. She then went off on some sort of tangent of how she was taking out of context, but I lost interest after that.

If Malkin is saying she was taken out of context, I suspect someone aside from the Left is criticizing her.
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elmo's picture

Malkinite's husband is a stay at home dad? The U.S. Army is hiring asshole. Shouldn't he being fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here? Why doesn't he care about his family and country?

dadams's picture

malkin is a fucking bush whore. like all bullies, she storms and shouts, but will not engage in anything that will actually prove she is wrong. what a fucking bitch !!!!!!!!

BaritoneWoman's picture

Hey, Malkin!

Psss psss psss psss psss!
Psss psss psss psss psss!

fwacbar's picture

Off topic but, the BBC reports, "Belarus to 'build nuclear plant' ". Better start bombing them damned Balaruskies TODAY. Jesus, they will more than likely build millions of nuclar weponds, they can use the internets tubes for them whirly things, and roll their tanks down the streets of Des Moines.....

soothsayer's picture

Ever notice that the malkin's site, oreilly's, and hot air all have "closed membership" and only allow comments by "members"?
Talk about preaching to the choir . . .

mrogi's picture

Whyindahell would Malkin involve herself with Ezra Klein? Nobody knows who he is. Malkin is seen and recognized by millions every time she hosts the Bill O'Reilly TV show. Successful women generally don't marry down; they marry up. The same principle applies to successful women in their career decisions. A debate with Ezra does nothing to raise the public profile of Michelle Malkin. Malkin would gleefully accept a debating challenge from Bill Maher - not some nondescript wannabe like Ezra Klein.

soothsayer's picture

mrogi @ 87:

Malkin is seen and recognized by scared geriatric kooks every time she hosts the Bill O'Reilly TV show.

Fixed that for ya. ;)

Dr. Matt's picture

mrogi @ 87:

Whyindahell would Malkin involve herself with Ezra Klein? Nobody knows who he is. Malkin is seen and recognized by millions every time she hosts the Bill O'Reilly TV show. Successful women generally don't marry down; they marry up. The same principle applies to successful women in their career decisions. A debate with Ezra does nothing to raise the public profile of Michelle Malkin. Malkin would gleefully accept a debating challenge from Bill Maher - not some nondescript wannabe like Ezra Klein.

Hitler had a large following too.

Dr. Matt's picture

Stalkin Malkin is too cowardly to debate Klein because she knows that she is on the wrong side of the issue....every issue for that matter.

David Bishop's picture

For God's sake,
DON'T link directly to Malkins site. All you do is help her generate income by showing potential advertisers her hit count. This goes for any half-brained foul mouth who get's the public's attention.
Quote her, copy and paste, whatever, just don't help her bottom line

David

APEC not OPEC's picture

mrogi @ 87:

Whyindahell would Malkin involve herself with Ezra Klein? Nobody knows who he is. Malkin is seen and recognized by millions every time she hosts the Bill O'Reilly TV show. Successful women generally don't marry down; they marry up. The same principle applies to successful women in their career decisions. A debate with Ezra does nothing to raise the public profile of Michelle Malkin. Malkin would gleefully accept a debating challenge from Bill Maher - not some nondescript wannabe like Ezra Klein.

Ezra Klein (born May 9, 1984) is a writing fellow for the American Prospect and an American liberal political blogger.

Klein was born in Irvine, Orange County, California to mathematics professor Abel Klein and artist Jacqueline Klein. He is named after Project Ezra, a nonprofit on New York's Lower East Side that delivers food and social services to the elderly. [1] He has an older brother and younger sister.

Klein attended University High School in Irvine, California, where he claims to have earned a 2.2 GPA while attending. He enrolled at UC Santa Cruz in fall of 2002 and transferred to UCLA in the fall of 2004. He graduated one year early after completing a summer term in 2005 with a B.A. in Political Science.

[edit] Career background
Klein started his first blog Ezra K in February of 2003. He soon joined with Matt Singer, and the name was changed to "Klein/Singer: Political Consulting on the Cheap". In June of 2003, he moved to the blog Not Geniuses along with Matt Singer and Joe Rospars.

Following "Not Geniuses", Klein partnered with Jesse Taylor at Pandagon. This partnership helped Klein gain even more visibility, leading to his eventual founding of his current blog Ezra Klein.

Besides his online contributions, Klein worked on Howard Dean's primary campaign in Vermont in 2003, and interned for the Washington Monthly in Washington, D.C. in 2004.

His work has appeared in the Gadflyer, Washington Monthly, LA Weekly, American Prospect, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and Slate Magazine. Klein has appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Hardball with Chris Matthews and numerous NPR programs.

He also has appeared on Bloggingheads.TV

His writing interests include health policy, the labor movement, and electoral politics.

sueinNM's picture

mrogi @ 87:

Whyindahell would Malkin involve herself with Ezra Klein? Nobody knows who he is. Malkin is seen and recognized by millions every time she hosts the Bill O'Reilly TV show. Successful women generally don't marry down; they marry up. The same principle applies to successful women in their career decisions. A debate with Ezra does nothing to raise the public profile of Michelle Malkin. Malkin would gleefully accept a debating challenge from Bill Maher - not some nondescript wannabe like Ezra Klein.

Oh yeah? If that happens and Malkin accepts, I'll concede that you might ... just MIGHT ... have a couple of non-diseased brain cells to rub together.

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mrogi @ 87:

Whyindahell would Malkin involve herself with Ezra Klein? Nobody knows who he is. Malkin is seen and recognized by millions every time she hosts the Bill O'Reilly TV show. Successful women generally don't marry down; they marry up. The same principle applies to successful women in their career decisions. A debate with Ezra does nothing to raise the public profile of Michelle Malkin. Malkin would gleefully accept a debating challenge from Bill Maher - not some nondescript wannabe like Ezra Klein.

i take it that you didnt really read her response, in which she basically said she would never debate a liberal of substance on this issue

she didnt say that she wouldnt debate klein because he is an unkown....she said she wouldnt debate him because he hasnt played footsie with her

and this is how el druggo, mann coulter, and lufa boy get away with saying and writing the things they do....wingnuts do not have the capacity to comprehend

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Despite his impressive academic credentials, Ezra Klein enjoys the national name recognition of a guy working in a toll booth. The American public wouldn't know Ezra from a box of hammers. Michelle Malkin is a nationally recognized media figure. Millions of viewers have watched her on television. Malkin vs Bill Maher in a debate will attract big TV ratings. Malkin vs a nobody like Klein will draw zero national interest.

I aint saying...I'm just saying

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mrogi @ 95:

Malkin vs a nobody like Klein will draw zero national interest.

National interest? Nobody knows (or cares about) malkin except a couple dozen neocon geeks with asian fetishes over at hotair.

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mrogi @ 95:

Despite his impressive academic credentials, Ezra Klein enjoys the national name recognition of a guy working in a toll booth. The American public wouldn't know Ezra from a box of hammers. Michelle Malkin is a nationally recognized media figure. Millions of viewers have watched her on television. Malkin vs Bill Maher in a debate will attract big TV ratings. Malkin vs a nobody like Klein will draw zero national interest.

I aint saying...I'm just saying

Sad but true

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She's willing to stalk a 12-year-old and his family, but doesn't have the guts to debate the issue which prompted her to stalk the 12-year-old and his family.

Rightwing logic is very wide and extremely shallow.

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She's all talk, no brain.

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When one argues with a fool there are two. Not only is it impossible to have a good faith debate with Michelle, it's impossible to have a good sense debate with her. Nothing can possibly be gained by engaging "minds" such as hers.

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Patty @ 74:

Michelle always has that horrible look of total disgust and anger. Must be hard to hold all that in all the time. At least Ann Coulter can laugh at herself every once in a while, but Michelle is just so serious and stubborn. Couple that with her ignorance and you have one disgusting individual.

Or Kathryn Jean Lopez (I can't believe I'm citing her name, but she's another crone that writes without the facts.)

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This is good. She proves she is a coward. Even the dumbest neo-cons see this, even if they don't admit it.

Maybe I am late to the game, but it is easy to see the good campaigns -- SCHIP, General Betrayous, etc. Every time the neos go nuts and swiftboat, it means it is a GOOD campaign commercial, etc.

Thanks for the extra advertising, imbeciles!

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You know, a few on this website, and many on her website are very immature and rude. Part of the polarization of both sides of the aisle are that the extremists have the leading word which is proving to be a scary thing. Pretty soon, if all the right and left wingnuts have their way, America may find itself in a civil war. Problem is, the right would probably win because they have the military on their side. This is probably not going to happen, in the near future, but if we keep yelling and calling each other names we're all going to fight.

Enough of that. Reading through Malkin's comments I can't help but think that they all sound the same. I suspect that her and her staffers spend alot of time making her feel like she is right by putting hundreds of comments on in agreement with her.

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Pawn --

Are you over age 14? I find at least 3 holes in your argument.

Get OFF the computer and do your homework.

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mrogi @ 95:

Despite his impressive academic credentials, Ezra Klein enjoys the national name recognition of a guy working in a toll booth. The American public wouldn't know Ezra from a box of hammers. Michelle Malkin is a nationally recognized media figure. Millions of viewers have watched her on television. Malkin vs Bill Maher in a debate will attract big TV ratings. Malkin vs a nobody like Klein will draw zero national interest.

I aint saying...I'm just saying

who said the debate would be televised?

what the fuck has name recognition have to do with whether the wingnut's happy ending girl is willing to debate someone on the left?

millions of people have also watched mary carey....maybe she should debate malkin

what a fucking stupid talking point

hey...no one knew who the frosts were either...that didnt stop that c*nt printing lies about the family on her blog

my apologies to all the women on this blog for using that derogatory term...but malkin is a fucking c*nt

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Pawn @ 103:

You know, a few on this website, and many on her website are very immature and rude. Part of the polarization of both sides of the aisle are that the extremists have the leading word which is proving to be a scary thing. Pretty soon, if all the right and left wingnuts have their way, America may find itself in a civil war. Problem is, the right would probably win because they have the military on their side. This is probably not going to happen, in the near future, but if we keep yelling and calling each other names we're all going to fight.

Enough of that. Reading through Malkin's comments I can't help but think that they all sound the same. I suspect that her and her staffers spend alot of time making her feel like she is right by putting hundreds of comments on in agreement with her.

I agree. I think Malkin is a bitter crone, but I'm not going to call her names, or wish she dies a horrific death involving a stampede of clowns. That's a bit beneath us as Liberals and Progressives. We can rise above the adolescent behavior that characterizes the knuckledraggers that tend to troll Conservative sites.

We can be better than that. Picking on Malkin and Coulter is a lot like shooting "stupid fish in a small barrell", but it's better attack their message instead of trying to deminish the messenger.

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elmo @ 82:

Malkinite's husband is a stay at home dad? The U.S. Army is hiring asshole. Shouldn't he being fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here? Why doesn't he care about his family and country?

its been proven that malkin's hubby writes most of her stuff

but people wont really care to read the ravings of a self hating jew bastard who got himself a mail order bride

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You know -- there is a VAST difference between hoping someone dies a horrific death and calling them what they are.

Taking the "high road" got us to where we are today. Haven't ANY of you people been paying attention the past 10 years??

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ThunderMonkey @ 105:

Pawn @ 103:

You know, a few on this website, and many on her website are very immature and rude. Part of the polarization of both sides of the aisle are that the extremists have the leading word which is proving to be a scary thing. Pretty soon, if all the right and left wingnuts have their way, America may find itself in a civil war. Problem is, the right would probably win because they have the military on their side. This is probably not going to happen, in the near future, but if we keep yelling and calling each other names we're all going to fight.

Enough of that. Reading through Malkin's comments I can't help but think that they all sound the same. I suspect that her and her staffers spend alot of time making her feel like she is right by putting hundreds of comments on in agreement with her.

I agree. I think Malkin is a bitter crone, but I'm not going to call her names, or wish she dies a horrific death involving a stampede of clowns. That's a bit beneath us as Liberals and Progressives. We can rise above the adolescent behavior that characterizes the knuckledraggers that tend to troll Conservative sites.

We can be better than that. Picking on Malkin and Coulter is a lot like shooting "stupid fish in a small barrell", but it's better attack their message instead of trying to deminish the messenger.

fuck that

playing nice got us 6 years of pure repug rule

ya...lets be fucking wimps when malkin calls the people whose names and addresses she posted on the net...thugs (ever been to uc santa cruz...one would be hard pressed to find a thug there)

lets talk issues when that bitch prints lies about policy and swiftboats a family with 2 disabled children who find it hard to make ends meet.

lets bend over, pull down our pants and let el druggo and the lufa boy (who both get talking papers from the wingnuts in congress) stick it to us in our proverbial asses

we are being childish???? wel being adults got us into a never ending and illegal conflict, has us standing on the sidelines while the goons are raping our economy, and has us saying, "please sir, may i have another" while wingnut fucks scare the shit out of the populace out of wanting health care for all

fuck this being nice shit

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"what did you think was going to happen when you drove here to see a 12 year old boy?"-Chris Hansen from To Catch A Predator to Michelle

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patthemonkey @ 76:

I never heard of this Ezra guy before yesterday. Why am I suppose to care about him? Malkin might be a C list rag mouth, but this Ezra guy doesn't seem to have the gravitas to get into a debate with anyone.

hey...i never heard of you before this post

you definitely dont have the gravitas to post here

why dont you blow

and malkin has the gravitas???? dont make me laff

this is the same woman who dressed up like a cheerleader and performed anti lib cheers

the same woman who bitches and moans that her hate speech vids arent allowed on youtube

the same woman who runs like a bitch everytime confronted by a lib

get a fucking life

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Shell5960w @ 104:

Pawn --

Are you over age 14? I find at least 3 holes in your argument.

Get OFF the computer and do your homework.

You miss the grander point. That's ok.

When I first started protesting I would get angry and provoke those that disagree. All it did was get my heart racing and the other feel all the more confident that their point is right. The cursing and name calling may make you feel better, but all it does is divide both sides of the issue further.

So I suggest the same to you. Get off your computer. But actually do something proactive to change what's happening. The few response that I've seen to my post seem to be giving up, and that all they can do is type angry posts. These posts are not going to change America or the status quo. What can you do to change what's happening with so much out there that drowns out any voice attempting to protest current affairs? Organize. Be positive. Persist. Work in a progressive way that will get results, not create a further divide.

I'll leave it at that, the strainer i wrote earlier evidentally has some noodles caught in it. Now did that get you mad, or did it make you suddenly agree with me.

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I heard American men prefer to marry Asian women because they are supposedly soft spoken, quiet, demure, self effacing and submissive. Michelle Malkin did not get the memo.

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She's a girly-man.

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pissed off patricia @ 34:

Anne's comment about Jewish people is going to be discussed on Wolf's show. I guess negative attention is better than none.

Unfortunately, it sells books.

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Major Mel Funkshun @ 42:

All of that snorting, is she a pig or a coke whore?

Both.

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uncle joe mccarthy @ 104:

my apologies to all the women on this blog for using that derogatory term...but malkin is a fucking c*nt

I don't understand the relationship between Malkin's biological plumbing and her political viewpoint. I hope you aint that scary Wisconsin senator from the 1950s.

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mrogi @ 23:

Michell Malkin is smart enough to recognize that Ezra Klein is a non entity attempting to use her as a ploy to establish national name recognition for himself. A debate is a recreational activity for entertainment purposes only. Anybody with debating skills can argue either side of any issue with equal dexterity. So what's the point?

Let me clear some facts up for you:

Michelle STARTED this ruckus by stating on her blog that no liberal in "good faith" would debate her on the merits of S-CHIP. Mr. Klein proposed a debate, and she backed off like the coward she is. Mr. Klein was TAKING UP Michelle's challenge that SHE POSTED FIRST for the whole world to see on her blog.

But yet, Mr. Klein is the one looking for attention? Give me a break. If Michelle was the respectable voice you claim she is, she would have taken the challenge. But once again, she just proves herself to be a hypocrite.

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mrogi @ 116:

uncle joe mccarthy @ 104:

my apologies to all the women on this blog for using that derogatory term...but malkin is a fucking c*nt

I don't understand the relationship between Malkin's biological plumbing and her political viewpoint. I hope you aint that scary Wisconsin senator from the 1950s.

A c*nt is a derogatory term for a woman in the United States. In other parts of the world, it's just a common term used for a variety of definitions, most of the time a woman's "private parts."

There are better words to describe Malkin though - coward, bully, hypocrite, jerk - I could go on. Some people just like to be vulgar in their language.

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mrogi @ 86:

Whyindahell would Malkin involve herself with Ezra Klein? Nobody knows who he is. Malkin is seen and recognized by millions every time she hosts the Bill O'Reilly TV show. Successful women generally don't marry down; they marry up. The same principle applies to successful women in their career decisions. A debate with Ezra does nothing to raise the public profile of Michelle Malkin. Malkin would gleefully accept a debating challenge from Bill Maher - not some nondescript wannabe like Ezra Klein.

Michelle Malkin isn't a "successful" woman. She has a loyal following of dingbats, kinda like FAUX News.

Plus, I already described to you in another post that Michelle provoked others to debate her - therefore, she is the hypocrite for backing out. She didn't specifically blog about WHAT kind of liberal she wanted to debate.

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When Michelle Malkin offers to debate a Liberal she is not referring to some callow, wet-behind-the-ears, desperate for stardom, eager beaver, fresh out of college kid named Ezra. Malkin wants to confront a mature, seasoned, well established, nationally recognized liberal like Amy Goodman, Randi Rhodes, Bill Maher, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow. Lionel or Cenk Uyqur. Michelle is only interested in a debating forum that would attract nationwide interest. She wants a high profile showdown against somebody that would command a televised venue to promulgate her ideas and opinions to as big an audience as possible. Michelle is a serious career woman who conducts her political activities as a business. She is not interested in playing rhetorical footsie with some post adolescent boy named Ezra Klein.

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Mrogi, since when did you become the official translator of Malkins challenges to ANY LIBERAL?

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FastMovingCloud @ 114:

pissed off patricia @ 34:

Anne's comment about Jewish people is going to be discussed on Wolf's show. I guess negative attention is better than none.

Unfortunately, it sells books.

And I will never, ever, figure that one out.
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mrogi @ 120:

When Michelle Malkin offers to debate a Liberal she is not referring to some callow, wet-behind-the-ears, desperate for stardom, eager beaver, fresh out of college kid named Ezra. Malkin wants to confront a mature, seasoned, well established, nationally recognized liberal like Amy Goodman, Randi Rhodes, Bill Maher, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow. Lionel or Cenk Uyqur. Michelle is only interested in a debating forum that would attract nationwide interest. She wants a high profile showdown against somebody that would command a televised venue to promulgate her ideas and opinions to as big an audience as possible. Michelle is a serious career woman who conducts her political activities as a business. She is not interested in playing rhetorical footsie with some post adolescent boy named Ezra Klein.

did she say that???

ok...im emailing rhodes

im sure she would love to debate the anchor baby

but as rhodes is not an expert in the health care field....not sure what kind of debate it would be

and it has been proven that klein is far from being a novice...and in fact can run circles around your fantasy queen

now quick...grab her pick and blow some spooge right in her eye

you sycophantic perv

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Trittydi @ 122:

FastMovingCloud @ 114:

pissed off patricia @ 34:

Anne's comment about Jewish people is going to be discussed on Wolf's show. I guess negative attention is better than none.

Unfortunately, it sells books.

And I will never, ever, figure that one out.
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allow me to explain

when you dress up hate in a black cocktail dress...then hate is ok

today, the rabbi to the wingnuts, michael medved, went out of his way to show that what coulter said was not antijewish, and that deutch set the whole thing up for a "gotcha" moment

never mind that coulter said what she said without prodding....changed her word usage after they returned from break....yet refused to acknowledge that what she said was hateful to jews or gentiles

she also lied about fallwell....but that is just par for the course

btw, as one of the hebraic faith....if there is a heaven, and if coulter is allowed to get in...i sure as shit dont wanna be a member

send me to hell with all of the rest of the degenerate hippys and tree huggers

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A "waste of time" ?

Doesn't Murdoch pay Malkin to do just that, Waste ours and her time.?

Poor Malkin is not allowed to report on reall issues. That task of hard reporting is left for the other networks. So she can't debate because she can only read off and elaborate the GOP talking points memo. Murdoch orders it so.

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mrogi @ 120:

When Michelle Malkin offers to debate a Liberal she is not referring to some callow, wet-behind-the-ears, desperate for stardom, eager beaver, fresh out of college kid named Ezra. Malkin wants to confront a mature, seasoned, well established, nationally recognized liberal like Amy Goodman, Randi Rhodes, Bill Maher, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow. Lionel or Cenk Uyqur. Michelle is only interested in a debating forum that would attract nationwide interest. She wants a high profile showdown against somebody that would command a televised venue to promulgate her ideas and opinions to as big an audience as possible. Michelle is a serious career woman who conducts her political activities as a business. She is not interested in playing rhetorical footsie with some post adolescent boy named Ezra Klein.

You may be right. It could be that she's just a serious career woman media whore, or it could also be that she's just afraid of getting her ass whipped by a "fresh out of college kid." Since my 14-year-old niece could thrash Malkin, she should be afraid and run away as she has. That's why it would be a horrible career move for her.

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I guess she wasn't able to pick on someone her own size. Chickenshits will always go after 12 boys and their families rather than be held to account.

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This movie advertisement makes me contemplate avisodomy. God help us all!

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You know what's worse than wasting your time debating a "non-entity?"

Losing the debate.

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