The right wing attacks Henrietta Hughes
By John Amato Thursday Feb 12, 2009 10:00amMichelle Malkin has a really bad habit. She's famous for revealing personal information of innocent people who differ from her extreme right wing views online so that her readers can attack them. She did that to some Santa Cruz students back in 2006 when a group of them didn't want military recruiters on their campus. It got so bad for them that they contacted me for help.
Whatever your beliefs are regarding military recruiting at colleges, Michelle Malkin crosses the line of decency by printing the telephone numbers of the students that formed the protest. They have been receiving death threats non-stop. An emailer wrote me and said:
"The protest was reported on by Hannity and OReilly. Michelle Malkin put actual students' phone numbers on her blog and they've been getting death threats nonstop."
In her update to the post Michelle writes:
"SAW has removed the contact information from its press release and is now lying about the fact that it made the info publicly available on the Internet. I am leaving it up. If you are contacting them, I do not condone death threats or foul language. As for SAW, my message is this: You are responsible for your individual actions. Other individuals are responsible for theirs. Grow up and take responsibility."
Obviously the death threats are emanating from her blog and she knows it. Malkin understands the nature of the fear and outrage she causes. Will she take responsibility when somebody gets hurt? Here's another example of the fear-mongering she causes. Read Cathy Young's Boston Globe column.
Here's an article about the affair.
Her behavior over this issue caused such an uproar that even right wing bloggers were appalled and de-linked her.
Keith Olbermann awarded Michelle Malkin The "World's Worst," today for her posting private phone numbers from the student's at UC Santa Cruz. (video)
Then there was her obsession with the Frost family that caused them serious mental harm.
According to this report on ABC, apparently Malkin isn't the only one bothering the Frost family:
According to Senate Democratic aides, some bloggers have made repeated phone calls to the home of 12-year-old Graeme Frost, demanding information about his family's private life. On Monday, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused GOP leadership aides of "pushing falsehood" in an effort to distract from the political battle over S-CHIP.
Even worse, it looks like GOP aides may have aided the wingnut attack machine in this:
Manley cited an e-mail sent to reporters by a Senate Republican leadership aide, summing up recent blog traffic about the boy's family. A spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., declined to comment on Manley's charge that GOP aides were complicit in spreading disparaging information about Frosts.
She endangered the life of Jamil Hussein when she tried to discredit this AP report. The AP then responded: "AP executive editor rips into bloggers who have now endangered Jamil Hussein's life."
Not to mention that she posted Cindy Sheehan's divorce records to smear her ... more reactions to that here.
This time it's Henrietta Hughes, the woman who pleaded with President Obama for help Tuesday in Florida. Does Malkin have no shame?
She's being hailed as the "face of the economic crisis," and now Henrietta Hughes has become something of a media star after reaching out to President Obama in an emotional plea for help. Her message: My son and I are homeless, and we need immediate help.
"I have an urgent need, unemployment and homelessness, a very small vehicle for my family and I to live in," Hughes told Obama Tuesday at a town hall rally in Fort Myers, Florida, as he pushed for passage of his stimulus plan in the Senate.
Blogger Michelle Malkin, in a story on the conservative Web site TownHall.com on Wednesday, said that if Hughes "had more time, she probably would have remembered to ask Obama to fill up her gas tank, too."
If Henrietta Hughes had a home, Malkin probably would have printed her personal information, but since she has a car maybe she'll post her license plates.
Digby gives Malkin the "evil eye":
Here's Malkin:
If you follow me on Twitter, you saw my comment earlier this afternoon about the savior-based moment in Ft. Myers this afternoon between President Obama and a woman named Henrietta Hughes — who demanded that Obama give her a home with her own bathroom and kitchen.
The entire event was like a revival meeting. Naturally, I’m already being attacked as heartless for questioning the entitlement culture. Wrapping up a column on this for tomorrow
I never called Malkin heartless when she stalked the Frost family, although she behaved like a barbaric swine. I just said there was fetid compost where her heart should be. Some things never change.
Normally I don't think it's right to wish poverty, disease or hardship on someone, no matter how awful they are. But I think it's necessary in this case. In fact, I'm having my friend Gloria call up her Sicilian grandmother's evil eye on these Marie Antoinettes who apparently believe that nothing horrible can ever happen to them and they will never need help from anyone.
I laugh when I hear the media talk about the "moderate Republicans" because you can count the entire herd of them in the House and Senate on one hand. The GOP has become the party of Malkin, Limbaugh, Hannity and Drudge. May you all live happily ever after.
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Beck and just the whole group of these haters is 'last gasp' material.
My mother used to always say "What goes arounds comes around and Except for the grace of God go I". May that happen to these harpies. This just goes to show how heartless Malkin and Assoc are.
Michelle Malkin is a [Deleted-Sitemonitor] POS.
Was she born in this country? I demand that her birth records be released? To coin a phrase...who IS her Daddy?
Our president is a "half-breed". If you are using that as a put down, then you can go stand in the corner until you learn to behave.
[I was editing while you were posting. Thanks-Sitemonitor]
What many may find interesting from a genetic perspective in your example is... More often then not, the two halves tend to be stronger then the standard whole. Down deep, it's a genetics thing.
Note: Interbreeding
Something she and her ilk roundly condemn every time immigration policy is debated.
I think L&P was being satirical to point out MM's hypocrisy
Her maiden name is "Maglalang" which does not sound 'murican to me.
BTW, she was born to foreign parents with student visas. Which according to the right wing talking points (re: Obama) makes her non-American.
The funny thing is that it seems that some of the most virulent selfish assholes in this country, happen to be the ones who have benefited the most from this land's good will, welfare and integration efforts/institutions. If the US had been as hostile regarding social welfare and immigration as people like Malkin, Rand, et al propose... they themselves would have never been able to make it, never mind been allowed to enter, in our country.
Ain't that ironic?
Ms. Malkin:
Please publish your address and all your phone numbers, email addresses and other contact information. Also your bank account numbers and SSN.
Thank you
but...when did the laws against slander and harrassment become simply a suggestion?
We need to get her home and personal phone numbers and call her relentlessly.
[ANYONE WHO POSTS PERSONAL INFORMATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL ON THIS SITE WILL BE BANNED WITHOUT NOTICE-SITEMONITOR]
and that is what we call, "Dropping the hammer."
Lawd ha' merceh! I felt that from here!
But only so I can ask her out. God help me I find her so hot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt_YcQlYxyY
I'm all over that. I think I find her apparent complete lack of self-consciousness or shame despite her screamingly obvious personality flaws and her general behavior to be endearing.
ain't sexy.
Michelle Malkin is without the gene that causes embarrassment.
She's totally a nut job. But I'd still get filthy mcnasty on her.
Its a coming
and she bought the threads.
Just saying getting a bit off topic. They been crackin down lately.
responsible for the conditions in which she finds herself, and Harry Reid is, they were both attacked by the subject of this thread.
I used no profanity and my description of whatever sexual acts I might choose to perform upon her person were never stated.
was not stated.
with a candlelight dinner and then some stimulating conversation
Shark: Oh, would you like more Kool-aid? Ah, there much better. I do think Glenn Beck is really a voice to be heard don't you?
Malkin: (creepy giggle) Why thank you, and yes I TOTALLY agree. Is it me or is it a little hot in here?
Shark: Why, no. Perhaps your Kool-aid needs more ice. Relax, let me help you out of that straight jacket. There isn't that better?
lawls...
Here, let me pull the chair out for you.
000ppsssss. sorry about that. Here, let me help you up.000ppssss. sorry about that.
Would you like some more whine?
Here, let me take the gag ball out of your mouth first.
who can't jump.
Maybe you should ask your shrink for some?
who use the twin footed bathtubs as props.
... it seems a natural reaction IMHO.
Girls with no shame gone wild?
No telling what she might do.
I think she deserves to be called worse than that.
I'd have sympathy for her basic humanity and pray that she get the help she needs if she wasn't such a vicious, aggressive little shit. Being nuts is one thing, but the way she goes after people is another. Somebody get a net already!
wingnut...Michelle Malkin is your answer.
Obama speeches get too black for her. All revivaly and such.
If she really wants to tackle the culture of entitlement, she should do an expose on the wingnut welfare gravy train she has been riding for years. If that pool dries out, look for Townhall columnists begging for real change.
There has GOT to be a way to have her arrested for conspiracy of some type with her releasing the phone numbers etc. of people she is trying to harass just because she thinks she can...
She turns out to be one of the worst of the worst of the NeoNuts...
What about all the "liberals" in California publishing the names, addresses and phone numbers of the prop. 8 supporters so that every moonbat could "protest" outside their homes and places of employment. I think they even linked the information to google maps.
A big difference is that right-wingers - yeah, the ones who like to refer to themselves as "conservative" and boast about their firearm ownership - right-wingers immediately get into death threats when people's contact information is posted. That's a whole different level of threat than protesting in front of people's homes.
BillO the Clown complained about those Californians publishing the names of the Prop 8 supporters.
I did not see BillO the Clown complain about Michelle Malkin and her kooky right wing followers and their death threats.
...that laws should be established to prohibit posting personal information. It is now becoming a form of domestic terrorism and needs to be stopped. Terrorism doesn't necessarily require a violent act; it also refers to the threat of such.
Why isn't congress discussing this; or are they?
I have called her Malicious Malin from the first time I heard her rant.
It fits her to a "T".
And I betcha wishin' you'd see (gri)malkin in a wet "T"-shirt competition.
Malkin is a particularly disgusting member of the lunatic right, because she prefers attacking private citizens.
I also heard rush the pig limbaugh making fun of Henrietta Hughes, as well as Julio (that college kid who asked Obama a question...although I do admit that Julio was kind of goofy).
I also saw that that "octuplet mom" is now in hiding because of the threats and harrassment she is getting. I don't agree with what that woman has done, but people like BillO the Clown have provided much coverage about her.....didn't get out any address or telephone information, but he has really gone on and on about her. I'm sure he's gotten some of his right wing, anti-tax viewers riled enough to harrass that woman.
...BillO ambush interview with her. That might send her over the edge. She can't be all there mentally anyway and who knows what the incessant media attention will do.
Personally, I think the doctor who impregnated her should be made to pay for all 8 of those babies until they're 21. I can't even imagine what he was thinking.
This is the only country in which an asshole, who harasses his female employees with sexual fantasies about falafels, thinks he gets to have any sort of moral higher ground over a person who just gave birth to 8 kids. Just because she is poor.
Really upsets me when Falafel King gets on his high moral horse.
they dare get in the way of their bottom line, dunnit?
Funny how the octuplet mum went from "pro life" hero when she gave birth to all those kids, to "villain" in two seconds flat... after the same wingnuts found out she was going to put all those precious fetuses through welfare.
Jesus would be ever so proud...
those imbeciles can't see more than one step ahead or add.
There is no other way to describe them.
We need to step up our game because we know we are dealing with sociopaths and psychopaths and people who will do anything to win including destroying the nation or fellow Americans. We need to step up our game to defeat these people.
Michelle Malkin might want to consider that a significant portion of the right wing that makes up the GOP and read her columns, would have no problem with her face down in the back of a pickup.
The entire event was like a revival meeting.
Careful, Michelle. You run the risk of alienating your savior-based base with this type of rhetoric. You sure as hell don’t want to piss off any Christians.
the ones that burn crosses. You know...your readers.
I don't normally issue personal insults to people I disagree with but Michelle Malkin is a vile creature. Always has been. My impression is that she's trying to out-Coulter Ann Coulter. There's nothing wrong with dissent and disagreemeent, but there is something terribly wrong with those, like Malkin, that have to add personal harm to those they disagree with, whether physical or mental harm.
And I really get disgusted with her hiding behind "civility" and blaming others for "personal attacks" when they say, "damn, Michelle, you are..."
She incites and incites, saying crazy things about how internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was a good idea and how McCarthy got a bad rep; then when she gets the inevitable personal attack - possibly sock-puppeted - she predictably puts up an article about how she is so victimized and how the evil libruls have poisoned the political well.
The whole sociological phenomenon of this self-loathing woman gaining publicity in no small part from her intentional appeal to mouth-breathing asian fetishists (see: Harry Reid/cheerleading video,) and the twisted symbiosis with her neo-con husband could be studied for years. I guess I'm saying, she's a piece of work.
Coulter gives the impression of being so whacked out and blantantly plugging herself that it's clear she's more of an amoral twit who's in it for the money. Malkin sounds like a True Believer.
Screw Malkin! A lady is allowing Mrs Hughes and her son to live in one of her houses as long as she needs it, for free. The lady and Mrs Hughes were on tv this morning and talked all about it. So Michelle can do her song and dance, but Mrs. Hughes has a home today and she can sleep in it tonight.
The lady said she saw Mrs. Hughes on tv at the Obama town hall and felt that she could help and she wanted to help. That's the good part of America.
Now that makes her a true religious person. That is what Jesus was saying about helping those in need.
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You make me proud to be a murican Sarge! Moron.
Lots of the stuff available over there caused us to mistake Asians for the enemy.
This asshat created his account not 30min ago just make his one post. Probably a right-winger trying to make us look as hateful as they are.
that can then be used by Cantor's office to script voice overs for 30 year old AFSCME spots, right?
And getting back to the original point...
The right-wing and their drum majors are entirely incapable of diferentiating between anecdotal and scientific evidence. They think that by attacking and discrediting Graeme Frost or Henrietta Hughes, uninsured children or homeless people will suddenly cease to exist. As if Hughes is the only homeless person in Fort Myers or Frost is the only uninsured child in the country.
absolutely spot on, it is unfair to call the devine Ms. M "a drum major." She is on the cheer squad. Their highest rank is captain.
"of mixed descent"...would my post have stood? ; 0 )
[I'm not laughing. I actually banned you for half a minute, then resurrected you. I could adjust that back, if you want to keep on. You don't need to be a bigot to hate on Ms Malkin. There are plenty of choices she's made which make her easy pickings for someone as smart as you-Sitemonitor]
Judging by the context of your sentence, you were using her ethnicity, whatever it may be, and whatever term you may use as a negative. Thats what probably did it.
But if you said, "although mixed, her descent has been apparent since her first postings," you could have slipped it by and had many claim your comments were either too silly or obscure.
It is difficult to always take the high road with these racist dogs.
[No need for us to get down in the mud with them. Would you be as understanding if he applied the same term to the president? Sitemonitor]
My biracial son has been using it ever since Obama did. But that is his heritage and therfore his right. "It sounds prettier when we say it." Dick Gregory
Last year, there was a post about insults to Senator Clinton and a number of commentors called her a sl*t. When I and a few others protested and compared this term to calling Senator Obama a n****r, C&L's position was that, while racist insults needed to be purged, misogynistic insults could stand.
Dual standard much?
And I won't even bother to explain why.
Actually C&L started deleted the bulk of these and even temporarily banned some commenters.
But I prefer Pinaud for underarm stank.
It looks to me like a direct parallel. Bigotry is bigotry whether it be racist, religious, cultural, gender based, sexual orientation based etc.
And I recommend that you sue all of your History professors for malpractice.
Just because you rate the type of bigotry you (presumably) face as "bigger" than the bigotry others face?
Is a racist put down of an African American "bigger" than a racist put down of an Asian American?
Is a misogynistic put down of a woman or a homophobic put down of a LGBT person smaller than either of the other two?
Are you sure you want to create a hierarchy of bigotry?
[This is off topic. And your initial post is incorrect. We have deleted many misogyny-based posts, so drop it now-Sitemonitor]
Why isn't there a law against death threats in this country? Is that considered "free speech" and covered by the Constitution, or does it only apply when Republicans receive death threats?
Oh right, IOKIYAR
Just imagine the dirt Malkin could dig up if she could have Government employees going through her private records.
Like Obama's supporters did with Job the Plumber.
Talk about glass houses, John.
McCain's terrible vetting job on Joe the Plumber: Rick Davis is full of it!
No doubt Crooks and Liars will erase all Job the Plumber stories.
You people are like my favorite type of lake fish, gullible and hungry. Lots of you take the bait every time.
Malkin is a troll, so are Oxylim Continbaugh, Beck, etc. They are playing the same tired, old, EFFECTIVE game they've played since at least 1993.
This latest Malkin vomit is yet another distractive sh*tstorm, designed to take our attention elsewhere. Ignore them. Do not feed them. They will go away.
I highly recommend "Speaking Peace" by Marshall Rosenberg. Nonviolent communication is a progressive value, folks.
http://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Peace-Marshall...
...on what type of lake fish is gullible. Me personally I like perch and crappies. （⌒▽⌒)/
of course.
...but maybe vicious predators are gullible. Kind of reminds me of dick cheney.
This is a great point. The RW hatemongers cannot STAND to see compassion and humanity in action. Their unevolved lizard brains are incapable. Swamp them with love, it's the chum of the progressive Left.
I'm sorry. The second post was a joke...that's why i put the smiley.
My apologies.
symbol. Why do you keep trying to half frame our President?
Has anyone else heard the trope that the woman on the left is mouthing "I Love you" to BHO?
I doubt that's a correct interpretation, since I have an evangelical family member who says "I love you God" every time something "blessed" happens. That response doesn't resonate with me, but at least she's consistent.
I think it's kinda cute to see the RW haters invoke sexual adoration of a white woman towards an African American man to stir up the mob, isn't it?
Any lip readers out there?
In MalkinWorld, saying "I have urgent need" equates to a DEMAND.
"... a woman named Henrietta Hughes — who demanded that Obama give her a home with her own bathroom and kitchen."
I can just picture Malkin's kids, when they were at a store, when they were young, saying, "Mommy! I have to go to the bathroom!" Malkin: "You are DEMANDING a bathroom! No way!"
Your right to swing your fist in the air stops at the end of my nose. There needs to be swift legislation to hold these people accountable. For eight years the Bush administration thumbed its nose at the American people while the media either sat silent or cheered, but this practice of inciting violence toward a private citizen by publishing personal information is criminal and needs to have some consequences attached to it.
our rights to swing at the Bush administration so long as we hit their thumb but stopped short of their nose?
(The GOP has become the party of Malkin, Limbaugh, Hannity and Drudge. May you all live happily ever after.)
And they seem to be reproducing faster, too. The Duggars just added a new mouth recently, iirc.
Death threats from neo-cons?
"I hate your guts and I want you dead so badly that I plan on demanding that a poor person come to your house and kill you" really doesn't intimidate me much.
But...that's me.
you could say that malkin definitely needs a
good layette, but somehow all the world's
industrial batteries are in use.
why doesn't someone find all of malkin's family's
phone numbers and post them for everyone to
complain to her family about her despicable behavior
and for that matter how about publishing her
home address.
The really weird thing about these kinds of subhuman attacks by the likes of Malkin is how casually and shamelessly they are stated,and how little criticism outside of left wing circles,they produce.
Her gloating evil is lapped up joyfully by her badly bent followers while the major media outlets ignore it all.
What kind of society thinks that this is okay?
She is just a smelly and very, very, ugly Reslug Whore that is just full of jealousy and hatred for people.
Malkin: Naturally, I’m already being attacked as heartless for questioning the entitlement culture.
After listening to the Bankers yesterday and James Gorman, co-president of Morgan Stanley ... I've got a different idea of what the "entitlement culture" is. These bankers that believe that they are worth millions of dollars worth of stock
bonusesretention awards while there are people living in their cars in this country or even people living on less than a dollar a day in other parts of the world are really the people that have a misplaced idea of entitlement.All most people want in life is a job and a way to support their family without too much struggle.Why is that too much to ask?
Is it true (gri)malkin uses tartar sauce as a douche?
This is beneath you.
I'm not sure it is.
terrorist.
Let's see Republicans, wingnuts, anti-american trash, have insulted.
Young and ill children
Children sexually abused and held hostage
Students
Community organizers
Union organizers and their members (I know some of them they don't kindly to insult)
African-americans
Homeless people crying (why aren't they happy they have a car to sleep in?)
People who can't afford to live in cars
Distinguished journalists (Hey Helen and Bill Moyers I love you)
Gay people
Hollywood types
I know I have left some out... help a girl out will you?
I am guessing if just the Union/community organizers get together and fight this we are going to have one heck of a fun time.
And let us not forget children grow up to become voters with long memories. And homeless people get places w. addresses and can vote.
I don't understand the absolute lack of empathy and outright heartlessness but I wouldn't bat and eye if they all got ass whopping for behaving like spoiled and entitled children who wouldn't know what it means to really work hard for a living.
Feminists
People with hearts
Liberals
Barney Frank in particular
Spotted owls
Endangered species
Anything that gets in their way or what they want to do
Thanks...
...to foment crowd violence, but let me ask a 'rhetorical' question. What does one think would be the effect of 20,000 - 30,000 demonstrators outside little Michelle's crib one day? Mind you, NO ONE should do this. It might be irresponsible to consider, though perhaps it would be irresponsible not to. I remember someone saying that about a different situation...
I'm so not sure. About the hypothetical, not about the fact that she is Pure. Bitch.
Just when we all thought "finally, this THING has gone back into the world of the unknown", he spout off nutty vile in the tone of Ann CoulterGeist and suddenly, you are back in the spotlight! Congrats. Hating is such a great way to live your life. Must be a blast being a part of your family.
...or is Michelle Malkin and others like her a candidate for hates crimes prosecution? Even without anything further happening?
To call Malkin a bitch or a swine would be an insult to dogs and pigs everywhere. So I'm calling her a filthy whore. I'm tired of playing the grownup. They want to be childish, we should get childish right back with them. What I wouldn't give to chuck a water balloon at her. Because whores need water.
Good Lord, doesn't this fucking leech (and others like her) ever listen to herself? Seriously? Oh the nerve of this poor little old woman, pleading for help and asking for a place to sleep, and a kitchen (the audacity!), even the crappiest of kitchens can make the measliest of meals easier to prepare and whatnot.
I'd like to see Michelle Malkin sleep in her car, and get her meals where possible, if at all (considering the difficulty of not having that crappy kitchen). I'd like to see her ability to vote be up in the air, like this poor woman experienced, because she has no home address.
Shame on you Malkin. You deserve every last ounce of scorn people feel towards you. Every last ounce.
Man, I saw this post and started reading it and it was easy to figure out where it was going. I could feel my blood start to boil. I had to get up and walk away from the computer. You see when this woman, Mrs. Hughes, told her short little story the other day I was moved to tears like probably a million other people who saw it. I had had a bad day and went through an episode where it just felt like the weight of this economic catastrophe was coming down all around me. Not because I was in any horrible situation like Mrs. Hughes but because I stay informed about what is going on and feel like things are really much worse than most people realize. When Mrs. Hughes told her little story and asked Obama for help I just realized I could not deal with her situation if it were to happen to me. But she seems so dignified yet so hopeless and not knowing what to do or where to turn (I have to get up again here…)… Obama saw it too and so did a million others. I just don't think I could endure her situation but there she was. Have you read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy? Well anyway I recovered from that day (what was it a couple days ago?) and saw that some congressman or something gave her and her son a house to live in. Fabulous! That felt good didn't it (more tears)? So I see this story right here (I still have not read the whole thing but I know where it is going. I had to get it down in words. I may not even post it but it feels good to write it).
I finished reading it now and of course it is exactly what I have come to expect from Malkin. She is absolute slime. I would never never harm her but I wish I could stand face to face with her right now. She would fear for her life. I would let her know in NO uncertain terms what I thought about her and what kind of person she is. She would wish that she had never been within 100 miles of me. She is simply the worst kind of person in the world. I wish the worst for her. She has demonstrated that she deserves absolutely no respect from anybody. Ever. Her history speaks for itself. She has no shame. None. What a disgusting human being!!
I don't know what to say. I think you've covered it very well.
The title of the post says something about Henrietta Hughes, but in order to find any reference to Ms. Hughes, I had to read through the equivalent of a 20 page dissertation before coming up on some kind of cryptic reference to her. Why couldn't the sentence have been expanded, and why couldn't that sentence have been the first thing at the top? After that you could go through all of Malkins sordid history. It's like reading a biography about FDR, but only having him mentioned in the last sentence.
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