Comments on: Michelle Malkin’s Contact Information Posted

By: The Unabrewer

The Unabrewer — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:07:37 +0000

Yeah, who is Richard thinking he has the right to defend people (including children) from physical harm, anyway.

By: Richard Davis

Richard Davis — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:37:31 +0000

I will tap dance on the windpipe of anyone that tries to harm Michelle Malkin or her family.

All she has to do is say the word and an Army of folks like me will come runnin to her neighborhood.

We will protect her the same way the Bikers protect the military families.

GO 'HEAD, MAKE MY DAY.

Richard Davis
Philadelphia, PA
USN Ret

By: Len

Len — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:50:10 +0000

Michelle Malkin? Is she someone important? Should we know who she is?

By: aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south.

aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south. — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:49:43 +0000

Michelle Malkin and the Dog Poop Girl...

A couple weeks ago I pointed to a NYTimes article on how wired South Korea is. I focused on robots but I was also interested to read this tale of the impact of technology on human behavior: There has been......

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:06:14 +0000

Anonymous: Did someone actually document that fact by keeping a screen cap or some such? I haven't seen any evidence.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:36:03 +0000

That "anti KKK site" has had Michelle's personal information up for a couple of years. So, like the press release, that information was available on the internet. That is why it was so easy to dig up. Also, Jesse Malkin sent out an email to the Malkin's email list a couple of months back with their home address on it. Many liberal bloggers received this email, but CHOSE not to publish it. I'm not condoning the release of Michelle's private information. However, it wasn't as private as everyone has been lead to believe.

By: Anonymous Please

Anonymous Please — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:13:33 +0000

"Several people blogging about this latest event point to this post by John Aravosis but it was an initial condemnation of Malkinâ��s posting of the student contact info. He does not retaliate in kind."

He did indeed post a link to her home address. Then after a few hours he quietly removed it.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:02:40 +0000

Rather than illustrating the very kind of unacceptable escalation that's being criticized, why don't we just all agree that Michelle shouldn't have posted the contact info and neither should the commenters?

By: Andy Vance

Andy Vance — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:56:39 +0000

Publishing a press release is not exactly tantamount to digging up private information. Oh, please. How does the students' stupidity excuse Malkin's behavior? Would it be ok to run a pack of dumb college kids over for jaywalking? After all, they've put themselves out on a public street and sooner or later someone is bound to hit them, right? It defies common sense to think that it was the students' intention to disseminate their phone numbers on a high-traffic blog known for hardball partisan politics. It therefore defies common sense to contend that Malkin's purpose was anything but vindictive, unless one believes that she - an intelligent, experienced media operator - doesn't know what she's doing. You're right - there is no equivalency between Malkin and the insane jackals now trying to run her and her family down. One might expect that she, a popular and purportedly respectable journalist, would be held to a higher standard.

By: ICallMasICM

ICallMasICM — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:46:19 +0000

MM doesn't seem to worried about a possible troll invasion.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:29:07 +0000

Jazz: Yes, I saw it. That's how I know it was there at 7:12. Given the implications, linking to the information strikes me as irresponsible.

The information was posted, at earliest, yesterday AM on DU and, so far as I understand, deleted by yesterday evening. The anti-KKK site had the information dated yesterday but I don't recall/didn't see a timestamp. Google wouldn't have it this soon.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:14:35 +0000

It was posted briefly in my comments section yesterday (before I deleted and banned the commentor), so I expect it was being spread around pretty widely for a few hours.

By: Jazz

Jazz — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:42:47 +0000

Just to be clear, did you actually see the information posted at the "anti-KKK site" yourself? I only ask because, like many others trying to confirm this story, I did a few Google searches this morning with all of the obvious search keywords and came up with zip, zero, nada. If her personal information was "plastered all over the internet" as some like Goldstein said, it seems to have been a very poorly constructed "plastering" job.

By: Bhoe

Bhoe — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:37:33 +0000

Who is Michelle Malkin?

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:40:23 +0000

Indeed, it makes no sense either in terms of moral consistency or equivalency.

But it makes all the sense in the world in terms of war and, clearly, that's how some see what's going on in the blogosphere.