Video: Geraldo cringes everytime he sees Michelle on Fox
posted at 11:28 am on August 17, 2007 by Bryan
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Well, we wouldn’t want to make Geraldo Rivera cry. But the fact is, he didn’t really address the situation. He once again smeared Michelle by bringing up militias, the KKK and neo-Nazis, to whom Michelle has no links and has never had any links (to whom Geraldo has attempted to link Michelle before), rather than just answer the question of whether deportable criminal aliens ought to be deported. And he brought up In Defense of Internment, mischaracterized it as “extolling” Roosevelt’s internment, rather than answer the question at hand. That’s called changing the subject. And he said he “cringes” nearly every time he sees Michelle on Fox. Well ain’t that a shame.
We have 100% preventable crimes and we have a government that’s supposed to enforce the laws that would lead to those preventions. What would Geraldo do about them? We still don’t know. We do know than when confronted with facts, Geraldo either distracts with emotion, or attacks his critics with smears and innuendo. When he isn’t actually lying on national TV. So today’s performance is just a reversion to the usual form.
I’m just surprised he didn’t bring up John Lennon. Because, you know, he was an illegal alien too.
Exit question for Geraldo: Was LBJ’s “war on poverty” an actual, violent war on poor people? Or are you just once again trying to smear an opponent who has beaten you on the facts time and time again?
Update (AP): MM responds:
Geraldo says he “cringes” whenever I’m on Fox. I’ll tell you exactly why. It’s not because of any principled objection he has to the arguments I’ve made in my books (which he hasn’t read), columns, blog posts, and tee-vee appearances. It’s because the mere existence of conservative-thinking minorities who reject his tired old brand of identity politics threatens his race/ethnic-card-playing schtick. He can no longer dismiss all immigration enforcement proponents as racists without looking like a fool or tool, because there are countless, vocal numbers of them like me who have skin as brown as his. He cringes because he knows I’m not alone. He cringes because I’ll call out his bullcrap to his face without feeling any need to soften the blow or suck up in a collegial manner. He’s a know-it-all who knows nothing about the deportation abyss–and he masks his fundamental ignorance with incoherent indignance.
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That’s so unlike the rest of us, who cringe everytime we see Geraldo on Fox.
EconomicNeocon on August 17, 2007 at 11:31 AM
cynical question, is Geraldo just nuts or paid off by border smugglers?
jp on August 17, 2007 at 11:33 AM
Like alGore, Geraldo was once almost a somebody. Today he makes a mockery of courageous civil rights activists of the past century.
JiangxiDad on August 17, 2007 at 11:37 AM
Michelle should wear the cringing of Geraldo Mustache like a badge of honor.
thirteen28 on August 17, 2007 at 11:38 AM
Geraldo invokes Neo Nazi and KKK images to describe Michelle and says she is inflammatory? Did I miss the part of the video where that could possibly make sense?
But who cares. Geraldo has already spent the credibility he built up opening vaults.
TunaTalon on August 17, 2007 at 11:38 AM
Geraldo is such an over the hill gigolo. Say b-bye fool. You belong on a beach somewhere walking up and down it, trying to attract business from an old lonely rich lady.
Mojave Mark on August 17, 2007 at 11:42 AM
I cringe every time I see Geraldo on Fox.
Lawrence on August 17, 2007 at 11:43 AM
Why hasn’t Michelle talked about those homicides? Umm, because they didn’t involve killing 3 college students execution-style, by someone who shouldn’t even be in this country?
Inflammatory? Yet, Geraldo’s invoking of the Klu Klux Klan and Nazis isn’t?
amerpundit on August 17, 2007 at 11:43 AM
Ditto.
amerpundit on August 17, 2007 at 11:44 AM
We are talking about it because crime committed by illegals are 100% preventable because we have a way to deny them the civil protections provided to citizens. Namely, removing them from American society before they commit serious crime. Geraldo refuses to accept that. He is an open borders shill and therefore ignores the fact that these people have no right to be in this country to begin with.
csdeven on August 17, 2007 at 11:46 AM
Dennis Hastert retires.
csdeven on August 17, 2007 at 11:48 AM
It’s funny… only NOW did it even ever cross my mind that Geraldo is hispanic. I realize that it should be obvious–and it is–but somehow I never connected his name or his skin tone with his ethnicity. That’s how unimportant it is to me, and that’s how ridiculous it his for him to presuppose that everybody’s out to get people like him.
DaveS on August 17, 2007 at 11:49 AM
sleazy greaseball
D2Boston on August 17, 2007 at 11:50 AM
Ref MM update…..
POW! SOCK! BLAM! UMPFFFFFFF!
Way to go Michelle!
Limerick on August 17, 2007 at 11:50 AM
Perspective…
So, he’s “Phil Epstein, a Puerto Rican-Jew??
So, he’s not fully spanish, Was Born here in America, and has American parents. (P.R. is still a commonwealth of the USA) I knwo some other immigrants who legally came here and became naturalized citizens. Knowing “where they came from,” they’re slot almost 50-50 on illegal immigration. Geraldo has never been an immigrant, nor had immigrant parents.
What is his “connection” and outrage?
If you read his Wikipedia page I’m CONVINCEd that Fox should not only distance themseves from him, but no longer employ him as a reporter.
Mazztek on August 17, 2007 at 11:51 AM
But we should really fear the Fred!.
If Geraldo, aka the Most Massive of Tools, is really concerned about how border enforcement would tear children from their parents (his largest argument for amnesty), let’s propose this. Because of jus soli citizenship, children born here would be citizens and instantly made wards of the state. These children would have all the rights of an American citizen, and they could be raised in foster care or adopted by United States citizens. The parents, having committed a crime by entering the United States illegally, would be ineligible for any social benefits and must be deported to their home country after a swift immigration hearing. If illegal parents want to keep their child, then they must return to their country and the child surrenders his/her citizen.
The only benefit(s) would be for the child. They are the innocent. They did not choose to be born here. Elimination of anchor babies……gotta love it!
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on August 17, 2007 at 11:53 AM
” incoherent indignance”
God, I love that woman….. in the platonic sense , of course.
MNDavenotPC on August 17, 2007 at 11:56 AM
If that’s about Hispanics or Puerto Ricans, ur a pig.
If that’s a general slur of Geraldo the piss-ant, no prob.
JiangxiDad on August 17, 2007 at 11:57 AM
If that’s a general slur of Geraldo the
piss-antMost Massive of Tools, no prob.JiangxiDad on August 17, 2007 at 11:58 AM
GUMBALLS!
Ropera on August 17, 2007 at 11:58 AM
Maybe Karl Rove is managing Michelle from the shadows…
Ropera on August 17, 2007 at 11:59 AM
Hello Michelle,
I for one appreciate your debating skills and love watching nothing but the facts blow up in Geraldo’s face.
Exit Question: Is that completely wrong?
Second, since this is not just the topic of the month and that it will be with us for quite sometime, is it wrong to have the super bag of popcorn with me while watching?
HarryStar on August 17, 2007 at 12:01 PM
It’s pretty clear that Geraldo cares NOTHING for the average Joes that are trying to eek-out a living in relative obscurity and anonymity. He doesn’t care if we are unemployed, he doesn’t care if we are paid a living wage, and he doesn’t care if criminals sneak into the country and murder us. He is CLEARLY the WORST kind of elitist.
That said, I am going to go against the grain here and suggest that FoxNews should CONTINUE to give him all the air time that he wants. He personifies and embodies every single thing that the average Joe hates and struggles against on a daily basis. He brings “definition” and “clarity” to the enemy that many of us must face. In that way, he serves a useful purpose.
My collie says:
CyberCipher on August 17, 2007 at 12:07 PM
I’d cringe too if I saw the person that routinely handed me my butt in on-air debates over illegal immigration.
Benaiah on August 17, 2007 at 12:08 PM
I cringe every time I see Geraldo on FOX. He is lame and he resorts to personal attacks on those whose views differ from his because he can’t back up his twisted opinions with facts. The immigration issue has really shown Geraldo to be the leftist fool he is.
katieanne on August 17, 2007 at 12:10 PM
Best smackdown evah!
WTG Michelle. The intelligent presentation of facts always trumps emotional rhetoric.
infidel4life on August 17, 2007 at 12:11 PM
Why not? It’s not a sin, ya’know. I’d LIKE to see Michelle make him cry on national television. It would be…
a thing of beauty.
CyberCipher on August 17, 2007 at 12:15 PM
Michelle, don’t back down, not that you would.
I am beginning to see a leftward slant to Fox over the last 6 months or so.
Anyone else detecting it?
Is it time to lump Fox with the other MSMs, and start a new, truly conservative news outlet?
AZCON on August 17, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Give Geraldo a new shovel so he can keep digging himself in deeper.
The Rivera Checklist Of Finer Debating Points:
KKK, check.
Nazis, check.
Racist, check.
Bigot, check.
Militias, check.
Nativists, check.
Geraldo must be a Chekist.
profitsbeard on August 17, 2007 at 12:23 PM
I thought that the character’s name was Juan Epstein. But then, it’s been a few
yearsdecades since I’ve watched Welcome Back, Kotter.Bigfoot on August 17, 2007 at 12:24 PM
I think he identifies so closely with his race that he automatically assumes most everyone else does as well. I used to wonder if all of these Mexican protesters were calling us racist because they honestly believe it or because it’s effective. I now think they honestly believe it, for the same reason. They can’t imagine anybody not siding with their own race against another one. That’s what they believe about us.
PRCalDude on August 17, 2007 at 12:25 PM
I think it happened much earlier than that. It’s just time to turn the tv off altogether, which more and more people are doing.
PRCalDude on August 17, 2007 at 12:26 PM
For some reason, Geraldo reminds me of Bill Dana.
there it is on August 17, 2007 at 12:27 PM
I change the channel.
SouthernGent on August 17, 2007 at 12:28 PM
Dude. Use your words correctly.
What you meant to say instead of I cringe was “I bow down to her pwnzrness.”
inviolet on August 17, 2007 at 12:30 PM
My stomach churns when i see Geraldo on Fox. Then I change the channel. What kind of contract does this guy have? I’d think Fox would want to be rid of him.
Patrap on August 17, 2007 at 12:33 PM
You are correct, Sir. I get old in 10 days. memory failing…
Mazztek on August 17, 2007 at 12:36 PM
I think they cry racism because it is a technique that their allies on the Left have used against conservatives for years with success. It doesn’t seem to be working this time. And for Geraldo to blame michelle in part for a supposed utick in hate-group activity is just pathetic.
Dork B. on August 17, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Oops, that’s Michelle with a capital “M”, and “uptick”.
Sorry for the typos.
Dork B. on August 17, 2007 at 12:39 PM
AZCON on August 17, 2007 at 12:22 PM Been going on longer than 6 months, but yes Fox is sliding left on us. Seems month by month I deduct from my fox line up another program. Dwn to Gibson(and that’s becoming a tabloid), Hume(usually stop at the panel of the old Washingtonian reporters) and of course that self righteous Bill O’…(can’t hardly watch all of him anymore).
And someone was giving encouragement to Michelle…I don’t think you would ever see her backing down to anyone. She’s filled with intelligence, facts and love of her country.
oldernslower on August 17, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Sorry man. 50 sucks. Hang in there. 51 is better.
JiangxiDad on August 17, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Further commentary not required.
Jaibones on August 17, 2007 at 12:42 PM
You are correct; it’s Juan Epstein - Puerto Rican Jew. He was a member of the famous Sweat Hogs. TV Land is the bomb.
My parents are a mixture of Puerto Rican, Cherokee and African American, the minority trifecta. And I can see where Geraldo is coming from - every time I flush my toilet.
Zaire67 on August 17, 2007 at 12:45 PM
His slicked back hairdo reminds me of the hotshots in the Mexican mafia…and did you notice that he stated his monologues about Michelle and illegal immigration by laughing?
His responses to their soft ball questions and outright support were nothing but bullcrap, but if you use it to slick back your hair, you don’t notice the smell.
FNC, O’Reilly, Hannity, and Limbaugh are in the pockets of the open borders lobby. I wish it wasn’t true of Sean, but I heard him hang up on people who were talking about the North American Union and SPP.gov. I think FNC makes you sign a contract: don’t talk about the real gov’t conspiracies.
Thank you Michelle for joining forces with Rick Roberts and others to increase the exposure of and pressure on sanctuary cities to end that status.
Christine on August 17, 2007 at 12:46 PM
Well . . . now he knows how most of the rest of us feel when we see him on FOX.
rplat on August 17, 2007 at 12:47 PM
Michelle nails it (as usual).
Boom, done, next topic.
Zorro on August 17, 2007 at 12:48 PM
Now he knows how I feel before I change the channel.
He should go back to Al Capone’s cave.
Hening on August 17, 2007 at 12:50 PM
I would. I want to make him cry until he passes out from dehydration. But I’ll settle for not having to listen to him, which is easily accomplished via the remote control.
ReubenJCogburn on August 17, 2007 at 12:51 PM
Geraldo’s network show, Geraldo at Large, was cancelled this past January because of poor ratings. That’s when they moved him over to a weekend spot on FOX News Channel. He and his staff of 40 people have a multiyear contract, so we are probably stuck with him for a while. His weekend show ratings are high I’m sad to say, and what’s worse, Roger Ailes loves him:
Here’s the link.
IrishEi on August 17, 2007 at 12:52 PM
I wish I could believe that. It’s not what I’ve been seeing with my own lying eyes.
PRCalDude on August 17, 2007 at 12:52 PM
I’d have only one thing to say to that pathetic fool, and I’d say it every single time I saw him:
“Hey Jerry - didya find Al Capone’s secret vault yet?”
mojo on August 17, 2007 at 12:58 PM
“Well, we wouldn’t want to make Geraldo Rivera cry”
You speak for yourself, Kimosabe, not me.
After his stunt in Iraq during the invasion, my tolerance for seeing his face on TV went to ZERO. He’s a self-promoting, bloviating, hypocrite.
georgej on August 17, 2007 at 12:58 PM
If this was a drinking game, there would be no survivors.
PattyAnn on August 17, 2007 at 1:00 PM
I don’t know if that quote means Mr. Ailes loves him, it sounds more like he’s being tactful. He’s probably stuck with him and is just being decent about it.
Rose on August 17, 2007 at 1:01 PM
I still just don’t get what is so ‘inflammatory’ about not wanting people to illegally enter this country. Seems like common sense to me. I just don’t get Geraldo. And I don’t think this issue is nearly as ‘divisive’ as he would have us believe. The vast majority of people I’ve talked to about it, and from all the polls I’ve seen, people just think its wrong to criminally barge across our borders uninvited. Every country in the world has a right to demand respect for its borders. Why is the USA any different?
Keli on August 17, 2007 at 1:14 PM
Fox News thinks they are so “smart” for hiring Geraldo and having him argue for ratings sake. I think this will backfire. I don’t know about anybody else, but whenever I see him, I immediately turn the channel. Hell, I figure if I miss something, Hot Air will show it anyway.
bucktowndusty on August 17, 2007 at 1:16 PM
Simple. Geraldo’s a Latino. He wants more of his people here. Since he’s a racist, he assumes everyone on the other side of the debate is as well.
PRCalDude on August 17, 2007 at 1:19 PM
Hairaldo is a tool, but Michelle needs to work on elliminating her “uhmms” to make her on screen presentation as persuasive as her writing.
tommylotto on August 17, 2007 at 1:22 PM
This is awesome for Michelle. Every time Geraldo mentions MM’s name, her value increases about 10%. They didn’t include the quotes from the G man that smeared MM before Michelle said anything.
The funniest thing about the concept of Geraldo complaining about using ‘inflammatory rhetoric’ is that of course, it is Geraldo using the inflammatory rhetoric himself when he mentions KKK, Nazi, etc. etc.
Why didn’t we talk about the other 60 murders in Newark? Because none of them involved situations that should have been solved by the Federal Government. The ‘recall Graham’ issue has to do with him calling those who disagreed with him (and voted for him) ‘bigots’ and has nothing to do with the President’s ‘immigration’ plan.
Geraldo is living on his declining reputation. He’s jealous that MM gets a weekday slot in place of O’Reilly and he’s relegated to a underviewed weekend show. His only recourse is in slandering MM.
I look forward to MM’s highly anticipated and viewed spot on tonight. Maybe MM could have the G man on as a ‘guest’. So long as she gets a kill switch on his mic;)
Get em MM.
ThackerAgency on August 17, 2007 at 1:22 PM
Gerald Rivera, half white, half Hispanic, has said many times that his children would be targeted if Hispanics were profiled for legality.
What Gerald never bothers to mention is that all three of his wifes were white and so his children are 1/4 Hispanic and don’t look Hispanic at all.
I love it when Sean Hannity takes him on. Gerald gets so angry it looks like the blood vessels in his neck are going to burst.
I have to turn the clown off now, no matter whose show he is on. When Fox hired him I thought “whoa, this ain’t gonna work. You can’t make a socialist liberal shock jock reporter into a fair and balanced journalist.” I was right.
retire05 on August 17, 2007 at 1:31 PM
Geraldo showed some “balls” when he was reporting from Iraq and did a respectable job. Too bad that he has completely reverted to form. Like many of these “open border” people he simply makes no sense and refuses to address legitimate issues. Emotion and attack just don’t substitute for facts.
duff65 on August 17, 2007 at 1:41 PM
Great minds think alike as most people here say they cringe when they see Geraldo on TV. I would watch a documentary on trees before I’d watch Geraldo do ANYTHING on TV. ‘Cause he’s just embarrassing.
mjk on August 17, 2007 at 1:44 PM
And when he started to reveal our soldiers positions on camera in live broadcasts, our soldiers should have shot them off. He should STILL be in prison for that incident.
CyberCipher on August 17, 2007 at 1:47 PM
Last time I checked Geraldo was HALF hispanic(Puerto Rican) yet he’s acting like he was born and raised in Mexico.
He’s an idiot.
j0 on August 17, 2007 at 1:47 PM
It’s an easy fix. Mentally, just align Rivera with Colmes and Juan Williams, and forget everything they blare out from the TV. Long range, five years from now, Rivera won’t even be remembered as being on Fox News.
I appreciated seeing Michelle’s response to Rivera posted here-another good reason why Fox News should reward her with her own show–but only if she’s interested. We’ve been clamoring for MM to get her own show, but I imagine her life is hectic enough as it is, with the many hats (first are foremost, Wife and Mother hats)she has to wear. I was reading her blog long before she created Hot Air; I wish I had as much energy as she must expend each day.
Doug on August 17, 2007 at 1:55 PM
cringe away Geraldo Al (Sharpton) race baiting miscreant.
Speakup on August 17, 2007 at 2:01 PM
If the main problem of illegals were from canada china europe and africa would geratlod be defending them ???
I think not he bases his whole argument on the simple fact he shares the same skin color as the majority of the illegals .
I’m still trying to figure out is he is the mr pringles man ot mr hankey {I think the later becuase he is so full of #$%^}
Mojack420 on August 17, 2007 at 2:02 PM
Michelle getting her own show would convince me to buy cable and start watching Fox news again. I agree with the posters above, ‘Fawn’ Hannity is becoming intolerable, and Bill O’Reilly is a moralizing bloviator.
PRCalDude on August 17, 2007 at 2:02 PM
Keep up the great work Michelle. Geraldo is desperate. He knows he has to play this angle, because if he debated Michelle on the issue itself he would be destroyed. Geraldo and the MSM would like to frame the opposition to illegal immigration as a fringe movement. A cold hearted rascist group with no compassion. In reality the majority of the country is fed up, and wants something done. I wish Michelle was speaking on behalf of the Republican party. If they would have taken the same position their approval ratings would be much higher. The left is handing us a gift of an issue, and the Republican leadership has blown the chance to take advantage. If they would secure the border, deport the criminals, and crackdown on the employers they would win 08 in a landslide.
chief on August 17, 2007 at 2:25 PM
Chair—->nose.
James on August 17, 2007 at 2:29 PM
The only time I watch the OR now is when MM is on it. Other than that I’v all but abandonded FNN. I appreciate many things that Sean Hannity does but he gets as tiring to listen to as Bill Orielly. I am a big Glen Beck ( who I believe doesnt get enough credit)fan so I actually have to turn to CNN.
gator70 on August 17, 2007 at 2:32 PM
Rivera’s mental disturbance seems to have calmed down since the 1980’s. At least, Michelle Malkin is a real person.
Back in the 1980’s, Geraldo was attacking the Satanist: “there over 1 million Satanists in this country … The majority of them are linked in a highly organized, very secretive network…[engage in] Satanic sexual child abuse, child pornography and grisly Satanic murders.”
thuja on August 17, 2007 at 2:38 PM
True. Except that he is at most only half Latino.
Funny thing is, he broke into the broadcasting business as a white guy and later assumed this Latino personae when he learned it would give him an edge as a minority in getting promoted. So I think he is less about racism and more about self promotion.
Lawrence on August 17, 2007 at 2:41 PM
Every time I see Michelle on Fox, my surroundings quickly fade as I hear “Dream Weaver” by Gary Wright play in the background…
Dork B. on August 17, 2007 at 2:41 PM
Haha. Good Wayne’s World reference.
PRCalDude on August 17, 2007 at 2:43 PM
The Nazi Party and the KKK have become really racially inclusive. Good for them!
madne0 on August 17, 2007 at 2:49 PM
And to think we were asked to hold back on calling Geraldo what he was weeks ago! For the simple fact that he works with Michelle at FOX. That to me seemed like appeasement at the time. Glad to see it isn’t the suggested course now.
It’s good to see that he can be addressed as he always deserves to be addressed, with no respect but with professionalism and maturity on our part, lest we become as irrelevant and whiney as he is.
Geraldo, enjoy your fame now, for you, my dear whiney talk show host, are a thing of the past. Long since deserved.
Just because you feature neo-nazi-kkk-whack-jobs on your sleeze TV shows, doesn’t mean we all cavort with those types. You have no facts. You have no reason. You have no logic. You have only your sensationalist tendencies.
Grow up Geraldo, and grow a pair.
Montana on August 17, 2007 at 2:50 PM
Just reacting to the statement, without watching the video, that Geraldo thinks Michelle’s linked to the KKK and Neo-Nazis…ummm, how would that work, exactly? Last time I checked, I found out that the KKK and Neo-Nazis aren’t sympathetic to someone like Michelle Malkin. It’s a skin color thing, I imagine.
That Geraldo could make such a slanderous claim is an outrage. That people would believe that Michelle and her ideas are pro-Nazi or KKK inspired is even more outrageous.
I remember reading somewhere that Michelle’s husband is Jewish. Can you imagine what it must be like for him to hear a dolt like Geraldo claim that Michelle is pro-Nazi? Better watch out Geraldo–you might end up with another broken nose.
jaleach on August 17, 2007 at 2:56 PM
Very good, my friend, very good. Schwing!
jaleach on August 17, 2007 at 2:57 PM
Geraldo is scum. He is a liar and a fraud. Hispanic is an artificial affirmative action quota construct. So called Hispanics are caucasian ethnically. Aren’t Italians Latino? Why is that?
mcgilvra on August 17, 2007 at 3:00 PM
If FOX had any brains they would have ditch “The ‘Stache” the minute he drew that line in the sand!
Bicyea on August 17, 2007 at 3:08 PM
I’ll call out his bullcrap to his face
Wow. That’s about as mad as I’ve seen Michelle at someone personally. Geraldo deserves it.
Rightwingsparkle on August 17, 2007 at 3:17 PM
Geraldo has needed to be fired for a long time now. When will TPTB at Fox finally do it? He isn’t fair nor is he balanced. In fact, I think he’s off-balance as in crazy.
Replace Geraldo with Michelle and give her his time slot on the weekend.
moonsbreath on August 17, 2007 at 3:17 PM
I turn to another channel when ever Jerry Rivers comes on.. Can not stand his B.S.
build the wall on August 17, 2007 at 3:21 PM
And our new favorite implied word - immigrationist
eeyore on August 17, 2007 at 3:43 PM
WTF!? Please Fox, flush this turd!!! I maintain that he must have some kind of dirt on Ailes, because he does Fox no favors by remaining on the air.
Question 1: Does he EVER address the point about the countless Americans who would still be alive, had we enforced the border and immigration laws?
Question 2: Did he come as close to saying “MalKKKin” as I think he did? Around the middle of this clip he seems to blame Malkin’s “enflamed rhetoric” for some (imagined) up tick in KKK and neo-Nazi activity. It’s telling that he gives no example of this up tick.
Question 3: How did someone not punch him in the face when he said that using the word “war” means people want physical violence. Was O’Reilly looking for violence when talking about the “War on Christmas”? Is Gutfeld looking for violence when they talk about the “War on Strippers”, etc. It’s as if Geraldo is speaking to an entire fan base of small children who won’t see through this sh**. Or, I suppose it’s like John Edwards making his 20th huge hypocritical statement of the week to one of his audiences… Or any Dem for that matter, but Edwards has made it in to an art.
RightWinged on August 17, 2007 at 3:46 PM
Michelle supported the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II? Pardon me if I’m wrong but isn’t Michelle an Asian American who is married to a Jew?
SoulGlo on August 17, 2007 at 4:20 PM
Why should her race matter? The Japanese slaughtered innocent Asian civilians by the hundreds of thousands during WW2. It’s people like Whore-aldo who base loyalty on race.
infidel4life on August 17, 2007 at 4:39 PM
Ya know…I hate this little MF so much…aaah WTF all I can do is change the channel. So I do.
LtE126 on August 17, 2007 at 4:40 PM
Could somebody explain to me (in small words) what exactly it is about Michelle that the mindless Left loathes so exuberantly?
Is it simply that she is a woman and a minority?
Is it because she is attractive? (I’ve noticed liberals truly hate attractive women - unless they’re celebrities touting the latest fashionable liberal cause …)
Or is it really her positions on issues - and if so, what specific issues?
Immigration in general? Her historical defense of internment (a practice that, at the time, was instituted by a Democratic president and approved by a Supreme Court stuffed by that same Democratic president?)
I really don’t understand. I understand why they hate Ann Coulter - she makes them cry and their little knees shake.
But Michelle never seems particularly extreme in any of her positions. Is there one I’m missing?
Just curious. I’ve never really gotten it.
Professor Blather on August 17, 2007 at 5:05 PM
I have a question that has come up in the past from Michelle’s critics. I know Michelle does allow a link to VDare blog on her blog and they feature the writings of some questionable Far Right types.
It has been said that she has also contributed to VDare in the past.
Please explain.
AprilOrit on August 17, 2007 at 5:15 PM
Professor Blather,
Words don’t mean things to the left. If you want to engage them, you have to spend hours dealing with sidetracking into paranoid conspiracy theories and never get to the point in question. Her actual positions are therefore never even understood by the left beyond the fact that, as you said, she’s a female, minority, physically attractive conservative. I think that’s it.
PRCalDude on August 17, 2007 at 5:16 PM
Ignorance masked by deflection.
desertdweller on August 17, 2007 at 5:20 PM
Thanks. I was always curious … since I have never heard any specific issues they’ve had with specific Malkin positions (other than, again, the internment issue - but every criticism I’ve seen there has either been uninformed on the history … or from someone who hadn’t actually, you know, read her book!)
Then again, I guess she’s sort of unique. Is there another attractive, Asian, conservative woman, succeeding both in the MSM and in the blogosphere? If there was somebody similar to compare her to, it would be helpful.
I guess that’s it. She’s cursed with a pretty face, an exceptional intellect, and an ability to think for herself. I guess that’s reason enough to hate her.
It never ceases to amaze and amuse just how sexist and racist liberalism really is … considering how hard they try to pretend they’re the opposite. I just read through that ThinkProgress article on Jenna Bush’s engagement (see: AceofSpades) and I was pretty shocked at all of the really hateful anti-woman commentary from the liberals.
Shorter me: liberals suck - and earning their hatred just means you’re doing something right.
Professor Blather on August 17, 2007 at 5:28 PM
I saw what he said today on fox. I can’t stand him. He is nothing but a male slut that kisses and tells in books and jumps from woman to woman. How he thinks he can judge anyone, he’s nutty.
I wish fox would drop him. Who watches him? He’s like hillary, no one I know of likes them! The only time I will watch him is if Malkin is going against him in debate. I won’t even watch him when he’s just battling O’reilly…waste of time and brain cells to decipher where he possibly can be coming from…blind bat.
Highrise on August 17, 2007 at 5:40 PM
I agree that the “hispanic” tag is ridiculous. It includes everyone from white, blond, blue eyed Argentinians of German descent to Venezuelans of 100% african descent. As such it really is useless as a “racial” category. As you say it’s nothing but a artificial affirmative action quota construct.
However most of the people that the average American recognizes as “hispanic” aren’t caucasian. They are mestizos. People of mixed white and amerindian descent. 60-70% of mexicans are mestizos for example.
madne0 on August 17, 2007 at 5:41 PM
AprilOrit, I’ve lurked on vdare.com and thought just the opposite. There are a few Bush haters that make my skin crawl. In fairness, bringing what people think of the immigration issue to the forefront is important enough that they seem to allow both commentaries. Some of the stats are compiled by very knowledgeable writers/researchers though. That said, that’s also where I first ran onto the writings of Ms. MM. After that, started seeing her pop up on a lot of sites. Then FOX.
24K lady on August 17, 2007 at 5:46 PM
stick to your guns MM :thumbsup:
trailortrash on August 17, 2007 at 5:57 PM
As a Jew I take issue with that nutjob Peter Brimelow. 24k lady - the fact that Michelle did write for the site is disturbing. I thought that was a liberal rumor, but if you actually read her there, well it must be true.
Not good.
AprilOrit on August 17, 2007 at 5:58 PM
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