Bonnie Erbe: That Playboy “hate f***” piece was wrong but Malkin sort of deserved it
posted at 5:05 pm on June 3, 2009 by Allahpundit
Consider this progress. Playboy thought all conservative women were fair game for quasi-rape fantasies. Erbe thinks it’s only the ones who are “venomous.” Baby steps.
Yesterday, I was contacted by the executive director of SmartGirlPolitics.org, a conservative women’s website, to stand up for conservative women treated despicably by the media. Here I am, doing just that…
I also want to note that at least one woman on the list is so venom-spewing, she unfortunately invites venom to be shot back at her: Michelle Malkin. Her posts and her “routine” are so venomous and predictable, in fact, I stopped paying attention to her years ago.
Others on the list, however, are not venom-spewing at all. One woman mentioned on the atlasshrugs2000 blog is a regular guest on my PBS show. Amanda Carpenter, on the show at least, eschews personal judgment of people with whom she disagrees politically. So her inclusion on the Playboy list is much more offensive to me than is the inclusion of Ms. Malkin, although their political views may not differ greatly.
A commenter on her post sums it up this way:
As a nonpartisan, pro-abortion, liberal Democrat, I was perfectly happy with the leftwing misogynist haters at Playboy talking about how they would rape Michelle Malkin…
Oh, now. She didn’t say she was happy, just … indifferent. I don’t get why MM was the only one singled out, though. Wasn’t Laura Ingraham, who’s as fearless as anyone in confronting the left, also on the Playboy list? Surely her years of “venomous” radio work qualify her for a sexual-assault fantasy or two in print. Presumably Erbe’s simply more familiar with MM due to her online presence and happy to toe the lefty line that she’s the devil incarnate, notwithstanding her own admission that she doesn’t follow Michelle’s work. I do follow it, of course, as do you, so let’s all be sure to call the boss out the next time she does something as venomous as shrugging off a rape hit list because she doesn’t care for the tone of one of the women on it.
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How come nobody wants to rape poor Ann Coulter? She’s not on the list?
max1 on June 3, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Glad to see they have principals on the left. Okay to rape those who you disagree with. Classy as always.
Mr. Joe on June 3, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Does that mean that ol’ Bonnie E thinks the Boss was asking for it? Based solely on the Boss’ political leanings?
class-say.
Oh, wait remove the “CL”…..
mjk on June 3, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Why is it we continue to be shocked at the abject stupidity and sheer, mind-boggling dopiness of the Left?
We do though.
Larry Farr on June 3, 2009 at 5:08 PM
9/11 was wrong but we kinda deserved it too, right?
f*ckin idiot
ya blinkin divvy
blatantblue on June 3, 2009 at 5:08 PM
This whole stupid thing just makes me sick. Its one of those things that makes you lose faith in humanity.
On the one hand, you have a school in Texas which last year voted a girl with Downs’ Syndrome as homecoming queen.
On the other hand, you have literate, college-educated adults fantasizing, and being paid for it, about raping political opponents.
jimmy the notable on June 3, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Isn’t Ann Coulter a man? Playboy does not cater to that demographic.
Mr. Joe on June 3, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Simple. Erbe is a racist.
Caper29 on June 3, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Ah, more evidence of the “tolerant left”.
Only “some” Conservatives should be raped.
Now I get it….
Markvike on June 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM
She probably spared Laura Ingraham because of the cancer-sympathy thing.
That’s kind of an odd thing to write. Non-partisan? I don’t think she knows what that word means.
myrenovations on June 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM
WOW!
Some women should seriously get the crap slapped out of them for saying something like that.
Call me rash, call me hateful, call me a “hater” of my own sex. But I would love to be the one to smack that liberal wannabe woman into next year.
upinak on June 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Okay I was joking about Ann, but she did date Bill Maher however, and that makes me question her judgment.
Mr. Joe on June 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Um, so if you stopped reading her years ago how do you know her ‘routine’ is so venemous? Because your liberal friends told you so?
BadgerHawk on June 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Classy.
amerpundit on June 3, 2009 at 5:10 PM
I for one do not read Michelle regularly, although I must say I have never seen anything “venomous” from her… unless calling hatefueled libtards exactly what they are is considered venomous… I would like to see examples of this “Venomous” characterization.
Kaptain Amerika on June 3, 2009 at 5:10 PM
and these are the people we need to be nice too? the problem witht the rep is that they are civilized beings living in barbaric world.
unseen on June 3, 2009 at 5:10 PM
I find it possible, that a time will come when those who don’t have a problem with raping Conservative women, won’t, also, have a problem with their being beaten, interrogated and thrown into a gulag, or re-education camp.
Those who think it impossible, provide the foundation for it becoming possible.
OhEssYouCowboys on June 3, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Nailed it!
sondiehl on June 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Good to see the totalitarians have their plans for the Gulags for Conservatives laid out.
1) Rape the women
blatantblue on June 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM
It is a seething hatred, and they want our destruction.
OhEssYouCowboys on June 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM
“But look at what she’s wearing…she was asking for it!”
Good freakin; grief!
ladyingray on June 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Maybe I’m looking at this all wrong, but my reaction to rape is to simply hang the SOB who done it.
I’ve been reminded to wait until after it’s proven that it was actually done, but that is my first reaction.
To actually agree with the idea of committing one – even in a fantasy, sorry, I just think that’s still grounds for getting your neck stretched. At the very least.
Larry Farr on June 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM
So no-nonsense assertive female conservative commentators are “venomous?” So when will the REAL snakes, Behar, O’Donnell, Walters, Garofalo, Maddow, Couric, et al, get their Playboy feature?
Dee2008 on June 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Leftism is mind-altering, not in a good way.
Schadenfreude on June 3, 2009 at 5:13 PM
OhEssYouCowboys on June 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Sorry, my post was a bit terse. I was just dumbfounded by this broad – sorry, but this ain’t no lady – and her ideas.
Playboy is one thing – we sort of expect it to be trash and provocative, but this female should have a bit more class than she does.
I just cannot believe these people and it just seems to floor us – and they do it again and again. Almost like they are trying to reach new lows in depravity.
Larry Farr on June 3, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Michelle Malkin is both a woman and a minority. Therefore the feminazis feel that destroying her is the only way they can vindicate themselves for all the sucking up (literally and figuratively) to white male Democrats they have done.
They’d be pitiable if they didn’t bring it upon themselves.
BKennedy on June 3, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Liberal Principles at work.
youngO on June 3, 2009 at 5:15 PM
It’s really not much of a ‘sisterhood’, is it?
The most vicious attacks on Palin, for example, were by so-called feminists…and effeminate and insane writers from the Atlantic. But that’s pretty much the same thing.
Asher on June 3, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Ho ho ho. Hee hee hee. (slaps knee) The old ‘isn’t Ann Coulter a man?’ joke. Yeah, that never gets old. No, pretty sure she’s a woman. I’ll bet she’s got bigger b*lls than you though, Mrs. Joe.
austinnelly on June 3, 2009 at 5:15 PM
It’s a lot like Palin…she’s pro life so she’s gotta get slammed…
ladyingray on June 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Feminism FAIL!
Bonnie Erbe basically co-signs the Playboy hit-piece with her feckless defense. She provides no specifics as to what exactly MM said, wrote or suggested that makes her an apt object of such derision.
There is a deep and ugly chasm forming between the sane and the rabid. Both the right and the left have cultivated such poisonous partisanship that it becomes difficult to be noticed for anything else other than puerile, base attacks. Perhaps Erbe felt that she would be mistaken for a Republican in her defense instead of the coward she has proved herself to be.
The Race Card on June 3, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Nothing Michelle has ever said or written can come close to being described as venom or venomous.
darwin on June 3, 2009 at 5:18 PM
“Venomous” is simply a conservative playing offense for a change. You have to get with their own version of Newspeak.
When Playboy has a “sex with barnyard critters” issue.
ddrintn on June 3, 2009 at 5:18 PM
So to Bonnie Erbe it all comes down to whom she likes and whom she doesn’t.
How “charmingly” grade school.
MB4 on June 3, 2009 at 5:19 PM
I think they call that
“Hef’s night in with his girlfriends”
They get to screw an old goat
blatantblue on June 3, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Feminism is a HOAX
youngO on June 3, 2009 at 5:20 PM
There are times your mouth just kind of drops open…
Michelle Maklin? All 99 lbs of her? Raped? That is really OK with the left? Are her words and intelligence and beauty so terrifying to you leftists that you would wish such a crime to be perpetrated on her?
This isn’t political speech, this is the scream from the asylum, the spew from the gutter.
GunRunner on June 3, 2009 at 5:20 PM
I do hope Amanda Carpenter doesn’t go back on this idiots PBS show. Well, after not sayin bleep about O’Reilly smearing HA, I don’t know if we can count on her.
youngO on June 3, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Erbe is a nasty, hate-filled bint. And less feminine than Rachel Maddow.
PimFortuynsGhost on June 3, 2009 at 5:22 PM
It’s PRECISELY because MM it outspoken about the truth, about what is happening to this country, and about the lies of the Left, that I came to Hot Air in the first place.
We RESPECT her, they want her RAPED.
THAT is the difference between Us and Them.
OhEssYouCowboys on June 3, 2009 at 5:23 PM
“I am Michelle Malkin”
They target one of us they target us all.
RobCon on June 3, 2009 at 5:23 PM
The attacks by the left on Palin, were vicious.
The attacks on Ms.Prejean, were vicious.
This is just absolutely disgusting.
Rape is wrong, no matter who the victim is. In a fantasy, or in reality, it’s WRONG…and the victim should be protected. Whether you like them, or not…they deserve support, not a cheer leading squad.
This not only makes me ashamed to be a woman, to see other women behave this way, it makes me so angry, for those out there, that have been, or will be victims. This is not something to just throw out there, for entertainment value. Playboy should be ashamed, and I’m sure they’re not. But anyone that supports this in any shape, or form, should also….be ashamed!
capejasmine on June 3, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Of course it is OK with them. The mask of the Left is coming completely off.
ddrintn on June 3, 2009 at 5:24 PM
The only good thing about the Bobbie Erbe article was that she has revealed herself for what she is: a hateful, ignorant, partisan hack of a “journalist.”
Well, maybe there is another good thing…. the comments under her article were 100% against Erbe (as far as I read, maybe 2 pages). She has to be reading the responses. Maybe the depth of her own stupidity will sink in.
But then, I’ve never known a leftist to ever see their own stupidity, even when it’s so clearly brought to their attention.
Speaking of stupid, where’s strangelet?
UltimateBob on June 3, 2009 at 5:24 PM
I think you are two letters off – though actually that works both ways…
Larry Farr on June 3, 2009 at 5:24 PM
They already said that they wanted her to be raped, but she carries a gun, so the talk died down. I guess no one wanted to meet her “little friend”.
GunRunner on June 3, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Her bridge collapsed, so she’s been busy moving into her new apartment, right over AP’s.
blatantblue on June 3, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Bonnie Erbe’s pointless life is so low that all other lots she envies. Fame of her the world hath none. Mercy and Justice both scorn her. Ignore her, look ahead and pass her by.
Tav on June 3, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Bonnie Erbe is clearly just a middle aged frumpy white woman terminally jealous of all Asian women. Pay no attention. It will just encourage her.
wcarr on June 3, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Has anyone asked for Sarah Bernhard’s comments on this mess?
hawksruleva on June 3, 2009 at 5:27 PM
I CANNOT even comment.
Disgusting.
JAM on June 3, 2009 at 5:27 PM
If they get to rape Malkin
Can I punch Jane Fonda?
blatantblue on June 3, 2009 at 5:28 PM
And to imagine, those pukes they COULD do that to Michelle
She’d rip them apart
Then make them eat their own, ya know.
blatantblue on June 3, 2009 at 5:28 PM
thought they could*****
blatantblue on June 3, 2009 at 5:29 PM
You are totally right. I could not countenance a man talking about it favorably, and a woman? That’s just incredible.
Clayton Williams joked about it once (It is Wiki, but feel free to look around the Net yourself)
The fool was running for governor as a Republican. Thank God the idiot lost!
Larry Farr on June 3, 2009 at 5:29 PM
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/24/heather-mac-donald-exposes-the-campus-rape-industry/
Bonnie must have been incensed by MM’s efforts exposing this Shibolleth… I’m sure she was leading the pack of idiots at Barhnard “taking back the night!’
and wondering why she couldn’t get a date!
max1 on June 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Banned?
UltimateBob on June 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM
How do we know that Erbe is not actually strangelet?
Larry Farr on June 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM
I think this speaks well of MM and her position in challenging the left. Targeting her while leaving out others is simply the result of and instinctive tactical maneuver.
When you are in a battle and have limited time and ammo to put downrange, you pick your targets. You don’t spend resources on small threats when large ones are looming. So, Michelle is perceived by the left, or at least by Erbe, as being the more serious threat to their/her agenda.
As a conservative hopeful of seeing the left flame out and crash, this makes me take a second look at Michelle as potentially being even more valuable than I thought before I read this.
MikeA on June 3, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Eh — I doubt it.
Strangelet
now this might be shocking to your sensibilities, cause it is to mine
MIGHT
MIGHT
have a job, and is just busy
.might.
blatantblue on June 3, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Unlike Michelle Malkin, no one ever considered Bonnie Erbe either conservative and beautiful.
If a serial rapist encountered Erbe and Helen Thomas walking down the street, it would cure him for good. More effective than chemical castration.
bw222 on June 3, 2009 at 5:31 PM
You can have Fonda. I’ll take Garofalo.
UltimateBob on June 3, 2009 at 5:31 PM
There can only be a hate-f*ck list for conservative women. Conservative women are hawt!!! Liberal women? Not so much. And why wasn’t Miss California on their list?
Andy in Agoura Hills on June 3, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Yeah
DarkCurrent on June 3, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Did I die, and go to a combination of Hell and a psych ward?
Women saying that it’s ‘okay’ to rape other women–because of the political views of those women??????
This b+tch actually wrote / said that? Anybody did, in public?
I can’t stop shaking my head………..
Janos Hunyadi on June 3, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Lol x infinity
But seriously, banned?
Because, you know, I miss its illiterate ramblings tinged in Ebonics.
PimFortuynsGhost on June 3, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Golly Blue…you are on such a ROLL with this one. LMAO!
Dee2008 on June 3, 2009 at 5:34 PM
They didn’t mention Coulter or Palin. How’d you like to meet your maker, Mr. Rapist? Via a .45 or a 12 gauge?
bw222 on June 3, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Pretty sure she once said she was a college student. Grad student, I think, majoring in math? She seems to only post at about 8AM and 11PM.
I know, this is more than you wanted to know…. but she also once said she is taller and thinner than Sarah Palin. IOW, she’s a bean pole with no meat on her bones at all.
My mental image of strangelet is not a good one. An unwashed, babbling fool.
UltimateBob on June 3, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Not to mention that stupid little smiley face she uses. :)
UltimateBob on June 3, 2009 at 5:37 PM
It is venomous to disagree with the self-declared wise class.
You must be raped back to political correctness.
The leftist hatef*ckers are so much better than everyone else.
Submit!
profitsbeard on June 3, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Doubtful
Strangelette is a silly little troll, but I don’t recall her ever engaging in real VILE rhetoric.
But I might have missed something. But yea, I don’t remember anything really outlandish that required AP the Blogging Cat to step in.
Spanks :D
blatantblue on June 3, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Some forms of feminism consider all heterosexual sex rape.
see here
Maybe this Bonnie chick thinks that rape is not all that bad because it is the same as sex…
Joe Caps on June 3, 2009 at 5:38 PM
We on it, AP! Boss – you better just mind your Ps and Qs. You won’t get away with it again.
Jaibones on June 3, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Didn’t she also say she was better looking than Sarah? I remember going to her webpage once and there was a picture of a gnome–so that’s how I’ve always thought of her.
Dee2008 on June 3, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Truth does not matter,” It is the seriousness of the charge “.
Johan Klaus on June 3, 2009 at 5:39 PM
She may have said that, but that’s not exactly an objective opinion.
UltimateBob on June 3, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Maybe she is actually a troll
IDK, Strangelette seems alright. Just ignorant. She seems like she’d be fun to go out and have a nice drink with.
Seems is the operative word.
blatantblue on June 3, 2009 at 5:42 PM
I posted a video response to the the U.S. News blogger over at the RedEye video on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDfnlz6C5Z0
Rightwingsparkle on June 3, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Bingo
Wade on June 3, 2009 at 5:43 PM
I think this parallels the example of Mother Cindy (Sheehan) when she was all about peace, love and sex…. but she wanted Bush dead….
I mean… these people have no inner peace. These people WISH YOU PEACE, BUT IT”S ONLY PEACE ON THEIR TERMS.
They are consumate example of hypocreaceae….
CynicalOptimist on June 3, 2009 at 5:43 PM
well… Michelle Malkin is ridiculously hot… she brings it upon her self, perhaps get surgery too look like Janeane Garofalo and people would stop having “sexual” fantasies about her…. maybe Sexual nightmares.
On a serious note, has anyone ever doubted the “feminist” movement to be anything more than a liberal front? we all knew it was BS since the 70′s. They don’t care about women, they only care about killing babys, lesbians, not needing a man for anything! and hating men in general. You will only be called a Sexist if you make fun of hillary clinton or other Demorats. Femismn was shown as a fraud way before Palin, but no more so than with Palin. MM knows they hate her, not because she is a woman, but because she is a stupid conservative and thinks for herself. Did i mention she is hot?
Donut on June 3, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Let them try it in a concealed carry state.
Johan Klaus on June 3, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Erbe, rape’s not a joke. You’ll find that somewhere in your feminist for dummie’s handbook.
Hog Wild on June 3, 2009 at 5:46 PM
She’s not as bad as getalife, that’s true.
Sorry to hijack the thread, folks. I’m done now.
UltimateBob on June 3, 2009 at 5:46 PM
She certainly has some big cajones.
Trov on June 3, 2009 at 5:46 PM
I hate to paraphrase Doonesbury, but I can’t help myself:
Jaibones on June 3, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Do. NOT. Compliment. Blantantblue.
His ego is the size of the Pacific already.
ladyingray on June 3, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Allah should be banned for capping this disgusting post with that angelic photo. (Shudder).
Jaibones on June 3, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Maybe I should make rape jokes about liberal women.
Wonder which work camp I’ll end up in!
blatantblue on June 3, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Here is a list of Liberal women I would make sweet love to
10. Kristen Powers
9. Adriana Huffington
8. Maddona
7. Racheal Maddow
6. Hillery Clinton
5. Susan Seranden
4. Andrea Mitchel
3. Laurie David
2. Chris Mathews
1. Kieth Omberman
I know Iknow the last two are men, least I think they are.
GREENTURTLE on June 3, 2009 at 5:51 PM
This whole thing isn’t very shocking. The left is constantly fighting for rapists to get away with their crimes legally speaking. It’s not such a huge step down for them to start actively vocalizing support for and/or desiring to engage in, the act itself.
Grayson on June 3, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Um…NO!
ladyingray on June 3, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Don’t compliment Olberbarf
He isn’t a man
He’s a child.
blatantblue on June 3, 2009 at 5:53 PM
But why? Certainly they don’t think that only conservative women get raped.
ladyingray on June 3, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Is the person who wrote this is either living in a fantasy world or a liar. Do they really expect anyone to believe that such a thing exists?
jdkchem on June 3, 2009 at 5:54 PM
The simple example that exposes liberal hypocrisy every time on something like this is: Would Erbe have said the same thing if Rush Limbaugh had created a similar list about liberal women and Michelle Obama was on it? We all know the answer to that.
gwelf on June 3, 2009 at 5:55 PM
GunRunner on June 3, 2009 at 5:20 PM
But the left is SHOCKED, SHOCKED!! at the brutal murder of upstanding citizen Dr. Hiller ( THE KIllER)
faol on June 3, 2009 at 5:55 PM
OMG, who is the woman in the green dress at 5 minutes? HAWT!
If she doesn’t watch out she’ll be added to the left’s hateF**K list.
UltimateBob on June 3, 2009 at 5:56 PM
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