Promoting her book Culture of Corruption; Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies Michelle Malkin made it to The View this morning and hashed it out with Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and the rest.
The video is probably going viral, and you can watch it either here.
The View is execrable programing, shrill and often demented. It would be vastly improved by simply replacing Joy Behar with a genuine magpie, (it was Behar who convinced me that President Bush absolutely needed to be impeached, back in 2007). It is a definitive lions den for any conservative to enter, because the roaring and clawing rarely lets up.
So, I was surprised at how tame the gals seemed around Malkin, who -it must be said- clanks when she walks, and fears no one. As Allahpundit writes over at Hot Air:
Most of the questions had to do with whether Bush’s administration wasn’t at least equally corrupt, thereby proving that the bar for Hopenchange is being reset a little bit lower every day. As the boss says, “You know you’ve won the argument when the ladies of the View are reduced to arguing how corrupt they are, and not whether.”
Yeah, well, I was a little surprised that Malkin got in a jab at a “convicted shoplifter” when there were much bigger fish to fry, but I understand how that happens. Five people talking at once, and the bigger fish require much more time to explain – this is why I don’t like television. Time constraints make it all as penetrating as a prop knife. Still, one did get the sense that these gals had an interior whine going on in their heads amounting to, “yeah, but if they’re all corrupt, what do you want us to do about it, at least it’s our corrupt team and not yours…czars? What’s czars?”
Malkin hears it and answers, “sunlight is the best disinfectant,” and urges a demand for accountability and the sort of transparency that was supposed to define the new world of hope and change and sparkling clarity with this president, who -as Malkin clearly outlines in the book, but did not get to say on the air- hasn’t kept a single one of his “transparency” pledges.
Michelle writes about The View here:
Best part: Every single member of the audience got a copy of the book!
Second best part: Whoopi Goldberg, who didn’t read the book, asserting that I called the administration the most corrupt ever in the book when I was on the set — and then waiting for me to leave to falsely assert that “that young lady” said it on the Today Show.
No, I didn’t. Here’s the video.
Disappointed in Goldberg, but I suspect that she not only didn’t read the book, but at times is simply repeating what she’s being fed by production staff. It’s disappointing because I think Goldberg, unlike Behar, is smarter than that and could do better.
I managed to read Culture of Corruption this weekend (insomnia has its good points) and it is an exhaustive look at the people surrounding Obama and their backgrounds. Red meat, yes, absolutely, but red meat that is well-researched and includes copious citations and references. Malkin has, in a sense, taken the thousands of articles you lose track of in your hard drive, broken down the pertinent information and complied it all for you, in a helpful reference. One gets the sense that Malkin is simply taking the opportunity to introduce a cast of characters and get a base-line reading of the whole administration -including First Lady Michelle Obama- for future reference, and that is how I would take this book, as Volume I in a series.
The next book -there must be a next book- will hopefully take a microscope to the scores (yes scores) of unaccountable-to-us-or-congress czars to whom Obama has entrusted enormous power with little-to-no oversight. This is not particularly fun reading. It is information you want to keep handy.
August 3rd, 2009 | 2:42 pm | #1
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August 3rd, 2009 | 3:22 pm | #2
Another beautiful and informative column foot of prose, Miss A.
August 3rd, 2009 | 4:05 pm | #3
” … clanks when she walks, and fears no one.”
Oh, yah, I wish I was her! She is so fearless and so pure and so right. My hero!
August 3rd, 2009 | 4:12 pm | #4
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August 3rd, 2009 | 4:18 pm | #5
Behar is one of the main reasons I can’t stomach The View. Whoppi Goldberg generally comes across as a reasonable person and good interviewer, although it’s clear where her political sympathies lie.
In this particular appearance, I think Malkin came out with all guns blazing and seemed pretty confrontational with the group, especially Behar, who actually said very little this time around (there’s a first for everything, I guess!)
It would have been more effective, I think, if Malkin had let Behar question her a bit more and then Malkin could pulverize Behar’s logic with the force of her facts and charm. It seemed that Malkin was intent on getting across as many facts as possible in a short amount of time, which is understandable, but I have to wonder how much information viewers were able to retain.
August 3rd, 2009 | 5:07 pm | #6
“…clanks when she walks…” Ho! Is that the best description evah? Laughed so hard, had green tea out my nose! Warnings should be posted – don’t drink and read The Anchoress at the same time. Designated readers of no help.
August 3rd, 2009 | 5:10 pm | #7
I get the feeling that Whoopie could be persuaded to come over to The Dark Side (maybe a little) if she got to sit down for a few hours and have a reasonable discussion with, say, Thomas Sowell, Jonah Goldberg, or VDH.
August 3rd, 2009 | 5:12 pm | #8
I’ve seen another video of Michelle Malkin as I’m sure most of you have and God Bless her cause like many of U >< S she's going to need a lot of prayers. Anyway this is what I wrote today about "IT" and I may as well use "IT" again cause I'm feeling a little lazy right now and hopefully, God willing you might just let "IT" go by.
Victor said…
What do you think about this movie skit sinner vic?
I don't know what to think about "IT" Victor but why don't you ask your Mother instead of me?
Don't get smart sinner vic cause you know that my mother is dead!
Victor, Victor, I was talking about Ma Mary or don't you really believe in HER and if you do then ask her for yourself what she might say?
sinner vic, I can only guess that She might say stuff that HER first born SON JESUS thought her while she walked this earth which Our Heavenly Father created for all of U S?
But Victor, did Jesus not also say that them without sin should cast the first stone?
Hey sinner vic, I did not come here to argue with you cause it’s obvious that you’re not sinless so why don’t we simply keep praying for each other while still keeping each other in “Honest Check”
Good idea Victor but in the mean time let’s try and practice what we preach!
God Bless,
Peace
August 3rd, 2009 | 5:13 pm | #9
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August 3rd, 2009 | 5:15 pm | #10
clanks when she walks
LOL I caught your metaphor immediately. I admire Malkin so much. She is not a crank as many seem to think- she does actual journalism, which is such a rare thing nowadays that people are astonished when they see it. The amount of racist and sexist vitriol that is leveled at her… well, let’s not go there.
I almost wish she and other conservatives wouldn’t dignify The View, however.
I’d like to hear more about your thoughts on the information in her book.
August 3rd, 2009 | 5:27 pm | #11
I managed to read Culture of Corruption this weekend (insomnia has its good points) and it is an exhaustive look at the people surrounding Obama and their backgrounds. Red meat, yes, absolutely, but red meat that is well-researched and includes copious citations and references.
Just out of curiosity, does this “red meat” include any individuals indicted and convicted of State or Federal crimes? That is the gold standard of “corruption”. Or is their crime merely having views and doing legal business that Conservatives don’t like or don’t approve of?
I strongly suspect that in the overwhelming majority of cases it is the latter. If so, the real knock on the book is that it is redundant. I can’t think of a single individual in the entire Democratic party whose views and law-abiding activities Ms. Malkin likes or approves of. I doubt she’d like or approve of mine if she knew about them.
Beyond this, of course, is the elementary civics lesson that only a select few quite specific Presidential appointment [such as Cabinet members and Federal judges] are made with the “advice and consent of the Senate”. Above the “civil service system” of career bureaucrats is a entire level of managementwhereeverybody serves only “at the pleasure of the President”. Any President.
I don’t know just what “enormous power” you may be referring to but the “members of task forces, councils, or similar offices” have no power to do anything whatsoever except conduct committee meetings, examine information, and draft reports. Absolutely nothing they say or do constitutes legal public policy that government departments are compelled to follow.
There are only three sources for such legal public policy: statute law [from the Constitution forward], Presidential executive orders deriving from statute law, and court decisions about the limits of the other two.
The notion that the chair of every such “task force, council, of similar office” should be subject to the “advice and consent” of the Senate is ludicrous–a ridiculous further waste of public money and time by an institution that has never, under any party, been famous for using either frugally or wisely.
August 3rd, 2009 | 5:42 pm | #12
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August 3rd, 2009 | 6:45 pm | #13
I think MM is amazing….smart, beautiful, and articulate! The women on The View can not get over GW…..and their arguments are all emotion!! What was the comment about GW not fixing the trailers that still exist after Katrina?? I mean really…is that the job of our President?? That job is for the state…or the city….not the President. Meanwhile, I betcha if you called GW up he would go down and lend a helping hand….
August 3rd, 2009 | 7:05 pm | #14
The commenters on Hot Air have taken to calling Malkin “the wise Filipina.” Heh.
August 3rd, 2009 | 9:55 pm | #15
I wouldn’t call it a “first book,” but rather a sequel to Freddoso’s “The Case Against Barack Obama,” which warned of much of this before the election. Although, since I’m in a Tolkien frame of mind, perhaps Michelle’s book is the first volume of Lord the Rings to Freddoso’s “The Hobbit.”
Okay, I’ll stop now.
But what worries me is that we still have volumes two and three to go….
August 3rd, 2009 | 10:21 pm | #16
I’m going to look for this book and at least skim it in a bookstore, but from that link you posted it sounds like it’s full of the kind of stuff that was written about Bush, and before him Cinton, and before him . . .etc. In other words, it sounds like someone finding every little thing about the president and anyone in his adminstration that might be interpreted to make them look bad, and, guess what?, interpreting it just that way. And then blaming every last bit of it on the president as if any plausible bad decision or hypocrisy on his part makes him a BAD GUY (because the writer and reader has never been guilty of such), and any fault on the part of people in his administration makes them BAD PEOPLE and him a BAD GUY for thinking they could ever nonetheless have skills and ideas that could serve the country.
Oh, and when you write of the “transparency that was supposed to define the new world of hope and change and sparkling clarity with this president,” are you referring to Obama or W?
August 3rd, 2009 | 10:25 pm | #17
What I forgot to mention is that the last two items in that link’s list also make it sound like culture warfare, i.e, where his politics differs from ours, it’s because he’s a BAD PERSON.
August 5th, 2009 | 3:54 am | #18
Ken, good for you for questioning the information you are being fed. You might want to know that Michelle was one of Bush’s biggest critics, especially on border issues and she deserves some credit for that. I would hope that you evaluate where President Obama came from, the politics involved in his election, the “tit for tat” he was forced to pursue and make your own evaluation of his performance. He is a left wing liberal socialistic politican for sure and if you don’t see that then you’re purposely not using your obvious intelligence and reason. He’s not a bad man, he’s just got a skewed outlook on “justice” and government and the role of government.
August 8th, 2009 | 7:11 pm | #19
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