Malkin quits The O’Reilly Factor.
Inside Cable News has obtained an e-mail written by Michelle Malkin stating that she has decided to quit appearing on Fox News’s The O’Reilly Factor:
From: “Michelle Malkin”
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:04:58 -0400
Subject: Re: Michelle no longer on the Factor?
I made the decision to quit appearing on the O’Reilly show in response to the poor handling of the Geraldo Rivera matter (the staged “apology” on The Factor was a complete farce). I won’t go into details, but please know that your support means a lot to me. You can catch me on other Fox News shows and read my daily blog posts and weekly columns at MichelleMalkin.com.Best,
Michelle
Some highlights of her time on the show HERE, HERE, and HERE.
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Wow! Farce Malkin is calling Fox News a “farce”? Isn’t this like the kettle calling the pot black?
October 15th, 2007 at 9:51 amI’d appreciate it if she would stop appearing on all of the shows.
October 15th, 2007 at 9:54 amEhh — Michelle’s like the Coultergeist — she needs a steady diet of attention to exist, which means as many appearances as possible, everywhere.
She must think she’s going to get more mileage out of saying she won’t be on Bill-O’s show than she gets from actually appearing on it. No matter — she’s not worth listening to either way.
October 15th, 2007 at 9:55 amA poster last week best described this talking twit as ‘a tropical fish with a hangover’.
I believe this is simply a ruse to gain media attention, I mean, isn’t that what she’s really about?
October 15th, 2007 at 9:55 amWhat is the “Geraldo Rivera matter” that she refers to? Did he not want to kick Graeme Frost in the nuts?
October 15th, 2007 at 10:01 amWhat is the “Geraldo Rivera matter†that she refers to? Did he not want to kick Graeme Frost in the nuts?
Comment by eddiebosox — October 15, 2007 @ 10:01 am
Apparently, Bill and Geraldo had some kind of fight about immigration and drunk driving…
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ ondeadline/ 2007/ 04/ foxs_bill_oreil.html
October 15th, 2007 at 10:04 amintriguing!
October 15th, 2007 at 10:05 ammissmolly, I think that that fight was another farce.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:08 amNever heard of her. I don’t watch FOX, either.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:12 amOh come on. She was fired. She probably pissed off O’Reilly, he told his staff never to hire her again, and now she’s allowed to spin it to save face.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:15 amThere is No Way a media ho like Malkin would quit a TV show on principle.
Malkin To O’Reilly: Fraud Meet Fraud!
October 15th, 2007 at 10:16 amWe need a voice of reason & impartiality here; enter Rush Limpballs!
October 15th, 2007 at 10:23 amNever heard of her. I don’t watch FOX, either.
Comment by Guido OBGYN Lover — October 15, 2007 @ 10:12 am
You ain’t missing much. Malkin is like Coulter — she’s famous only for inflammatory rhetoric, overt bigotry, incorrect “facts”, and hate hate hate.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:29 amMichelle Malkin has principles? I don’t think so. This is a cover for whatever is the real story.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:32 amWatching Michelle Malkin is like watching a dog take a crap to music.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:34 amim intrigued as to what apology shes refering too, i do not believe it is the orielly/ Rivera argument. While that was priceless malkin had nothing to do with it.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:37 amWatching Michelle Malkin is like watching a dog take a crap to music.
Comment by Pork Whisperer
HA! Good One!!
A Mastiff or Chihuahua?
October 15th, 2007 at 10:37 amThis is what she’s referring to:
Rivera, who as a fledgling lawyer in the ’70s counseled the Puerto Rican nationalist group the Young Lords, says he can’t stomach the politicians and pundits who are stoking “anti-immigrant hysteria,†and his antipathy extends to some of his colleagues at Fox.
“Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I’ve ever met in my life,†he says. “She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people.
“It’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in New York,†Rivera sneers. “I’d spit on her if I saw her.â€
October 15th, 2007 at 10:38 amThank you impeach, for clearing that up. Giraldo has this strange habit of being right every so often. hmmm.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:42 amShe’s abandoning O’Reilly because he didn’t support HER - forget what he has done to female colleagues over the phone, his smearing of Michael J. Fox and Graeme Frost and the kid who was kidnapped by the pedophile (can’t remember the name). It’s all about HER ego clashing with HIS ego.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:44 amWatching Michelle Malkin is like watching a dog take a crap to music.
Comment by Pork Whisperer
Malkin, just another Repug Wacko like Tranny Anny Coultergeist, Melanie “too many Botox injections” Morgan and Limpballs) who have faces made for radio.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:47 amGiraldo has this strange habit of being right every so often. hmmm.
Comment by Gerb — October 15, 2007 @ 10:42 am
Geraldo opened up the vault called Malkin’s heart and found…
October 15th, 2007 at 10:49 am…it was empty.
Does Malkin not like falafel?
October 15th, 2007 at 10:56 amMalkin should have to spend the rest of her miserable life talking to O’Really on a pay phone, discussing his impressive sex life.
October 15th, 2007 at 11:01 amOh my! I hope O’Reilly realizes he’s poking a stick at a coiled rattlesnake! If there’s a God in Heaven, they will devour each other!
October 15th, 2007 at 11:02 amGeraldo opened up the vault called Malkin’s heart and found…
…it was empty.
Comment by PatrioticLiberalChristian — October 15, 2007 @ 10:49 am
Touche’
October 15th, 2007 at 11:02 amBingalingabammabong calling Oreilly/Jeraldo a farce. Priceless.
October 15th, 2007 at 11:05 amRe #18…
October 15th, 2007 at 11:08 amhmmm interesting. I hope all this turns into some canabalistic free for all and all these loons end up destroyed
Malkin quits
YES! YES! YES!
October 15th, 2007 at 11:16 amShe keeps traveling in circles that keep getting smaller…
October 15th, 2007 at 11:20 amAnyone have a link to Geraldo’s non-apology, apology?
October 15th, 2007 at 11:21 amBoo frickin’ hoo.
October 15th, 2007 at 11:24 amGeraldo just said on Hannity & Colmes that Rush Limbaugh should apologize and that he is just making a big deal to get bigger ratings. He compared Rush to Move-On. -sumfreeperidjut
So, the farce [Geraldo] said on farce [H&C] that farce [Phony Limbaugh] should apologize and that farce [Phony Rush] is just making a big deal to get bigger ratings. Farce [Geraldo] compared farce [Phony Rush] to moveon.org…hrrrr. So farce [Malkin] has quite the farce factor [Bile O’Leilly] show because the apology, by farce [Geraldo] was a farce [just farce] on the farce factor [O’Leilly show]
Wow, and to think that somewhere in this world, god help us, some few million Malkin/Rush/O’Reilly/Geraldo afficionados can follow, or care, about this bit of un-organized soap opera antics?
October 15th, 2007 at 11:26 amI wish she’d quit appearing all together.
October 15th, 2007 at 11:30 amAnyone have a link to Geraldo’s non-apology, apology?
Comment by LibertyLover — October 15, 2007 @ 11:21 am
There you go…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dmyk7Uv1fE
October 15th, 2007 at 11:30 amHas to be a Hoax. Why would she kill her one regular Primetime showing???
October 15th, 2007 at 11:33 amA Chihuahua passing a Mastiff. The tune: You Always Hurt the One You Love, by the Mills Brothers
October 15th, 2007 at 11:40 amRivera apologized? Since when to republicans ever apologize? When will Stalkin Malkin apologize to America for her anti-American rhetoric?
October 15th, 2007 at 11:52 amShe can now find work in a brothel, after all she is the Bushits leading spin-whore.
October 15th, 2007 at 12:12 pmMichelle I’m glad you won’t be appearing on the O’Reilly factor and I which you’d quit altogether, but I guess that’s too much to ask for. It’s idiots like you, Coultergiest, hanNoty, LIMPbaugh, BORT(SS), Not so Bright Hume, the CHRIST Wallce, that have sold your soul for 20 pieces of silver. What so called real journalist would take one side of every issue based on politics and then have the nerve to look into the camera and claim to be “Fair and Balanced”. No one including the Democratic Party tells me what to think and say.
Unlike Michelle and the other morons, I have a mind of my own and that’s why I call the Democrats COWARDS. They are so afraid of Dubya, he takes their lunch money on a daily basis. That’s because the bully always prevails when the weak are afraid to fight back.
October 15th, 2007 at 12:23 pmI am trying to find out what Geraldo is supposed to be apolgizing for that made Malkin quit. Anyway, I dont really care, other than for comedic value.
Geraldo says he threw himself on Bile O’leilly’s sword, with no astroglide and a vase of warm pee, huh?
October 15th, 2007 at 12:31 pmhttp://homepage.mac.com/ mkoldys/ iblog/ C168863457/ E20071005110547/
Unlike Michelle and the other morons, I have a mind of my own and that’s why I call the Democrats COWARDS. -The Shadow
Well, its kinda hard for them to admit they are cowards when they signed the un/us resolution [stupidly I might add] giving him the power to go into Iraq.
October 15th, 2007 at 12:35 pmOne wacko says the other wacko isn’t wacko enough.
It must be a strange experience living in extreme right world.
October 15th, 2007 at 12:51 pmSo the thin skinned little b*tch can dish it out, but she can’t take it?
Typical whiny wingnut hypocrite! What a loser this blow doll known as Malkin is!
October 15th, 2007 at 12:53 pmC. see
October 15th, 2007 at 1:02 pmU. you
N. next
T. uesday, Malkin.
Conspiracy theory du jour.
Malkin was too successful amongst the wingnuts who watch O’Reilly. Either his ratings didn’t go down to what he’d consider a respectable amount, OR they went up a little. Maybe Michelle was All About Eve-ing up he joint, implying O’Reilly should retire before his head explodes and they should make it the Malkin Factor. O’Reilly, still one of the biggest if not the biggest cash cow on Fox said her or me, and Ailes chose him, with the caveat that MM could still be on other FNC programs.
October 15th, 2007 at 1:03 pmOh oh oh!!!
My heart is broken!!!!!!!!
Say it isn’t sooooooooooooooo, Michelle!!!!
Ew. Even saying the above as a joke made me feel nauseated. Pass the barf bag, please. :o/
October 15th, 2007 at 1:17 pmIt couldn’t have happened to a nastier banshee.
October 15th, 2007 at 2:40 pmThe shame, the humiliation! To be fired by falafel boy! Pretty soon you’ll only be left with being the token ethnic to the racist right. Keep up the bad work, psycho-girl.
October 15th, 2007 at 3:32 pmI’ve got a friend at FoxNews. Malkin was forced to resign because, in the words of my friend, she’s “batshit crazy.” She was skating on thin ice there anyway, and she knew it.
The over-the-top attack on the Frost family was the last straw for Fox management. Believe it or not, there are actually some people capable of sustained abstract thought in the upper-echelons there. As her shtick got crazier and crazier over the past 9 months or so management grew less and less comfortable with her. Even O’Reilly wanted her out.
She cried during the meeting where her “resignation” was accepted. Apparently she was largely successful keeping the weeping under wraps but at some point she broke into long, mournful sobs as she was being led out of the building by security. Very awkward.
October 15th, 2007 at 5:01 pm“The over-the-top attack on the Frost family was the last straw for Fox management.”
“She cried during the meeting where her “resignation†was accepted.”
Comment by jesupport — October 15, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
Waitaminnit — she’s not only out with Bill-O, but she’s out of Fox News altogether? Yet she said in her statement, “You can catch me on other Fox News shows…”
Excessive spin on her part? We shall see if she really does show up on other Fox News shows or if Fox News has told her never to darken their door again. I never watch FN, but I’m sure there are plenty of blog sites to keep us informed.
October 15th, 2007 at 5:05 pmYou’re fired.
No I quit!
Who cares, you’re out.
October 15th, 2007 at 6:20 pmComment by jesupport — October 15, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
How crazy this woman must be that FauxNews and O’Reilly still invite Ann Coulter, the one who used to be the gold standard for right-wing meanness and lunacy.
I guess Malkin won this round in the rightwingers’ race to the bottom.
October 15th, 2007 at 6:26 pm“Malkin quits the O’Reilly Factor.”
Ballskin no more lovey Oompa’s Loofah long time?
October 15th, 2007 at 9:52 pmWas Michelle fired or did she quit? Was it over Geraldo’s criticism or because she led a lynching mob hunting down a 12-year old boy?
We definitely need more investigation!
October 15th, 2007 at 10:21 pmYes Michelle, spread your glorious dark wings of hatred and FLY! FLY! FLY!
October 15th, 2007 at 11:24 pmPlease remove post #45. As much as I can’t stand Malkin, I think there is no need to join her in the sewer.
October 15th, 2007 at 11:51 pm“Please remove post #45. As much as I can’t stand Malkin, I think there is no need to join her in the sewer.
Comment by monk”
I agree, monk. Let’s take the high road. How ’bout this one?
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October 16th, 2007 at 12:30 amNo Michelle! The wings! The wings! AAAH, GOD!!
October 16th, 2007 at 1:48 amGood bye and good riddance.
October 16th, 2007 at 5:16 pmi knew she will come to an end sooner or later…she is the most repulsive “political analyst/whore” on TV, all these morons/mediocre right wing/racists commentator will end up all together in hell…they are evil people…and are poisoning our society even more
November 17th, 2007 at 12:45 amShe (Michele) is ‘GONE BABY GONE”……
November 17th, 2007 at 12:46 ami agree with Gerardo on this…i am glad she is in DC and i am down here in Florida…if i run into her…i will spit on her w/o hesitation…She and Ann Coultier are under the same category…
November 17th, 2007 at 12:47 am