McCain excludes Malkin from blogger conference calls.
McCain excludes Malkin from blogger conference calls.
Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) campaign has begun an effort to reach out to both liberal and conservative bloggers, perhaps attempting to repair the senator’s past slights against new media. However, one blogger upset at not being included in the project is Michelle Malkin, who yesterday complained that she wasn’t invited to take part:
Yesterday, I learned that several far left-wing blogs were invited to participate in The Maverick’s blogger conference call session (it’s part of that Big Vision Thing). I e-mailed McCain’s New Media guy, Patrick Hynes, asking if I could participate in the next blogger conference call.
After all, McCain said yesterday he’ll “listen to any idea that is offered in good faith and intended to help solve our problems, not make them worse” and “will set a new standard for transparency and accountability” and “will work with anyone, of either party, to make this country safe, prosperous and proud.”
If he’s willing to take questions from hostile liberal bloggers, why not take some from conservative bloggers who represent substantial readerships with dissenting views on how best to make this country “safe, prosperous, and proud?” I’ll keep you updated.
As Malkin herself would say, “Boo-freakin-hoo.” (HT: Atrios and TBogg)
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The Witch from Whoredom answered her own question: After all, McCain said yesterday he’ll “listen to any idea that is offered in good faith and intended to help solve our problems, not make them worse”.
May 17th, 2008 at 3:54 pmMichelle Malkin spews venom and hile this tactic by McCain reeks of political opportunism, he is correct to ignore this witch.
“McCain said yesterday he’ll ‘listen to any idea that is offered in good faith and intended to help solve our problems, not make them worse’”
How about conceeding the election to Obama today so we don’t have to put up with all the BS until November?
May 17th, 2008 at 3:54 pmMalkin says, “If he’s willing to take questions from hostile liberal bloggers, why not take some from conservative bloggers who represent substantial readerships with dissenting views on how best to make this country “safe, prosperous, and proud?”
“substantial readerships?” Hahahaaahahaaa!!!!
BTW, I don’t read the radio Malkin!!!
“why not take some [questions] from conservative bloggers”
Because they are Ghoul-Aid guzzling morons like you Malkin!!! 25%ers and dropping like a rock…which matches ratings perfectly!!!
Which is higher Malkin? Your IQ or the total number of listeners you have???
May 17th, 2008 at 4:01 pmMcCain should listen to Malkin. After all, she has such thoughtful views on Gitmo.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/13/pentagon-said-oreilly-malkin-had-thoughtful-views-on-guantanamo/
May 17th, 2008 at 4:03 pmWhy doesn’t McCain just open his conference calls to as many bloggers as technologically possible? This is the “digital” age and this guy needs as much exposure as possible, whether good or bad. He’s campaigning for President of the United States of America. If he’s serious about “transparency and accountability” he doesn’t pick and choose who comes to ask questions every time he has one of these.
I’m sticking up for Malkin’s right to blog, not for her herself. The woman’s views scare me more than Jason, Freddy and Michael Myers’ love child, Nancy Grace.
May 17th, 2008 at 4:03 pmYou can tell where they’re going with this because they’ve been calling ol’ Koz a nazi because of what filks have posted over there.
By pulling that Malkin stunt, he’s obviously attempting to portray himself as a moderate and paint liberal bloggers as wingnuts. It’s an ongoing strategy that hasn’t worked for them because even the most liberal sites aren’t nearly as the wack-a-doodle neocon sycophants.
Watch for some false radical “liberal” sites to pop up and act all crazy so he can smear bloggers the same way the right wing mis portrayed the main stream media as “liberal” years ago.
May 17th, 2008 at 4:09 pmsectionop92 Says:
I’m sticking up for Malkin’s right to blog, not for her herself.
I believe has the right to blog too!
But, she has no right to insist on an invitation from someone who does not want her there. And that’s not a free speech violation either trolls.
The woman’s views scare me more than Jason, Freddy and Michael Myers’ love child, Nancy Grace.
That’s right on point and phucking phunny!! ROTFLMAO!!!
May 17th, 2008 at 4:10 pmAnyone see Mike Gravel on Fox Business!? hehe. man he’s a badass. sneaking his way into every crevis of the belly of the beast.
screw John McCain. Taking shots at him is like shooting fish in a barrel. I wish Think progress would lend a little support to the only truly progressive candidate in the entire field.
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May 17th, 2008 at 4:14 pmComments from MM’s site
On May 16th, 2008 at 10:25 am, longbow said:
The Change You Deserve.
We’re So Screwed.
On May 16th, 2008 at 10:01 am, Madmoney said:
I need a list of the pre-approved conservative blogs so I can read those and learn to love the change we deserve
On May 16th, 2008 at 10:10 am, Misscheryl said:
This man is assuming and taking for granted that he has a loyal base among conservatives and is therefore brushing them aside – man! He is senile! He is not fit to be president
On May 16th, 2008 at 10:14 am, Ignatius Reilly said:
I often hear fervent believers say “God won’t put anything on me that I can’t bear.” I take that as an an indication that He intends to prevent John McCain from becoming the POTUS, perhaps using one of Satan’s own (Barak) to work His will.
I need to run out for popcorn so I can enjoy their misiry. This is going to be a fun election season watching the right meltdown. The meltdown of the right may well have been influenced by denying climate change and evolution, however, I believe their meltdown must be caused by God, as part of a grand design to teach the unworthy a much needed lesson in love of your fellow man.
May 17th, 2008 at 4:17 pmsound familiar?
“Well, what am I supposed to do? You won’t answer my calls, you change your number, I’m not going to be ignored, Dan!”
Glenn Close – (Alex Forrest)
Fatal Attraction
May 17th, 2008 at 4:26 pmWho knows, maybe McCain drilled her mother in Subic Bay when the Fleet pulled in, before he got shot-down!
May 17th, 2008 at 4:32 pmHas the McCain campaign released their list of invited bloggers? It would be interesting to see who they included, versus those they are excluding. I think the statement “in good faith” should be a tip-off for Malkin and others of her ilk. What I thought was really funny was her statement regarding this:
This is indeed an instructive example of how a McCain White House would run: He’ll talk to the far left. He’ll talk to “acceptable” conservatives. But the grass-roots Right? Immigration enforcement proponents? You’ll be as out of luck as you would be with Barack Obama in office.
Her problem is that she considers herself the grass-root Right (as I’m sure Colter does as well), while the great majority of people on both the Right and the Left consider both these ladies on the fringe of the Right.
May 17th, 2008 at 4:53 pmMalkin is unhappy? Then all is right with the world.
May 17th, 2008 at 4:56 pm“…why not take some from conservative bloggers who represent substantial readerships with dissenting views on how best to make this country “safe, prosperous, and proud?”
Dissenting views?
McCain has reneged suring his campaign on every “maverick” position he’s held—immigration “amnesty”, abortion, earmarks and the the environment (all of which has been nothing more than lip-service anyway) so he’s now just Bush’s doppelganger. only with a shorter temper.
Malkin and her cohorts couldn;t find a candidate more like Bush who’ve they’ve championed in Pavlovian style through thick and…well. thicker all these years.
How can she possibly claim to have a relevant “dissenting” view of McCain’s expressed positions?
Oh right, I forgot…she’s the Malkinator. She doesn’t feel pain, she has no conscience, she’s programmed to do one thing and one thing only. She’ll never stop. Never!
May 17th, 2008 at 5:09 pmTo quote Tweety, “HA!”
May 17th, 2008 at 5:26 pm“help solve our problems, not make them worse” pretty much sums up the whole issue all Republicans will have in November, doesn’t it? How on earth do Republicans think they are the ones who can fix George Bush’s catastrophic Republican mess?
May 17th, 2008 at 5:30 pmUPDATE: She has posted an update on her blog:
Update 11:36am Eastern: Just heard from Patrick Hynes: “Yes, you will be invited to all future calls.”
Stay tuned.
I guess what they say is true, the squeaky butthole gets the KY jelly. Something like that.
May 17th, 2008 at 5:33 pmThey just might like to have treasonous, nazi types f’n things up for the people with brains.
May 17th, 2008 at 5:34 pmcrap, they just might like ‘not’ to have
May 17th, 2008 at 5:35 pmsorry, tired, pressure washing deck, and have a yard crew in helping, just too old to do it all myself…not really, lazy.
May 17th, 2008 at 5:36 pmWatch for some false radical “liberal” sites to pop up and act all crazy so he can smear bloggers the same way the right wing mis portrayed the main stream media as “liberal” years ago.
It’s already starting to happen. The right wing trolls are popping up on Huffington Post posing as Hillary supporters bashing Obama. It’s pretty obvious from what they say the the posters are in no way liberal. They try to hose threads with their hate and bigotry. It’s giving the moderators at HP a real workout. The fallout is that all their threads are now moderated which is very annoying for the posters. It used to be they only moderated threads where they were afraid some controversy may pop up. Now it’s pretty much all threads. Expect to see them pop up here too when TP finally starts paying attention to Obama (if they ever do).
May 17th, 2008 at 5:51 pm#9 Saint Augustine Says:
I need to run out for popcorn so I can enjoy their misiry. This is going to be a fun election season watching the right meltdown. The meltdown of the right may well have been influenced by denying climate change and evolution, however, I believe their meltdown must be caused by God, as part of a grand design to teach the unworthy a much needed lesson in love of your fellow man.
I read many of the posts and they do feel like they have been abandoned. It was funny to read that some are going to vote for Obama. They are mad at McCain for talking to the left or as one of them put it opening lines of communication. They are feeling betrayed; my answer to that. WELCOME TO OUR WORLD!!! Were was this feeling of betrayal for the last 7 1/2 years for all this administration has done to America?? I think they have been in a coma…
May 17th, 2008 at 6:04 pmThey booted Thompson, Hunter, Huckabee, Romney, Tancredo and now they are crying because they are ’stuck’ with McCain and are ‘getting the change they deserve’
And now they are attacking Hillary and Obama in the hopes that McCain…LOSES??
I dont know what to say..its quite chaotic over at Malkins slog and like cornered rodents they are attacking everyone and everything, even their own.
May 17th, 2008 at 6:19 pm“Hostile liberal bloggers,” Michelle?
You mean “hostile,” in the way you posted on your web site the names and addresses of people with whom you disagree, hoping that there will be retribution?
May 17th, 2008 at 6:29 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
Watch for some false radical “liberal” sites to pop up and act all crazy so he can smear bloggers the same way the right wing mis portrayed the main stream media as “liberal” years ago.
It’s already starting to happen. The right wing trolls are popping up on Huffington Post posing as Hillary supporters bashing Obama. It’s pretty obvious from what they say the the posters are in no way liberal. They try to hose threads with their hate and bigotry. It’s giving the moderators at HP a real workout. The fallout is that all their threads are now moderated which is very annoying for the posters. It used to be they only moderated threads where they were afraid some controversy may pop up. Now it’s pretty much all threads. Expect to see them pop up here too when TP finally starts paying attention to Obama (if they ever do).
Hillary is an AIPAC Tool, on the same side as McCain. The Zionists are getting upset about Obama not showing more support for Israel. This is why Coulter, Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly, ad pukeum is supporting her. She is one with Landrew (Likud). Why TP is not showing support for Obama is anyone’s guess. Maybe they will when he is running fact-to-face with McCain. THAT should be interesting. Mr Cool vs Mr Foam-at-the-mouth.
May 17th, 2008 at 6:46 pmShe’s a second-stringer at Fox? Go home Tokyo Michelle, this game goes on without you.
May 17th, 2008 at 7:50 pmAll I want to see is the back of Michelle Malkin’s head…hopefully there would be a dirty sock nearby to stuff in her mouth.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:10 pmI’ve seen tropical fish with hangovers with more sex appeal than Malkin. Sorry milky malky, I think McCain already getting good advice on kick starting armageddon from Hagee
May 17th, 2008 at 9:34 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
It’s already starting to happen. The right wing trolls are popping up on Huffington Post posing as Hillary supporters bashing Obama. It’s pretty obvious from what they say the the posters are in no way liberal. They try to hose threads with their hate and bigotry. It’s giving the moderators at HP a real workout. The fallout is that all their threads are now moderated which is very annoying for the posters. It used to be they only moderated threads where they were afraid some controversy may pop up. Now it’s pretty much all threads. Expect to see them pop up here too when TP finally starts paying attention to Obama (if they ever do).
Wah-wah-wah. Poor Obama. He gets bashed by ALLEGED “right wing trolls posing as Hillary supporters” and the whole of the alleged progressive community cries “no fair”. But when the Obamabots bash Hillary using right-wing talking points, that’s all well and good. (Just like good ol’ Axelrod who whined about “all” the GOP voters who were “Dems for a day” and voted for Hillary in Indiana, despite the OBAMA campaign actually SUPPORTING that idea in primaries and caucuses for months before that.)
May 18th, 2008 at 2:28 amThe reality is that people bashing Obama probably just don’t like the man and don’t necessarily have to be “right wing trolls”. The “left wing trolls” who pose as Hillary supporters on Hillary-friendly sites “suggesting” that Hillary concede now are quite rightly called out, but you don’t hear much of that since the major “progressive” sites are in Obama’s pocket (and have been since before Iowa). (As to Huffington Post, let’s not forget that good ol’ Arianna was a loyal Republican for YEARS, and was a Hillary-basher from her first foray into punditry. I guess “once a Republican Hillary-basher, always a Hillary-basher”.)
>But when the Obamabots bash Hillary using right-wing talking >points, that’s all well and good.
dude..shut up…Hilary IS a walking right wing talking point. obama has run a almost wholly positive campaign which is a refreshing change from hilary’s nagging, “vote for me because hard working whites wont vote for a darky” meme…
Hilary lost, get over it or turn the keys over to McApocalypse
May 18th, 2008 at 5:08 amand let him start armageddon because your stuck in the past..
Michelle Malkin lends nothing of positive value to the political discusssion, the reason John McCain has banned her from the calls.
This woman is trying so hard to dethrone both Coulter and Ingraham it’s comical. Her blog and HotAir, the other mess she runs, are both chock full of hateful and threatening comments. How she has the nerve to talk about any of the comments on the Liberal blogs is staggering.
After O’Reilly canned her she had to really scramble to keep herself in the Right’s limelight. She’s very desparate for attention, thus the vitriol is in high gear. McCain obviously chooses not to mainstream her, she’s a fringe character.
May 18th, 2008 at 9:15 pmThe Right Wing Trolls will pretend to be Hillary supporters to drive a wedge in our Party.
Let’s all be very vigilant and not allow them to get away with it.
Wake up Democrats and watch your backs. Michelle malkin wants nothing more than a complete breakdown of our beloved Party, don’t feed her or the rest of the Rethug Trolls.
Their Party is in such disarray, the only thing they can do is come after us and try to destroy The Party of Jefferson.
Don’t help them in succeeding people, stay cool. In the immortal words of Mick Jagger at Altamont, “Sisters and Brothers, why are we fighting and what for?”
Let’s hope not for these Rethugs….
May 18th, 2008 at 9:24 pmWell, he’s obviously conceding the delusional right-wing nutjob vote.
May 19th, 2008 at 12:04 am“Far Left Wing” for Michelle Malkin, that is “Far Right” for the rest of USA…
May 19th, 2008 at 5:16 amWhen Malkin calls anyone Far Left that means they are Moderate. She’s Far Right Fringe.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:49 am