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Michelle Malkin


I confess. I don’t know her, I emailed her once a while ago, commiserating about being treated horribly in comments (re: the old Right Angle Blog) and emails when she was being ruthlessly attacked by offended readers, and I wrote about her Hot Air venture because I liked the expansion of how she uses new media.

All I’ve known about her, before the last couple of days, is that she’s a right-wing blogger, as opposed to a left-wing blogger. A conservative. Did I clump her in with Ann Coulter? Well, I confess again – maybe. I mean, not exactly – Coulter is out there on her own with maybe a select other few. So only because they both fall on the right of center did I have them in the same locale.

But since the Seattle terrorist attack at the Jewish Community Federation, which her blog got onto immediately, I’ve been checking back there daily. And when it comes to the Middle East, I guess maybe I’m becoming far more hawkish and therefore more to the right on this issue – than I ever imagined possible. How far can that go? I’m not sure. But I’ve been thinking about it a lot.

Especially when I read Malkin’s posts like this one, which details how Hezbollah usurps Lebanese civillian territory for their own purposes.

When you’re Jewish and at college among a lot of folks who’ve never met Jews and went only to parochial school all their lives, you start to think – if Nazi Germany happened again, would any of my friends – my boyfriend – who was Polish Catholic – would any of them hide me? Would they sacrifice their security for me?

You think these things.

And after Friday’s Shabbat massacre in Seattle, I began to think the same (which I have thought from time to time here, but not so much). Who do I know, with children and possessions and a life of their own, who would hide me? Help me get safe passage? Help my family members? How far would these people go?

Do you remember getting insurance information to take home to your parents that said, if your child loses an arm, you get 10K, if it’s a leg, 15K and so on? I remember getting one of those flyers in second grade and remember being horrified.

Who is my insurance? Who can I count on as tensions in the Middle East begin to polarize others, and me? I try to resist it, but it is true: the closer the threat comes to my door, to my house, to people that I love, the more I know I would be willing to sacrifice everything else – my pacifist inclincations included.

If I asked you to harbor my child, or my children, if they were the only ones I could save, would you do it?

I’m told that my cousin Alain in France, who is now in his late 60s or early 70s, spent a part of his youth in a convent in order to be safe during WWII. He long ago gave up on religion. But his parents did what they had to to keep him safe.

Where would I put my kids? Myself? All my loved ones?

You think I don’t need to think about this stuff. But need has nothing to do with it.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:33 pm July 30th, 2006 in Politics 

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11 Responses to “Michelle Malkin”

  1. 1 Sandy Kristin Piderit on July 31st, 2006 6:59 am

    I would.

  2. 2 Jason Sonenshein on July 31st, 2006 9:44 am

    Ever since Ms. Malkin endorsed the internment of Japanese Americans, I’v had a hard time taking her seriously.

  3. 3 Jill on July 31st, 2006 11:45 am

    Thank you Sandy. I hope I never have to take you up on that.

  4. 4 Jill on July 31st, 2006 11:47 am

    Jason – I know. I’ve read a few of her posts that added wrinkles to my brow as I tried to understand what the hell she was saying and why. I definitely don’t think that, if I read the majority of her posts, we’d have a lot in common. But she does provide good links for stories.

    Besides, don’t you think she might just be working the crowd somewhat? I don’t know because I haven’t followed her enough, but I’m just wondering – hyperbole and all.

  5. 5 Jason Sonenshein on July 31st, 2006 10:21 pm

    “Besides, don’t you think she might just be working the crowd somewhat?“

    Probably, and that makes her and her crowd all the more dangerous. If there’s another big attack on American soil, she could have a large crowd of people arguing that Muslim Americans need to be dealt with the same way the government dealt with Japanese Americans during World War II. Actually, I take back what I said about not taking her seriously. She could be a potentially dangerous demagogue.

  6. 6 Unique on August 2nd, 2006 12:17 pm

    I would, Jill. You and yours are welcome here anytime for any reason. All I have is at your disposal.

  7. 7 Wendy Hoke on August 3rd, 2006 1:10 pm

    I would gladly take in your family, Jill

  8. 8 Jill on August 5th, 2006 3:15 am

    Well, I do see what you’re saying, Jason. You know how close Republicans are to Fascists on the political position wheel? That’s what I learned about anyway when I was in college.

  9. 9 Jill on August 5th, 2006 3:16 am

    Laura and Wendy, thank you both. I believe you and I hope I never have to endanger you by needing to ask.

  10. 10 Anonymous on August 5th, 2006 12:48 pm

    Of course I would hide you and your family. You won’t be able to use the internet to ask, however. Establish your code and a primitive communication system now. Arm your family now through cash purchases at gun shows now.

    Steve

  11. 11 Jill on August 5th, 2006 1:28 pm

    Steve – Couldn’t you just be armed for me? I really cannot bare the thought of baring arms – or is it bearing? I need to check that out. Either way, two arms are enough for me. If someone really wants me dead, I suspect they’ll figure out a way to accomplish that goal. I can defend myself, but if it’s not me they kill, it will be someone in my place, no?

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