Comments on: UPDATE V: ‘The Mainstreaming of Michelle Malkin’

By: Brett Gerasim

Brett Gerasim — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:51:06 +0000

Ilana-

Thank you for taking the time to reply to what I posted, and to run it past Prof. Gottfried. I would also like to thank Prof. Gottfried for responding as well. Due dilligence is a rarity today, and I appreciate it. I realize that neither of you are likely to sell out, which is why I enjoy your work and spend quite a deal more time here than on other sites. It is also nice to have intelligent responses in the comments section, as opposed to the flame war garbage that is typical elsewhere.

I listen to Dr. Savage from time to time, although he is on at feeding time and the reception is often poor out there. He would have proved a better example than Limbaugh in my original comment. He seems sincere, if not a bit harsh. Far be it from me to criticize someone for having high standards, though.

By: CompassionateFascist

CompassionateFascist — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:39:39 +0000

In agreement with Huggins. Coulter, Malkin, Limbaugh do an excellent job taping the lies and scams of the Left. Malkin and Limbaugh also hammer the lib wing of the Republicans. Limbaugh in particular reads Zero Hedge, learns from it, and lately has attacked crony capitalists, bankers, Fed. I have no problems with any of these people, especially inasmuch as Ron Paul and “classical liberalism” leave me completely cold: open borders (sweatshopping) and free trade (job outsourcing) are as much a cause of our present catastrophe as anything the Fed has done.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:44:49 +0000

Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin are not hacks. They aren’t always right but then neither are all you elitists. I listen to Limbaugh on a daily basis and he spends almost as much time berating the Republican establishment as he does the Democrats. Malkin seems much the same. Coulter, not so much but all three go for the throat of our greatest enemy the liberal, left, democrat machine. Let’s win the country back from the abyss of a socialist dark age before we start nit picking some of our best soldiers. I’m reminded of the love starved fellow who turned down a date with Miss Universe because she had boney ankles.

By: Brett Gerasim

Brett Gerasim — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:34:28 +0000

Do they grasp it and sell out, or do they just not get it, though? More importantly, does it matter? Hacks are hacks, but something causes us to divide the establishment hacks into tiers. I do not think Mr. Gottfried picked Malkin, and to a lesser extent Coulter, at random. Could such a piece be written about Miss McCain? I think not.

By: Brett Gerasim

Brett Gerasim — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:01:28 +0000

Coulter, Limbaugh, Malkin, and a handful of others definitely have the minds and abilities to see the whole picture and act on it if they choose. It is frustrating that they blunt their impact by at selling out in varying degrees to the establishment, and I am inclined to think that none of them would have their present careers were it not for their once edgy, rugged individualistic ways.

For now, they do a wonderful job of highlighting precisely half of the problems and contradictions of American politics, and society in general. They can do better, and I hope that they will again someday.

By: Westie

Westie — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:06:38 +0000

Thank you Ilana! I found your blog recently as I’ve completed a necessary transition into the true order of modern Conservatism/Libertarian thinking and away from the late Buckley ‘Progressive’ Conservationism. Your French vs American Revolution post is excellent especially as it cites the historic legacy of both…I just read & highly recommend Andrew White’s book about the French Revolution’s amazing currency debasement via issuance of fiat money, “Fiat Money Inflation in France”. It may be read ‘FREE’ @ Mises.org or Amazon.I’m looking forward to reading “Into the Cannibal’s Pot”. Thanks for the good work you do.