Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang; born
October 20,
1970) is an
American conservative blogger, political commentator, and author. Her weekly syndicated column appears in a number of newspapers and websites. She is a
Fox News Channel contributor and has been a guest on
MSNBC,
C-SPAN, and national radio programs. Malkin has written four books published by
Regnery Publishing.
Malkin was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to
Philippine citizens
Rafaela (née
Perez) – a homemaker and teacher – and
Apolo DeCastro Maglalang, who was then a physician-in-training. Several months prior to Malkin's birth, her parents had immigrated to the
United States on an employer-sponsored visa. After her father finished his medical training, the family moved to
Absecon, New Jersey. Malkin has a younger brother. She has described her parents as
Reagan Republicans who were "not incredibly politically active."
Malkin, a
Roman Catholic, attended
Holy Spirit Roman Catholic High School, where she edited the school newspaper and aspired to become a concert pianist.
Following her graduation in
1988, she enrolled at
Oberlin College. Malkin originally planned to pursue a bachelor's degree in music, but changed her major to
English. During her college years, she worked as a press inserter, tax preparation aide, and network news librarian. Her first article for the paper heavily criticized
Oberlin's affirmative action program and received a "hugely negative response" from other students on campus. She graduated in
1992 and later described her alma mater as "radically left-wing."
Malkin began her journalism career at the
Los Angeles Daily News, working as a columnist from 1992 to
1994. In
1995, she worked in
Washington, D.C., as a journalism fellow at the
Competitive Enterprise Institute,[11] a free-market, anti-government regulation, libertarian think tank.[12] In
1996, she moved to
Seattle, Washington, where she wrote columns for
The Seattle Times. Malkin became a nationally-syndicated columnist with
Creators Syndicate in
1999.[13][14]
For many years, Malkin was a frequent commentator for Fox News Channel and a regular guest host of
The O'Reilly Factor. In
2007, she announced that she would not return to The O'Reilly Factor, claiming that
Fox News had mishandled a dispute over derogatory statements made about her by
Geraldo Rivera in a
Boston Globe interview.[15]
Since 2007, she has concentrated on her writing, blogging and public speaking, although she still appears on television occasionally, especially with
Sean Hannity on Fox News and
Fox & Friends once a week.
Malkin founded the websites
Hot Air, an internet broadcast network, and Twitchy.com, a Twitter content curation site.
Malkin has written four books, all published by Regnery Publishing.
Her first book,
Invasion: How
America Still Welcomes Terrorists,
Criminals, and Other
Foreign Menaces (
2002)[17] was a
New York Times bestseller.
In 2004, she wrote
In Defense of Internment:
The Case for '
Racial Profiling' in
World War II and the
War on Terror,[18] defending the
U.S. government's internment of
112,
000 Japanese Americans in prison camps during World War II, and arguing that the same procedures could be used on Arab- and Muslim-Americans today. The book engendered harsh criticism from several
Asian American civil rights organizations.[19] The Historians' Committee for
Fairness, an organization of scholars and professional researchers, condemned the book for not having undergone peer review and argued that its central thesis is false.[20][21] As a result of the controversy, the Hawaii-based newspaper MidWeek dropped her column in
August 2004;[22]
The Virginian-Pilot called her "an
Asian Ann Coulter" and dropped her column in
November 2004.[23] Malkin responded: "I'm not Asian,
I'm American," and described the comparison to Coulter as "a compliment."[24]
Malkin's third book,
Unhinged: Exposing
Liberals Gone Wild, was released in
October 2005.[25]
Culture of Corruption:
Obama and His
Team of Tax
Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies, Malkin's fourth book, was released in July 2009[26] and was a
The New York Times Non-Fiction, Hardcover
Best Seller for six weeks.[27][28][29] Malkin said she hoped the book would "shatter completely the myths of hope and change in the new politics in
Washington," described the
Obama administration as run by "influence peddlers, power brokers and very wealthy people," and called it "one of the most corrupt administrations in recent memory
."[30] She later discussed chapter two of the book, "
Bitter Half:
First Crony
Michelle Obama," on
NBC's Today show. She described Michelle Obama as "steeped in the politics of the
Daley machine," and as having based her professional career on nepotism and "old white boy" network connections.
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