Hot Air...cuz we needed more of that

Michelle Malkin has launched, Hot Air. For those of you who don't know what it is, Hot Air is "full-service conservative Internet broadcast network!"

She says she formed Hot Air "to bring ideological diversity—because we all love diversity–to the videoblogging world."

While it is an interesting concept...(I say concept because when I clicked on the link to see the "Internet broadcast" it wouldn't work)--I have problems with it.

Fox and Friends has recently started, "You chose the News" where you get to pick the stories you want to hear more about. Well, the sad fact of it is...we don't get to pick what the news is. Just because you care more about the Duke Rape case doesn't mean that it is more important or will have as big of an impact as the increase in the price of gasoline, or the fact that the Iraqis still haven't chosen a government, or that another 3 US soldiers were killed today. Just because you would rather hear about Natalie Holloway than the fact that the Taliban are reconstituting in Afghanistan doesn't mean that that is what you should hear more about...

So, it seems to me, that Malkin's project is just another place to go where like minded conservatives can choose what they want to talk about and what they think should be on the minds of the rest of us. And I have no doubt, that it will be a place where the phrase moonbat is used obsessively, any information that demonstrates the failures of the conservative movement will be little, if not non-exsistent and the mantra "the Dems have no ideas" will be chanted often.

Honestly, it seems like a nice shiny package to an already bad idea...drinking Kool-Aid.

I respect Malkin. I wish her the best of luck. But all the pretty packaging and shiny FLASH whatever won't change the fact that the conservatives have had six years with control of almost everything and they couldn't execute and get any of it done.

We aren't any safer.

We aren't any better off financially--at least not most of America.

We are more divided than ever before.

It is nice though that many public meetings are now allowing prayers at the beginning--(as the conservatives so desperately wanted to be able to do)--because with this government, prayer is really all we have left.

Chris

Comments

[HC]

Chris I agree with this 100% post except for "I respect Malkin."

She is a lying Wingbat NeoCon who help make George Bush possible. I do not respect Bush so I can not respect his enablers who mislead America.

[Greta (Hooah Wife)]

Most people who read blogs are bloggers. Most people who will participate with Hot Air are already on the bandwagon. Not a great way to entice those in the middle or left. Kind of like "don't visit if you don't agree mentality." Preaching to the choir - yadayadayada! I signed up to be a commenter - why the heck not!

[Chris Sears]

HC, Well, though I do not respect many of the people you have defended, I DO respect you! (Does that make me a better man than you?)

Gretta - that's what will make it good, that you signed up there, as here, where there are both sides. BUT, what I REALLY need to find out, from an expert is... HOOAH is Army right? And Marines is HOORAY??

[HC]

Searsie

"HC, Well, though I do not respect many of the people you have defended, I DO respect you! (Does that make me a better man than you?)"

Yes it does.

BTW the only people I do not respect are people who lie to support their political view. If you do not lie then you have my respect.

[Chris Sears]

By your comment, you are saying that Michelle has lied. I didn't know that, but if she has, knowingly, than I can understand your disrespect.

[HC]

CNN says White House offers press job to Fox host

RAW STORY

Published: Monday April 24, 2006
CNN is reporting, exclusively, that Fox News' Tony Snow has been offered the job of White House Press Secretary.

More as it develops...

[HC]

Searsie

You tell me. Do you really believe that Kerry shot himself? Do you really believe that Michelle believes it? Or is it that she wanted to destroy Kerry by any means and including lying about Kerry's war wounds?

From: http://mediamatters.org/items/200408230002

Conservatives celebrated Malkin's false statements on Hardball as she denounced Matthews; Limbaugh, Malkin lied about Olbermann
Following Michelle Malkin's August 19 appearance on MSNBC's Hardball -- during which host Chris Matthews refused to accept Malkin's false accusation that a shrapnel injury Senator John Kerry (D-MA) suffered in Vietnam was a "self-inflicted wound" -- conservative radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham hosted Malkin and gave her a forum to attack Matthews. Meanwhile, ABC Radio Networks host (and FOX News Channel host) Sean Hannity -- without mentioning Hardball or Matthews by name -- denounced as "just unbelievable" the treatment of Malkin "in an interview last night." Malkin is a syndicated right-wing columnist, author, and FOX News Channel contributor.

As a guest on Hardball, Malkin claimed that Patrick Runyon and William Zaladonis -- the two veterans who were on the swift boat under Kerry's command in Vietnam the night Kerry received the injury that resulted in his first Purple Heart -- had accused Kerry of shooting himself on purpose. Both Zaladonis (who appeared with Kerry at his arrival celebration for the Democratic National Convention) and Runyon have defended Kerry and debunked that specific claim.

The day after Matthews challenged her false accusations, Malkin wrote about her Hardball interview on her personal website. She called Matthews a "caveman" and "a foaming jerk"; decried his "Neanderthal chauvinism" and his MSNBC program's "basement ratings"; and listed the phone numbers for Matthews and his producer.

Later that day, as a guest on the August 20 edition of The Laura Ingraham Show, Malkin was comforted by Ingraham, who asked: "How'd you stop from reaching across and grabbing one of the chins of Chris Matthews?"

In previewing the August 20 edition of FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes on his ABC Radio Networks program, Hannity denounced Matthews's treatment of Malkin: "Michelle Malkin will be on tonight. And I promise you, she will not be treated the same was as she was in an interview last night. Just unbelievable."

On his August 20 radio show, Limbaugh told Malkin that she "should be proud" of her appearance on Hardball. Limbaugh and Malkin also falsely claimed that MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann called Malkin "an idiot" in the wake of her Hardball interview.

From the August 20 edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show:

MALKIN: They really got to change the name of the show to Slimeball or Spitball, because that's what they threw at me.

LIMBAUGH: Why did [MSNBC anchor Keith] Olbermann call you an idiot? Nobody watches that show, either, so...

MALKIN: No, nobody does, but apparently he was just so carried away and --

LIMBAUGH: It was because your appearance on [Chris] Matthews's show [MSNBC's Hardball] earlier he called you...?

MALKIN: Yeah.

LIMBAUGH: So you had a carry-over effect.

MALKIN: I guess so. [laughing]

LIMBAUGH: Michelle, you should be proud. Careers are made over this thing.

MALKIN: Well, it doesn't make me happy that this is how it turned out, but I'm just disgusted --

LIMBAUGH: You know something, Michelle, in all candor, there would have been a time, 15 or 20 years ago, when you'd have had nowhere to go to tell the story.

MALKIN: That's true.

Olbermann did not call Malkin an idiot. From the August 19 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:

OLBERMANN: And this woman, [Michelle] Malkin, who made a fool of herself on this network, about an hour ago, basically said that in this -- in what she was reading, the book that accompanied the Swift Boat ad, that Kerry, at least, somebody asked whether or not Kerry should be asked, in that sort of, "Let's step away from actually making a statement, let's just put it as a question about a question about a question."

Michelle Malkin has been making the rounds on the talk show circuit peddling her new book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror (Regnery Publishing, August 2004). As Media Matters for America documented on August 10, Malkin has defended internment of Japanese-Americans (and other ethnic minorities) during World War II; defended racial profiling today; and said that Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta should be removed because his views are "clouded" by his personal experience as an interned Japanese-American. UNC School of Law's George R. Ward Distinguished Professor of Law, Eric Muller, has noted several factual inaccuracies, distortions, and misstatements in Malkin's "defense of internment"; according to Muller, "Michelle is not just rewriting history; she's rewriting her book."

[ET]

Interesting observations. I take exception with your last four lines, however. We've so distanced ourselves from 9/11 and terror at home that many now take our safety for granted. And it's just amazing that an excellent economy never seems to get favorable press during Republican presidencies. I, too, note the massive national division, but trace it back to the previous administration, followed by Gore trying to steal the 2000 election in the courts, as well as the continuing irrational behavior of Bush haters. It shouldn't be a surprise after experiencing the above that conservatives would have to agressively protect rights that have been ours for centuries, like prayer, from a determined minority using activist courts.

[BilltheMarine]

That is right Chris. Tell me what I need to know. So like a liberal. By the way I don't watch any of those pgms on FOX that you mention, nor do I read Malkin very often. I personally don't care for most from the left-especially those as they are enemies of America-and few from the right as all are way too full of themselves.

But so like a liberal to tell me what I "need" to know. Sometimes darling I think that you are cracking the code. Other times I am jolted into realizing that only a thin line separates you from the real moonbats like the ones who slobber all over themselves and get their keyboards so sticky. But that's OK. You are coming along. Soon you will be in the Light. Come to the Light Chris. Leave the Darkside. Leave the the little nothing twerps wallowing in their hate.

[Chris]

ET--welcome to Two Babes...

Could you explain to me how the economy is better? It's my understanding--as well as my personal experience that income has actually gone down and that necessities have actually gone up--so now I'm paying more for healthcare, more for gas and more for everything else beause everything else costs more to ship because of the price of gas....so booming economy for who?

Bill--you changed your name again and I wasn't sure it was you--pretty tricky bud :0)...

as for what you need to know...I didn't mean it the way you spun it--which I am sure you know but nice try--

as for my "moonbatness?" or is it moonbattery--oh well, what can I do?

All of this discussion about the MSM and their bias and the conservatives who are, according to them, just trying to tell you the rest of the story or the whole story do the thing they profess to hate --tell you only their side, sift through the news and tell you only what demonstrates their point of view..

smells like hypocrisy to me...

[BilltheMarine]

I reserve the right. Change is good. Leave the Darkside come to the Light Chris. I fear for you living in the land of the Moonbats and the Demodawgs.

Now chris, you know I dinna call ye a Moonbat. And I dinna spin nuthing darling. I just calls 'em the way I sees 'em.

As to hypocrisy as you have existed in the land of hypocrisy (the DEMODAWG Party) I would expect you to be an expert.

But what do you expect from the conservies. To advocate the moonbat side? The lying demodawg side. The party of slavery (DEMODAWG-remember I grew up there) side? I dinna think so.

I will keep working on you. You are so close..just accept and it will set you free.

[Greta (Hooah Wife)]

Hooah is Army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hooah

oorah or Hoorah is Marines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oorah

[Matt Hurley]

I don't recall reading anything like this from TwoBabes when Algore launched his CurrentTV......................

[Lee]

ET....Phone Home...The Mothership is about to depart...
.....
HC...Great investigative reporting!
You have the quotes...The right will try to spin and discredit your facts..but to no avail...

The fact is ALL polls show Bush's bullsh*t is believed by less thasn 32% of the American public...and falling
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Addendum: Scott mcclleland and other rats are running from this sinking ship....
The last to go will see the others go before him...
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Remember $1.50 a gallon oil???
Remember Bush holding the oil sheik's hand,(like a date)??
The big "5" oil companies now making more than a 1/4 trillion profit.
Can you connect the dots?

[Chris Sears]

Hooha Greta! Thanks, cause now I know I said it right, though as a joke kinda, to Marines. I guess they were not laughing at me for that! (Maybe just 'cause I am a RIOT !!! )

[Chris Sears]

Oh wait, it is HOOHA Greta! Although, it is not, I don't think, in the spelling so much as in the BREATHING PROJECTION and SPIRIT of the "call" (of the wild!) Oh. No. It is not a call of the wild! It is a call of the VERY disciplined!!

[HC]

Lee

The Great investigative reporting was done by Media Matters, I only quoted their work.

[BilltheMarine]

Greta.

OOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

or just a simple grunt, such as uhhggh, since we don't speak in more than monosyllables and can't count past twenty (as long as we have all fingers and toes).

[USMC Steve]

HC, the unit corpsman who dug the shrapnel in question out of Kerry thought he had fragged himself. And at least one of his crew said so but was ignored. (Not the guys you mentioned; this was the remaining crewman who tried to stay out of the brouhaha, but finally got identified and dragged into it reluctantly.) He was present at the scene when that fool fired an M79 high explosive round into a pile of rice in an attempt to destroy it, and got hit by some of his own shrapnel. That classified it as a self inflicted wound. He got his purple heart for that episode when he went over the corpsman's head to the group medical officer, who then certified the award without investigation.

I saw that Matthews interview, and he was rude and arrogant, but no more so than he is when he disagrees with anyone on his show. I really didn't expect anything any different, nor should Malkin. Matthews is a boor who does what he pleases and acts as he likes. He is not particularly well mannered. Big surprise.

Bill that is counting up to 21 for the male Marines, only up to 20 for the female Marines. They are one digit short.

I really fail to see the moonbattery coming out about this, when you leftists out there hailed the creation of hate radio posing as Air Amerika and their rabid liberal agenda. Oh, of course, they are leftists so it must be just, true, and great for all of us, whether we know it or not.

[Chris Sears]

Bill the Marine puts that uuuugggg at the end! I love it that way but I kinda need to spit after that! (see what we are doing - this thing that seems unimportant, we are taking to a very deep- degree.)It may seem low but we are WAY above the other ideas here. Just WHAT IS important!? I'm glad I know!!!