The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Monday, March 31, 2003  

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Michelle Malkin's Living the Easy Life

Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin is certainly living the easy life.

Her latest column, at least in the form I saw it in the Philadelphia Daily News, "They're Green With Hatred for U.S.," is vintage Malkin in its theme and tone. Like the rest of her recent columns, this one can be summarized in one sentence: The real war is here at home and it's being waged by "America-hating leftists."

The rest is just filler. And I mean that literally.

I ran today's column through the counter embedded within Microsoft Word. The tally: 627 words, the customary length of a PDN op-ed piece. But of those 627 words, 347, comprising more than half of her column, are taken up by Malkin's seven-point summary of a platform of action written by an anti-war and environmental activist, one she is convinced is "an anarchist menace" to the very foundations of our society but also one whose name I can't recall having heard before this morning.

Call it bad blogging, but in print.

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