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November 21, 2005

Michelle Malkin's Denial.

M
ichelle Malkin (at around 4:50 of the linked segment), responding to the very tough question from her interviewer, "What has made these unhinged liberals so unhinged?": "I'm sick of people attacking me as some sort of a sock puppet that can't type my own words or write my own columns or come up with my own ideas or do my own investigative work."

(Note, incidentally, that every significant idea in Malkin's 2004 book "In Defense of Internment" first appeared in David Lowman's book "MAGIC: The Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence and the Evacuation of Japanese Residents from the West Coast during WW II (Athena Publishing, 2000)" and Keith Robar's "Intelligence, Internment & Relocation: Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066: How Top Secret "MAGIC" Intelligence Led to Evacuation" (Kikar Publications, 2000). Note further that Malkin hired a professional researcher, Thomas Culbert of Aviation Information Research Corporation, to do archival research for her internment book; she thanks him in the book's acknowledgements section for "going above and byond the call of duty in locating documents, photographs, and other useful information." And note finally that she has publicly thanked a number of other people for sharing their internment-related research with her.)

UPDATE: Essential reading on the subject from David Neiwert.

Posted by Eric at November 21, 2005 10:20 AM

Comments

Malkin is journalist not an academic, that wasn't a peer reviewed publication. Did she plagiarize in her book? Did she footnote properly? You are trying to set a standard here that doesn't apply. Save it for when Malkin is up for tenure. Using a paid or unpaid researcher to help a write book is very common practice as you well know.

You did a good job attacking the substance of her book on intermenet when it came out, continuing to nip at her ankles with this petty critisism is unseemly and says a lot more about you than it does about her. Get over it.

Posted by: Kaz at November 21, 2005 3:30 PM

Also, in fairness to her, the question she was responding to BEGAN with a reference to her post about some of the smear attacks made against her. It wasn't the non sequitur you made it seem to be.

Posted by: TMA at November 22, 2005 4:51 PM