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| - Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang) (born October 20, 1970) is a socially and politically conservative American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. She has made frequent guest appearances on national syndicated radio programs and on television networks such as MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and C-SPAN. As well as her written blog, she posts regular video blogs. Her syndicated column "appears in nearly 200 newspapers nationwide."
Malkin was born in Philadelphia to Filipino parents, Dr. Apolo and Rafaela Maglalang, who had recently arrived in the United States at the time of Malkin's birth.
Her maternal grandfather fought under General Douglas MacArthur.
She grew up in Absecon, New Jersey, and attended Holy Spirit High School there, and later graduated from Oberlin College, which she describes as a "radically left-wing, liberal arts college". In 1993, she married Jesse Malkin, a Rhodes Scholar and RAND Corporation economist. They have two children.
After initially allowing reader comments, she disabled them, attributing her decision to an intolerable level of obscene and racist comments. A 2007 memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee described Malkin as one of the five "best-read national conservative bloggers."
In June 2007, she revamped the blog, moving it to Wordpress and a larger server. With the new redesign, subscribed readers can once again post comments, but only if they registered before 5 p.m. on June 22nd.
Malkin's blog occasionally highlights investigative reports from other sites, most notably an investigation into financial irregularities at Air America Radio.
She is frequently used as an example of the blurred line between bloggers and reporters, given such investigations and her widely distributed columns and appearances on multiple media outlets.
Her first book, ', was published in 2002 and 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, defending Japanese American internment by the United States Government during World War II and relating this theme to the contemporary War on Terrorism, taking some heat from Asian American civil rights organizations who had been uniformly opposed to this historical policy. The "Historians' Committee for Fairness", a group of professors, condemned the book for not having undergone peer review and argued that its central thesis is false. An attempt to ban the book from the Manzanar relocation center National Historic Site failed.
Malkin's third book, ' was released in October 2005." (en)
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| - Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang) (born October 20, 1970) is a socially and politically conservative American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. She has made frequent guest appearances on national syndicated radio programs and on television networks such as MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and C-SPAN. As well as her written blog, she posts regular video blogs. Her syndicated column "appears in nearly 200 newspapers nationwide."" (en)
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