Does she actually write this crap with a straight face?

A message to the techblogging elite

By Michelle Malkin       March 28, 2007 01:30 AM

“Kathy Sierra” is currently the top search term at Technorati.com. Sierra is a tech blogger here. Yesterday, she announced she would not appear at a public convention because anonymous death threats and nasty comments had left her terrified and house-bound:

I have cancelled all speaking engagements.

I am afraid to leave my yard.

I will never feel the same. I will never be the same.

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[…] I sympathize and empathize greatly with Sierra. Death threats and misogynistic epithets and comments suck. But I find the response of the tech blogging elite rather underwhelming and unbecoming.

Underwhelming? Unbecoming? What’s with that? Well, it turns out that Malkin is just pissed because Sierra and other “high-falutin’ tech bloggers” (not political bloggers, mind you– these are tech bloggers) didn’t jump on the “poor, poor Michelle” bandwagon when Malkin was on the receiving end of threatening emails and anonymous comments.

First, where have y’all been? For several years, the unhinged Internet underworld has been documented here. […] The death threats Sierra received are no worse than I’ve received since starting this blog.
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Malkin goes on to pat herself on the back for the way she has dealt with similar threats:

My response to this and other endless slurs and threats–most empty, some serious–has been two-fold:

1) Report the serious threats to law enforcement.

2) Keep blogging.

She forgot to add

3) Pull your kid(s) out of school and uproot your family.

But that’s beside the point.

Personally, I’d like to see an end to the threatening emails and comments from both sides (and, yes, people on the left are guilty of it, too). But Malkin is trying to have it both ways– playing the victim card when she or one of her rightwing colleagues is targeted, but minimizing threats that come from the right, and accusing liberals of “whining” or “cutting and running” when they are targeted by the rightwing hate machine.

Oddly enough, Malkin does not ask where those “high-falutin’ tech bloggers” were when Margaret Cho was receiving racist, threatening hate mail from Freepers, or when the UC Santa Cruz anti-war students were receiving death threats from Michelle Malkin’s own readers.

Because, you see, in Michelle Malkin’s world, it’s all about her.

Even when it’s not.