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There has been a series of racial incidents at Oberlin college recently, and when the AP found out at that Girls creator/producer/director/star/nudist was an Oberlin alumna, they wrote a story about Dunham’s Oberlin race tweets because 1) Dunham is very close in age to the students still at Oberlin, 2) she is the “voice of their generation” whether they like it or not 3) Lena Dunham articles and stuff are always high-traffic click-bait.
But you know who else went to Oberlin? No, not Hitler, although you were very close and probably deserve half credit for your guess. No, Michelle Malkin went to Oberlin. Yes she did! And not as a dance major. And you will be completely unsurprised to find out that Michelle Malkin was horribly aggrieved (even more so than usual) that the AP was not in the least bit interested in her take on the Oberlin incident, particularly when everyone knows that when it comes to racism, Michelle Malkin wrote the book.
So how did Malkin respond to this slight? As documented by her very own website for people who need to have 140-character tweets explained to them … not very well:
I will not be IGNORED, Dan!
…. and finally before the restraining order became enforceable:
For those keeping score at home, that was seven tweets in nineteen minutes of Michelle Malkin “looka me me me memememememe!” before she decided that this war is lost … which brings us to:
…because it never get old.
Unlike Malkin’s act…
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When someone says “racism is bad”, Malkin immediately needs to provide the “fair and balanced” counterpoint?
At least she recognizes which team she’s on.
Without knowing much about about tweets, I thought while reading this, “What if ‘CC’ is just the common appreviation for ‘copy to others’? Does AP have a Tweeter-er named “Ibid” or “Op cit”?
I don’t have a tv, but I heard an interview on Terri Gross the other evening with Mike White, who created, wrote & acts in Enlightened with Laura Dern. Gross played what I believe was the last voice over of the 2d Season’s last show.
In it, apparently Dern’s character, Amy Jellicoe – without giving away the plot (just in case) – wants to be this major Twitter-type with a huge following. She keeps repeating: “Follow me. Follow ME! FOLLOW MEEEEE!!”
Malkin is even more narcissitic & as completely idiotically obtuse & delusional but fame-whoring as Jellicoe. Too bad Malkin’s not a ficticious character on a tv show that can be CANCELED!! Twit.
I guess “post-racial America” is not yet realized, despite Scalia’s opinion.
Is Malkin desperate enough for attention to go to North Korea and suck up to Kim Jong-un? He would probably sit with her while they watched North Korea’s crack cheerleading squads perform routines glorifying him for his humility. Maybe Malkin could pick up some ideas for new routines. Maybe Pam Geller should go along.
Malkin bad, etc. etc.
I wanted to post about the voice of a generation snark. I’m old enough to remember when Tabitha Soren was going to the voice of my “post-baby boomer but not quite Gen X” generation. At the time, I remember thinking that maybe my generation should do something and maybe the potential voices could be people who had done something. Why does each generation need a voice when their fresh out of college? At least nothing ever changes.
Actually, speaking of generations, I was in Gen X when it was originally proposed, but then they kept shifting the goalposts.
It is curious that someone who hates the mainstream media so much needs them to validate her. I think there is a name for that…
Also, too: Let’s talk about the AP’s treatment of other Oberlin Alums!!1! Where does Ed Helms stand on all this and why doesn’t the AP want us to know???? Liz Phair?????
I know, good God.
“Racism is bad.”
“LIBERAL BIAS!!”
Looks like the real cover-up is Oberlin slapping a gag order on the AP in order to suppress the knowledge that Anchor Baby is an alum.
Can’t really blame Oberlin; would probably drive the value of their degree somewhere down around a University of Phoenix doctorate and just above an officially licensed Ke$ha local fan club president.
So let me see if I understand this:
We are unable to launch a drone strike against a particular Twitter account, is that correct?
CC might be finding a bunny in the pot when he/she gets home.
Although, the Harvard brand suffered surprisingly little damage from the MBA that Dubya somehow cajoled from a vending machine near his fraternity that one memorable day when he was sober enough to make sense of the numbers on the display, and had some loose change on hand since his dealer had given him a break on the weeks’ supply of bolivian marching powder.
Ms. Dunham and Associated Press had better get ready for an all-out assault on their countertops.
Malkin is a lot like Sarah Palin in that if you ignore her screeching, it’s a sign of your bias. And they WILL NOT BE IGNORED!!!
One suggested edit: replace
with:
“I will not be IGNORED, Dan!”
Someone else used that line here in comments in the last couple of weeks and I alluded to the mixture of pride & shame I felt in knowing its provenance.
It was one of Meredith Baxter-Birney’s lines in the Lifetime Original Movie, A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story.
Life just hasn’t been the same since Ailes decided she was too stupid for Fox.
The best part is when Screechy McMalkin decided to drop the whole thing after “CC” tweeted about Hawaii’s Senate voting on a bill that would “protect celebrities from unwanted media attention.”
Guess Lena Dunham better move to that “foreign country” pronto!
Happening already. Check the comments on the AP story.
Makes you wonder how they can type will that bag of hammers in their heads.
fxd for your pleasure
My first thought was that the last AP tweet was snark directed towards Malkin. Don’t think we have to worry about her getting any “unwanted” attention.
Damn good thing she didn’t go to Antioch. Quakers – what can u do?
Nobody puts Anchor Baby in a corner!
I rarely LOL (as the kidz say) when reading comments, but yours made me howl.
HA! Awesome. Appropriate too, since Baxter-Birney more or less channeled Malkin in those scenes where she was out of control with rage.
Fun fact: Oberlin College was the first U.S. college to admit women on a regular basis, starting with four female students in 1837. That was two years after Oberlin admitted its first African-American students.
Which is like being put on waivers by the Charlotte Bobcats. Or, worse yet, the Miami Marlins.
Hi Jenn – it was me a couple of weeks ago alluding to the famous line – but you are wrong about its origin. It came from Fatal Attraction with Glenn Close. I don’t watch Lifetime, so can’t tell you if the line was lifted for one of their movies.
Bogie @11 got it right with the bunny in a pot reference. TBogg also has supplied a pic of Ms Close from that very film up-top.
It was probably too tempting to the A Woman Scorned writers to neglect lifting the line, since Betty Broderick’s ex-husband was (conveniently, for the writers) named Dan. Funny – I didn’t know it was recycled from Fatal Attraction. But it works lifted out of either context. I have to prefer the Woman Scorned one because, as cheesy as Fatal Attraction was, Lifetime movies are infinitely cheesier. And also, Meredith Baxter-Birney, which somehow makes it even Lifetimier.
Kenyon > Oberlin
Hmmm. Surely someone can do something with the “Anchor Baby” tag and this.
Although, the Harvard brand suffered surprisingly little damage from the MBA that Dubya somehow cajoled from a vending machine near his fraternity
A fair point, but I think even the most naive among us have come to realize that an MBA, especially a Harvard MBA, really isn’t an educational achievement so much as a two year exercise of gathering trust fund wolves making plans straight out of Pinky and the Brain.
The new blog-whoring is tweet-whoring? BTW, here’s Michelle on Hannity:
She’s so sweet.