Michelle Malkin on the Alex Jones "Confrontation"

Michelle Malkin is interviewed on Pajamas Media regarding Alex Jones chasing her down in Denver. Our humble blog gets a nice endorsement about a quarter of the way in. Ahh, my head is swelling, but my wife is not at all impressed...

More On Jones at the DNC

Alex Jones screaming in people's faces, pimping his website, causes some unlikely allies.

But soon, the attention was diverted from the peaceful protest by an altercation between a member of the conservative media and a citizen attending the protest. This was the second incident of its kind; on Sunday, protesters took exception to a Fox News reporter trying to question Ward Churchill, controversial former professor at the University of Colorado. Today it was radical Alex Jones, from the group 9/11 Truth, which believes that the September 11 terrorist attacks were planned by the U.S. government, verbally confronting Michelle Malkin, a conservative columnist and Fox News contributor.

“You support torture. Shame on you, you fascist piece of trash," Jones yelled. He also accused Malkin of supporting the U.S. Marines when they drown puppies.

Malkin found an ally in Recreate 68’s Sanchez, who pushed his way into the crowd of TV cameras to yell at Jones: “Michelle Malkin is a true patriot!”Sanchez later said he had no idea why Jones was attending the protest and added that Recreate 68 does not support Jones’ ideas. He added that although they strongly disagree with her views, Recreate 68 supports Malkin’s right to free speech.

Recreate 68 co-founder Glenn Spagnuolo agreed saying “He's the true agent provocateur, he was so busy hating, he missed all the love.”

Video of Jones Versus Malkin

I'll give Luke credit for one thing, he seems to shut up the fruitcake who started the "Kill Michelle Malkin" chant. Maybe he really is a Gandhi disciple (or maybe the chant meant that people couldn't hear Alex speaking Troof to power). Jones, of course, acts like the fruitcake he is; not hard to see why Mrs M wanted a shower after the Profit of Doom raged at her.

Alex Jones Harasses Michelle Malkin

In other news from Denver, Alex Jones fights the New World Order in Denver by chasing down.... blogger and political pundit Michelle Malkin. He also solidifies his lead in the "truther most in need of mood stabilizing medication" category.

Update by Pat: Mrs M's account of the incident is here.

Desperate to salvage the fizzled demonstration, 9/11 nutball Alex Jones started barking at me and attempting to make a scene and incite a riot. I should have brought my spit shield. Ick. Jim Hoft was there, along with my friends from Pajamas Media, and provided volunteer bodyguard services (thanks, guys).

A V-Tard Lectures Michelle Malkin

Most of it is a fact-free rant, but he does cite Louie Cacchioli, who did indeed get angry about the 9-11 Commission, but is not a "Truther".

Rather than a sleeping America, Louie Cacchioli sees people who are acutely aware of the terrorist threat, ever mindful that it might happen again, anytime, anywhere.

Cacchioli is also angry. He's read the final 9-11 Commission report recently released by the bipartisan National Commission On Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States investigating the lead up to the terrorist attacks. He concludes that people in high places failed him and failed their country when the nation was so stunned and unprepared for a terrorist assault.

The video is remarkable mainly for the fact that the kid fits the stereotype of 9-11 Denier perfectly; in fact at times "Chris" seems like a parody. Angry white male in his late teens, early 20s? Check. Wearing a black shirt? Check. Has V posters and a mask on his wall? Check. "Interesting" hair? Check. Seems a few bezels shy of a diffuser case? Check.

At any rate, we have a new leader in the "9-11 Denier most likely to go postal" category.

Michelle Malkin and John Gibson on the Purdue Simulation

Pleased to see this getting a good deal of play. John Gibson is moving up rapidly on my list of favorite TV personalities because he doesn't mince words; I've long been a fan of Mrs M.

Ron Paul Explains

We've been hammering Ron Paul here the last couple of days as part of our effort to not allow political candidates to court the 9-11 Deniers while maintaining sufficient distance that they can avoid any "blowback". Paul was asked some questions by the good folks over at Reason Magazine. He's still dancing a little bit, but these are better responses:

Reason: What did you mean when you told the Scholars that "the [9/11] investigation is an investigation in which there were government cover-ups"?

Paul: I do think there were cover-ups, and I think it was mainly to cover up who was blamed, who's inept. See, they had the information. The FBI had an agent who was very much aware of the terrorists getting flight lessons but obviously not training to be pilots. He reported it 70 times or whatever and it was totally ignored. We were spending $40 billion a year on intelligence. It wasn't a lack of money or a lack of intelligence, it was a lack of the ability to put the intelligence together. Even the administration had been forewarned that something was coming, the CIA had been forewarned. So it was a cover up of who to blame. I see it more that way.

Reason: The position of the Student Scholars is that 9/11 was executed by the U.S. government. Do you agree or disagree with that?

Paul: I'd say there's no evidence of that.

Reason: So what did you mean when you told Student Scholars you'd be open to a new 9/11 investigation?

Paul: Well, I think the more we know about what we went on is good. But I don't think there's any evidence of [an inside job] and I don't believe that. The blame goes to bad policy. And a lot of times bad policy is well-motivated. The people who believe in a one world government are well motivated, but they disagree with me.

Hat Tip: Wil in the comments, who has a rather interesting blog name.

Ryan Sager posts the transcript of a John McCain/Blogger conference call yesterday where I asked Senator McCain about Paul's Truther-friendly comments. One minor correction: at the end I did not say "truth or virus", I said "Truther virus".

Update: Some disappointed reactions at 9-11 Blogger along with one "he believes in it but can't admit it politically". We report, you decide.

Mrs M and Kirsten Powers discuss Paul's comments on the O'Reilly Factor:



I like Michelle's comment at the end, "If these people are going to come up to you, the proper response should be, 'Bug off!'"

Some of the Truthers are pointing to this article that Mrs M wrote years ago, claiming that it shows she was a Truther too:

What really happened on United Airlines Flight 93? As the Philadelphia Daily News reported back in November, many folks in Shanksville, Pa., where the hijacked Boeing 757 crashed, believe the plane was shot down. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a small, unmarked jet flying overhead immediately after impact; others are convinced they heard the piercing sound of a missile. A federal flight controller told The Telegraph of Nashua, N.H., that an F-16 had indeed been in "hot pursuit" of Flight 93 until it hit the ground. One of the 911calls from a passenger on the flight indicated that there was an explosion aboard the plane. The FBI immediately confiscated the tape.

Of course, there is a difference between asking those sorts of question in March of 2002, and asking them now, and that is that we know a heck of a lot more about 9-11 thanks to the Commission Report and other evidence that has come out over the years.

In Defense of Michelle Malkin

Well, it seems that Mrs M's comments to John Gibson about Ron Paul in the debate have gotten some people's backs up. Andrew Sullivan writes:

This dialogue between John Gibson and Michelle Malkin actually takes it as a premise that Ron Paul stated that Bush knew about 9/11 in advance.

But if you read the exchange very carefully, neither Malkin nor Gibson say that. Gibson uses the poll as a lead-in to talking about Paul:

According to a recent Rasmussen Report poll, 35 percent of Democrats think President Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks beforehand. The so-called 9/11 Truth Movement has already infected people like Rosie O'Donnell and one in three Democrats, and many other people, Americans evidently, including Congressman Ron Paul.

Mrs M:

I'm glad that this moment provided great TV for FOX News — it was a very instructive exchange — but Ron Paul really has no business being on stage as a legitimate representative of Republicans, because the 9/11 truth virus is something that infects only a very small proportion of people that would identify themselves as conservative or Republican. And as you say, John, this is far more prevalent, this strain of 9/11 truth virus, on the left, and in much of the mainstream of the Democratic Party as that Rasmussen poll showed.

Both of them associated Paul with the Truthers, but they did not directly say he was one himself (Gibson certainly implies it). And not coincidentally, that's exactly what Ron Paul does; associate himself with the Truthers but does not directly say he's one himself.

Back in January, Paul appeared on the Alex Jones show:

CALLER: I want a complete, impartial, and totally independent investigation of the events of September 11, 2001 . I'm tired of this bogus garbage about terrorism. Ask Michael Meacher about how he feels about this bogus war on terrorism. Can you comment on that please?

RON PAUL: Well, that would be nice to have. Unfortunately, we don't have that in place. It will be a little bit better now with the Democrats now in charge of oversight. But you know, for top level policy there's not a whole lot of difference between the two policies so a real investigation isn't going to happen. But I think we have to keep pushing for it. And like you and others, we see the investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation of what went on.

JACK BLOOD, GUEST HOST: I think it's fair to say that of all the candidates out there, the one most interested in reopening the investigation and clearing the questions is Dr. Paul; and you should be commended for that.

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You know, she does comedic bits even better than serious bits. Terrific job, Mrs. M!