And no one even set her up.

No, she managed to punk herself. She’s always punking herself. You could say her entire oeuvre is one long exercise in self-punking. What else could you call a nutty revisionist history that seeks to reassure us the internment of Japanese Americans in WW2 was justified, no need for apologies, because “Japs” are “Japs” and even the American ones were a threat, and why are we letting a politically correct version of history keep us from learning the right lesson from that proud moment in our history, so we can apply it to Muslim Americans today?

Of course no one takes that book seriously, except her rightwing brethren, which doesn’t stop Malkin from getting astonishing amounts of media attention.

The punking I have in mind is minor in comparison, but it’s contemporary with the delight she took in holding this blog up to derision, along with other liberal blogs, for getting “punked,“ her word, by a deliberately faked story, complete with photoshopping, and coordination between three different websites.

This little story probably says less about Malkin and more about the dismal state of our free press, from whence she got it, pretty much copying it into her blog, as she so often does, and then running with it by way of a few of her signature flourishes.

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