As promised, I wrote James Taranto to find out if Michelle Malkin is really being blacklisted by the Wall Street Journal opinion page.
To: opinionjournal@wsj.com
From: imao@cfl.rr.com
Subject: Is Michelle Malkin being blacklisted by the WSJ?
Please excuse my English, for I went to public school.
I am Frank J. of IMAO, the powerful leader of right-wing humor in the blogosphere. Michelle Malkin mentioned in a recent post (http://michellemalkin.com/archives/000044.htm) that, because of her views on immigration, she is blacklisted from writing in the WSJ opinion page.
All Michelle wants to do is keep terrorists from coming into America and blowing themselves up and, more to the point, others, and it seems dishonorable to ostracize her for that. Thus, I decided to turn to the wise James Taranto since I have read Best of the Web for a long time and know him to be a crusader against anyone who threatens America, liberty, and apple pie. So, what do you know of these charges?
I warn you. Now that Michelle Malkin is a blogger, she falls under our protection. We are a powerful lot with the ability to write stuff and put it on a webpage. You do not want such power – the power to write stuff – used against you.
I hope you can give a forthright answer to this and continue good relations between us all.
Cordially,
Frank J.
http://imao.us
P.S. Please link to IMAO more often in Best of the Web. It will make you look smart and hip.
I encourage others to write letter to so we get an answer. Just be nice (I like Best of the Web) and make sure you mention you’re doing this on my behalf and not Michelle’s so she doesn’t get in trouble.
We of the blogosphere must stick together!
…unless one hogs all the traffic and blends puppies.
I’ll send an e-mail off this very morning, oh fearless leader.
By the way, does anyone know what happened to the Alliance blogroll? It seems to have dissapeared from everyone’s pages.
S
And on a completely different topic…
I Just Got My Nuke the Moon Shirts! Woohoo!
Okay, I got them Saturday, but I work third shift and don’t notice squat-diddly about the mail unless my husband Mark points it out to me…
Hey Frank, start working on that Laser already!
and First! Mwa ha ha!
Crap!
Okay, second and third then!
Nyah!
Mwahahahahahaha….
Mighty Frank, WSJ shall soon be drowning in emails. Let them know the mighty power of the blogsphere, and its enforcer Frank J.
Mwahaha.
That e-mail doesn’t really seem all that threatening. I don’t know…
It’s not supposed to be threatening… yet.
I work for WSJ. Please don’t send too many e-mails or you may crash the computers, resulting in my paycheck being late. Won’t someone please think of the children?
You work for the WSJ? Do you know if they need a new editorial writer who is young and hip and knows how to toe the line unliked a certain Michelle Malkin?
“…knows how to toe the line unliked a certain Michelle Malkin?”
P.S. Does the WSJ have editors and spell checkers and stuff.
Man, if I had and editor, that wood be sew cool. Know moore grammar airs fore me!
I wonder if they’ll print your letter. (Yeah right).
Be sure to let us know if they respond.
Big Franky J. — you realize that your last hyperlink in your letter to what’s-his-name is to IMAO.com, not IMAO.us? IMAO.com is crazy Korean symbols or something. Was that intentional?
Frank,
You need to use the ‘Don Corleone sends Tom Hagen to LA’ choice of negotiation. If they still don’t acquiesce THEN you send in Luca Brasi.
Tim E:
IMAO is a Japanese B2B supplier. They make stuff.
El Jefe:
Sure, but look what happened. Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. Maybe Frank could ask for volunteers?
Overall, the WSJ is a pretty good rag. It’s good that Frank J is showing some reserve. It’s good that he hasn’t said anything that could be traced back to him as possibly incriminating.
Nice, Frank J. Good, Frank J. Wanna biscuit?
Drew — thanks for that. Those symbols were freaking me out, man. I thought those sneaky Asains were trying to hypnotize me or something. Crazy Asains.
Drew,
I’m talking about sending Luca Brasi in and holding a gun to the head of the editor while Frank J. says, “Either your signature will be on that contract between you and Michelle Malkin or your brains will.”
El Jefe:
Lets not forget we are talking about an editor, here. Despite the fact that he works for the WSJ and not the NYT or WasPo, there exists a possibility that he has no brain.
Has Conservative Writer Michelle Malkin Been Blacklisted By the Wall Street Journal ?
Michelle Malkin is an excellent conservative writer who I have seen many times on Fox News. It seems the Wall Street Journal may have blacklisted her from writing in the WSJ opinion page for not being politically correct about middle eastern terrorism…
Frank,did my part, it has been forwarded.
Hey Frank J, don’t worry about the typo in “liked” – you spelled “toe the line” right! That makes you smarter than many, many, many other people who seem to think that the phrase has something to do with water skiing.