michelle malkin

Born Michelle Maglalang

October 20, 1970 (1970-10-20) (age 38)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Residence Washington D.C., United States Education Oberlin College Occupation Author, syndicated columnist, television personality and blogger Spouse(s) Jesse Malkin Website

Michelle Malkin, Hot Air

Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang) is an American commentator and blogger.[1][2] Her weekly syndicated column appears in nearly 200 newspapers and websites.[1] She has been a guest on MSNBC, Fox News Channel, C-SPAN, and national radio programs. Malkin has written three books. Contents [hide] 1 Biography 2 Career 2.1 Blog 2.1.1 Students Against War controversy 2.1.2 Jamil Hussein 2.2 Hot Air website 3 Viewpoints 4 Notes and references 5 Books 6 External links //

Biography

Malkin was born Michelle Maglalang on October 20, 1970 in Philadelphia to Filipino parents, Rafaela and Dr. Apolo Maglalang, while they were in the United States on student visas.[3] She grew up in Absecon, New Jersey.[4] Malkin graduated from Oberlin College, which she described as a "radically left-wing, liberal arts college."[5]

In 1993 she married Jesse Malkin, a Rhodes Scholar and former economist for the RAND Corporation.[6] As of 2004, Jesse was a stay-at-home dad raising their two children.[7]

Career

Malkin began her career at the Los Angeles Daily News, working as a columnist from 1992 to 1994. In 1996, she moved to Seattle, Washington, where she wrote columns for The Seattle Times. She became a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate in 1999.[8] [9] She also has been a frequent commentator for FOX News Channel and former guest-host of The O'Reilly Factor.

Her first book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces, was published in 2002 and was a New York Times bestseller.

In November 2004 the The Virginian-Pilot dropped her column, calling her among other things "an Asian Ann Coulter."[10] Malkin responded "I'm not Asian, I'm American, for goodness' sake. I would take the comparison to Ann Coulter as somewhat of a compliment."[11]

In 2004, she wrote In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror, defending Japanese American internment by the United States Government during World War II. She related the theme to the contemporary War on Terrorism, which engendered criticism from several Asian American civil rights organizations. The "Historians' Committee for Fairness," a group of professors, condemned the book for not having undergone peer review and argued that its central thesis is false.[12] An attempt to ban the book from the Manzanar National Historic Site failed.[13]. Malkin's third book, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild was released in October 2005.

In 2007 she announced that she would not return to Geraldo Rivera's show, claiming