Are you serious, with characters like stalkin Malkin out there?

One need look no further than WizbangBlue to get an idea of how over the top folks like this think - on a daily basis. I am not surprised by this.

Any details on the criminal?
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Air America is still on the air?

So, Fredrick, I assume you consider all journalists to be stalkers because they, too, investigate a story by researching and talking to people to get information. Or is this a label you apply only to Michelle because you disagree with her politics?

The first thing that comes to mind upon reading this story is the strange incident where Dan Rather was assaulted.

Most people thought he was full of crap at the time because being attacked by a guy yelling "What is the frequency, Kenneth?!?" was so off the wall that it had to be made up.

It turned out that the guy was a mental patient who was bat-shiat crazy and was convinced that the network news anchors were transmitting to a device contained in his teeth, hence the comments when he attacked.

Somehow, I doubt that right-wing individuals will get an apology from this douchebag if the culprit is caught and determined to be someone apolitical.

Don't taze me, Bro!

I remember how well this worked out for Morton Downey Jr. when he tried it.

So, Fredrick, I assume you consider all journalists to be stalkers because they, too, investigate a story by researching and talking to people to get information. Or is this a label you apply only to Michelle because you disagree with her politics?

But she didn't research anything, made a bunch of crap up about the targets of her harassment, and then refused to consider the possibility that she might have been somewhat innaccurate in her reporting.

No, this ia a label that gets applied to Malkin because she went to their home and harassed them. No request for an interview. No contact with the targets of her harassment. No reporting, checking for facts to back up her innuendo, or anything that even remotely resembles journalism.

Maybe if she had, at the very least, made an attempt to talk to the subject of her smear job before spewing her lies and hatred, there might be the possibility of considering what she did to be reporting. Bad reporting - but still having a vague resemblance to journalism. Instead, her actions were akin to the paparrazzi stalking celebrities. And every bit as reprehensible.

Can anyone confirm the wherabouts of Carl Rove?

Tom,

You find Michelle Malkin's blogging "every bit as reprehensible" as a physical attack on a person?

Interesting peak into the leftist psyche.

Insinuating nothing. That's a direct accusation.

Frederick you clueless douchebag. Do you refer to the false accusations against this creep?

Yah, talk to him, that'll help.

Kim, it may surprise you and offend you that the "Right Wing Nazis" must have been behind this attack, but you can't honestly say you're surprised to hear it. I would have been more surprised if Air America DIDN'T blame the right.

Gee, I hope she was up to date on her innoculations. You know how dirty and disease-ridden us Conservatives are and all...

Tom here sounds a lot like this person. Check out the comments there for more deranged spew, even claiming Malkin "incites her followers to commit violence against a Baltimore family." Geeze.

Son of the GOdfather, according to lefty analysis, yes, the spoken word is as harmful as physical force. This is the logic they use for speech codes. Basically it is:

Speech is an act.
Acts can cause harm.
Battery is an act.
Battery causes harm.
Actions that cause harm are wrong.

The two acts (battery and blogging) are therefore morally equivalent.

Fallacious, but what lefty logic isn't?

Malkin didn't harass the family; she just went and looked at the house from the public street and checked public assessment records. She just posted an email form one of the Frosts' neighbors, who tipped her off to the Frosts' ownership of three cars adn unwillingness to look for jobs with insurance.

No I apply that label to her for her many transgressions, releasing peoples personal info, home addresses, and inspiring stalking freepers everywhere.

Tom, Frederick, I do not understand what you say about Malkin. It seems that, according to you, if she reports without direct information she's a slandering bitch passing on unsubstantiated rumor or stealing from the MSM. If she goes and does a personal investigation and finds actual facts, like they own and drive specified vehicles, she is harassing people, even if she never speaks to them. No doubt you'd have her in prison for assault had she actually attempted to speak to them.

Do you really think journalism is based on an interview? How lame. How old school. Journalism requires digging through lots of sources, photos, public registries, such as land title, chattel mortgage, corporation, and surveillance, with the personal interview the most useless and least accurate.

As for Malkin's lies, please quote one, but follow the rules. Quote a statement of fact she has made, quote it in context, prove it is false, prove it is intentionally false and not a mere error. To satisfy me you'll also have to prove it was material to whatever point Malkin was trying to make. Then we'll discuss if she ever acknowledged the inaccuracy.

I don't think you'll be able to do that. I think you are wrong. You may be liars, but I can't prove that so I won't say it. I expect you are the usual excited lefties with no command of the facts, or any ability to comprehend the necessity of knowing the facts.

Frederick,

You are uninformed at best, and at worst... well, I have to watch the new comment policy.

Someone posted Michelle's private info first? Oh, let's leave that info out... It's an inconvenient truth.

But I guess half the truth is what you cowards are comfortable with.

Wishing Ms.Rhodes a speedy recovery.

Whe feel sorry for them. The paranoid fantasy is what they live for. In their minds they think they are standing up to some powerful conspiracy trying to silence them. They think they are underdogs speaking truth to power. If you remove the imagined threat, then they would be left with nothing but the realization that they are just so many elitist gas bags.

Tom, Frederick, Do you have a bad memory or a selective memory? I remember the name and address article and also remember that it came from a Leftie's blog. No research or other search required. When you brag about yourself you sometimes get in trouble. Ask Hanoi John Kerry about the trip to Cambodia, ordered by Nixon, before Nixon was president. Tell the truth and you only have to remember the truth, tell a series of lies and you have to remember each lie and who you told it to. The lie part trips hundreds of left wing democrats daily.

home addresses? personal information?

Ever hear of Switchboard.com or Anywho.com? voting records? property records? All posted on line by someone other than Malkin.

The Frosts started this whem they put themselves and their children into the public eye by saying "We're too poor to afford insurance."

Good journalism was checking into that claim.

How would anyone really know what someone from liberal talk radio looks like, and, who really cares?

Me thinks this is the only way she ever could have gotten on the front page, and yeah, 1st thing I thought of was 'What's The Frequency Kenneth'.

Is this where we talk about how living in 'blue cities' is far more dangerous?

It is irresponsible to speculate on so little information. But I also think it is wrong to dismiss the question of whether this was a crime motivated by ideology. I've read several first-hand reports of people being attacked or intimidated specifically because of political expression. I just read a story last week from someone who was nearly run off the road because they had a Kerry-Edwards sticker on their car.

The truth is there are a lot of whackjobs out there who would gladly take a shot at someone like Rhandi.

But, again, it is irresponsible to presume that this is what happened.

tom, you are an idiot. Malkin NEVER posted any personal information about the Frosts's save for their names, which were already printed by the MSM. Not once did she post their address. You say yourself, "she went to their home and harassed them...No contact with the targets of her harassment." WTF?!?! How exactly do you harrass someone, with no contact? How exactly is driving by someone's house, on a public street, and then writing that they have a nice house and cars, constitute harassment?!!! What a frigging moron you are, why don't you try actually reading what Malkin wrote, first hand, instead of parroting lies from the leftie blogs, then get back to us. Talk about spewing lieas and hatred.

You find Michelle Malkin's blogging "every bit as reprehensible" as a physical attack on a person?

For the terminally clueless: if you could read, my comment said that Instead, her actions were akin to the paparrazzi stalking celebrities. And every bit as reprehensible.

Exactly where did I compare Stalkin Malkin to the people who beat up Randi Rhodes? Oh - that's right. Because the voices in your head told you that that's what I meant, it must have been what I said.

Smarter Reich wingnut ditto monkeys please...

Randi Rhodes has been talking a lot lately about the U.S. employment of mercenaries in the occupation of Iraq.

We live in a banana republic run by criminals.

Frederick is, of course, a kook for even comparing Malkin to a completely unknown attacker. And Jon Elliot has some serious paranoia issues. Let's wait and see if they're ever even able to apprehend whoever attacked Rhodes. My guess is it's another of thousands of random assaults that occur every day. Anyone who thinks like this Elliot person, with no facts or information, is a fool of the first order.

Tom claimed:

No, this ia a label that gets applied to Malkin because she went to their home and harassed them. No request for an interview. No contact with the targets of her harassment. No reporting, checking for facts to back up her innuendo, or anything that even remotely resembles journalism.

Tom. It's as simple as this. You're a liar.

I had not heard what you where talking about but google + 10 min of link following and I found this:

Update 2:50pm Eastern: I just returned from a visit to Frost's commercial property near Patterson Park in Baltimore. It's a modest place. Talked to one of the tenants, Mike Reilly, who is a talented welder. He said he had known the Frosts for 10 years. Business is good, he told me, though he characterized Frost as "struggling." Reilly was an outspoken advocate for socialized health care without any means-testing whatsoever and an insistent critic of the Iraq war. Despite all that, he did agree with me that going without health insurance is often a matter of choice and a matter of priorities. Or maybe we were speaking two different languages.

I also passed by the Frosts' rowhouse. There was an "01 - 20 -09″ bumper sticker plastered on the door and a newer model GMC Suburban parked directly in front of the house. I've seen guesstimates of the house's worth in the $400,000-plus range. Those are high.

She didn't harass anyone SHE DROVE DOWN A PUBLIC STREET... If you open you blind eye for a moment she also, from her observations, reports that the earlier reports the house was worth >$400,000 to be incorrect... She presented a counter-argument for the left you twit.

You are the classic liberal troll. You simply lie and smear people.

Asshole.

I wish Randi Rhodes a speedy recovery and the satisfaction of seeing her attacker arrested and convicted. This attack must have been horrifying for both herself and her dog. As a pet owner, I know I would be more concerned with preventing them from being attacked than with protecting myself.

As for Jon Elliot, I'm not defending his outburst (which is irresponsible as it might inspire counter-attacks and is fundamentally unhelpful), but is it possible that the person assaaulting Rhodes made comments about her political views and/or her job at "Air America"? Not that it would impugn all of us who are of the more Conservative or Libertarian bent, but there are crazies on both sides of the aisle. I hope it's not a pseudo-Conservative thug, but it's possible, and that's sad.

"Are they afraid that we're winning. Are they trying to silence intimidate us."

Anybody else flash on Rush, Hannity, etc. at this comment? Except, of course, that one side that believes that Bush destroyed multiple skyscrapers in NY as well as part of the Pentagon while disappearing hundreds of airline passengers to capture the oil of a country run by a genocidal dictator believes that a random attack in a place known for random attacks was a targeted hit on a relatively unknown, minor league radio talker by a vast conspiracy to silence them even though the free market is already accomplishing that handily and the other side can point to democratic leaders talking openly about legislation designed to reprimand them or even attempt to take them off the air.

But who's counting?

Randi who?

"Some of blog posters also expressed concerns that the attack on Rhodes was hate crime."

Saw that coming.

Well off investment bankers have experienced what Rhodes went through...as much as I dislike her politics, I'm glad she's ok. This one barely made it:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080050/

obviously a crime of passion!

"Is this an attempt by the right wing hate machine to silence one of our own, he asked."

No need to!! air America silenced itself when it could not attract enough listeners to form a throne room honor guard.