I don't know if any of you have seen the latest Michelle Malkin video. In point of fact, I don't know that it is the latest, exactly, but it's the latest one I came across in the course of reading through various blogs. I think either Andrew Sullivan or Josh Marshall linked to something that linked to it. I was, quite frankly, stunned by what I saw. Shocked and Awed, in right wing parlance, I think.
In fact, in my further readings this very day, I came across yet further instances of the phenomenon I was so stunned to see with Malkin. This time, kos had linked to someone observing a crazed right wing blogger he referred to as "Tits on a Blintz" (were this not such an overtly offensive epithet, it might be apt). This "wingnut," as I believe they say in these parts, had posted videos of herself apparently asking questions of various people in Israel... To be perfectly honest, I don't know exactly what she said, because my sound card seems to be on the fritz. The point of the matter is, this Malkin phenomenon is by no means an isolated one.
Just to make sure I hadn't somehow been misled by a piece of opportunistic photography -- the so-called friendly camera -- I checked out some old Malkin footage from the 2004 election on that wonderful YouTube. There she was with Chris Matthews in what appeared to be a fairly heated exchange about something or other. Whatever was going on, it was clear that the producer's camera was not doing her any favor, at least if it followed the tenor of her interlocuter in any degree.
What was so unbelieveable is that she looked even better! [In the interest of full disclosure, I should say I have an odd penchant for angry women.] You typically expect a fairly plain sort of folk to be involved in typing out the kind of silly assed nonsense that passes for blogging rather than getting out and living their lives. Especially so for someone attractive enough that they could really be enjoying themselves. Yet here is this Michelle Malkin producing videos for her legions of sexually frustrated manchildren readers. (I spent twenty minutes looking for a video in which she reads Green Eggs and Ham for them, but without success -- a shiny dollar to whoever finds it for me!)
I have to wonder what accounts for this sort of thing and why one doesn't see more of it, say, in the left wing blogosphere. Certainly, anyone who's at all tuned into the so-called myspace phenomenon knows that attractive women keeping websites (blogs) full of videos of themselves is really quite common. I can't imagine what accounts for the disparity. The link I followed from kos's post (the one with the "Tits on a Blintz" remark) seems to indicate there might be a market for such a thing even amongst liberal readers, the stereotypically (but the blogger mentioned shows it's wrong to generalize!) more refined sensibilities of such notwithstanding...