This morning on NPR’s popular comedy show, Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, a segment aired where a contestant had to choose which of three strange news stories was actually true.  One of the (false) options concerned conservative commentator Michelle Malkin.  The NPR show joked that, after Malkin had advertised her belief that President Obama is a “secret Muslim” and that she believes other “secret Muslims” are “taking over this country,” she found, to her dismay, that her own grandfather was a Muslim.

First of all, while the humor of this segment was based on the idea that Malkin must be a hypocrite with a Muslim relative (which even the show acknowledged was untrue), the setup was based on the premise as I described it above, which the narrator clearly presented as factual.

I’ve followed Malkin’s blog and columns for years now, and she has never said that President Obama is a Muslim, nor does she believe that Muslims, “secret” or otherwise, are somehow “taking over this country.”  While she does report on multiethnic strife in many areas of the world, including ours, as a result of political correctness and lack of assimilation, nothing she has ever written comes close to the bizarre, mean caricature aired this morning on NPR.

But NPR’s mistake goes far beyond mere slander.  Their joke targeted the family of a specific conservative at a time when that specific conservative’s family is suffering a tragedy.  Quite a coincidence.  It’s been two weeks since Malkin’s cousin Marizela Perez went missing, possibly the victim of a kidnapping.  Malkin has used her media presence tirelessly since then to help find her young relative.  Either NPR and Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me are not nearly as well-informed in their news awareness as they’d like us to believe, or they cruelly decided to go ahead with a particularly tasteless joke.

2 Responses to “NPR attacks Michelle Malkin”

1. Daniel Boone
   March 22nd, 2011 @ 10:29 pm

   Orly:…I’m hoping (after reading this post) that “Boehner and the Boys” will ALSO SHUT DOWN NPR, FOR SURE! And do a number on PBS or the equivelant: PTV!

   In the past, I’ve seen one of the shows on PBS and it was a very “left-leaning” show with a strumming guitarist, who thought it was great singing about “Chi Guivera (sp)” and “…Once upon a Meadow…!” He (“WAS!”) a scum sucking commie!

   And we just had PBS this past week offer the viewers a return to nostalgia, with some Rock and Roll Music and shows from the past to sell DVD’s and CD’s! I didn’t mind that! But this other “Treasonous Tails” from the left should NOT BE ALLOWED!

   So…since I know they produce a lot of variety on that channel, they should be told that “keep it nice, patriotic, and fun,” or else? Give them one chance to straighten up! Among other “un”-funding the House can do, they should “slice and dice” the garbage forthwith!

   Patriot…

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