I don't get it

From Mediamatters;

Like Domenech, Malkin is not a serious person. In fact, she's ambitiously unserious, and her work is treated accordingly by most people in senior positions within the mainstream media (except at Fox News and the Post). That's because her daily blog is built on a foundation of hatred that literally knows no bounds -- namely, Malkin's unbridled, name-calling disdain for Democrats, peace activists, journalists, immigrants, and Muslims. Yet inside the Post newsroom, or more specifically, at the Post Style desk, Malkin is seen as a rising media star worthy of focused, fawning attention.

It would be one thing if Malkin were currently enjoying her victory lap -- if she'd been dead-on about Iraq and about the defeatists on the left who didn't have the foresight to back a wildly successful invasion of Iraq. But, of course, she's not. Malkin is the field general for a squad of bitter pro-war dead-enders who lash out online against anyone who dares speak the truth about the war. She has been wrong about Iraq in every conceivable way, with a losing streak dating back more than 50 straight months. The consequences for having habitually botched the most important policy issue of the last decade? She's taken to lunch by a Washington Post reporter (the same reporter Malkin once derided as incompetent), who then splashes a friendly profile in the paper while carefully refusing to inform readers about Malkin's glaring ignorance and unhinged loathing.

Malkin also wrote a book titled, In Defense of Internment. Yes, that same internment that Ronald Reagan appologized for. Yes, she frequently makes the most obscene calls for violence, and is just basically an Asian Ann Coulter.

I titled the post "I don't get it" - but honestly, I do. Why is Coulter frequently on my teevee? Why does Rush Limbaugh have a radio show?

It's the entertainment factor, and with Malkin part of that is her fuckability. If she's made up correctly, she's got some of that "me soooo hoeney" going on, and after all, news is about money - just like everything else. If Malkin looked like, say, Bay Buchanan, she'd never set foot on a Faux News stage again.

The media business is really bizarre. They're not stupid, they know Malkin is a political hack and evil cunt.. It's just they want to get some horny and violent guys to watch their shows.