Briefly put, craziness sells. Being objective, insightful, and informative is a constant challenge. Pandering to the loonies is the lazy way out. Fox found a niche market and it’s saturating it. It’s all about being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous, and fueling the flames of hyper-polarized partisanship. Turn politics into a pissing match between drunken fans in a soccer-stadium. Wear your team colors. Boo at the other team. Whatever.

Ann Coulter does this so well, and I think, though many will disagree, Michelle Malkin does too.

I have no love for her, but my husband who is older and has been politically attuned longer than myself, claims she used to be much calmer and sober. Guess she found out insanity sells better somewhere down the line. Her book defending the internment of Japanese Americans was disgraceful, and I firmly believe at least part of her choice of subject matter was dictated by her ethnic background: “Oh, look at me, I’m Asian and I’ll write a book defending the internment of Japanese Americans.”

I’m Albanian, and can only imagine how much attention, money, and support I’d get from “certain circles” were I to write in defense of the late Serbian government’s actions in the Balkan wars. Oh, it would be so contrarian, so much more credible, so attention-worthy, coming from me.

Michelle Malkin is also a syndicated columnist at the white-power cesspool of a publication, Vdare: en.wikipedia.org

Disgusting!

I don’t know how this comment spiraled off into Malkin bashing, but I see an intimate analogy between her devolution and FOX’s.