re: #160 tedzilla99

With all due respect, Michelle Malkin has a much better dissection of this report and she is not an alarmist or nutjob, so I’ll go ahead and stick with her assessment, especially since she actually spoke to DHS about it. She found no specific groups named, and it appears to be a preemption to the tea parties tomorrow, as was PBO’s ‘everything is getting better but it won’t actually get better right now’ doublespeak teleprompter show today.

Malkin is flogging this story with her usual rabid zeal; it’s front and center on her main page with the headline “The Obama DHS hit job on conservatives is real” in bold red type.

I’m going with the alarmist nutjob interpretation, a mantle Malkin seems all too willing to don these days.

In general, a good policy seems to be that anything appearing on her site is mean-spirited alarmist claptrap that needs to be actively avoided. Like Pam Geller, she seems to be far more concerned with histrionics and attention these days than in actual analysis.

She was a lot more interesting when she was publishing a column once a week, and putting at least several days worth of thought and research into it. Her continuous barrage of shallow, frothing-at-the-mouth spin and distortion is embarrassing and downright harmful. It really isn’t appealing to see someone use the term “crap sandwich” three dozen times in one week, and who still thinks it’s clever.

Even more sadly, this seems to be Hot Air’s new excuse for a business model. You’ve gotta wonder who’s bankrolling this train wreck. Is George Soros behind it?