DISGRASIAN OF THE WEAK! Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin has always reminded me one of those yappy little dogs that has suffered the sad, ugly, unfortunate fate of too much inbreeding. The constant, annoying bark but noticeable lack of bite. The oddly shrunken, slightly fucktarded face. Then there's that thing where a person is forced to apologize for any kind of associasian: ("It's my girlfriend's dog" functions quite like "She's not the same kind of Asian as me"). There's also the simple fact that she's a bitch. And that I think she belongs in a crate.

Because of this, I've always kinda assumed that Malkin had a soft spot for little dogs. So I was shocked to see the manner in which she has contested the legitimacy of the infamous YouTube video that depicts a U.S. Marine throwing the puppy off of a cliff, that has been making waves all week. "Disturbing whether the dog is real or fake, dead or alive? Yes," she writes on her blog. "A hanging offense? No."

Ever the queen of non sequitur, she proceeds to qualify a theory that the video was faked with the intent to reinforce... soldier hate?

[The] clip is a useful cultural Rorschach test. Those who buy into the soldier-as-monster narrative are up in arms–demanding that the soldiers be hunted down and shot. Just look at the comments section in the YouTube thread.

You'll find that many academes refer to YouTube comments for citeable research. They're so factually accurate that we don't even allow them on DISGRASIAN. But that's besides the point.

Listen, my cousin is a Marine captain currently serving his time in Iraq--I don't resent him for this incident. The issue with this horrendous video is not anti-troop sentiment. We support our troops. We are freaked about PTSD. We are horrified that we are destroying our boys' souls with a war that we shouldn't have started.

Our bottom line is that the video sickens us. And whether the puppy was dead or alive before it was thrown, or whether worked up YouTube junkies who hate their jobs are misspelling comments about wishing the soldier would rot in hell, none of it is nearly as important as that.

But we've got to hand it to Malkin for, as always, missing the point.

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