The Pink Flamingo :: BIG NEWS: Malkin Quits O'Reilly

"From: “Michelle Malkin”
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:04:58 -0400
Subject: Re: Michelle no longer on the Factor?
I made the decision to quit appearing on the O’Reilly show in response to the poor handling of the Geraldo Rivera matter (the staged “apology” on The Factor was a complete farce). I won’t go into details, but please know that your support means a lot to me. You can catch me on other Fox News shows and read my daily blog posts and weekly columns at MichelleMalkin.com.

Best,
Michelle"

It is even more fun. Gossip from the HuffPost says evidently MM went too far when dealing with the Frost family.

"...A little birdie at NewsCorp tells me that this e-mail is a "beard" for the actual reason: more than a couple of the mucky-mucks at NewsCorp are a bit less than thrilled about the tales of Michelle [Malkin] Maglalang not only propagating the harassment of the Frost family but actually stalking them -- and how quickly they spread from the dirty f$#@ing hippie side of the Intertubes to corpo... pardon, me, mainstream media.

Look for Ms. Maglalang's total presence on FOX News to be further curtailed -- that is, if you go for watching outright corporatist-Bushevik propaganda or work for Media Matters...."

A QUICK MINI RANT
I think there's a lot more to this, and she was allowed to quit gracefully. I've been writing for quite awhile that I was wondering when O'Reilly was going to realize Malkin had some very nasty associates and she was maintaining them. (The link above) has the information I've been reporting about her. Oricus has taken the lead in following her exploits.

Memeorandum
Newshoggers
Oricus on the Frost exploits.

THERE'S MORE TO THE STORY
I think the whole thing started when Geraldo called Malkin down for her constant over the top attacks on Lindsey Graham. This is the site Geraldo referenced. Funny thing, but I can't find this on Malkin's site now.
June attack

I think there might also be a problem with her continued involvement with Vdare, a known racist publication.

New York Magazine has more on the subject:

"...We guess Michelle Malkin won't be coming to town to guest-host for Bill O'Reilly anymore. She just quit forever, after a three-way conservative-pundit street fight that has left our minds reeling a little bit. For those weren't paying attention (we weren't, until now), what happened was this: Crazy attention whore Geraldo Rivera told the Boston Globe that crazy attention whore Malkin was "the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met … It’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in N.Y. I’d spit on her if I saw her.” Later, when O'Reilly asked him if he wanted to say something about it on the show because, he said, Malkin's "feelings were hurt." (Saying this he came across, weirdly, as almost grandfatherly and sane.) Rivera did apologized for his "ungentlemanly" and "ungallant" words — "I never spit!" he said — but couldn't help qualifying that he disagreed with everything Malkin said and basically indicating that he thought she was an asshole.

Then Ann Coulter chimed in and said Geraldo was an asshole, and furthermore that his overgrown mustache was full of tortilla chips and Michael Jackson's love juice. (No, she didn't, but if she had chimed in that's what we imagine she might have said.) Then Malkin referred to his mea culpa on her Website as "a whiny, effeminate, blame-the-victim bleat," and soon after decided that she wasn't going to be a victim of mean-spirited insults, and if anyone really loved her they could go over to her blog where she would be hurling them at others...."