CNSNews.com is continuing to publish and defend right-wing columnist Michelle Malkin even as she moves further to the far-right fringe and embraces white nationalism and conspiracy theories.
A June 4 article by commentary editor Rob Shimshock complained that “Twitter locked the account of Michelle Malkin on Wednesday, after the conservative author and columnist suggested the use of force on violent criminals,” declaring Malkin’s tweet that violent criminals should be shot” to be “not dissimilar from sentiments expressed by some in law enforcement” — as if that excused her violent intent. Shimshock went on to write:
“Every day, Twitter allows Antifa to doxx and harass journalists and Trump supporters,” Malkin told National File. “Every day, Twitter allows BLM agitators to incite escalating violence against cops.”
“Twitter makes no moral distinction between armed self-defense against violent criminals and proactive terrorist threats against law enforcement officers doing their jobs,” she posted on Telegram.
Shimshock didn’t tell readers that National File is a far-right website that promotes conspiracy theories and white nationalist events, or that Telegram is a social-media site dominated by white supremacists.
Meanwhile, Shimshock has let stand without comment Malkin’s descent into conspiracy theories and white nationalism. In November, Malkin touted white nationalist Nick Fuentes, complaining that she “was accused of promoting ‘Holocaust denialism’ and ‘white nationalism’ based on brief clips of Fuentes accumulated by anonymous sources culled from 500 of his hours-long shows.” CNS didn’t think it was news that this and an earlier assertion that she would stand by white nationalists like Fuentes got her removed from the speakers bureau of the decidedly conservative Young America’s Foundation.
In a March column published by CNS without further comment, Malkin ranted that “amnesty” of some undocumented immigrants already in the U.S., “on top of uncontrolled mass migration of legal immigrants, aren’t just turning California and Virginia and Texas blue. They are turning all of America blue. Every American should be seeing red about it and raising their voice against the coming, unforgivable betrayal of the MAGA doctrine. This isn’t making American great again. It’s making America disappear.”
And in a May 13 screed published by CNS, Malkin promoted Judy Mikovits, a conspiracy theorist whose film “Plandemic” and conspiratorially accused infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci of being a liar. That was also published without further comment from Shimshock or anyone else at CNS.
CNS does itself no favors to being the mainstream conservative outlet it likes to think of itself as — and, in fact, accentuates its creeping WND-ization — by continuing to publish Malkin.