Why no Michelle Malkin on the list?

Michelle Malkin There are so many top list in the cropping up Philippine blogosphere nowadays and it’s a good thing because it allows us to discover the yet un-discovered. It also gives us a different perspective, depending on who’s creating the list and what that list represents.

However, if you regularly visited all these lists, you will see almost the same trend — the same names keep making it on the top, except for several bloggers who wanted to keep their identity a secret (nobody even knows what’s Bryanboy’s real name or if he’s really just 17).

There’s also one other very distinct similarity — not one of these top lists includes Filipina blogger and columnist Michelle Malkin. I just read her on Business Week just now being listed as one of the 14 top earners in the blogosphere.

So, I went over and checked her Wikipedia entry:

Michelle Malkin (nÃ©e Maglalang) (born October 20, 1970) is an American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. She is a social and political conservative who makes frequent guest appearances on national syndicated radio programs and on television networks such as MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and C-SPAN. As well as her written blog, she posts regular video blogs. Her syndicated column “appears in nearly 200 newspapers nationwide.”

Malkin was born in Philadelphia to Filipino parents, Dr. Apolo and Rafaela Maglalang. Her maternal grandfather fought under General Douglas MacArthur.[2] She grew up in Absecon, New Jersey, and graduated from Oberlin College. In 1993, she married Jesse Malkin, a Rhodes Scholar and RAND Corporation economist. They have two children.

Clearly, she’s ~~Filipina~~ of Filipino descent. She also blogs about the Philippines and links to other Filipino bloggers. She’s also in Technorati’s Popular 100 list, number 11 to be exact, so I’m pretty sure a lot of people know her.

But why isn’t she on our list?

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

64 Comments

Jazzy says:

18 years ago

no.11?!!! Wow! Overtaking Seth Godin and Guy Kawasaki’s blog.

She must be good and will become one of my favorite bloggers but second only to Yuga. :)
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AhmedF says:

18 years ago

She wants nothing to do with the Philippines. This is the same woman who cats as Bill O’Reilly’s stand-in.

The only time she mentions the Philippines is when they are being ‘moonbats’ and ‘weak’ in the face of ‘Islamofascists’ (sorry but anyone who uses that word has no clue what fascism is).
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AhmedF says:

18 years ago

To add: http://michellemalkin.com/about/ –

“Iâ€™m a Philly-born, South Jersey-raised alumna of Holy Spirit HS and Oberlin College.”
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Rickey says:

18 years ago

“But why isnâ€™t she on our list?”

Because she’s a bitch.

She’s a wannabee Republican attack dog. She’s embarrassed herself so many times on TV no one invites her to guest anymore. She accused John Kerry of shooting himself during the Vietnam War without evidence — and she’s supposed to be a “journalist”.

But do put her on your list since it will obviously piss her off that she is being associated as a Filipino.
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Ederic says:

18 years ago

Sa tingin ko, hindi Pilipino ‘yang si Michelle Malkin. May lahing Pinoy, pero hindi Pilipino. Yung mga magulang niya siguro, oo, pero siya, hindi.

Namumuhay na siya bilang Amerikano. Hindi naman yata siya nakibili ng produktong dual citizenship.

At isa pa. bakit natin ituturing na isa sa atin ang isang taong ikinahihiya ang ating bansa?

Sabi niya sa isang artikulo sa Jewish World Review, “I never thought I’d say this, but I’m deeply, mortifyingly ashamed of my parents’ native land.” (

Ang tawag niya sa Pilipinas ay “my parentsâ€™ native land”.

Pero tanungin n’yo rin si Malkin. Kung itinuturing pa rin niyang Pilipino ang kanyang sarili, sino ako para tumutol?
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sparks says:

18 years ago

Why isn’t she on the list?!?!?

Because, in her column entitled “The Mollycoddling Milksops of Manila” (after the Philippine pull-out from Iraq when Angelo de la Cruz was held hostage), she said:

” I never thought I’d say this, but I’m deeply, mortifyingly ashamed of my parents’ native land. “
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Joni says:

18 years ago

Why isn’t she on our list? Sa tingin ko it’s because she’s not mingling with Filipino bloggers online. That’s where one should start diba? I know if I hadn’t interacted with some Filipino bloggers I wouldn’t have been able to get to know the other Filipino bloggers.

Plus – yeah, I think the preceding comments to this point make sense. :D
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Hari Skwatir says:

18 years ago

Hey, having filipino/filipina parents doesn’t necessarily mean that you are one. that’s a given.
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Hari Skwatir says:

18 years ago

“Clearly, sheâ€™s Filipina.”

On what basis??
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Abe Olandres says:

18 years ago

@ Hari Skwatir

Scratch that. Should have been “of Filipino descent”.

Politics aside, I’d put her in the same category as Caterina Fake of Flickr (half-Filipina), apl.de.ap of Black Eyed Peas, Nicole Scherzinger of Pussycat Dolls (Filipino/Hawaiian/Russian), actor Rob Schneider (1/4 Filipino) or even designer-blogger Bryan Veloso.

There are several other bloggers in the list who we aren’t sure are Filipino citizens (due to naturalization, maybe) but are included.

In any case, those reasons in the comments didn’t cause her to drop off the Technorati Popular 100 — why would other lists exclude her blog? Unless of course she was gaming the system like John Chow.

Just curious if the real reason was because despite her popularity in the US, she’s not as popular in the Philippine blogosphere. Was the omission of her blog intentional or just an oversight.
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