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That's Michelle Malkin reacting to Keith Olbermann's bizarro-world claim that she is a "big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick" -- and this is the super-clever stuff that guarantees Olby's appeal to those enlightened, sophisticated people, you see.

Olbermann compared Malkin to Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps, for crying out loud! How else to explain it except as envy, the unpopular Olbermann spitefully abusing the popular Malkin? As I wrote Monday:

Without very much effort, I could grab a stack of business cards out of my desk drawer and give you the names of two dozen influential people in Washington as conservative as Michelle Malkin. But they're not TV-famous, you see, and so they're spared that kind of venom.
People who are TV-famous are attacked because, in the minds of the more idiotic viewers, they are not human beings, but rather symbols. . . .
Part of this, honestly, can only be understood as envy or sour grapes: "She's famous. I'm not. I hate her."

Envy is a phenomenon you encounter in all walks of life, at every level of society, but given that the entire economic agenda of the Left is based on envy, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised to find embittered twerps like Olbermann among the Left's most prominent spokesmen.

The sad thing about this particular episode is how it distorts who Malkin actually is. She isn't just another pundit. She is a businesswoman, an entrepreneur.

Go back to 2001, when Michelle Malkin was just one of a couple-dozen promising younger conservative commentators out there. She saw the opportunity of the blogosphere, invested her labor and resources into it, and has reaped the reward, combining the Internet, TV and print into something like a one-woman multimedia empire.

When ideological idiots like Olbermann look at Malkin, though, they don't see that Dagny Taggart factor. All they see is "successful Republican," and it's like doing a Rorshach inkblot test with Charles Manson. Which is exactly the way they react to . . . who?

Rush Limbaugh! Mark Steyn explains:

More to the point, when I began guest-hosting for Rush, I was amazed to discover that George Soros pays a team of stenographers, many of them called Zachary, to work their tippy-tappy fingers to the bone for three hours transcribing everything Rush or his fill-ins say in the hope that their efforts will one day be rewarded and he will deliver the big career-detonating soundbite. Among the afficionados of this service are, as I discovered recently, America's "newspaper of record," which faithfully follows the George Soros typing pool and dutifully plasters any potentially damaging bon mot on page one.

If Malkin is the Dagny Taggart of conservative New Media, then El Rushbo is John Galt. The man quite literally invented the medium of talk radio as we know it today. The use of "actualities" (sound bites), the rock "bumper" music, the personality monologue with listener call-ins (as opposed to the guest-interview format) -- none of that had ever been tried as a national radio format before Rush Limbaugh did it.

Now there are dozens of imitators who earn their livings paying tribute to the man who, after more than 20 years in national syndication, is still head-and-shoulders above the rest. Which is why the "George Soros typing pool" transcribes every word.

It ought to be the ambition of every young conservative in the communication business to emulate innovative media entrepreneurs like Malkin and Limbaugh, to become so successful as to compel liberal fat-cats to pay people just to keep track of your daily activities. And when the liberal stooges smear you, wear it as a badge of honor -- they hated Ronald Reagan the same way, you know.