Malkin tried to bust Arianna, only to be made to look like a fool

[CatWoman]

Here's Malkin's version:



Reader Doug, who posts at FreeRepublic.com, sent this photo, which he took while covering the Sierra Club's national summit in San Francisco last weekend. The handsome, full-size sport utility vehicle pictured above is a Chevy Suburban. It was sent by the anti-SUV environmental puritans of the Sierra Club to pick up fellow, eco-zealot Arianna Huffington, who gave rousing, Bush-bashing, closing remarks at the eco-summit.

Yes, Arianna "Why I Drive a Toyota Prius" Huffington. Yes, Arianna "SUV drivers enable terrorism" Huffington.

I interviewed Sierra Club national spokesman Eric Antebi by phone yesterday, who confirmed that the group sent the SUV. He blamed an "outside contractor," which he declined to name, for the rather dissonant choice of vehicle.

"It is ridiculous," Antebi admitted. "It's something we regret and we've learned our lesson."

Curious, I asked Antebi whether any of the staff at the Sierra Club headquarters owned and drove SUVs. He stumbled and said the group didn't keep track of who drove what. It's "a personal decision," he explained. "People drive different cars for different reasons."

Well, um, exactly. Now, wouldn't it be nice if these anti-SUV green busybodies took the same attitude towards the rest of us and left our car choices alone?!

and here's the truth:

Driving Ms. Malkin

Kevin Drum find some more lunacy coming from the Malkin camp: "One gets used to idiocy from Michelle Malkin, but this really has to take the cake: a gleefully posted photograph of....Arianna Huffington tooling around San Francisco in an SUV! Not an SUV she owns, mind you, and not even an SUV she rented. An SUV that someone else sent to pick her up at the airport."...read on"

Fear not, because Michelle has a slew of right wing bloggers on the case who have nothing better to do over the weekend.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/18.html#a5006

[Soup Bean]

1. Still, it looks bad, IMO.

If I was known for making a big (deserved) deal out of why people shouldn't drive SUVs, I wouldn't be caught dead in one. She loses the moral high ground by saying one thing, and doing another, however briefly.

She should have asked for alternate transporation when the SUV came for her. The Sierra Club shouldn't have sent it, and I bet they won't in the future.

Lesson learned. Move on. :)

[dansolo]

5. Do you realize what you just said?

Making a vehicle make an extra trip would be even worse than riding in the SUV. Sending it back would have been hypocritical, because the basis of her objections have to do with the wasting of gas. By not using the proffered vehicle, she would have compounded the situation, merely for appearences.

[Soup Bean]

8. Yep. That's reasonable, but that wouldn't have gotten reported.

It seems that it's all in the marketing. Forget common sense. I don't think it's all that big a deal, but if I was on the other side, I could make some major hay out of all this.

Images are pretty powerful, and if we want to win, we'll have to put on a few airs and make a statement or two, for the people. I think the Sierra Club did the right thing by apologizing.

[Erika]

2. Malkin is another Hannity or Rush

Big mouth witn little sense.

[madrchsod]

3. duh.......when company is sent to the

airport to pick up someone they use a large vehicles cause the person or persons may have luggage! wow... now that`s pretty dam obvious. so she was to request another vehicle? ya right

[Individualist]

4. Look like a fool?

The demented chipmunk IS a fool.

[SoCalDem]

double posted..oops

:(

[SoCalDem]

6. Can't even tell WHO's in the thing..

They are really stretching, aren't they:)

[CatWoman]

7. you'll note a Freeper sent her the picture