Michelle Malkin bravely accepts her ‘lonely existence.’

“You have to accept that you’ll never have many friends,” Malkin says. “It’s a lonely existence.”

Go to original by Washington Post Staff Writer Howard Kurtz

After she started crusading against the “Girls Gone Wild” culture as a “liberal assault on decency,” the satirical site Wonkette received — and posted — a picture of Malkin’s head on the scantily-clad body of a college student, whose image had been plucked from the Web. Malkin denounced what she called the “hate-filled cowards” at Wonkette’s parent company for “repeatedly smearing and attempting to humiliate me.”

After being contacted by Malkin’s lawyer, Wonkette ran a snarkily worded semi-retraction. The site’s West Coast bureau chief, Ken Layne, says he doesn’t know or care whether the picture is real and calls Malkin “incapable of getting a joke.”

“People send us dumb stuff all the time, and if it makes us laugh, we post it,” he adds. “Malkin responds in such a predictably psychotic way whenever we mention her.”

What some might have dismissed as a prank became another salvo in the culture wars. It is as though eternal vigilance is the price of being Michelle Malkin: No slight can go unanswered, no insult allowed to stand. Blogging is an addiction, she says, but not one she is looking to kick.

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