Michelle Malkin

I thought Google Alerts had finally gone mainstream last week, when Alec Baldwin joked about Google Alerts on 30 Rock, but today was definitely a new high point as Rick Sanchez took on Michelle Malkin and then had to admit that he had misread a Google Alert. Here is the complete transcript. I’ve edited out the shouting from bystanders, except for one tweet from @HI4me, because both Sanchez and Malkin responded to it.

ricksanchezcnn: michelle malkin just called me an idiot because she didn’t like a tweet scrolling under me. isn’t that like a badge of honor for us?

michellemalkin: @ricksanchezcnn Well, you must be an idiot, because I didn’t say anything about you & I don’t watch your show.

michellemalkin: WTH is @ricksanchezcnn talking about: http://bit.ly/PKxGS CNN: Just making things up. #tcot

michellemalkin: Paging @ricksanchezcnn. Correct your error/fabrication/delusion: http://bit.ly/PKxGS #tcot

michellemalkin: RT @ucfgeek: What do you mean “badge of honor *for us*” @ricksanchezcnn? Aren’t u an objective member of centrist, mainstream media?

michellemalkin: RT @darkknight3565: Doesn’t Rick Sanchez have more twitter followers than viewers now?

ricksanchezcnn: ok, just checked. malkin was right. she did not say i was an idiot. somebody writing on her blog did. i was wrong. and i apologize.

michellemalkin: @ricksanchezcnn Apology accepted (next time, tho, pls address me directly @michellemalkin). No Badge of Honor for you.

ricksanchezcnn: c i keep keep getting nasty google alerts w her name on them.shows up as her writing.turns out it was captured from follower reax. that’s y!

ricksanchezcnn: @michellemalkin is that really you?

michellemalkin: @ricksanchezcnn yes it is.

HI4me: @ricksanchezcnn i wonder if the roles were reversed if you would have gotten an apology.

michellemalkin: @HI4me @ricksanchezcnn the roles wouldn’t have been reversed because i don’t depend on google alerts 4 fact-gathering.

ricksanchezcnn: @HI4me i would hope so. all you can do in life is do the right thing. you can’t hate hate. when you do, they own u.

michellemalkin: @ricksanchezcnn what do you mean “you can’t hate hate?” you’re the one who falsely accused me & blamed it on google alerts!

ricksanchezcnn: just checked malkin’s past blogs. wow! not exactly nice to me. she personally insults me. now it get where her followers got it.incredible.

ricksanchezcnn: just checked malkin’s past blogs. for the record, she does personally insult me. whatever it’s worth.

michellemalkin: @ricksanchezcnn Yep, I called you a moron 4 spreading lie about Bush Snub That Wasn’t. Jeanne Moos set u straight. http://bit.ly/pRMqZ