I'm sorry, but I find this, truly funny and massively hypocritical. I posted,"Anyone got Michelle's Phone Number," back when this whole thing started. I of course have seen her contact information in several places since, but would never publish it. Why? Because I think Michelle was a piece of garbage for publishing those kids numbers in the first place, and I am many things, but Garbage I am not.
Still it facinates me how the Right Wing can get all bent out of shape and hollier than thou, over something that got started by one of their own foaming at the mouth brigade. I run a company. I release press releases all the time, and our contact information is on our website. Does this give any Right Wing Hate Monger out there the right to publish my contact information on their site along with hateful, mob inciting rhetoric? I don't think so, and even people on the Right have de-linked Ms. Malkin and condemned her actions.

Goldstein comes off with his usual logic defying rhetoric:

Whether you care for Michelle Malkin's political positions or not, this crusade to try to intimidate her and her family, a crusade being waged by mostly anonymous cowards who no person in the blogosphere, left OR right, should encourage or countenance, is both disgraceful and, in the long run, dangerous. Not only that, but the pretext upon which it is based—the reprinting of a press release (which last I checked was INTENDED to be disseminated), is so laughable as to be insulting to anyone with even a spark of electricity traveling across their grey matter.

So. I am now calling for the very public condemnation and ostracization of those who would post satellite photos and personal home phone numbers of a their political opponents on the web. I am also calling for the public condemnation and ostracization of those hyperpartisan bloggers / media figures who condone or applaud such actions.

Okay, I'll bite. I condemn Michelle Malkin AND those on the Left who have chosen to use the politics of personal intimidation. I believe that lowering the debate to the point of questioning people'e patriotism and calling them "troop haters," is sickening and should not be part of a civil debate on the Iraq War. I also believe that calling people "cunts," and racial names is childish. People have the right to stand up against a war that they don't believe in, without fear that the "Weenies of War," will be unleashed upon them. That same Freedom of speech applies to Michelle Malkin, who is free to spew her hatred as she sees fit, but not to sick her pathetic band of xenophobic, racist neo-patriots on those on the other side who chose to excercise their rights.

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