In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

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Malkin a Roman Catholic attended Holy Spirit Roman Catholic High School where Michelle Malkin edited the school newspaper and aspired to become a concert pianist. The students asked Malkin to remove the contact details from her blog but Malkin reposted them several times writing in her blog: "I am leaving it up. In August 2004 following claims by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that presidential candidate John Kerry had lied about his record during the Vietnam War Malkin appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and stated that there were "legitimate questions" over whether one of Kerry's wounds was "self-inflicted.

Malkin has written four books publiMichelle Malkind by Regnery Publishing. Her weekly syndicated column appears in a number of newspapers and websites.