Prometheus 6

Quote of note:

Oh, and by the way, it's not remarkable that a person might write in a plane. It is, on the other hand, unusual that a person would post from inside a flying plane.

Michelle Malkin: Blogging While Flying?

Some have maintained for a while now that a person other than Michelle Malkin is writing and posting some of the material that gets posted with her byline on her blog. She has denied it.

To my eyes, the jury has always been out on that question.

But let's look closely at the last 36 hours at michellemalkin.com.

At 7:16 a.m., she posted that she was "back from vacation."

Sizeable posts followed at 8:00 a.m., 8:46 a.m., 9:31 a.m., 10:16 a.m., 10:52 a.m. (a short one), 11:25 a.m., 11:37 a.m., 12:37 p.m., 2:09 p.m. (subsequently updated), 4:06 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 8:01 p.m., 8:19 p.m., 10:36 p.m. (subsequently updated), 5:49 a.m., 6:05 a.m., 8:00 a.m., 8:25 a.m. (subsequently updated), and then 12:31 p.m..

In that last message, Malkin explains that she is in Minneapolis, where she'll be giving a speech at 12:00 noon. Controlling for the one-hour time difference between the East Coast and Minnesota, I infer that she posted this update a startling 29 minutes before her noontime speech.

One wonders: when did she drive (or get driven) to the airport, fly at least three hours (if non-stop) to Minnesota, and then drive (or get driven) to her Minneapolis destination? And is there a red-eye from the DC area to Minneapolis?

The jury may not be in, but they're knocking on the door.

UPDATE: Yes, Michelle. But don't they make you turn it off on the airplane? Where in the last 36 hours are the 3 or more hours of airplane travel? They couldn't have been between 8:25 a.m. and 12:31 p.m., because you updated the 8:25 post sometime after 8:25 and before 12:31. And you can't fly from Washington to Minneapolis between 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. Somebody'soccasionally posting for you, Michelle, and maybe even occasionally writing for you too. Why maintain the false "Insomniac-Techno-Superwoman" schtick? Why not just admit that you have a co-blogger, and share the credit?