Malkin on Today: Michelle Obama's “entire professional career was based on nepotism” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 07/29/09 10:12 AM EDT Malkin further claimed that Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) vote in favor of Sonia Sotomayor is an example of him “pandering to diversity.” From the July 29 edition of NBC's Today: Video file Previously: On Wash. Times' “America's Morning News,” Malkin declares Michelle Obama “First Crony”