“It’s good to be home,” Michelle Malkin told a mostly full house at the Aurora Fox Arts Center Tuesday night.

“This is really the capstone to…show you what I think is the best work I’ve done.”

They came to get a look at the famous conservative from Colorado’s new digital TV show, “Michelle Malkin Investigates,” an aesthetically beautiful piece of documentary-style journalism from a well-known biased source.

“Michelle Malkin Investigates” is available for an online subscription to Conservative Review TV, which debuted this month.

All 13 episodes are from stories she reported in her books and work as a newspaper columnist, a career in print and broadcast that goes back 20 years. Among the topics Malkin tackles are education and immigration, two of her favorite targets. A preview available on the show’s website indicates she will take a biting view of the Black Lives Matter movement.

“Just what are our kids being taught?” a voice-over says as images of violence, protest and disrespect race across the screen.

Malkin started her career as a newspaper columnist in Los Angeles, then moved to Seattle. She has been syndicated columnist since 1999, and her TV career has been ubiquitous, even after she declined to renew her contract with Fox News and moved to Colorado to, quite literally, spend more time with her family eight years ago.

I’ll write more about Malkin’s time in Colorado and the evolution of her career and political passions in a piece we’ll post Sunday and print in the Colorado Springs Gazette. What you think you know about the conservative personality who seems to be everywhere in the political forum-thousands of newspaper columns, social media, two blogs with huge followings and TV-probably isn’t the whole story.

Backstage at the Aurora Fox Tuesday night, Malkin never said it straight out, but she thinks of herself first as a journalist, then a pundit. She values the gravitas of ink over her facetime of TV.

“Who’s allowed to do journalism,” she said. “Can an opinion columnist? Sure, why not.”

Is she biased about her subjects? Oh, yeah, you bet.

“That’s the joy and freedom and liberation of what we’re doing,” she said. “Unlike say ’60 Minutes’ or ‘Dateline’ … I don’t have to pretend I’m not biased. I’m putting it all on the table. It’s so much worse when you’re dealing with people who have the pretense of neutrality. It’s theater. They’re applying political narratives and not copping to it.”

Malkin said she could write an encyclopedia of fake news and rigged narratives she’s seen. “Clearly these people are as biased as anybody out there,” she said.

She said many journalists “view all corporations as bad and all government intervention as good, so they’re missing a lot of stories. I’ve been open about what side of the political aisle I’m on, but I think we’re hopeful that people will be able to judge the quality of our journalism.”

Malkin vowed to be as transparent as possible about her sources, posting documents on her CRTV web page, so people can see the whole context, not just the excerpts that other journalists might bend.

And she promised depth.

“I think with some, particularly with most cable news programming, the balance has shifted too far in the extreme of the entertainment versus entertainment,” Malkin said.

She told the audience on stage a little later that journalism is a privilege.

“I certainly think one of the problems with so many practitioners of so-called real journalism …is they take for granted the privilege they have every single day to make a living exercising the First Amendment,” she said. “I always say what a blessing it is that only in America could this little brown girl run her mouth and pen and get paid for it.”