There’s nothing wrong with the way Meghan McCain looks, and it’s too bad that Laura Ingraham felt the need to “go there.” James:
’ll be delicate here seeing as how I’m married and McCain was born a few months after I graduated high school — Meghan McCain is, um, not fat and, er, not particularly bad to look at.
The only thing more upsetting than watching right-wingers attack each other right now is watching women attack each other in sexist ways.
Ingraham:
The left’s indignation in this instance is manufactured and totally phony. If any off-the-cuff remark about a woman’s size was condemnable, then where was the outrage when President Obama made a passing reference to Jessica Simpson’s “weight battle” during his Super Bowl interview with Matt Lauer? And of course they look the other way when obvious personal attacks are levied against conservatives. Remember when Al Franken was the toast of all media for his book “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot”? Last month The View’s Joy Behar called him a “fat guy”; and when I was a guest on The View a few years back she ridiculed Ann Coulter and me as “peroxide” blondes on Fox. I laughed it off. If you can’t stand the heat…get out of the punditry business.
Well, Laura: the fact that liberal Democrats reduce women to their looks (and sometimes their genitals) doesn’t justify it. And the fact that lefties slam Rush Limbaugh for his weight or his pill addiction doesn’t justify it, either.
Are insults based on appearance supposed to be a part of those “core conservative principles” you’re afraid Meghan is getting us away from? Just want to know.
I know that Juliette is a fan of yours, so I sort of assume your remark was a moment of rhetorical excess you’re now claiming is “par for the course” in the world of talkin’ for a livin’.
But I do not see a lot to be gained from showing that we can out-asshole the other side in slimy debate tactics.
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INGRAHAM (mocking McCain): Ok, I was really hoping that I was going to get that role in the Real World, but then I realized that, well, they don’t like plus-sized models. They only like the women who look a certain way. And on this 50th anniversary of Barbie, I really have something to say.
Oh, let me apologize for Laura. “Sorry.” “I did say you were kind of cute, though, in the same appearance.”
INGRAHAM (mocking): Ok, Meghan. Do you think that anyone would be talking to you if you weren’t kind of cute and you weren’t the daughter of John McCain? Or do you just think that they would just think that you were just another Valley Girl gone awry?
Now as the voice of “The New Republican Party,” Meghan, can you find people to criticize other than Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham? Perhaps someone in the opposing party? Telling Laura to “Kiss your fat ass” is certainly a good first step towards “civilized discourse” though. I know how much you dislike a nasty demeanor “More so than my ideological differences with Ann Coulter, I don’t like her demeanor. I have never been a person who was attracted to hate or negativity. … Everything about her is extreme: her voice, her interview tactics, and especially the public statements she makes about liberals. Maybe her popularity stems from the fact that watching her is sometimes like watching a train wreck.”
I’ll concede that McCain started it, and that she isn’t helping matters either. I think the whole circus is another made-up distraction–like the Limbaugh “controversy”–that we can’t afford right now.
I guess I’d just ignore Meghan. At least, unlike the President, she’s picking her fights upward.
Maybe Meghan will learn what her father never did: That the leftists in the Media are not her friend and never will be. She and her father will only be tolerated and accepted as long as they promote the left’s agenda to acquire power and keep it.
Or besmudge the Republican brand. If Meghan wants to see a nasty demeanor, all she has to do is go through all those Huffpo and Kos comments from the time Laura announced that she had cancer. I will never see how anyone would like to make friends with people that wished Laura dead in a million worst-case scenarios and the people that would leave comments like that lying around for anyone to see–or wouldn’t permanently ban offenders immediately.
Her father said after the election that he likes to think that many in the Media did vote for him once they reached the privacy of a voting booth. I know they didn’t. Why put someone in power that only agrees with half of what you do? Begs the question of why we put up a person that agrees with half the leftist agenda to begin with, but history doesn’t take account of trifles either. Voters need a clear difference and maybe some day we will give them one. Anyone up for a Constitutional Amendment making Capitalism the official economic system of the US for perpetuity? Of course not. That would be extreme and polarizing. And would require at least one hair on our collective asses.
I’ll concede that McCain started it
Then maybe she isn’t all that, cute and curvy as she is. Truth is, if she’s not named McCain, the media would consider her a nobody.
But she is named McCain, and like her father, she’ll get good media coverage if she says bad things about Republicans in general, and conservatives in particular.
As for Ms. McCain, good looks don’t trump being an airheaded Post Adolescent.
They forgot Reagan’s 11th commandment.