Comments on: Meghan McCain

By: Val

Val — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:17:13 +0000

Well, let me be the first to post after Ms. McCain’s posted pic on twitter showing off her “girls”. I thought that she wanted to be judged by the way she thinks and not by the way she looks! Stupid girl. Hypocite! She has a long way to go before she becomes a real woman, fat, skinny or otherwise. Intelligent women don’t need to stoop to trying to be a sex object in order to receive attention. She needs to go do what other rich girls do who don’t have a real job. She needs to hook up with Paris for advice on that. No doubt she will be in Playboy very soon. How ’bout a sex tape?? Daddy must be bursting with pride!

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:29:01 +0000

Punchy stated: “O’Reilly gave Laura the whole show!”

Laura Ingraham has been the fill-in person for a while now when O’Reilly is gone (and she’s a regular pundit on the show)… way before the non-story regarding Meghan McCain happened. So, sorry, no “dirty pool” on the part of O’Reilly.

And really, Meghan just sounds deperate for some attention. Sure she’s entitled to her opinion, but that doesn’t mean she has anything thoughtful to bring to the table (IMHO of course).

By: PoliticAl

PoliticAl — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:26:07 +0000

Ingraham was lashing out because there was a Republican with the last name McCain who actually had some thoughtful opinions that aren’t in lock-step with the water-carriers like Ingraham, Coulter, Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly & Beck.

She was probably upset, too, that Meghan McCain has a proportional head-to-body ratio, whereas Laura’s enormous “melon” looks like it’s going to snap off the under-nourished frame it’s perched upon:
http://lonestartimes.com/images/2007/10/laughinglaura.JPG

By: Punchy

Punchy — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:26:03 +0000

At the risk of getting ridden out of here on a rail, I watch Bill O’Reilly, and I like it. But he did something sh*tty yesterday and it was disappointing. He has been inviting Meghan on his show for a while and she said she would like to appear on the show but then this thing with Ingraham happened and yesterday O’Reilly gave Laura the whole show! So i guess now when Meghan doesn’t want to go on the show they can act all smug like Meghan lied about wanting to appear on the show. Dirty pool, O’Reilly.

By: Addish

Addish — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:50:44 +0000

Laura sounds like an ass. I read this on the f word and also saw the glamour magazine thing on her. Meghan is gorgeous…and she sounds pretty cool too.

By: Punchy

Punchy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:48:07 +0000

Is she fat? Wow.. I just saw her on tv yesterday and I just thought she was gorgeous, I didn’t even notice. Her mom’s a fox too! Rawr! :)

By: Godless Heathen

Godless Heathen — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:40:47 +0000

devil, it’s not really that women are other women’s worst enemies so much as it is for some women the game is rigged such that the only way to advancement is to put down or oppress other women.

Laura Ingraham is trying to appeal to other conservatives (I imagine) and the only way she can get attention from the boy’s club is to distance herself from other women. Laura gets rewarded with the thin veneer of inclusion for her behavior without really understanding that the behavior hurts all women herself included.

This is also the explanation for Ann Coulter and Phyllis Schlafly and a bunch of other conservative women who seem to publicly hate their own gender.

By: devil

devil — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:14:53 +0000

Laura Ingraham is the LAST person who should be criticizing anyone else’s appearance or manner of speaking. I’ll stop there, or I’m as bad as she is.

McCain did well enough just to make the point that she should be judged by what she says, not what she looks like. This is 2009 and it’s ridiculous that women STILL have to make this point. What’s really sad is that women are often women’s worst enemies.

By: Twistie

Twistie — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:27:19 +0000

Eliza, I, too, have been living under that rock for a long time, but having heard audio of Ingraham’s comments, I can assure you they boiled down to ‘Meghan is fat and talks like a Valley Girl, so she doesn’t get to have an opinion.’ It was all about attacking the messenger rather than the message.

Were McCain’s response points everything we in the FA movement would have liked them to be? No. She pulled the ‘last acceptable prejudice’ trope which…really, it just isn’t so. OTOH, she didn’t go to ‘but I’m not fat’ first, and it was not the sum total of her response.

In fact, she continued to raise her original point about political extremism, noted that the question itself was never dealt with in Ingraham’s rebuttal, and stated flat out that her argument had nothing whatsoever to do with her waistline…and wouldn’t have anything to do with that no matter what she did or didn’t weigh.

She then went on to note that body shaming in lieu of intellectual debate has been pulled on women in both major parties and she’s sick of that.

All in all, I was pretty impressed with McCain’s statement.

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:18:26 +0000

I think the strongest part of her message, the bit quoted by CNN, will make an impression. I find it encouraging that a 24 year-old woman has the balls to stand up to people that other folks in her party are too afraid of.