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The Politics of Size [Meghan McCain] [barf] [attacks Ingraham] [liberals clapping, cheering]
The Daily Beast ^ | 2009-03-14 | Meghan McCain

Posted on 03/15/2009 9:46:50 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

Meghan McCain responds to Laura Ingraham’s attack on her weight: Why is this topic still a socially accepted prejudice—and why in the world would a woman raise it?

BY MEGHAN MCCAIN

Recently my not-size-0 body has come under fire again by the conservative pundit Laura Ingraham. On her radio show recently, she sarcastically commented that I was “too plus-sized to be a cast member on the television show The Real World” and needled me about my weight with a comment about Barbie's 50th anniversary. Instead of intellectually debating our ideological differences about the future of the Republican Party, Ingraham resorted to making fun of my age and weight, in the fashion of the mean girls in high school. I responded on Twitter by saying, “To all the curvy girls out there, don’t let anyone make you feel bad about your body. I love my curves and you should love yours too.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Arizona
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The spawn of McQueeg strikes again.

1 posted on 03/15/2009 9:46:51 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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2 posted on 03/15/2009 9:48:12 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: 50mm; All

Credit to 50mm for the picture.


3 posted on 03/15/2009 9:48:26 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385

She’s a size 8 on Mars.


4 posted on 03/15/2009 9:53:48 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: rabscuttle385

It isn’t possible to have an “intellectual” debate between Meghan McCain and Laura Ingraham. It requires intellect from both parties. If Meghan wants to play with the big boys and girls she’s going to have to grow a brain first...


5 posted on 03/15/2009 9:54:27 PM PDT by DB
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To: rabscuttle385

It’s not her plus sized body that’s a problem, it’s her plus sized mouth.
She needs to realize that as much as she thinks the world revolves around her, it does not. She shot the opening salvo at Ann Coulter and now others like Laura are chiming in. What did she think was going to come of it?
Meghan needs to also face up to the fact that as political dynasties go, her Father pretty much ended any hope of a McCain family political dynasty by his failure to support true conservative Republican ideals.


6 posted on 03/15/2009 9:54:54 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Completely NOT guilty.


7 posted on 03/15/2009 9:55:59 PM PDT by Gigantor (Socialists always claim to be doing something for you while they're actually doing something to you.)
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To: antceecee
Meghan needs to also face up to the fact that as political dynasties go, her Father pretty much ended any hope of a McCain family political dynasty by his failure to support true conservative Republican ideals.

But you gotta admit, he did do a wonderful job at creating a dynasty of clowns, because that's all his family is, without openly labeling them as quislings and traitors.

8 posted on 03/15/2009 9:56:52 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385

“To all the curvy girls out there, don’t let anyone make you feel bad about your body. I love my curves and you should love yours too.”

Meghan, there is difference between being heavy and curvy. Look into and then tells what you are.


9 posted on 03/15/2009 9:57:40 PM PDT by AmericanSphinx71 (Pray for America)
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To: rabscuttle385

She’s never had a thought as deep as her footprints.


10 posted on 03/15/2009 10:01:10 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead
She’s never had a thought as deep as her footprints.

Are you talking about her physical footprints or her plus-sized carbon footprints? LOL.

11 posted on 03/15/2009 10:05:39 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385

The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.....


12 posted on 03/15/2009 10:07:52 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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This comment is politics-free: I think Meghan, Laura, and Ann are all very attractive women with very different styles. Sometimes Ann looks a little too thin, and I worry that she might have a thyroid disorder -- but that's an expression of genuine concern about her health and not a dig.
13 posted on 03/15/2009 10:08:05 PM PDT by kittykat77
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Recently my not-size-0 body has come under fire again by the conservative pundit Laura Ingraham.

The only part of her body that's not plus-sized appears to be her brain, an organ that may in fact be smaller than the average.

14 posted on 03/15/2009 10:08:16 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385

” Instead of intellectually debating our ideological differences about the future of the Republican Party, Ingraham resorted to making fun of my age and weight...”

I suspect if Miss PlusSize wants to take on Laura in an ideological debate, Ingraham will be only too happy to, shall we say, cut her down to size?


15 posted on 03/15/2009 10:08:21 PM PDT by Stosh
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I believe there are a lot of CC Republicans like Meghan McCain that get jobs from mommy and daddy at the RNC etc.

Now Meghan wouldn’t work hard enough to work at the RNC, but I’m sure there are those with perspectives just like Meghan that do work at the RNC.


16 posted on 03/15/2009 10:08:24 PM PDT by rbmillerjr ("We Are All Socialists Now"........not me, not now, not ever)
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To: rabscuttle385

It’s not like Meghan is contributing anything else to the debate. Commenting on her criticisms gets boring, so talk shifts to her plumpness. Maybe Meghan could tell us her political philosophy, the things she thinks would make the Republican Party better. We know she doesn’t like Rush, and she doesn’t like Laura. Let her get out there with some of her own thoughts on politics, so we can articulate why we don’t like her. She’s a big girl. If she takes a beating over silly ideas, she is plenty big enough to handle it.


17 posted on 03/15/2009 10:10:53 PM PDT by pallis
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She’s as relevant as her old man .............


18 posted on 03/15/2009 10:12:17 PM PDT by jmax
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To: pallis

Pallis,

She voted for John Kerry in the 2004 election - I think that gives us a pretty good indication of her inclinations as a “Republican spokeswoman”.


19 posted on 03/15/2009 10:15:39 PM PDT by Stosh
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Isn’t there a Proverb about how even a fool is thought wise when she keeps her mouth shut?

These childish attacks—ghostwritten for her, I’d bet—on Coulter and Ingraham are rather like the spitwads Zell Miller spoke of.

Get a life, Meghan. Preferably not in public disservice.


20 posted on 03/15/2009 10:16:04 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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