Posted on 03/16/2009 9:14:37 PM PDT by wardaddy
The weekend did nothing to quell the ongoing war between Meghan McCain and Laura Ingraham.
McCain, daughter of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, came out last week and responded to Ingrahams remarks that she was "plus-sized," remarks that were a direct result of McCains public criticism of the Republican Party.
Ingrahams comments also included some disrespectful dismissal: "Do you think that anyone would be talking to you if you werent kind of cute and you werent the daughter of John McCain?" She went on to mock McCain as a heavyset Valley girl.
McCain wasted no time biting back, and took more shots at Ingraham on todays episode of "The View," telling the girls, "When Tyra Banks went on her show in her bathing suit and said, Kiss my fat ass, thats what I feel right now. Im like, Kiss my fat ass!" Ms. McCain, who writes for The Daily Beast, also said that Ingrahams remarks hurt more than just her. Via Think Progress:
What do young women think when I speak my mind about politics and I want to have a political discussion about the ideological future of the Republican Party, and the answer is, Shes fat, she shouldnt have an opinion. What kind of message are we sending young women? It infuriates me. Im a political writer on a blog, and all of a sudden Im too fat to write?
Ingraham responded immediately, and said on her radio show:
The bottom line is its rough and tumble out there. You wanna put yourself out there as someone whos going to redirect the future of the Republican Party, and youre going to have to deal with satire. Youre gonna have to deal with people teasing You gotta just take a chill pill Can I say lighten up or is that offensive too?
No, its not offensive, but remarks on McCains weight certainly are.
Watch McCains appearance on "The View":
I fear a dim future for the conservative gene pool
Voters.
From her wikipedia page, she is a full fledged liberal — a FAT liberal might I say.
I love Laura, but her comment about Meghan’s weight was tasteless and out of bounds.
And dumb. Meghan is hardly fat.
so she’s not an anorexic fashion model. She’s pretty and she’s...
rich, powerful. Listen, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be... Well, more wealth than you can imagine!
It's only offensive because Meghan is going around knocking Conservatives.
If Meghan were actually Conservative and knocking Liberals, the Liberals would be the ones making weight jokes (as they do with Rush) and finding no offense at all.
She really wants to be a Rino.
Word to that.
I'm newly single, too, and I think that Meghan McCain is a doll.
I couldn't care less about her politics.
LOL. I just watched Star Wars.
the gene pool, darnit....oh well, I’ve always been in favor of nurture over nature anyway...
She went looking for a fight when she criticized Ann Coulter. She was in the media spotlight for two years during the campaign. She knew exactly what would happen when she took on Coulter. She wanted the attention and she got it. Talk Radio is supposed to be nice to her because she's a cute blonde? Coulter didn't respond because it would be like the teacher slapping down a kindergartner.
I thought this thread was to view Meghan McCain’s knockers.
I’m gonna go now.
If she wasn’t McCain’s kid she would be just another fat chick at Lane Bryant.
I just Twittered her and asked this same thing. Miss McCain's remarks on The View were juvenile and uncouth. She needs to go on Laura's show and expound on her political/cultural beliefs and why she resents conservatives.
...”Ingrahams comments also included some disrespectful dismissal: “Do you think that anyone would be talking to you if you werent kind of cute and you werent the daughter of John McCain?”
Sure, people would be talking to her if her dad wasn’t famous—
They’d be saying “Excuse me, Miss-I asked for onion rings, not curly fries”...
No wonder you are newly single. She looks like her old man in every way. Even built like him.
Actually, that was part of what Ingraham said in response.
Laura should ask her to be a guest on her show.
“While you’re at it, “Porky”, maybe you could put a little more “bottle blonde” on those roots?”
LOL!!
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