Meghan McCain and Laura Ingraham are in a war of words. Let the Fun Begin

Am I wrong to enjoy this, that much :)

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

March 17, 2009
Ingraham to Meghan McCain: You’re a ‘useful idiot’
Posted: 10:04 AM ET

Meghan McCain and Laura Ingraham are in a war of words.

(CNN) -- Laura Ingraham is calling Meghan McCain a "useful idiot" and a "flavor of the month" — the latest salvo in the war of words between the conservative radio host and the daughter of former Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

"Memo to Meghan McCain: Enjoy the media coverage while it lasts, but know you're being used," writes Ingraham, in a blog post titled "'USEFUL IDIOT' WATCH." "You are the flavor of the month in left-wing media land because you are a Republican bashing the GOP. Likewise, your dad is most popular among the same people when he is slamming his Republican brethren in full-blown 'maverick' fashion. At least he backs up his views with a lifetime of sacrifice and public service.

Ingraham says liberals are taking a single satirical comment out of context "to paint Meghan as the victim of a right-wing hate crime" and "malign outspoken conservatives."

The radio host mocked McCain on her show last week over comments urging Republicans to seek compromise with Democrats. She referred to McCain “a Valley Girl gone awry” and a “plus-sized model.”

Ingraham calls the furor over her remark "manufactured and totally phony."

"This comes from the same playbook responsible for the ongoing demonization of Rush Limbaugh," she writes.

"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?" she asked, referring to a headline the president noted on a magazine cover during his interview with the NBC anchor.

Ingraham pointed to digs Rush Limbaugh has gotten over his weight, and references to herself and Ann Coulter as "peroxide blondes."


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lame!

wasn't she supposedly on her death bed? what happened? is she a zombie?

She told Ingram to "kiss her fat *ss" on The View

(plus, Meghan's weight looks fine for me). For the rest of it, eh. This is what Meghan wanted, this is why she wrote the article. I wish that it was an actual argument over policy or something (I know, that's asking too much) and not so much rhetoric, but Meghan just seems to be trying to get a book deal or something to me. Hopefully, if this is something that really IS important to her, she'll find her voice and be a little less vague about it. It's just weird to see her go on a media tour for THIS, but whatever. Again, more power to her if this is what she wants...

:)


And of course, I would take Team Meghan over Team Ingraham. Meghan seems like a nice enough person. And while I know that Ingraham has a lot of "fans" (for some reason...), I wish that Meghan would articulate better WHY she considers herself a "moderate", for reasons other than rhetoric. Is it really some big act of bravery to go after Laura Ingraham? Plus, people like her father have used harsh rhetoric (and made fun of a politician's daughter's appearance), so hopefully she understands that too. I'm just not that impressed with the rest of it. But she's young, she has room to grow.

(verbally that is, not literally of course)

And no end in sight.

McCain is right of course. But the GOP faithful don't want to hear that stuff. So the implosion continues.

You can see how often I listen to RW idjits.

"and has dated former New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Torricelli <9> as well as MSNBC host Keith Olbermann.<10>"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham

KO, dude, what were you thinking?

Sounds like she's trying to make a name for herselft and Meghan is more than happy to let herself be used for it.

attacking Meghan McCain for her weight because she isn't conservative enough. There were a couple of shills on Fox yesterday defending Inghram and trashing Meghan because she really is a liberal. They said that Meghan went after Coulter because she's upset to have been left out of the liberal party scene. It was really stupid.

Nice one Laura.

reading the magazine cover. As usual, conservatives (the ones all about self responsibility) always point to liberals and say "well they did it too".

YES YES YES....let them tear each other to pieces.

If Meghan is to be ignored due to her weight, what about comedian Rush Limpballs?

hypocritical loudmouth is stepping into deep shit with her bogus mouth aimed at the republicon's presidential candidate's(who lost to Barack Obama) daughter(who has a political blog)? What's not to appreciate?