-By Warner Todd Huston
Meghan McCain is about to start a new “reality” TV show called Raising McCain soon to debut on the new Pivot cable TV channel. But true to her past five-years of public life, she can’t help taking jabs at Republicans and conservatives as she does it.
The show will feature McCain and her friends sitting around talking about the news of the day in what is promised to be a hip, casual style meant to appeal to youthful viewers.
In a recent interview about her upcoming show, McCain complained about all the people attacking her and maintained that her new show won’t be a political pundit-styled show because people were so “mean” to her that she is through with punditry.
“I spent the majority of my 20s having people like Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham say nasty, personally hateful things about me, about my body, about my personal life,” McCain told POLITICO. “…with people trying to humiliate me or make me out to seem like I’m stupid, or a whore, and it’s just not the energy that I want to put out anymore. …I just got to a point where I’d like to do something that’s a little different and I’ve never been happier.”
But showing why folks on the right might be a bit irked at her, along with slamming conservative political talk-show hosts, McCain went on in the interview to bash Republican Chris Christie, criticized the “extreme right-wing,” and make calls for “bipartisanship.”
McCain also furthered the left’s characterization of the right as “rednecks” by trying to assure POLITICO that not all Republicans are racists, crazies, and rednecks.
As to her public ramblings about politics, McCain said, “I’m a voice and if you like that voice, great. And if you don’t, fine,” assuring the reporter that, “We’re not all crazy rednecks,” accepting the premise that many are just that.
McCain also said that the GOP needs a “reality check” and criticized the GOP because “the extreme right wing of the party is still running everything.”
She wrapped up her interview saying, “I love the Republican Party and respect and appreciate my role in it, even though I know some people don’t appreciate my role in it.”
I have to say, it’s a bit hard to believe her on that last bit. After all, she never attacks the left. All she ever does is attack Republicans. This, in fact, is the only reason anyone in the media ever gives this silly little girl a second of coverage. Only she is too stupid to understand this.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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