Meghan McCain Cancels On Snippy Howie Kurtz: "Maybe She Got A Date"

Meghan McCain has seemingly been everywhere lately — Rachel Maddow, The Daily Beast, Fox & Friends, Twitter...

One place she didn't show, however, was CNN's "Reliable Sources," where she was booked to sit down with host Howie Kurtz and canceled at the last minute, leaving her "unpopular" and a miffed Kurtz spilling to Page Six:

Meanwhile, Meghan is unpopular at CNN after cancelling her appearance on Howard Kurtz's show Sunday.

"At the last moment, she decided she was 'all talked out,' as she put it," Kurtz snipped. "We wanted to ask her about something she wrote where she said her dating life had been ruined by being the daughter of a presidential candidate. Maybe she got a date and she found better company to keep."

McCain had used her new favorite medium, Twitter, to hype her upcoming appearance — "No more interviews until Sunday with Howard Kurtz," she wrote last week — but appears to have deleted that Tweet from her updates. A Twitter search for "McCainBlogette Kurtz" continues to produce it as a search result, however.

Comments

[garbacue09]

03:11 AM on 03/19/2009

Poor Howard Kurtz couldn't possibly be having regrets for signing his last contract with CNN? Feeling dismal at the prospect of trying to be "entertaining" like Sean Hannity or "curmudgeonly" like Lou Dobbs no doubt would drive lesser men to suicidal thoughts. Keep telling yourself it's the fault of neo-fascist advertisers or corporate toads, and maybe your interviewees will gain this fantasy through osmosis.

[a heart]

01:49 AM on 03/19/2009

Kurtz and Coulter fear McCain as a younger prettier threat to their top-blondenesses.

[RRanch]

05:00 PM on 03/18/2009

Megan is much more honest than Kurtz. I suspect she would have a far simpler time getting a date the would Kurtz

[WritusMaximus]

03:58 PM on 03/18/2009

Let's see, why is this a story???? Aha! Her last name is McCain! Please, more interviews with the famous one---daughter, that is!

[WasteNJ]

03:04 PM on 03/18/2009

Kurtz has a fragile ego, and is only a reliable source of corporate media nonsense, compiled from a whole week. After all, why the Hell is he trying to book Meghan McCain in the first place? Who cares to watch that.

[Ouroboros]

09:06 AM on 03/18/2009

Thing is, McCain doesn't know she's up against the White Power Establishment, and Kurtz doesn't know he's a part of it.

[glaze]

09:06 AM on 03/18/2009

Yeah, OK... SHE canceled at the last minute because she was "talked out" - and she gets a lot of sympathy.

But her DAD canceled at the last minute to appear on "The Daily Show" because he had to go to Washington "to give his input on an important issue"- and he caught a lot of flack for it.

I thought that particular genetic trait skipped a generation...

[rzan1]

10:13 AM on 03/18/2009

I thought it was Letterman that he lied his way out of.

[deeppeace]

12:26 PM on 03/18/2009

It was.

[blaharumph]

12:50 PM on 03/18/2009

correct.

[deeppeace]

12:27 PM on 03/18/2009

A. She's not running for President.
B. She didn't lie.

[Ouroboros]

09:03 AM on 03/18/2009

Oh good god, CNN is awful! Who watches that tripe?

[WritusMaximus]

04:51 PM on 03/18/2009

Keith Obermann. He also watches O'Reilly.

[Grada3784]

08:18 AM on 03/18/2009

Kurtz: "Maybe she got a date and she found better company to keep."

That wouldn't be very hard to do. Not when up against Hissy-fit Howie.

[petphotos]

12:59 AM on 03/18/2009

Howie who? Sorry, my money is with Megan, and I am a Democrat.

[leacock]

12:26 AM on 03/18/2009

Howie is such an arrogant jerk, I salute Maghan for not submitting herself to his rudeness. more power to her.

[Abycat]

11:01 PM on 03/17/2009

CNN sooo wants to be like FOX! Howie is just playing with the CNN game plan. The young and smart Ms McCain, sadly for her own sake, is a throwback to the days when the Republican got and deserved some respect. The days of Dirksen are long gone. Now they are the party of Appalacia.

[ctman47]

10:18 PM on 03/17/2009

Howie,
Did you ever get that plagarism issue cleared up?

[Chickasaw962]

10:08 PM on 03/17/2009

Also, in total honesty, if Meghan McCain was interviews by Couric, I think she could survive the interview intellectualy intact, and without being "annoyed" by Courics questions. Its also nice that she is a healthy weight, and not anorexic.

[Caymus77]

10:01 PM on 03/17/2009

Maybe Kurtz thinks too much of himself.

Should we assume that when Kurtz is late for an appointment or cancels one ,it's because of his sex life?