Beyond Sex With an Elephant, Meghan, What Are You Trying to Tell Me?

And, if you weren't wondering before what was going on inside the Republican big tent! I mean, that serpent-like trunk is about as blatant as you can get. (And, regards the back cover: What, no cigarette??)

Beyond the appeal to sex (yet again), however -- as Meghan exploits her last name and her Campaign '08 social media savvy as one more hawker with a front row set under the political-infotainment "famous-for-being-famous" big top -- maybe John's offspring is actually revealing something else, which is (hold your ears, value voters!) a Grand Old Party's elephantine moral exposure. ----------

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Comments

[Checquoline]

08:18 AM on 09/23/2010

Why is it, every adult I can't stand makes me put up with their offspring?

[countfloyd]

04:31 PM on 09/22/2010

She is all-media savvy. Say bad things about the Palins and you get to talk with Jon Stewart. If being a tea bagger gets you noticed then I'm one of them. I'm guessing Dad in paticular didn't give her the attention needed as a child so she gets it this way. I wouldn't be shocked if there is a sex tape somewhere down the line.

[ladydragon]

08:35 AM on 09/22/2010

Megan: I used to be a fan of yours, I thought you were smart and politically savvy I was even going to buy your book, that is until I saw you on the Joy Behar show. You opened your mouth and dispelled all of those notions that I thought of you.You came off talking like a teabag lunatic, little Miss Group think. For the campaigne to relegate you to the back of the bus, you must have really been acting up, and now you have the audacity to talk about Brisol? I have never heard her speak bad about you publicly. Bristol made a mistake, had unprotected sex because her mommy and daddy refused to talk to her about the birds and bees, so now she's a teenage mother, that will be her cross to bear, but Megan what's your problem?

[Carlariz]

01:16 PM on 09/22/2010

Lady.... I agree to a certain extent however; Bristol and her family put her out there to be criticized, she was a side show during the campaign, the Palin's tried to do everything in order to milk the "Family Values" group and it back fired, Megan has an opinion and we all do, like it or not..... Megan is harmless and yes she is looking for radical every time I see her.

[ladydragon]

01:52 PM on 09/22/2010

Bristol's own mother selfishly put her pregnant teenaged daughter out there to further her own political career, she's a shameful dispicable "parent" and humanoid, Megan however could have followed her own path but she didn't. Megan said in the past that she believes in "choice", that is one of my biggest issues, then for her to get on the Joy Behar show to lie and retract what she said in the past made her look real shady. Megan McCain does not have her own opinion, she is cut from the same cloth as Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura, Christine O'Donnell, Sarah Palin (whom she said she admires) and lastly her father. But she's still young (I think she's in her mid 20s), she has time to grow up and quit being wishy-washy

[PRONESE]

06:12 AM on 09/22/2010

No Feminist outrage here in the comments. Go Figure.
R/ PRONESE

[enumcop]

07:40 PM on 09/21/2010

I'm no fan of her Dad, but I think this young lady should be given a chance to speak. Instead of "Dancing with the Stars" (gag) like some folks' daughters she's talking about serious issues. She's young and she's going to make some mistakes, but I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. And I'm a DEMOCRAT. Keep Rockin' Ms. Meghan. Don't let the haters get you down.

[BBackSoon]

12:19 AM on 09/22/2010

I agree, her dad is a tool, but she appears to be reasonable and even moderate in her Republican views. We could use more of those.

[LonosCurse]

01:38 PM on 09/22/2010

Fanned.

[ladydragon]

01:56 PM on 09/22/2010

I thought Meghan McCain was a moderate too, I liked her, was even willing to give her a chance maybe, but then she opened her mouth while trying to promote her book and proved me wrong

[Lisbeth35]

09:18 AM on 09/22/2010

I thought so too, but it seems like she is being used to sell the GOP, saying we aren't ALL against gay rights, so come on over. But daddy and daddy's friends keep on discriminating and she writes it off saying, well, in person they are fun to be around. She, like the rest of the GOP are hiding behind a "fiscal conservative" message (which they shout about, but never do), while denying equal rights for all Americans. Not buying it.

[KIampfbeobachter]

06:35 PM on 09/21/2010

All I can see is: She has a friendly elephant. These critters like bananas!

[SpencerCat]

05:21 PM on 09/21/2010

I don't know where you get Sex with an Elephant. The title has the word "Sexy" and she's posing with an elephant, representing the Republican Party. There's no reason to put the two things together. That's quite a stretch, and not a very amusing one.

[LonosCurse]

04:45 PM on 09/21/2010

Oh come Shaw, she has a right to tell her story, she was there. And as far as I know, Meghan's never been big on the holier than thou social agenda. Sometimes I think that Progresives can be as full of hate as the Tea Party.

[Carlariz]

01:19 PM on 09/22/2010

C'mon.... that is not true, we (Progressives) dont walk around with signs or pictures of swastikas, call people names and if we do call somebody a names we dont resort to being racist..... big difference.

[LonosCurse]

01:37 PM on 09/22/2010

Maybe it's worse for someone who isn't obviously crazy to use such a broad brush to hate on anyone with an R next to their name. Meghan is not Sarah. Don't be like them.

[mommadona]

04:17 PM on 09/21/2010

OK ~ I'll say it. The Republican Party today is one big dysfunctional trailer park filled with a bunch of repressed and dysfunctional families that produce the like of Meghan.

You know the kind....the girls who believe a blow job was OK cause to 'do the deed' was 'evil' in jebus's eye..... the ones who wear the 'abstinence is kkkool!' while performing the act.

Gotta hand it to 'em..... well, maybe not....

[Jaladeno]

02:55 PM on 09/21/2010

If an elephant gets a cold, does he end up with junk in the trunk???

[studioh!]

12:57 PM on 09/21/2010

Repubs ARE the elephant in the room - irrelevant, but they can't be ignored, or apparently, silenced.

[aceshigh]

12:14 PM on 09/21/2010

Those are some really funny, and disturbing, photos.

The second one literally looks like the male elephant is dozing off, and WE all know what causes males to get sleepy...not to mention Meghan's hair being all sweaty and matted down.

Jeesh, WHO came up with this concept??

[garagenoir]

12:08 PM on 09/21/2010

Carl Paladino?

[garagenoir]

12:03 PM on 09/21/2010

Ghostwritten by Carl Paladino via email - this headline or Meghan's book?

[garagenoir]

12:14 PM on 09/21/2010

(Thank you mods! I was starting to wonder.)

[tasukibeth1]

11:55 AM on 09/21/2010

Maybe my skepticometer is broken, but I like both pictures and saw nothing lewd about either of them. I think you're grasping on this one.

[LifeAndLifeOnly]

01:02 PM on 09/21/2010

I think the tie in is the title of the book "Dirty sexy politics."