Laura Ingraham is a wimp. If she can't take the heat of right-wing radio, maybe she should leave it to the boys. Because whenever you punch down from your power category you're either insecure or insufficiently aware of how embarrassing you appear or maybe it's both. After her infamous tirade castigating journalists for not going into Iraq's danger zones, while she was standing in the safety of the Green Zone, she's decided to hit a new low.
Ms. Ingraham went after John McCain's daughter, Meghan McCain, using weight to get the job done. She might as well have challenged Meghan to a pillow fight. Seriously, Laura, if this is the best you can do, please call Rush. I don't care for the wingnut blowhard, but at least he knows how to wage these messy party wars and what target is below his pedestal.
Ooh! Ooh! Hey Meghan, you're plus-sized! Ooh! Ooh! Done, of course, in Ms. Ingraham's best valley girl voice.
Via Think Progress (audio at the link):
MCCAIN (on MSNBC): And I think there's an extreme on both parties and I hate extreme. I don't understand. I have friends that are the most radically conservative and radically liberal people possibly ever and we all get along. We can find a middle ground.
INGRAHAM (mocking): Ok, I was really hoping that I was going to get that role in the Real World, but then I realized that, well, they don't like plus-sized models. They only like the women who look a certain way. And on this 50th anniversary of Barbie, I really have something to say.
When you can't attack an argument someone is making, attack the person. If it's a woman, go for the scales. Trouble is, Meghan has made peace with the weight issue -- as most women have to at some point -- leaving Ms. Ingraham talking to herself. From Glamour:
5. She has a great body image
"I got to a point where I was like, I just don't care. You think I'm fat? Fine. I don't care how much you weigh."
This one cuts across party lines, so all I can say is good for you, Meghan. A remark like Ingraham's has the spray pattern of buck shot.
But these wacky Republicans and their conservative cannibalism. By 2010 you've got to wonder if any of them will be left standing.
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Just when we thought they were on their way to the dust-bin of history, here comes a loyal young lady who is not the least bit intimidated by the wingnuts in their midst.
I'm torn between my partisan desires to see the party of no become an historical asterisk, but I'm cheering this young lady's gumption and composure, despite the possibility thqat she may actually HELP her party find a way to survive the passing of generations.
The Ingrams, the Limbaughs, the Hannitys and the O'Riellys are all sour faced bitterheads. Meghan McCain is a breath of fresh air and basic honesty in red sea of knuckle-dragging provocateurs. As much as I prefer not to give the R's anything, this young lady may well be the REAL voice of the Republican party. If so, they may actually survive the sins of their fathers.
Self esteem knows no body type, only mental types.
Laura Ingraham is not known as Dr Laura
-- I think it best to keep the two personalities separate for the sake of being clear about attributing the correct statements to each
You'll never see Laura sit down with Ratchel .
Meghan your a class act.