Meghan McCain 'Bratty' at DC Dinner

Hey, not everybody can be interesting: Seth Abramovitch

(NEWSER) - Needless to say, Gawker isn’t all that impressed with Barbara Walters’ annual list of the year’s 10 most fascinating people . The good news is, that didn’t stop blogger Seth Abramovitch from offering up his own list, of the year’s 10 least fascinating people, in response:

• Piers Morgan: “The turnip-headed reality star turned CNN seat-filler loves Twitter wars and speaking over his guests almost as much as no one gives a s*** about him.”
• Brett Ratner: Despite getting himself in the middle of an Oscars-related controversy this year, he “remains the least interesting filmmaker of his generation” and you probably can’t think of a single interesting scene in a movie he’s made.

She'll need to be 'feisty' at new job

(NEWSER) - John McCain isn’t a fan of his daughter’s new bosses. Taking a job at MSNBC , Meghan “went over to the Dark Side, I guess,” he told Don Imus on the Fox Business Network. Still, “I am very proud of her,” he added. “She's feisty. Being over there she is going to have to have quite a bit of that,” he noted. “I'm sure she will fight for the things she and I believe in over there and I wish her every success." The Huffington Post has video. More»

'Highly offensive to a reasonable person,' says lawyer

(NEWSER) - A parody of the Valley Girl-speak of Meghan McCain's "political" writing sounds, gee, so much like Meghan McCain that she's threatening to sue. "Firstly in the first place, some people had a question about my very obvious statement, 'I don’t necessarily agree that Rick Perry is George Bush on crack, but he could definitely be described as George Bush 2.0." No, that's not the real thing. It's blogger Leon H. Wolf channeling Meg in RedState.com . But the blog's been taken down (though repeated endlessly now throughout the blogosphere) after Red State received a letter from McCain's attorney. More»

Cindy McCain on the job of political spouse

(NEWSER) - When Cindy McCain married John, she expected to have a long life as a Navy wife; instead, her husband entered politics. “Back then, the political spouse was just a supportive role. I was expected to go to dinners, barbecues, rodeos, picnics, and not say too much,” she writes for Newsweek . But “my role started to change” when John ran for Senate, and when he ran for president, it was “like being catapulted off an aircraft carrier: they fling you off and they expect you to fly.” More»

He scolds Beck for the vomiting sounds he made about Meghan McCain

(NEWSER) - Glenn Beck's recent pukefest —in which he mocked Meghan McCain's nude appearance in a PSA for skin cancer by pretending to vomit at the very thought—earned him a tongue-lashing from Cindy McCain , Meghan herself , and now Bill O'Reilly. In an interview with Beck, O'Reilly started with a "warm-up topic," writes Mediaite —the Common-White House controversy—before moving on to his "tiff" with McCain. "If I was Cindy McCain, I’d slap the hell out of you," O’Reilly told him. "If she flies in, I'll let her beat the hell out of you right here on this program." More»