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NEWS ABOUT: Meghan McCain

Meghan McCain stories: 34 news summaries

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Meghan McCain

Lieberman's 
Name Ain't 
Benedict 

We need more pols who cross party lines, says maverick junior

Nov 2, 09 1:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Joe Lieberman’s taking a lot of heat for saying he’ll join a GOP filibuster of the health care bill, but Meghan McCain thinks it’s the kind of courageous stand we need more of in politics. “It’s no secret I have an aversion to partisan politics... More »

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Joe Lieberman • filibuster • maverick • health care reform • moderate • Meghan McCain

OPINION

Photo Doesn't Make Me a Slut: Meghan McCain

Overreaction part of 'infuriating' double standard on racy pix

Oct 16, 09 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Meghan McCain can’t believe the “immediate and nasty overreaction” to her post of a “funny and silly” self-portrait. She admits that posting a photo showing off her cleavage “is not the smartest thing I have ever done. But it’s just not worth the drama it... More »

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Jeff Flake • body image • Aaron Schock • Meghan McCain • breasts • Twitter • photos • Twitpic • Meghan McCain Twitter

 Meghan 
 McCain 
 Gets Racy 
 on Twitter 

Guess what part of that picture got everyone's attention? Hint: Not the book

Oct 15, 09 10:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Meghan McCain’s latest “controversy” is over a picture of herself—one particular part of herself being more prominent than anything else—she posted on Twitter last night. The photo (at left) is being alternately slammed and defended by commenters, the Detroit Free Press reports. Arguably the best... More »

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Meghan McCain • breasts • Twitter • Meghan McCain Twitter

OPINION

 My Hair Is Fake, 
 and That's OK: 
 Meghan 

Following in Tyra Banks' footsteps, McCain comes clean about her hair extensions

Sep 16, 09 2:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Inspired by Tyra Banks’ appearance on her talk show sans weave, Meghan McCain comes clean on the Daily Beast: “Yes, I have been wearing different variations of permanent and semi-permanent hair extensions since high school,” she writes. If this revelation doesn’t sound earth-shattering to you, perhaps you... More »

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entertainment • fashion • hair • Tyra Banks • Meghan McCain • hairstyle • hairdo

OPINION

 Can the Catty Remarks
 on Clinton's Weight

Focus on appearance is dragging down both politics and journalism

Sep 1, 09 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Remarks like Tina Brown's recent crack on MSNBC that Hillary Clinton "needs to get back in the gym," are dragging public debate down to a high-school level, Chloe Angyal writes at SpliceToday. Nobody's looking too hard at the waistline of male politicians or diplomats, Angyal notes, but... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Michelle Obama • women • Tina Brown • sexism • journalism • journalist • female politicians • Laura Ingraham • Meghan McCain

(Newser) - Meghan McCain will sit in for new mom Elisabeth Hasselbeck on the View in September, the New York Post reports. The daughter of John McCain and one-woman youth movement in the GOP has proven popular on the chatfest, and will tape 3 episodes. Also filling in for Hasselbeck... More »

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The View • Fox News • daytime talk show • Meghan McCain • maternity leave • Elisabeth Hasselbeck • E.D. Hill

(Newser) - Meghan McCain talks to Out.com about her campaign for gay marriage and her role as pseudo-spokeswoman for a new generation of Republicans, and one line is sure to catch a lot of attention: "Joe the Plumber—you can quote me—is a dumbass," she says of the... More »

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gay rights • Meghan McCain • Joe the Plumber • Republicans • Samuel Wurzelbacher

 Preston to Open Up About Jett 

Wants to help other women with grief through her story

Jul 9, 09 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Kelly Preston will speak publicly for the first time about the death of her son, Jett Travolta, at an event in October, People reports. “If she can empower one other woman who feels like they can’t get out of bed, or get through the day, whatever the loss,... More »

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entertainment • Elizabeth Edwards • John Travolta • celebrity • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • Maria Shriver • Meghan McCain • Kelly Preston • Jett Travolta • Kate Gosselin • Wade Edwards

Meghan McCain the Movie: She's Already Casting

Wants Hilary Duff in
film version of book
she hasn't written yet

Jul 1, 09 8:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Meghan McCain’s book is set to be released next spring, and she’s already plotting the movie version. “I want Hilary Duff to play me,” she tells the New York Daily News. “I think she’s really hot—hotter than me.” It’s unclear how... More »

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entertainment • film • celebrity • book • Meghan McCain • Hilary Duff • Bradley Cooper

OPINION

Meghan McCain: Leave Mark Sanford Alone

Instead of hypocrisy, troubled GOP must employ compassion

Jun 29, 09 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Meghan McCain wants you to forgive Mark Sanford. “I don’t know if it’s the fact that I am younger,” she writes for the Daily Beast, “but it’s of very little concern to me who elected officials sleep with.” Assuming he didn’t do... More »

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South Carolina • sex scandal • Republican Party • infidelity • governor • Meghan McCain • Mark Sanford • extramarital affair • Republican governor

OPINION

 'Bratty' McCain 
 on the Twitter 
 Warpath Again 



Someone, please, delete her account

Jun 4, 09 7:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Meghan McCain is “too undisciplined and impulsive” to handle Twitter, writes the Cajun Boy on Gawker following yet another of McCain's 140-character tirades. The enemy this time? Brian Williams, who “had the audacity to lower his head ever so slightly in a blatant act of deference” at the... More »

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Barack Obama • NBC • Brian Williams • Meghan McCain • Twitter • rants • Meghan McCain Twitter

OPINION

Hey, Meghan: What Cheney Thinks Is More Important

And it's not because he's an old white man

Jun 2, 09 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - After Meghan McCain took exception to the idea that her stance on gay marriage is “meaningless” compared to Dick Cheney’s, Washington Monthly blogger Steve Benen outlines in no uncertain terms why—and it’s not “that I only respect old white guys, I don’t respect young... More »

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John McCain • Dick Cheney • gay marriage • Meghan McCain • Steve Schmidt • Steve Benen

OPINION

Soap Box
Was No Gift for Meghan McCain

Unready pundit-in-training is exposing herself too early

May 22, 09 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Poor Meghan McCain, writes Judith Warner in the New York Times. Nobody’s born a pundit—you have to achieve it. But McCain’s had punditry thrust upon her, and it’s obvious she isn’t ready. “I do feel sorry for Meghan, the 2007 college grad who ought... More »

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Stephen Colbert • Meghan McCain • punditry


 'Pro-Sex' 
 McCain 
 Talks Sex 
 on Colbert 

Also discusses gay marriage, but not Sarah Palin

May 19, 09 8:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Meghan McCain likes sex—a point she made several times last night on The Colbert Report, Gawker reports. Asked by host Stephen Colbert to explain her “pro-sex” stance, she started out by saying abstinence is unrealistic—and ended with “I would never want to practice anything I... More »

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gay marriage • GOP • sex • Republican Party • Stephen Colbert • The Colbert Report • Meghan McCain

OPINION

Meghan McCain: Don't Politicize, Take My Guns

2nd Amendment 'one issue where I’m red through-and-through'

May 14, 09 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - She supports gay marriage and thinks the Republican Party is out of touch, but on guns, Meghan McCain is “red through-and-through,” she writes in the Daily Beast: “The right to bear arms, and specifically the idea of it being taken away from me, is one of my... More »

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NRA • gun control • Second Amendment • Meghan McCain

 Meghan 
 McCain 
 'Bratty' at 
 DC Dinner 



Political daughter brings extra guest

May 11, 09 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Woulda-been first daughter Meghan McCain didn't exactly get the royal treatment she was expecting at Saturday's White House Correspondents dinner. She showed up to the exclusive event with two tickets and a party of three, prompting a security guard to question her. "Doesn't he even know who the fuck ... More »

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entertainment • John McCain • Cindy McCain • Meghan McCain • White House Correspondents Dinner • Wanda Sykes

(Newser) - Bristol Palin's campaign to preach birth control with a baby at home again proves what Meghan McCain has always known: Republicans don't "get" sex. "God forbid anyone talk realistically about life experiences and natural, sexual instincts. Nope, the answer is always abstinence," she writes in her Daily... More »

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abortion • abortion rights • birth control • birth control pill • abstinence • Meghan McCain • Bristol Palin • Levi Johnston • sexual abstinence

OPINION

 Meghan: Specter Bailed on Us 

Party needs progressive voices, she says

Apr 30, 09 8:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Arlen Specter has let the GOP down, but only because Republicans did the same, Meghan McCain writes for the Daily Beast. “He’s been made to feel like an outcast by a small, vocal group,” says McCain, herself familiar with the “tired rhetoric” now being hurled at... More »

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GOP • Arlen Specter • Republican Party • Meghan McCain • progressive • Michael Steele

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh thinks erstwhile Republican Arlen Specter should take some “other people who aren't really Republicans” to the other side of the aisle, CNN reports. “Take McCain and his daughter with you,” a laughing Limbaugh said today. Though he said Specter's party switch was “ultimately good”... More »

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John McCain • Senate • Rush Limbaugh • Arlen Specter • Republican Party • Meghan McCain

ANALYSIS

 'Cone of Silence' 
 No Longer 
 Muzzles Cheney 

He just left—but the former VP is back as opposition voice

Apr 24, 09 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former vice presidents tend to keep a low profile right after leaving office—not so Dick Cheney, who has been making the rounds as a voice for Republican opposition. When Cheney “sees the current administration making decisions that he believes are making the nation less safe, he does not... More »

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Dick Cheney • conservative • John Bolton • Republican Party • vice president • Meghan McCain

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