(Flanked by her mother above, of course...).Ordinarily I would not bother to comment on family members of a political candidate, but the person in question here (not the oldest McBush daughter, by the way) really doesn’t give me a choice based on this story in today’s Philadelphia Daily News…
Wearing a star tattoo on her foot and election-themed jewelry by hip designer Tarina Tarantino, 23-year-old Meghan McCain took a tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art yesterday.That’s all well and good so far; commendable actually. However, as we read about how she flanked herself with Republican simpatico Olympians from the Beijing games, we learn this…
The second-youngest daughter of Republican presidential nominee John McCain is in the area to promote her children's book, "My Dad, John McCain," and meet with local supporters.
"This is a hard time for our country," she said. "I really appreciate anyone who can take time out of their day to make a few phone calls for my father's campaign. The least I can do is thank them."
All interest in pop culture aside, McCain commended her father's campaign for not investing too much in celebrity support.(And yes, I know McBush fils is just following up on the narrative concocted by "Governor Hottie," but she still needs to be called on it.)
"I don't think someone like Bruce Springsteen should matter in a presidential election," McCain said, dismissing rumors that her father is planning an event similar to Saturday's Springsteen concert and Barack Obama rally on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, a stone's throw from the museum.
"Our campaign is about real voters," McCain said.
Oh, sure, John W. McBush doesn’t accept endorsements from “liberal” Hollywood, does he?
Not much he doesn’t.
This tells us that Curt Schilling and Sylvester Stallone have filmed videos endorsing McBush, and he can probably rely on Adam Sandler, Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight and Tom Selleck also (also Robert Duvall, the only one in that bunch with any character or acting talent as far as I’m concerned…Grammer milked that one-note “Frazier” thing forever – if it weren’t for having David Hyde-Pierce as a foil, he would’ve been toast).
But all of them are “real” voters, don’t forget.
And this comes on the heels of Ms. McBush’s earlier gaffe in which she enlightened us with the knowledge that “No-one knows what war is like, other than my family. Period.”
And finally, let’s lay off Springsteen, OK? I know the Malkinites and their fellow right-wing knuckle draggers don’t want to hear this, but despite their best efforts, this country is STILL a place where you can respectfully voice a dissenting opinion (in fact, it’s your duty as a citizen to speak your mind in such a manner). And (as he would readily admit) Springsteen is one guy articulating one opinion. Besides, I don’t hear Toby Keith or any other celebrity who endorsed Dubya’s Not So Excellent Iraq Adventure apologizing for their stupidity, or for attacking The Dixie Chicks when they spoke out, three courageous women who happened to be absolutely right in their dissent.
But of course, none of those people are “real voters” either since they don’t wear designer jewelry or star tattoos.
Also, as long as I’m saying something about conservatives and Hollywood, I should note that their little movie (partly funded by former Senator Man-On-Dog) didn’t seem to make such a splash in its opening (closing?) week (“An American Carol” – Bill Maher's new movie "Religulous" showed at less than 1/3 of the theaters and still came in only about $300 grand behind; blame the liberals for that too, I guess...h/t Atrios).
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Sad thing about "Carol" is that it sounds like a pretty funny idea, and could have been used to instruct young people (and old ones, too) about the basics of the U.S. government which so many seem to have no grasp of anymore. Too bad they've used it as an attack vehicle instead.
Havent seen "Religulous" yet, but from listening to Maher talk to Jon Stewart talk about it, it may have been better to market it as a combination of Religious + Incredulous, rather than Ridiculous (though Maher, who seems to have very strong feelings about religion, may disagree). This might have made it seem less like an attack vehicle itself.
Yep, from what I can determine, both movies kind of went out of their way to take shots at their subject matter as opposed to educating the viewer, though I should emphasize that I haven’t seen Maher’s movie (and I wouldn’t see “An American Carol” if you paid me; even at the times when I disagreed with Maher, at least I’d probably get a laugh out of it).
I read somewhere that Maher was born Catholic, which would make sense given the Irish derivation of his name. I don’t have the right to criticize his experience and I know he has a point about the bureaucracy in Rome, but I get tired of hearing him dismiss faith as so much hocus pocus, or whatever. It doesn’t help either, though, that many leading Catholic figures in this country are wingnuts (Santorum, Scalia, etc.).
Thing is, from the discussion Maher had with Stewart, it sounded like he wasnt questioning religion so much as the inability of those who practice it to at least ask questions of those who acted as their leaders.
'Course, that could just be Maher's take on what he did, without actually being filmed that way.
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