Meghan McCain: A lot dumber than I thought.

[dorkulon]

And I didn't think she was particularly smart before.

Watching her on Bill Maher, and man is she dumb. And weirdly defensive. And almost completely ignorant of recent history. And WHY is she even on this show?

And Bill should stop touching her.

[blonndee]

1. She is, like, totally dumb.

And Bill has a thing for stupid Republican blondes, apparently.

[XOKCowboy]

2. I wasn't born during the French Revolution but I know about it....

Begala nailed her! Too funny.

[dorkulon]

4. Yeah that was sweet.

You could see her struggling for a comeback.... don't go there honey.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. That was brilliant and now just cheered the last new rule!

[JI7]

7. what did she say when he responded with that ?

[dorkulon]

16. Brief transcript:

MM is talking about how she didn't particularly like Bush as a president:

Meghan McCain: But what I think is that, um, the Obama administration really has to stop completely blaming everything on his predecessor, completely. And I really am sick of hearing 'well, we were handed this, we were handed this', I know, everyone knows, but we need to move on.

Bill Maher: You think that's what Obama is doing, you think he's doing that?

MM: I do, to a degree.

Paul Begala: Well not to enough of a degree. I'm sorry. Not nearly enough. (Crowd roars.) Ronald Reagan blamed Carter every day for 8 years. You know, in the speech, in his speech what president Bush said, one of the things he said--

MM: (Acting smart) Yeah, I wasn't born yet, so I don't know.

PB: Well, ha, that's -- I wasn't born during the French Revolution, but I know about it.

(Crowd goes nuts. Maher stands and spreads arms as if to shield MM. MM Blows at hair and is obviously taken aback.)

MM: No, I mean--

BM: He's a mean man, that Paul Begala, I'll protect you.

MM: (really snotty) Yeah, I mean, you clearly know everything, so, and I'm just a blonde over here.

BM: No, no that's not what he's saying.

PB: Bush really did leave a huge mess.

MM: (whiny) It's just -- I'm the one Republican at this table, you know? And I'm just trying to defend it.

That's the problem, dummy. You can't. And according to everything we know about you, you shouldn't be a Republican. The only reason you call yourself one is your dad. You don't represent anyone.

[jbnow]

23. Thanks for that! nm

[Aloha Spirit]

33. Too cute, thanks

[JDPriestly]

37. Face it. Republicans have two things in common: they know nothing

and understand even less.

[dorkulon]

41. True, their ignorance is their most prized quality.

The easiest way to make a Con dislike you is display knowledge they don't have. Or intellectual curiosity.

[JI7]

42. Bill wouldn't have done that if she wasn't an attractive woman

[Maru Kitteh]

75. True, because BM is a lecherous ass with no real interest in anything beyond Bill Maher.

He was amusing, once, but his shtick is become boringly predictable.

Oh and btw Bill - thanks again for that whole Bush/Gore - Gush/Bore thing, telling us not to bother voting, telling us they were both the same. You were so funny. And you were totally right. It didn't matter which one became president, did it? :sarcasm:

Asshole.

[question everything]

68. Thanks. We were out and came back just for that segment

and really could not hear her well.

Who was the other blond?

[dorkulon]

69. Katty Kay

BBC Anchor. http://www.ctforum.org/popups/bio.asp?event_bio_image_id=3136

[Bozita]

71. Best Smackdown of The Week winner, but the difficulty level was low.

She should remember to make the pie higher.

[smokey nj]

55. I wanted to kiss Paul Begala when he said that.

[XOKCowboy]

60. Begala had a look of "OK that's it" when he said it...

I was getting a little sick of her "poor little blonde oppressed Republican" sctick also.

As someone upthread said, expect the RW to be all over Begala for "attacking" her.

[purplecat1]

58. That was funny

and i agree with others here...not very bright and not very humble.

[HughMoran]

3. Bill's a whore

...that's why he was touching her.

[Mnemosyne]

26. He was hot for Coulter too. :puke: n/t

[tblue37]

29. Yeah--for *this*! Bleah.

Her legs look like swizzle sticks!

[Mnemosyne]

74. Scary skinny. Mostly just scary!

:hi:

[JI7]

6. but she graduated from Columbia

[Raineyb]

12. Bush graduated from Yale.

:shrug: another dumb as a post kid from a wealthy family being pushed through a prestigious school. Gee why am I not surprised?

[JI7]

43. yup, affirmative action for idiot kids of wealthy people

[Lilyeye]

44. Yup. The affirmative action repukes don't want to talk about.

[Raineyb]

57. Yeah funny how that never comes up when there's a discussion of affirmative action.

I remember once bringing it up in a college class and you should have seen looks it got me.

[Butch350]

62. So did a lot of other people.

[Fuzz]

8. A couple tacos short of a combination platter.

[northofdenali]

9. Who the fuck cares about a failure like Meghan McCain?

eom

[XOKCowboy]

10. I thought it was on of his best shows

Meghan showed that you can grow up with wealthy parents, get the best education money can buy and still be a ditz. She was a complete embarrassment as a guest. His opening skit and opening monologue were hilarious and New Rules was right on.

He made up for last week IMO.

[aquaman]

11. I agree, great show.....

but man, was she dumb!

[Democrat 4 Ever]

15. Well, I guess it is Meaghan McCain's turn to be the sacrificial lamb

for the indignation of the reichwing next week. Bill gave her plenty of rope she she never missed a chance to hang herself with her own stupidity several times over. Guess the cute little hair flip, batting the eyelashes, the coy little reminder of how young she is didn't work for her. She came off exactly like every other dumb ass spokeswoman for the GOP. C-L-U-E-L-E-S-S

Bill was mean, Paul was hateful about her lack of knowledge about, well, everything and Katty called her out on her silly little girl routine with mature, thoughtful answers on a variety of subjects. Poor Meaghan is taking heat from her "friends" for appearing and then she bombs on Real Time big time. Somehow it will be sexist, mean, and partisan. They might even throw in a couple of jabs of pedophilia and date rape to boot to get the reichwing noise machine all up in arms again. Next week there will be people calling for Bill's head and a posse of three people picketing the studio.

[XOKCowboy]

61. Yep...

I expect the RW handwringers to flock to her rescue this week. Just like poor Sarah Palin. Liberals are so hateful and jealous.

[Born_A_Truman]

67. Yes, and they'll all pull their ads..

oh wait!

[walkaway]

13. She's a future breeder for the republican party.

My guess is that she'll wed the first "rising young star" of the gop that will have her.

[dorkulon]

19. Nah, she's tainted.

She's already admitted to having sex.

[Mnemosyne]

25. Relatives don't count in those 'circles', do they? n/t

[dorkulon]

30. Ouch!

Inbred FTW!

[Mnemosyne]

72. I know, I'm

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaddddddddddddddddddd! :)

[Mnemosyne]

73. I know, I'm

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaddddddddddddddddddd! :)

[obliviously]

28. To her sex could

mean tounge hockey!

[purplecat1]

59. She said on the View

she isn't interested in having kids. she doesn't like kids and is in no hurry to get married. One of her articles she wrote on the daily beast, she said she can't get a decent date..so who knows, maybe she will end up marry the first rising young star her day sets her up with.

[obliviously]

14. What idiot in that party

could have possibly have thought she would make a good spokesperson. She is dumber than a box of rocks.

[Iggo]

17. Hey, now! I love her!

But yeah, she's dumb as a rock.

[obliviously]

18. She doesn't have a neck!

[Iggo]

21. I could find it...lol.

[dorkulon]

22. I love a woman with a good head on her shoulders.

That way, when she enters a room, every head turns. Except hers, she has no neck!

[Ghost in the Machine]

40. but.. but... but....

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CvXEhdXFheY/SKBZySorFwI/AAAAAAAACko/zq4Fq4q7GoY/s400/Meghan+McCain.JPG

She needs a sammich, too...

[PM Martin]

20. It is obvious that Bill Maher is a pig when it comes to sex.

Anyone who admired Hugh Hefner :puke: is going to be like that.

As for Ms. McCain, whatever faults that are with her father, he has earned his position in this world, Ms. McCain is but a trust fund child. Not to many young people will look to her seeing that they are struggling and she has life served to her on the infamous silver platter that is standard among trust fund children.

[texasleo]

31. Yes, Maher is heterosexual. Is that politically incorrect with the extreme left these days?

[obliviously]

35. Careful this will turn into another whine fest. N/T

[armyowalgreens]

50. I've noticed some prejudice against heterosexual white males in here.

I think sometimes we get swept up in the anti-conservative raids by mistake.

[Dramarama]

24. She was pretty cool

[obliviously]

27. Her chin is in her cleavage!

[Bucky]

49. If I were her chin, I'd wanna be there too!

What's with all this hatred for robust women? She's got a full figure, but if she were a Democrat, we'd be praising her for letting her body find its natural shape.

Let's try and keep the bashing to her ideas and steer clear of the male chauvinist woman-hating.

[kentuck]

32. She seemed a little nervous and defensive...

Not a good place to be on the Bill Maher show. But she did show her true Republican colors, in my opinion, when she mentioned Obama still blaming everything on his predecessor. Begala then piped up and said that Reagan blamed everything on Jimmy Carter for years and years...

I don't think she will be a Democrat anytime soon. She is too far gone. But her ideas about sex may lead her to be an Independent, simply because the Repubs may disown her.

[obliviously]

34. Don't encourage her

she needs to campaign for republicans. We will no longer have to spend so much money campaigning With her on the other side.

[SoCalDem]

38. I always feel sorry for her.. a little, anyway.

It's all too obvious, that Her Momma wanted a blonde daughter in her own image, and Meghan got more of her Pappa, than her Momma. .. This picture says a lot..

[CitizenPatriot]

36. "I'm just rying to defend..."

WHY? Why should we give you a pass while you try to defend something that you can not defend?

At what point do these people realize that defensiveness for defensiveness' sake is not a goal? There's NO there, there!!!

And geeze, as a woman, I was appalled at her "I'm a blonde...little girl..." routine. The entire time, I was thinking "so this is what it means to be a liberal. you think."

it suddenly became very clear to me that the reason they are so knee-jerk defensive about being uncool and the non-elite (when they are the rich) is that to them being a "cool" and "elite" liberal means you are witty and smart.

Geeze. She had the tell all Republicans have -- no sense of humor, no sense of irony, no sense of wit.

I wanted to like her....and I wish BM would have stopped babying her. She's old enough to defend George W Bush -- she's old enough to get schooled for cop outs like " I just want to look forward".

[dorkulon]

39. +1

You really nailed the GOP spirit. All the Alex P. Keaton wannabes out there are really just resentful because they don't get the jokes. That was definitely the feeling MM was putting off tonight, as if every little joke was interpreted as a slam against her. Aside from which, I can't see any reason for her to be a Republican, except loyalty to her dad, so why bother putting herself in the position of trying to defend them? They already hate her anyway.

[CitizenPatriot]

64. She's clearly morphing, though

Her victimhood, whining, and slam at liberals in her post-tweet tell us that she is well on her way to full fledged GOPPER madness, ala Bachmann Eyes and Sister Palin.

We've been told how the Lord loves a Winner, but how's He feeling about losers these days??? :-)

[CitizenPatriot]

65. dupe delete

[Touchdown]

45. I so wanted to see her face when he said "And across the aisle is...

a party made up of religious fanatics, flat earthers and civil war re-enacters. And they call themselves Republicans."

Just to see her face... and Begala's too, since he was mostly slamming the Democrats for falling into Begala's DLC.

[EFerrari]

46. She seems like a very young 24. n/t

[chatnoir]

47. When she was on, I turned to my husband

saying "Dumber than a box of rocks despite having had a very privileged upbringing and the best education money can buy. Now that's *dumb*."

Not to mention she seemed very immature for 24. She seemed more like 18.

[dorkulon]

48. Hah! Here's her post-show tweet

"Tough being the only republican against four liberal democrats but every experience is a learning one!" -http://twitter.com/McCainBlogette

She knows she got owned. Love how she managed to fit in the "liberal" swipe and still stay under character limit.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

52. She's a moron. Her twitter fight with Glenn Greenwald was great.

When it was clear she was losing, she essentially claimed they were picking on her because she was a woman.

[Norwood]

51. In her writings she came off as much more intelligent, she came off as kinda dumb on Maher

I still like her though, not too crazy for a republican and maybe its just me but I find her very very attractive.

[mitchum]

56. That's because there are ghost writers, but no ghost talkers

[ErinBerin84]

53. I wanted to like Meghan McCain

Really. But she just doesn't come off as bright, and when people challenge her on her points, she falls back on the "Oh, it's because I'm BLONDE, isn't it?" or "If I were a Democrat, you wouldn't say that!" or "It's because I'm a girl, if this was my brother saying this, you would think it was SUCH a big deal!" For someone who claims to be a modern Republican, she sure has the defensive, victim hood thing down. I know that a lot of people here like her, but I just don't get the big deal with her. At first she sounded fairly normal, but she seems very immature to me, and her pundit skills are sorely lacking.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

54. I can't believe people think she sounds intelligent. She sounds like a fool.

And her victim hood is eerily Palinesque.

[CitizenPatriot]

63. yeah, she's early Palini -- every time they open their mouths,

they set women back another year.

[BlooInBloo]

66. She's exactly as dumb as I thought. I did not realize she was so proud of that, though.

[dorkulon]

70. Pride in ignorance--she really IS a Republican!

That's their trademark.