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  • Donald Trump Disowned by GOP, Laughed Out by News Agencies

    Donald Trump got the fighting side of Meghan McCain yesterday when he spoke ill of her daddy, Senator John McCain. On stage at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, Donald Trump said of John McCain:

    “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

    Trump was promptly booed by some, but was given a standing ovation as he left the stage. When pressed by reporters, Trump made a half-effort to walk back his remarks about McCain, without actually apologizing.

    “I’m with the veterans all the time,” he said. “I consider them heroes. If somebody’s a prisoner, I consider them a war hero.”

    But he took the opportunity to swipe at John McCain yet again.

    “I think John McCain’s done very little for the veterans. I’m very disappointed in John McCain.”

    He then called McCain “yet another all talk, no action politician who spends too much time on television and not enough time doing his job.”

    Meghan McCain responded via Twitter:

    “I have a brother that just returned from Afghanistan a month ago, glad he can come home to this being said about his father and his service.”

    Trump’s would-be opponents in the GOP primary took turns distancing themselves from him and outright disowning him.

    “Donald Trump owes every American veteran and in particular John McCain an apology,” said Rick Perry, right after Trump left the stage.

    “Here’s what I think they’re going to say: ‘Donald Trump, you’re fired,’” Senator Lindsey Graham said. Graham is good friends with Meghan McCain’s dad.

    “I unequivocally denounce him,” Scott Walker said of Trump.

    “Enough with the slanderous attacks,” Jeb Bush tweeted. “@SenJohnMcCain and all our veterans – particularly POWs have earned our respect and admiration.”

    Bobby Jindal tweeted: “John McCain is an American hero. I have nothing but respect for his service to our country. After Donald Trump spends six years in a POW camp, he can weigh in on John McCain’s service.”

    Ted Cruz was not as clear, seeming to have a hard time positioning himself. He called McCain “an American hero,” but would not “say something bad about Donald Trump.”

    Marco Rubio did not have the same problem Cruz has, whatever that may be. He said, in no uncertain terms, “This is an insult to all POWs, all men and women who have served us in uniform and have been captured.”

    “This is a man who spent his whole life saying outrageous things,” Rubio said. “So, early in this campaign when he said something outrageous, people kind of said ‘Just ignore it and move on. This is what he does.’ But I think now as things have gone forward and he’s become more of a covered candidate and people have paid more attention to him, it requires people to be more forceful about some of these offensive things that he is saying.”

    “It’s not just absurd, it’s offensive,” Rubio continued. “It’s ridiculous. And I do think it is a disqualifier as commander in chief.”

    The bigwigs at Huffington Post have had enough of Donald Trump’s posturing and play. They see his “candidacy” as such a joke that they announced they will no longer report on it alongside other candidates.

    “After watching and listening to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president, we have decided we won’t report on Trump’s campaign as part of The Huffington Post’s political coverage. Instead, we will cover his campaign as part of our Entertainment section. Our reason is simple: Trump’s campaign is a sideshow. We won’t take the bait. If you are interested in what The Donald has to say, you’ll find it next to our stories on the Kardashians and The Bachelorette.”

  • Meghan McCain Nails Donald Trump, Everyone Piles On

    Meghan McCain runs an interesting line. She is the daughter of Senator John McCain, and was long seen by some as a staunch conservative from the Palin camp. That is, until she denounced Palin. Then folks didn’t know what to make of Meghan McCain.

    Now it seems that people from both sides of the aisle are behind Meghan McCain, and she has none other than Donald Trump’s big mouth to thank for that.

    On Saturday at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, Donald Trump said of John McCain:

    “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

    Trump was promptly booed. After he left the stage, he made a half-effort to walk back his remarks about McCain, without actually apologizing.

    “I’m with the veterans all the time,” he said. “I consider them heroes. If somebody’s a prisoner, I consider them a war hero.”

    But he couldn’t categorically apologize and be the man about it. He took the opportunity to swipe at John McCain yet again.

    “I think John McCain’s done very little for the veterans. I’m very disappointed in John McCain.”

    He then called McCain “yet another all talk, no action politician who spends too much time on television and not enough time doing his job.”

    Meghan McCain had heard enough. She posted to Twitter:

    “I have a brother that just returned from Afghanistan a month ago, glad he can come home to this being said about his father and his service.”

    One by one, and in quick succession, Trump’s “competition” in the GOP primary race denounced him.

    “Donald Trump owes every American veteran and in particular John McCain an apology,” said Rick Perry, right after Trump left the stage.

    “Here’s what I think they’re going to say: ‘Donald Trump, you’re fired,’” Senator Lindsey Graham said. Graham is good friends with Meghan McCain’s dad.

    “I unequivocally denounce him,” Scott Walker said of Trump.

    “Enough with the slanderous attacks,” Jeb Bush tweeted. “@SenJohnMcCain and all our veterans – particularly POWs have earned our respect and admiration.”

    Bobby Jindal tweeted: “John McCain is an American hero. I have nothing but respect for his service to our country. After Donald Trump spends six years in a POW camp, he can weigh in on John McCain’s service.”

    Ted Cruz was not as clear, seeming to have a hard time positioning himself. He called McCain “an American hero,” but would not “say something bad about Donald Trump.”

    Meghan McCain got loads of support for her statement about Trump.

  • Meghan McCain Sick of Sarah Palin’s Gas

    “I am not going to subscribe to Sarah Palin’s $9.95 per month. I got all the Sarah Palin I need for one lifetime.”

    Meghan McCain, outspoken daughter of Senator John McCain, called it like she saw it when asked about Sarah Palin’s new “online network.” The former half-term governor of Alaska and silver medal winner in the vice-presidential election of 2008 recently announced that she is launching what fans are loosely calling an “online TV network.”

    “I don’t know how this is different than a blog with video posts,” McCain said. “It didn’t look like a video channel. Glenn Beck has the Blaze, which is an actual channel you can turn to on television.”

    Funny, that’s what I said.

    Meghan McCain has been clear about her disdain for Sarah Palin for a long time now. In her book Dirty, Sexy Politics, she discussed Palin’s effect on the McCain 2008 presidential campaign.

    “Katie Couric’s interview with her before the vice presidential debate had been disastrous. Unhappy with her performance, Palin seemed to blame the interview on the campaign. And she continued to blame other poor interviews and snafus on the campaign too,” McCain writes. “Sarah Palin. She was turning out to be somebody who leaves a wake of confusion and chaos — to the point of dizziness — wherever she went.”

    McCain has said that she thinks Palin needs to go away and get some schooling in global politics before she steps into politics again.

    “I just don’t agree with the moves she’s made since the election. If I was advising her I would have told her to go away, stay silent, read up on everything.”

    Image via YouTube

  • Meghan McCain Hates Karl Rove, Blasts Republican Leadership

    Meghan McCain was interviewed on Ora.TV’s PoliticKING with Larry King on Thursday, and said many not nice things about Karl Rove. Although the interview covered a lot of abrasive issues, only a few soundbites have been picked up and sorted through by the media. Here are the ones that are making headlines, at least according to Politico:

    “I hate Karl Rove and I think he still needs to apologize to my family, which he has not done, for things that happened in 2000. I think there was an era where Karl Rove was relevant and I don’t know why people still give him attention.”

    On Rove’s comments about Hilary Clinton: “I think what we saw with Karl Rove talking about her health, though, is sort of just the beginning. Just the tip of the iceberg of what’s going to happen with the attacks on her.”

    And on her father, John McCain, and his chances of becoming president: “I think my father could have had Jesus Christ as his running mate and it wouldn’t have mattered in ’07.”

    McCain is not shy about voicing her views on Republican leadership. You can watch the whole interview here:

    Back in 2000, Rove made his bad reputation when he was linked to a campaign during the Republican primary that spread rumors that John McCain fathered an illegitimate black child. Rove denied the link.

    “This is the kind of thing the media love, these kind of allegations,” Rove said according to Politico. “But for people in practical politics, I’ve got to tell you, I was seized with fear when this rumor began to circulate through South Carolina. It was sent out by a professor at Bob Jones University.”

    If you want to hear more about her views, Meghan McCain hosts Pivot’s show Raising McCain.

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  • Meghan McCain New Show Just Latest Victory

    Back in 2008, when Senator John McCain ran against Barack Obama for the presidency, little could anyone have guessed that the McCain that came out the biggest winner in that race would not be John. It would be his daughter Meghan.

    Matt Spencer reported earlier about Meghan McCain’s new show, called “Raising McCain”. But that show is just the latest in a series of star turns for the outspoken daughter of a straight-talking maverick Senator from Arizona.

    Meghan McCain blogged about the 2008 campaign train on her own website, McCain Blogette. Her personal take on politics and how it affected her family made her a star, even after the campaign was over.

    Meghan McCain is a Republican. But she and her father do not always see eye-to-eye on all issues. And she is often at odds with other highly visible Republican voices, particularly people like Ann Coulter or her father’s former running mate, Sarah Palin.

    Young voters have a trust of the young McCain, not seeing her as part of a long-standing establishment, but as an independent voice that they can sympathize with, unbought and unsoiled by the years of politicking that they see older politicians of both parties succumb to.

    In 2009, Meghan McCain became a regular author on The Daily Beast, and a contributor to MSNBC in 2011.

    McCain told the Television Critics Association that her new show lets her “be crazy, be myself and talk about issues.”

    “I came to Pivot because I think there has to be some sort of middle ground between the Kardashians and C-SPAN,” McCain said. “I want to give people information but not talk down to them. I am so excited. This is the best thing I’ve ever done.”

    She says her father has seen footage of her new show and supports her in this, as opposed to his disappointment when she started work with MSNBC.

  • Meghan McCain To Host Show On New Network

    Meghan McCain To Host Show On New Network

    It is not unusual for politicians and the like to find their way onto television in one form or another, often to the detriment of political discourse in the United States. However, the daughter of former presidential nominee Sen. John McCain may be taking a different route.

    Meghan McCain will be the host of “Raising McCain”, a hybrid doucmentary-talk series. The series will air on Pivot, a new entertainment network that set to launch on August 1st that will target a younger audience. McCain will also serve as an executive producer for the series.

    The show will follow McCain as she travels the country in search of answers to important, as well as unusual questions. McCain will reportedly interact with experts on certain topics as well as everyday people in her travels.

    The younger McCain’s turn from directly political television is surprising, and may represent a turn in the focus of networks from certain political principles to a more all-encompassing approach meant to entertain as well as inform.

    Not everyone is thrilled at the prospect of the child of a major politician hosting a show, however.

    Shows such as “Raising McCain” are also ripe for criticism from those who view it as right leaning fluff meant to show the softer side of the conservatism. Whether or not that is the case will not be evident until the launch of Pivot and the premier of the show.