two nights ago meghan mccain made an appearance on the colbert report. if you happened to miss it, you can see the embedded vid here. and for a hilarious, spot-on (not to mention highly irreverent) piece on it, go here.
in case you don't watch colbert, don't care to click on the video link, but somehow are still interested in reading this post, let me give a little context. meghan mccain is ALL the rage. it started during her dad's unsuccessful bid for president, when she began her "mccainetteblog" and had a lot of photo ops standing behind speakers on campaign platforms. and after the inauguration it just kept going and going and going...
...largely because meghan kept it going. when she's not broadcasting f-bomb laced tweets, and writing "articles" on her blog and thedailybeast.com, she's generating faux fights with members of her new party (she only became an R days before the election), which land her on the view as well as real news programs.
the fact that a twenty-something has a dirty mouth, a penchant for mugging for the camera, and a healthy dose of naivete is not news. i know more people than i can count who fit that description. the thing is, meghan mccain really does have a huge platform at her disposal, one she did not earn, but could use. the shame is that she wastes the opportunity. on colbert her one talking point, repeated a dozen or so times was: "i'm pro-sex, pro-life and pro-gay," by which (i think) she meant that the republican party should moderate on social issues in order to appeal to young voters like her.
when mccain talks--last night, being just one example-- i swear i hear the sucking of a vacuum and not a real human voice. maybe it's her school girl tweets (getting ready to go on colbert: "i'm so f--king nervous!") or maybe her juvenile attempts at political critique ("i'm sorry we're not hip" and "karl rove is creepy."). or maybe it's because when ms. mccain talks cringe-y moments inevitably follow. is she going to talk about licking colbert's face or what a bitch ann coulter is? what's truly odd is that the girl is at once self-aggrandizing and self-conscious. she tries hard, real hard. but does she know she's not rushing a sorority? she knows she's on t.v, right? like t.v. that's recorded.
right. for a while i felt sorry for her, but the truth is meghan knows exactly what she's doing. she's silly, rude, naive, and a tool of the media--and she's loving it. her daddy is yesterday's political news so she's running down the last seconds of her 15 minutes of fame. she's the paris hilton of the right, yet fancies herself A1 pundit. i hope she's having the time of her life. it'll soon be over and then she and paris can start their own reality show.
turning. channel. now.
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amen.
i watched her on tyra (don't judge) the other day and was so horrifyingly intrigued i couldn't turn it off at first. then i had enough.
it has been fascinating, though, reading all the analyses of her and what she's doing. she's a pitiful thing who doesn't realize the joke is totally on her.
i know. and while i think maybe i'm harsh on her (!), it's one of those "but you could do so much more" things. sigh. maybe i'm delusional but i just think, boy what someone could do with a platform like hers (and not just one for politics, but for helping the poor or helping kids or launching a home reno show, for that matter! something constructive and interesting...) well, word to the wise. i imagine she'll wake up in her 30s and laugh at all this. maybe she'll be an abassador by then and she'll have the LAST laugh. :)
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