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Meghan McCain On Maddow: We Can’t Just Have GOP On Fox, Democrats On MSNBC

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In March of 2009, Meghan McCain caught a lot fo flak from some conservatives for appearing on the Rachel Maddow Show. Last night, she returned to promote her new book Dirty Sexy Politics. During the lengthy interview she discussed topics like gay rights, the future of the Republican Party, and her own future. Defending her choice to appear on the show, she remarked that “we can’t just have Republicans going on Fox and Democrats going on MSNBC.”

The first section of the interview mostly dealt with her views that the Republican Party needs to start catering more to “moderate conservatives” which she also had discussed in her first Maddow appearance. She also, throughout the interview, talked about how difficult it was to be more moderate in this day and age. At one point, she remarked how most conservatives seemed to think it was more defensible to have had a sex tape than to support gay marriage.

Gay rights were extensively discussed in the second part of the interview. Maddow pushed her to talk about how hard it was to have such different views that her father on the subject. McCain, instead, wanted to focus on President Obama and how, in her opinion, the media hadn’t pressured him nearly enough on his limited to complete lack of action on repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and fighting for gay marriage. She argued that gay rights seemed to be an issue that was divided by generational lines, which made it so strange that Obama, “significantly younger” than her father, hadn’t been working harder.

Later, she talked about how there should be a website and meeting place for moderate conservatives. Maddow joked that, with so many moderates losing in the Primaries, there will be plenty of people to join her and McCain countered that they can all meet, even if it will have to be in her apartment.

All in all, it was an entertaining interview with an engaged host and a guest who, no matter what her politics, seemed happy to be there. Watch it below:

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  • TfT

    Meagan must not watch Fox. I saw her on F&F this morning. Interesting that she claimed folks have taken her Palin comments out of context (well, not really interesting, typical).

  • Some_Dude

    It shouldn’t be remarkable to hear a Republican be practical and take an even stance, but it is. I commend her for being politically true to herself despite how highly visible she as, as McCain’s daughter.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Why don’t we just have a vote on gay marriage if Rachel and Meghan think they are right. Oh, thats right when people vote they vote it down every time even in California. While the young people have been brainwashed about how cute it is to have gay marriage they eventually wake up.
    The only reason this subject keeps coming up is because we have judges that keep trying to write their own laws.

  • Azarkhan

    Meghan McCain’s “Blonde Airhead Tour” continues. Next stops: Fox and Friends, Jon Stewart, The View.

  • Some_Dude

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Why don’t we just have a vote on gay marriage if Rachel and Meghan think they are right. Oh, thats right when people vote they vote it down every time even in California. While the young people have been brainwashed about how cute it is to have gay marriage they eventually wake up.
    The only reason this subject keeps coming up is because we have judges that keep trying to write their own laws.

    Is civil rights something we should be voting on in the first place, as Americans? Or should we allow our Judicial branch to handle it?

    Afterall, If an open vote was held on the civil rights bill at the time segregation would have still been legal. Our judicial branch defends the rights of the minority and upholds the Constitution, regardless of the opinion of the majority.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

    Maddow & Meghan McCain are strangely similar, in an odd, repugnant fashion.

  • AngelPeters

    Gay marriage. It will happen. As the older generations die off, it will happen. Just like the stigma of interracial marriage (which was once illegal too, btw) faded, so will the stigma of gay marriage.

  • marigrace

    Gay rights! Gays have the same rights that everyone else in America has. They have the freedom to marry someone of the opposite sex; however, they choose not to make use of this freedom. Therefore, the real issue is not about denying homosexuals the right to marry, but about denying them additional rights. Homosexuals have the same freedoms or rights that heterosexuals have, but they want more. Marriage is not anything we want to make it, but something in particular. It isn’t arbitrary and it isn’t defined by society, but rather marriage is recognized by society for what it is.

  • teufelhunden75

    True, but Meghan McCain is not a Republican.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    “Meghan McCain On Maddow: We Can’t Just Have Republicans Going On Fox, Democrats Going On MSNBC”

    Spoken like a true progressive…..

  • BatBoy

    A quick Poll…

    Who here is tired of reading about Meghan McCain?

    I sure am!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • sarainitaly

    Speaking of guest appearances on tv shows:

    It’s no secret in show business comedy circles or to anyone with access to Twitter that comedian and television star Louis C.K. is crudely and sexually obsessed with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin — so much so that he sends her direct tweets calling her the vilest of names [NSFW screen shot below]. The star of the FX series “Louie” not only savages the former Governor in such a way that I’m forced to publish the evidence below the fold with a strong warning, but his breathtakingly vicious attack on Trig Palin is quite popular on YouTube.

    http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/09/09/leave-the-kids-alone-tonight-show-seats-crude-sarah-palin-hater-seated-next-to-her-daughter/

  • MichelleF

    Poor insignificant Meghan. She wants SO badly for people to care what she thinks, but the only ones who do are the libs, but only if she’s speaking ill of Republicans (which let’s face it, is most of the time). The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in that family. Isn’t her 15 minutes up yet!

  • BatBoy

    sarainitaly said:
    Speaking of guest appearances on tv shows: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/09/09/leave-the-kids-alone-tonight-show-seats-crude-sarah-palin-hater-seated-next-to-her-daughter/

    Thanks for bringing this to my attention…that man is pure garbage!

    He is what the left is all about…

    “Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept,
    the nomination of my party for another term
    as your President.” Barack Obama, March 31, 2012

  • Azarkhan

    Gov. Christie schools another greedy union teacher:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkuTm-ON904&feature=player_embedded

  • Smeg

    If she weren’t McCain’s daughter she’d be flipping burgers. She’s not in any way all that impressive or particularly remarkable.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    marigrace said:
    Homosexuals have the same freedoms or rights that heterosexuals have, but they want more.

    I find this statement funny. It reads kinda like this: “Hey, that’s no fair! Why can the gays marry people of the same sex and I can’t?!?! Now they have more rights than I do!!”

    I think that if homosexuals are allowed to marry the same sex, it should be perfectly fine for heterosexuals to have that same right. But then, of course, they wouldn’t be heterosexual.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    sarainitaly said:
    Speaking of guest appearances on tv shows:

    http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/09/09/leave-the-kids-alone-tonight-show-seats-crude-sarah-palin-hater-seated-next-to-her-daughter/

    That’s Louis CK for you. I’ve seen his stand-up. He is certainly not for the faint-at-heart.

  • Hugo Daun

    sarainitaly said:

    http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/09/09/leave-the-kids-alone-tonight-show-seats-crude-sarah-palin-hater-seated-next-to-her-daughter/

    This link deserves to be repeated. Louis CK is hilarious!

    Of course, he’s no Jeff Foxworthy….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    teufelhunden75 said:
    True, but Meghan McCain is not a Republican.

    If she is registered as a Republican (which she is), then she is a Republican.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    Stephen Hogan said:
    If she is registered as a Republican (which she is), then she is a Republican.

    Makes a feller want to change party’s eh? Just click on my Avatar for the answer…

  • teufelhunden75

    My guess is that the McCains, both father and daughter, wants to be a Republican because it’s “cool” to be an insurgent within the party, even though had they joined the Democratic party they’d be, well, just your normal Democrats.

  • MrAut

    I thought the passage from the book was lucid and believable, and I thought the conservation was intelligent. Seriously, who would you rather have a conversation with, this woman, or with Sarah Palin? I don’t get you die hards – what is wrong with being able to think? what kind of bizarro world have we entered when someone can call McCain a “blonde airhead” and turn around and see folks like Palin or Jan Brewer or Angle as thought leaders?

  • Azarkhan

    MrAut said:
    what kind of bizarro world have we entered when someone can call McCain a “blonde airhead”

    What kind of bizarro world have we entered when someone can call Meghan McCain a “thought leader”?

  • valkyrie101

    Is there a way to reconcile the moderate views of moderate Republicans with the crazy tea party candidates? If so, the Republicans should do well in the elections, etc. Traditionally, a fair percentage of more moderate Republicans do not favor school prayer, or a ban on abortion. Nor are they rabidly anti=federal government. Its one thing for the tea party views to garner enough votes to be chosen as a candidate, but winning the hearts of the moderate Republicans could be a problem if the democrat candidate is seen as more status quo, which, of course, defends the right to an abortion, not to mention the 14th, and 17th amendments. And given that the economy had fallen upon the precipice of doom, with the potential for world wide collapse a couple months before Obama took office. After that, it is just nasty blaming Obama and company for a still struggling economy.

  • MrAut

    I didn’t call her a thought leader. You called her an “airhead,”–which is clearly absurd–and Sarah Palin is a thought leader of the party, isn’t she? You don’t need to put words in my mouth

    Here’s the dirty little secret, as far as I can see. You self-proclaimed conservatives champion the causes of independence and freedom, and yet you can’t depart one inch from the official line. Chew on that

  • Azarkhan

    valkyrie101 said:
    Is there a way to reconcile the moderate views of moderate Republicans with the crazy tea party candidates?

    A better question: is there a way to reconcile the moderate views of the American people with the left wing extremists who run the Democratic Party?

    Answer: not before Nov 2.

  • Iris

    Asshat Khan hates the young blonde but loves the chubby grey head old fart newt. It doesn’t matter what you old right wing haters think anymore, you will be leaving the planet soon and guess what Meghan and the other young progressives D & R will still be here changing the insanity you thought was so wonderful…HA, HA

  • avoidswork

    the “bizarro world” would be reality, Azarkhan. Thshat said, I think it’s ridiculous to call a woman with a degree from Columbia, a column at a blog and a book out as a “blonde airhead”. Like it or not (and i’m sure you don’t), she’s significantly more intelligent than Sarah Palin. She is in a position to have a POV about Palin that is first-hand and said it. She’s right, about the gays. Some of you on this thread said they’d take VItter in LA over a Dem/lib candidate. A “family values” man who used prostitutes in two cities. Marigrace rambled something out (word salad) that was absurd about homosexuals having the right to marry someone not of their same-sex preference.

    Marriage, in this nation, is a civil contract. Pieces of paper are signed by witnesses, then turned in. Next, a certificate comes in the mail. A church should not be obligated to perform a same-sex marriage, but a couple should be able to go down to the courthouse to get hitched, regardless of their hetero/homo status.

    Is Miss McCain more repulsive to you than a Sharron Angle or Michele Bachmann? Because there is the blonde one, and then two b@tshit crazies. To me, there is no choice between irrational and rational. Between crazy and sane. The rhetoric coming out of the Tea/Repub party these days is disturbing. Your country hasn’t been taken away. You’re still in the majority (white/pro-Jesus). You’re not an aggreived minority, you’re just aggrieved. There’s a significant difference.

    But the Gordons of the world are wrong. Younger generations are more pro-gay rights and their acceptance of homosexuals continues to increase. Over time, our nation will move towards equality.

  • felixw

    There’s more diversity of opinion during 15 minutes of Fox News than during a month of MSNBC’s prime time programming.

  • Azarkhan

    avoidswork said:
    Like it or not (and i’m sure you don’t), she’s significantly more intelligent than Sarah Palin.

    And you know this because…Oh right, you read all the lies and hate spread by the Left.

    avoidswork said:
    Is Miss McCain more repulsive to you than a Sharron Angle or Michele Bachmann?

    Much, much so. Those two women have earned their positions. Meghan (Airhead) McCain is a nobody with a famous father.

  • Iris

    Ass hat , you got to be kidding EVERYONE knows MM is much more intelligent than Sarah mooseburger and we KNOW this because we have had to listen to her scrambled words that mean nothing and see her interviews where it was clear how bad she has teh stoopid thats why she won’t talk to any news people anymore, DUH??!!

  • notsofast

    RM had a hard-on the entire time.

  • Iris

    And what did you do grampy nutso poop in your depends?

  • stoogedudes

    avoidswork said:
    the “bizarro world” would be reality, Azarkhan. Thshat said, I think it’s ridiculous to call a woman with a degree from Columbia, a column at a blog and a book out as a “blonde airhead”. Like it or not (and i’m sure you don’t), she’s significantly more intelligent than Sarah Palin. She is in a position to have a POV about Palin that is first-hand and said it. She’s right, about the gays. Some of you on this thread said they’d take VItter in LA over a Dem/lib candidate. A “family values” man who used prostitutes in two cities. Marigrace rambled something out (word salad) that was absurd about homosexuals having the right to marry someone not of their same-sex preference. Marriage, in this nation, is a civil contract. Pieces of paper are signed by witnesses, then turned in. Next, a certificate comes in the mail. A church should not be obligated to perform a same-sex marriage, but a couple should be able to go down to the courthouse to get hitched, regardless of their hetero/homo status. Is Miss McCain more repulsive to you than a Sharron Angle or Michele Bachmann? Because there is the blonde one, and then two b@tshit crazies. To me, there is no choice between irrational and rational. Between crazy and sane. The rhetoric coming out of the Tea/Repub party these days is disturbing. Your country hasn’t been taken away. You’re still in the majority (white/pro-Jesus). You’re not an aggreived minority, you’re just aggrieved. There’s a significant difference. But the Gordons of the world are wrong. Younger generations are more pro-gay rights and their acceptance of homosexuals continues to increase. Over time, our nation will move towards equality.

    I agree with you, but whats with the name? You know a name like that is just asking for the righties to attack you as a “typical lazy nanny-state liberal”.

    But I do agree with you…very much so on your comment.

  • avoidswork

    Azarkhan said:
    And you know this because…Oh right, you read all the lies and hate spread by the Left. Much, much so. Those two women have earned their positions. Meghan (Airhead) McCain is a nobody with a famous father.

    Aza ~ I have heard Sarah speak, I’ve read her “words”. I’ve heard Meghan speak, I’ve read her words. No brainer. MM smart. SP, politically savvy. Again, large difference. But to call Sarah smart either puts you in the same intellectual realm as she (“thinks the square root of four is rainbows” — h/t if you guess the origin of that quote) or are not accepting of who she is: a charismatic mean girl, but not of the intellectual capacity to be a national leader.

    And if you don’t believe me, ask Americans (only 1 in 4 of all adults thinks Palin is qualified to be commander-in-chief while 60 %say she is not; Repubs give her about 47% qualified, 40% not qualified).

    Bachmann and Angle have “earned” positions? True. Frightening considering they are supported by voters like you (says a lot about voters, less about their, uh, qualifications). But, they have certainly earned their “crazy, evil, stupid’ stripes. Trifeca, baby. Some, like Rand Paul, are more crazy/stupid. Cheney – just evil.

    And I stand by my assessment: they are irrational, crazy and intellectually incurious. Blessed be, though, Bachmann’s son ignored his mama and joined that re-education camp of Obama’s (Teach for America, part of AmeriCorps).

  • Kitsune

    The name calling around here is getting seriously out of control for a group of people who want to be seen as intelligent and enlightened.

    Don’t get me wrong, both sides here are doing it, and right now, it doesn’t really matter which side is doing it more. There’s more finger-pointing and name calling going back and forth than there is anything else. Two sides that hate each other on a venomous personal level over what at its base level seems to come down to “which side can goad the other into violent revolt first?” (in general)

    I’d say more, but it’ll just get twisted into being some sort of partisan rant that I had no intention of making.

  • Iris

    GETTING?? you havent been around here very long, its always been like this, Mediaite is known for it

  • valkyrie101

    Azarkhan said:
    A better question: is there a way to reconcile the moderate views of the American people with the left wing extremists who run the Democratic Party? Answer: not before Nov 2.

    I do not think it is a big deal having the Repubs taking both houses. That would benefit Obama.

  • valkyrie101

    The Republicans with both houses will be seen as holding the bag, even though without the super majority, they can do almost nothing without Democratic support. As we know.

  • FoxSpells666

    As an outsider, a Canadian, I find American politics frustrating. It’s like walking into an icecream shop and asking what flavors they have. Vanilla and Strawberry is the answer. I don’t really like either, can I have chocolate, please? Vanilla and Strawberry.

    Divide and conquer has long been a successful strategy. I have to ask myself, who benefits from the perpetual divisiveness between Dems and Repubs? Who gets all the gate receipts while the two teams clash in the political Super Bowl?

    And no, I don’t mean to belittle the USA entirely. I certainly find American politics etc much more interesting and significant than Canadian ho hum equivalents.

  • Azarkhan

    valkyrie101 said:
    That would benefit Obama.

    LOL.

  • Nachi

    Another unfortunate offspring of another demonstrated professional drunk – analyzing Murcuh.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    FoxSpells666 said:
    As an outsider, a Canadian, I find American politics frustrating. It’s like walking into an icecream shop and asking what flavors they have. Vanilla and Strawberry is the answer. I don’t really like either, can I have chocolate, please? Vanilla and Strawberry.

    Divide and conquer has long been a successful strategy. I have to ask myself, who benefits from the perpetual divisiveness between Dems and Repubs? Who gets all the gate receipts while the two teams clash in the political Super Bowl?

    Us Libertarians have the chocolate. Not to many Americans know about this delicious flavor and its intoxicating effect…. Click on my Avatar to find out where to get some!

  • Sunnyr

    Too bad there isn’t a show for RINO Progressive Twits. Miss Piggy would fit right in.

  • Rogue-Comic

    Kitsune said:
    The name calling around here is getting seriously out of control for a group of people who want to be seen as intelligent and enlightened.

    Don’t get me wrong, both sides here are doing it, and right now, it doesn’t really matter which side is doing it more. There’s more finger-pointing and name calling going back and forth than there is anything else. Two sides that hate each other on a venomous personal level over what at its base level seems to come down to “which side can goad the other into violent revolt first?” (in general)

    I’d say more, but it’ll just get twisted into being some sort of partisan rant that I had no intention of making.

    One day, Dan Abrams is going to really piss someone off and s/he will use the non moderated content on this site to effectively brand Abrams within the same spectrum as a certain baptist preacher.

  • Latin2

    Actually EVERYONE at MSNBC’s prime time line up is far left extremists. I bet Shep is not a Republican. Greta is Democrat and O’Reilly is an Independent.

  • shootfromthehip

    Latin2.

    The best thing you can do right now is turn off the bold tag and get a fucking clue.

    O’Reilly is not a god damn “Independent.”

    Fuck me I hate blind cons.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    Latin2 said:
    Actually EVERYONE at MSNBC’s prime time line up is far left extremists. I bet Shep is not a Republican. Greta is Democrat and O’Reilly is an Independent.

    Shep is one of the few Liberals that are on fox. O’reilly says he is an Independent. I think he is just ashamed to call himself a Republican. If looks like a duck quacks like a duck, its a duck. Feel me O’reilly….

  • Yoda002

    This just gets the Republican’s panties in a bunch; they’re all confused and they don’t know who to follow now.

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