Quotes of the day
posted at 9:45 pm on March 14, 2009 by Allahpundit
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“I have been teased about my weight and body figure since I was in middle school, and I decided a very long time ago to embrace what God gave me and live my life positively, attempting to set an example for other girls who may suffer with body image issues. I have nothing to hide: I am a size eight and fluctuated up to a size ten during the campaign. It’s ridiculous to even have this conversation because I am not overweight in the least and have a natural body weight…
The question remains: Why, after all this time and all the progress feminists have made, is weight still such an issue? And, in Laura’s case, why in the world would a woman raise it? Today, taking shots at a woman’s weight has become one of the last frontiers in socially accepted prejudice.”
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Why Liberals Cannot Debate Rationally
What Laura was doing was poking a little fun. We can have fun are our own expense. Can’t we?
Kini on March 15, 2009 at 2:18 AM
These comments about who would “Hit it” and who wouldn’t are unhelpful and immature and who knows, maybe Olby will read them to trash MM.
The other comment that said “you would hit it cause you are posting on a political blog on a saturday night” is dumb too. Some people are married, some are students etc etc.
Anything stupid like that you say can be used by some lefty to attack everyone here.
Chuck Norton on March 15, 2009 at 2:19 AM
Then tell me something, why is Al (“Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot”)Franken a heartbeat from the Senate?
I don’t like caustic either, but your point is untenable.
Joe Pyne on March 15, 2009 at 2:19 AM
Laura ingrham, why did you do that? What do you care about? Meghan McCain’s weight? Why? That is below you. I understand why having to listen to her views is frustrating considering the fact that her mindless views generate attention but you just accompanied those stupid views with sympathy. Bad combination as far as your political agenda is concerned.
Zetterson on March 15, 2009 at 2:23 AM
Geez, are you people for real? Laura Ingraham wasn’t saying that Meghan is fat. She was making the point that HOLLYWOOD thinks she’s fat. Hello? The show “The Real World” wouldn’t accept her. That was Laura’s point. Meghan sounds like a vacuous valley girl, someone who would try to become an actress in Hollywood and be rejected because of her weight.
BlameAmericaLast on March 15, 2009 at 2:27 AM
The world is melting and the skies are falling and THIS is the quote of the day?
OK. I’ll admit it. I don’t get it.
hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 2:33 AM
Who is John Galt?
TheTrollhammer on March 15, 2009 at 2:37 AM
He’s the guy that manages the fry station at McDonnell’s
Kini on March 15, 2009 at 2:39 AM
The wise ask questions the foolish can not answer.
Tav on March 15, 2009 at 2:39 AM
Meghan, if you don’t want people to laugh at your fat ass, don’t go spouting your mealy-mouthed wisdom about GOP candidates. Deal?
promachus on March 15, 2009 at 2:40 AM
I think AP looked in the mirror and found a Grey hair.
Kini on March 15, 2009 at 2:40 AM
Who posts crap like this – crap that produces pages of idiotic remarks – under the banner of ‘Quotes of the Day’?
This looks like a huffpo posting!
Hal-9000 on March 15, 2009 at 2:44 AM
She is just disgusting to me.
Coulter mentioned well-known christian doctrine about how all people, including people who dont believe in christ, like Jews, need to be perfected in Christ…and that is anti-semitic? Only somebody looking for a reason to attack
Ann on that one. When people criticize Ann Coulter for that remark, they criticize ALL christians…well except for maybe the most liberal types but certainly that is accepted doctrine in the vast majority of christian churches. So, that is a shot at us.
Secondly, she wants to represent republican young people? Who nominated her for that position. Donny Osmond would be abetter hip person than her.
Finally, cool it with the oreos and cheetohs, pig.
The Wall on March 15, 2009 at 2:46 AM
The entire McCain clan are big liberals. I don’t care what political party they wish to claim. At least MOST liberals have the honor to belong to the party closest to their ideology!
Hal-9000 on March 15, 2009 at 2:48 AM
Laura got catty. Surprise, surprise.
Part of the feminine condition.*
*I can see you typing up that scathing response about how YOU’RE A WOMAN and how you’re TOTALLY THE EXCEPTION to that rule. You may well be. It’s still mostly accurate and you know it.
TheUnrepentantGeek on March 15, 2009 at 2:49 AM
Of course it is the QOTD… Allah has a nose for comments.
Diogenes of Sinope on March 15, 2009 at 2:49 AM
Come on Allah, you should at least give the whole quote, not just the little snippet there.
You can find the whole piece for free on Laura’s website. Laura was mocking the vacuous words of Meghan McCain, a new voice being paraded through the mainstream media as a reformer of the Republican party. Meghan McCain was being interviewed by Rachel Maddow and McCain is picking sides and doesn’t seem to like conservatives.
Link to full clip
Skeptic on March 15, 2009 at 2:55 AM
You guys are so anti-Laura. Please tell me I’m wrong. Laura never said Meghan was fat. She referenced an MTV show that usually has thin people in it. Laura agrees with all of us. It’s WRONG when “The Real World” rejects plus-size models. They would reject Meghan if she ever applied. What Laura was doing was mocking Meghan’s accent and speaking style.
BlameAmericaLast on March 15, 2009 at 2:56 AM
412 and counting ☺
Kini on March 15, 2009 at 2:56 AM
Conservatives acting like liberals….
Where is the love
Where is the hate
Love American Style
Love Bulimia Style
Kini on March 15, 2009 at 3:00 AM
More like being groomed by Rachel Maddow, if you catch my drift.
platypus on March 15, 2009 at 3:01 AM
Or he’s enamored with Miss McCain. She is quite pretty. He could do much worse.
SouthernGent on March 15, 2009 at 3:04 AM
A good measure of the ethics of what you’re doing is, if Dennis Prager would never even think to do it, it’s probably the wrong thing to do. And that includes making snarky fun of Meghan McCain. She’s allowed to have her own opinions, and she’s not running for anything. The fastest way to make her go away is ignore her.
RBMN on March 15, 2009 at 3:06 AM
I think Laura is hotter than hell.
I sometimes dream of me and her hanging out, going to the movies, walking hand in hand on the beach, getting a good night smooch….and then I wake up.
Same goes for babe Ann Coulter.
Meghan McCain doesnt exactly provide that type of pleasant dream for me. Do you think she can buy clothes off the rack or has to get special order clothes?
By the way, what all this Katherine Hamm stuff. She is maybe kinda sorta cute but there is no way in all of holy hell that she is nearly as attractive, to the hetero male, ass babe Ann Coulter and babe Laura.
I bet Laura would dig me if she gave me chance. Except I am married with 3 kids but I would sacrifice for her….to the max.
The Wall on March 15, 2009 at 3:06 AM
Enlighten us O wise
assone.hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 3:07 AM
That’s what I thought, Tav.
hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 3:11 AM
If plus size valley girls are to rule the political discourse, then no one will model the plus sized clothes. So much for American plus size fashion and American politics.
PercyB on March 15, 2009 at 3:14 AM
The foolish ask questions the wise can not answer.
Tav on March 15, 2009 at 3:16 AM
Mercy, Percy, why no rhyme?
Could you not find the time?
Are we not worth the trouble?
Can’t you save us from this economic bubble?
Yadda yadda yadda.
hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 3:19 AM
Uh, no. Last time I checked, it was still socially acceptable to screw WhiteAngloSaxonProtestants, no problem.
BlameAmericaLast on March 15, 2009 at 3:21 AM
Well, you got me there.
hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 3:22 AM
I sat on a river bank when hillbillyjim shouted to me from the side of the river: “Hey! how do I get across?”. I shouted back: “You are across!
Tav on March 15, 2009 at 3:22 AM
You’re right, the wise just, for some reason, make cracks about how the foolish are fat.
jimmy the notable on March 15, 2009 at 3:25 AM
That’s what I get for responding before thinking. My apologies.
hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 3:26 AM
Sink me, your highness, it’s my damned cravat taking up my time. Simply refuses to tie. I ask you. Sticking out like a pincushion.
PercyB on March 15, 2009 at 3:28 AM
Oh yes, no doubt…she would dig you.
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capitalist piglet on March 15, 2009 at 3:28 AM
Yeah. I got it. Finally, huh?
hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 3:29 AM
Could be, he was into Kirsten Powers. While she’s not a chunky, she bears a resemblance. Sort of… grasping at straws
Kini on March 15, 2009 at 3:29 AM
Out, damnable cravat!
Be done with ye. Foul cravat!
hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 3:32 AM
A Witch, A Witch!!!
Turned me into a Newt!
Kini on March 15, 2009 at 3:34 AM
Here’s the one sweet lesson of history
Every soul is a mystery
Faces change.
What you thought you knew grows strange
We all have so many faces
The real self often erases
With all those lies dancing in our eyes!
PercyB on March 15, 2009 at 3:40 AM
I hate when that happens to me. (squeak squeak)
hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 3:41 AM
People who write on shithouse walls
Roll their shit in tiny balls.
Those who read these words of wit
Eat those tiny balls of shit.
————–unknown
hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 3:43 AM
Sink me, but I can understand why such prose as that would go unsigned, indeed.
PercyB on March 15, 2009 at 3:45 AM
I can see why you view these words obscene.
With your gifts, this must turn you positively green.
hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 3:50 AM
The night is cool
The wind is high
A wave of light
Breaks through the sky
I watch the light
And wonder when
This wind will sweep
Me home again
I would be warm
If I were there
In golden fields
And easy air
I close my eyes
And now and then
My weary heart
Moves home again
PercyB on March 15, 2009 at 3:55 AM
Nice. Though, I like your martial pieces better.
hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 3:59 AM
Into terror with our heads held high
Charge ahead, never turn
It’s into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn
PercyB on March 15, 2009 at 4:04 AM
Now that’s old-school.
hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 4:09 AM
The main reason I hardly ever read or post to HotAir.
Tommy_G on March 15, 2009 at 4:10 AM
A rare gift it is to turn a blank page into a canvas.
hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 4:11 AM
More’s the pity. Bwahaha. Ha. hahahaha. BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!
hillbillyjim on March 15, 2009 at 4:13 AM
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
semloh on March 15, 2009 at 4:16 AM
We must maintain our anonymity, mask our identities. Even if it means suffering the mockery of others. Being taken for fools, fops, nitwits. And that’s the easy part, the hard part is not being able to boast about our exploits to the ladies.
PercyB on March 15, 2009 at 4:20 AM
Hmmm…..
From the looks of these latest posts…
Looks like somebody forgot to lock the door at Clancy’s Pool Hall.
Joe Pyne on March 15, 2009 at 4:20 AM
Why does this Megan McCain airhead even have a forum? Is she adding value anywhere?
Fed45 on March 15, 2009 at 4:21 AM
because Laura just gave her another (hopefully her LAST) 15 minutes.
It’s just a shame For Laura Ingraham (and way too many people here) cede the moral high ground to an intellectual nitwit like Meghan McCain.
I do think it’s funny how Meghan tried her best to pick a fight with Ann Coulter but Ann just ignored the Paris Hilton of Politics. But then in swoops Ingraham to take Ann’s table scraps. Laura is either way to insecure or really in needs of some sort of fight to boost her ratings.
Ampersand on March 15, 2009 at 5:11 AM
Ted Kennedy is a fat and weird looking man…. I said it.
Ampersand on March 15, 2009 at 5:14 AM
Laura Ingraham is a pretty strange looking bird herself.
It really does ill become her do sound off like some dirty little ghetto ho.
Ares on March 15, 2009 at 5:31 AM
When Teddy Kennedy talks about his “war on individualism,” or any of a thousand or ten thousand other leftist eye-poppers, and nobody mentions it ever again.
When Laura Ingraham implies that an overweight person is overweight, all Hell breaks loose.
Even “conservative” blogs are driven by the left-wing MSM and its double standard.
Merovign on March 15, 2009 at 5:46 AM
I think it’s ok for Meghan to want to have debates about the future direction of the Party, but talking to Harry Smith and Rachel Maddow will NEVER get you there. Rachel is a proud lib and Harry just lies about it everyday. She needs to talk to actual R’s about this or at least people who are not extreme Obamabots.
gsherin on March 15, 2009 at 6:05 AM
Um, newts don’t squeak. LOL!
BlameAmericaLast on March 15, 2009 at 6:23 AM
Off Meghan and onto Obama planning to get us into more than two wars at a time given his reckless abandon.
Sounds like Obama’s going to carry through on his promise to restore the DRAFT. His career data mined who’s who statistics on our population. Will he avoid or pinpoint drafting his supporters; wait and see. When they report for duty, their ability to walk-and-chew-gum will define assignment.
maverick muse on March 15, 2009 at 6:44 AM
When an Art History major who voted for Kerry (!!) in 2004 suddenly pretends she is a Republican and starts spouting vacuous, vapid liberal ideas in an attempt to “school” the Republican party…
…the only proper response is derision and laughter.
Religious_Zealot on March 15, 2009 at 6:49 AM
It’s only OK to call someone fat if the person is a male.
chansen9 on March 15, 2009 at 6:59 AM
I love the comments asking why this is “quote of the day” and why its even worth posting. 460 comments later…heh. Allah knows what he’s doing.
vcferlita on March 15, 2009 at 7:11 AM
Laura and Meghan both benefit from the attention. Their undergraduate degrees don’t seem much different.
dedalus on March 15, 2009 at 7:23 AM
But their graduate degrees are very much different.
I’m sorry but when has Laura ever been vacuous, vapid or liberal? Are we talking about some other Ingraham?
BlameAmericaLast on March 15, 2009 at 7:39 AM
Tie a cheeseburger around Allah’s neck and wait five minutes. That ought to do it.
Kent18 on March 15, 2009 at 7:44 AM
Meghan finished her degree in 2008 and is 20 years younger than Laura. They target different demographics, and there are going to be some generational differences.
dedalus on March 15, 2009 at 7:54 AM
While Miss McCain is cute, she sickens me. She (much like her father) is no conservative. They represent the far left wing of the republican party. The MSM is desperate to break up any efforts on our part to mount any meaningful resurgence as a movement and threaten their beloved democrats in the mid term election cycle. So they promote every opportunity to split us and get us arguing about minutia that takes the focus off of the failures of this administration and congress. i.e. the flap about Rush wanting the president to fail, Ann Coulter being too mean and venomous and now this one. Miss McCain is a media whore, and she will all too gladly accept the opportunity to get back on TV and play the victim because of something one of our pundits has said about her. And the media is all too giddy to put her on and enable her to be a victim of some right wing hater!
conservnut on March 15, 2009 at 7:57 AM
The world is melting and the skies are falling and THIS is the quote of the day?
OK. I’ll admit it. I don’t get it.
AMEN!
apoole on March 15, 2009 at 8:05 AM
If McShamnesty’s daughter broke her leg, gravy would spill out.
csdeven on March 15, 2009 at 8:38 AM
These comments about who would “Hit it” and who wouldn’t are unhelpful and immature and who knows, maybe Olby will read them to trash MM.
The other comment that said “you would hit it cause you are posting on a political blog on a saturday night” is dumb too. Some people are married, some are students etc etc.
Anything stupid like that you say can be used by some lefty to attack everyone here.
Chuck Norton on March 15, 2009 at 2:19 AM
*
Even though she’s a chunky little broad, I’d hit it.
marklmail on March 15, 2009 at 8:44 AM
This is the problem with the so-called “conservatives” on Hot Air: They can’t understand sarcasm. HEAVY sarcasm at that.
The crude remarks about McShamnesty’s fatty (sarcasm again) daughter are an illustration of what an insult about ones weight would sound like. LI wasn’t insulting her weight.
You stupid asses don’t understand LI’s remark any more than you do Ann Coulter’s “faggot” remark. Do the conservative movement a favor will ya? Figure it out or admit you’re a RINO and go “identify” with the loons at Huffpo.
McShamnesty’s daughter has several HUGE problems. First among them is that she is a RINO. A close second is that she has an UGLY personality. It doesn’t surprise me that you two faux conservatives “identify” with her.
csdeven on March 15, 2009 at 8:52 AM
I have come to the realization in my life that one cannot be physically pretty if they have an ugly personality. A person with less than stellar looks with a great personality are quite striking.
csdeven on March 15, 2009 at 8:56 AM
Well this is just stupid, and I’m confident AP knows the context that Laura Ingraham made the comment, but doesn’t care because look at the results! I hope Laura doesn’t bother to try and “clarify” her remark because it was never a “fat slam”, it was a culture comment.
I think AP has a real bug up his butt regarding successful women that use their fame to champion their conservative views. Grow up, AP.
anniekc on March 15, 2009 at 9:04 AM
That’s pretty cool how you think these things up all by yourself.
csdeven on March 15, 2009 at 9:09 AM
True words my friend. Therefore I would not “hit it”
conservnut on March 15, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Have you read Meghan McCain’s blog? Heard her speak? There’s nothing there. She has no personality, low self-esteem, and she’s dull.
She is fat. Not healthy, not chubby but fat. It makes her look miserable.
Here we have a Beltway D lister sucking up to liberals in lieu of a social life, and Laura Ingraham called her out on it. Meghan McCain was never politically active. She apparently likes to shop, eat and complain. As Laura pointed out, she would be on a reality TV show, except there’s no market for plus size models. Hardly controversial stuff.
chunderroad on March 15, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Marguerite helps.
PercyB on March 15, 2009 at 9:15 AM
I thought you guys were suppose to above this type of immaturity.
In my honest opinion I agree with her on Coulter and her with her response to Ingraham. No matter how on point their conservative message may be, I can’t get past the fact that they seem to be angry, caustic, miserable women who have nothing to offer to people but negativity and anger. I can’t imagine that they have any joy or love in their lives and I can’t imagine them accepting of it. They both remind me of my mother in law. Her very presence in a room an leech out all the positive energy. The conversation could be about the love of Jesus Christ and how beautiful the world is and she can manage to turn it around about her various ailments and relationship woes and how broke she is and how bad everyone around her is and how miserable her existence is.
I can’t stand anything about Sean Hannity including the sound of his voice and I strongly disagree 50% with Michelle Malkin and can find some of the snarkiness a turn off. But I can imagine him a loving father and husband, I can imagine her a nuturing mother and loving wife. Malkin’s smiling is beautiful and they both seem they have the ability to be kind and speak kind soft words. They come off as people that have love and joy in their lives and love and joy in their hearts.
I know its heresy to speak against Coulter, but people like her on either side I find not to be an asset but a drain.
Magnus on March 15, 2009 at 9:23 AM
As does Orczy I presume?
csdeven on March 15, 2009 at 9:24 AM
I think it sums Ms. McCain perfectly.
If I squint, John McCain looks an awful lot like democrat.
Mark me down as someone who wants to drive all the RINO types out of the party. If you wish to act and vote democrat then join the correct party ASAP.
gdonovan on March 15, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Now I’ve heard it all. McShanesty’s fatty (read sarcasm) daughter is The Messiah for the republican party.
csdeven on March 15, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Indeed.
PercyB on March 15, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Week after week Hot Air presents us with a new Meghan McCain quote or story. Why?
Not once have I clicked on a link.
Relevance?
None.
garry on March 15, 2009 at 9:38 AM
I don’t agree with the physical appearance attack angle either, particularly against women, but must say it’s very effective at getting into our skins–don’t care if you’re Miss Universe or Miss Frumpy Dumpy, it works. Notice how Michelle Obama has been slowly but surely trying to morph into Halle Berry as the msm eggs her on and finds any feature on her (her toned arms) it can to extol her beauty. When a woman speaks her mind and we don’t like it, we immediately attack her looks.
I’ve got nothing against M. McCain. I just wish she’d get it over with and turn Liberal. I’m sure she’ll be really popular over at HuffPost, if it’s popularity she seeks.
RepubChica on March 15, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Sounds like a McCain fanboy – a RINO she might date.
katiejane on March 15, 2009 at 9:42 AM
People like Ann Coulter are only considered a drain when they’re conservative. Otherwise they’re “lovable but caustic and hard-hitting tellers of truth to power”.
ddrintn on March 15, 2009 at 9:42 AM
ddrintn on March 15, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Exactly. Look at Olby and Chrissie for prime examples.
The only purpose Meghan is serving right now is as an arrow in the quiver of the MSM to ensure the continuing minority status of the Republican Party.
kingsjester on March 15, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Ann is a woman after my own heart- Cuts to the bone, usually with crushing facts and raiper wit.
No patience for fools!
Ann vs the “valley girl mccain” would be short and sweet.
gdonovan on March 15, 2009 at 9:45 AM
McShamnesty’s fatty (sarcasm) daughter is a valley girl. Ergo, she clearly would love to be on “The Real World” for the notoriety. But her weight would preclude her from doing so. Consequently, she jumps into politics a few months ago for the first time in her life in an effort to ride her dads coattails to stardom.
LI’s comment was on her personality, not her massive girth (sarcasm).
csdeven on March 15, 2009 at 9:49 AM
What is Republican about Meg McCain?
Jamson64 on March 15, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Speaking of Ann Coulter…she’s looking awfully thin. Too many of these woman don’t feed themselves and nourish their bodies properly. An apple a day and 4 hours on the treadmill will not keep the doctor away! (you see how contagious this is?) It’s all we know to do, criticize women’s physical appearances or make remarks. It comes naturally to our species.
RepubChica on March 15, 2009 at 9:50 AM
wimpy men cannot handle Ann
Jamson64 on March 15, 2009 at 9:50 AM
of course Rush’s weight problem has not been the subject of much discussion lately around the web.
/sarc
Jamson64 on March 15, 2009 at 9:53 AM
I fail to even remotely see how you got that out of my example of the person that is my mother in law.
Magnus on March 15, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Heh. Megan is a beautiful girl though. I believe her when she says she has accepted herself the way she is. Good for her. With all the money mom’s got, she can certainly avail herself to any or all the lipo, personal chef/trainers out there and be at least an emaciated size 2 by X-mas time
RepubChica on March 15, 2009 at 9:58 AM
I know the above was an attempt at an insult.
1. I’m not a RINO because I’m not a Republican, so far.
2. I’m a married woman who I’d doubt Ms. MCcain would want to date.
3. I thought Conservatives/Republicans had the monopoly on countering arguments with substance instead of immature attacks? Some of you suffer from the same Liberal afflictions you complain about.
Magnus on March 15, 2009 at 10:00 AM
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