Saturday, March 14, 2009

Sisterhood crosses partylines, Ms. Ingraham.


I know I've slammed Meghan McCain's dad around on my blog from time to time, but I just want to say something about Laura Ingraham. Laura Ingraham is a mean person. She just is.

See, if you disagree with somebody, you take apart their argument. You take their words and throw them back at them, showing where they were wrong. Ms. McCain is talking about extremism, and how people like, say, Ann Coulter, can be unpleasant, and she's right. Nobody likes someone who is only negative. I get where she is coming from. The argument that everybody should like Ann, and probably Laura, because they are mean, witty, skinny, blonde bitches was played out in high school. And if you were, I don't know, a lawyer, or a journalist, or an adult, that would be your first stop and your last stop--"I don't agree, and here is my non-personal argument why I don't."

But if you were a mean person, you would have to address someone personally. And if you were a slim blonde mean girl, you'd go for weight, because, well, you suck. You think being slim makes you better. You think being curvy makes someone less so. Being comfortable in your own skin at your own size and loving yourself is a real hard thing for a mean girl to understand. I do believe there might be some women thin as a needle who don't like themselves--but that's just a guess.

Well, hear this, Laura Ingraham. I don't agree with you on anything, and I actually am plus-size. Ms. McCain strikes me as being a girl with a good personality who actually is trying to understand the communications problem between right and left. She means well, which I can't say for you. But what I can say is, that she, like me, could lose weight (not that she has to). But you can't lose being mean. It's what you have and it's what you are.

My guess is that the part that offended you was when she called out Ann Coulter. You know, even as her book sales are declining, Ms. Ingraham, more people know of her than know of you. Sure, maybe some five million a week tune into your radio show. Maybe, like, a decade or fifteen years ago, when you all were still plausibly young, she recommended you wear a leopard print skirt for a photo-shoot. You aren't Ann Coulter, and even Ann Coulter isn't Ann Coulter anymore. No. She's just a hard-worn skeleton, copy and pasting the same old kind of crap into the same old hate-libs rant. With footnotes. And since, Laura Ingraham, you are so "rad", you insult the daughter of a man I have personally smeared to heck and back, and still think is one of the top Republicans actually in elected office today. Who has a blog with a following, and is kind of well known and liked. I say you lose.

Because grousing about the opinions of net-savvy young republicans is not the way forward. And because it really shows off how mean you are. And because you are not in high school, but that was some high school level nonsense. Laura Ingraham--seriously. That's a 20-something year-old young girl--you wish you had her opportunities and are jealous. Fat aside, seriously, choke on it. You wish you were young and vital and on to something.

Like she is with the internet. You probably know by now how old your demographic is--and can guess how long you'll be popular on the radio. My bet is there's a bunch of old dudes. A dying market. You haven't the wit to blog meaningfully--only offer thumbnail links without context, nor the insight. Where are your cut'n'paste a'la'Coulter novels? Dead end.

And Meghan, you are beautiful because you know you are. I think being happy is not about size, shape or anything else, but knowing who you are, and loving yourself, and accepting others. And I have read your blog and think you get it. I am a liberal, and I think you're okay.

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