Meghan McCain: I Have No Regrets About Bashing Sarah Palin

Meghan McCain, co-host of Pivot's "TakePart Live," addresses reporters during Pivot's panel at the Winter 2014 Television Critics Association Press Tour on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Chri... Meghan McCain, co-host of Pivot's "TakePart Live," addresses reporters during Pivot's panel at the Winter 2014 Television Critics Association Press Tour on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision for Participant Media/AP Images) MORE LESS
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Meghan McCain might change a few words around, but she’s not too worried about how her criticisms of Sarah Palin have aged over the past few years.

In an interview with Politico, the TV show host and daughter of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) stood by her remarks against her father’s onetime running mate.

“You know Sarah Palin, some of the stuff I said, again I would maybe term differently,” McCain said. “But I think the criticism I have said of her is fair.”

In her 2010 memoir, “Dirty Sexy Politics,” McCain wrote that Palin’s selection as the vice presidential candidate brought her father’s campaign “drama, stress, complications, panic and loads of uncertainty.”

“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,” she wrote.

More recently, McCain appeared on the Howard Stern Show and compared Palin to an oddball relative.

“[I]t’s like my crazy aunt or something that people all want to tell me about,” she said.

On the other hand, McCain told Politico, she does regret shots at Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), whom she once called “a poor man’s Sarah Palin.”

“I’m not a big fan of attacking another woman anymore,” McCain said.

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  1. On today’s episode of “Who Gives a Fuck Theater”…

  2. Avatar for gr gr says:

    Enjoy yourself, kiddo. When dad dies, you’re toast.
    Maybe you’ll get a job on the weather channel or selling slice ‘n’ dice products.

    “Meghan who?”

  3. There’s nothing wrong with attacking other women- IF they are trying to send women back to the Stone Age.

  4. Avatar for jw1 jw1 says:

    … and compared Palin to an oddball relative.
    “[I]t’s like my crazy aunt or something that people all want to tell me about,” she said.

    So Meg-- what’s your reaction when folks do same regarding dear-old-dad?

    jw1

  5. She’ll come into huge dollars. Paris Hilton sized dollars. Look to Donald Trump to see how many medial streams follow him around like remoras.

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