Hey Rush, How Come Meghan McCain Isn’t A Slut?

 

“I love sex and I love men.”

 

Oh, that’s right, Meghan is a) a Republican and, b) a girly girl who “loves sex and loves men” and poses for Playboy. Something I suspect we wouldn’t find Sandra Fluke doing. No, El Rushbo has got Meghan right where he wants her, right in his comfort zone, doing what girls should do. Strictly dickly. No law school for Meghan. No elitist graduate degree seeking snobby girl. No sirree. 

Meghan McCain, MSNBC contributor and political pundit, gave a relatively revealing interview to Playboy this month.

“I’m not private about anything,” the daughter of Arizona Sen. John McCain told the magazine. “I love sex and I love men.”

McCain said that had her father won the 2008 election, the White House would certainly be a different place with her in it.

“You would have the craziest first daughter ever, who’d be making ridiculous headlines and hurting the administration every step of the way,” she said. “That aside, I think Dad would have made an incredible president. The recession wouldn’t have been as bad as it is now. We wouldn’t be pulling troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq. I think morale in the military and in the country at large would be higher, and we’d be much further on the road to recovery.”

The day before the 2008 election, McCain said, she “almost overdosed on Xanax.”

While McCain supports same-sex marriage, she’s not gay. “I’m strickly dickly,” she said, adding: “It might simplify my life if I were gay, but no. … For me, it’s an issue of civil rights. Who people want to sleep with and who they want to love should not have anything to do with government politics at all. And if you see me in a gay bar, it’s only because they play the best music and my gay friends like to dance. Gay guys love me. It’s the big boobs and blond hair.”

McCain also addressed Bristol Palin‘s memoir, in which Sarah Palin‘s daughter described the McCain clan toting Louis Vuitton luggage and relying on “constant helpers to do hair and makeup.”

“I did bump into her at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” McCain said. “I saw her across the room. That girl biffed it fast, totally took off. All that stuff she wrote was a total lie. I have, like, one Louis Vuitton purse. She’s just young and confused and was thrust into all this. The media aren’t kind to her. But once someone signs up for ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ it’s hard to sympathize.”

 

Yes, I guess it’s the big boobs and blond hair, and that strictly dickly attitude that gets El Rushbo. Explains everything.

Trayvon Martin and The New Black Panthers.

It’s complicated.

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Edward Wyckoff Williams, a columnist, political analyst for MSNBC and a former investment banker said recently that the tragic death of Trayvon Martin has ignited a firestorm of emotion across the country, in the African-Americancommunity and beyond. He says that at the heart of the case there are centuries-old ideologies about black masculinity and white fear. As I tried to point out in an earlier post, we are neurologically wired for defense of our tribe, and in the Trayvon Martin instance, George Zimmerman was defending his race against a perceived threat. The Florida “Stand Your Ground” law and conceal carry permits, of course did much to help.

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Recently, a group named the New Black Panther Party offered $10,000 to anyone who makes a citizen’s arrest of George Zimmerman, the white Hispanic man who admittedly shot the 17-year-old Martin on the night of Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla.Despite apparent evidence that the Sanford police were negligent in the handling of the case, they appear to be attempting to regain a forfeited moral high ground.

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In response to the New Black Panther Party’s bounty offer, the Sanford Police offered, “The city of Sanford does not condone the actions and recommendations of the New Black Panther Party,” in a statement. “Attempts by civilians to take any person into custody may result in criminal charges or unnecessary violence.”

Williams claims that this statement “offers insight into the death of Martin, the response of the police at the scene and an antiquated, discriminatory mindset that requires addressing now. If the Sanford police had exercised an equally balanced reaction to Zimmerman, as expressed in the statement to the New Black Panthers, Zimmerman would be behind bars today.”

Williams wonders “How can police sanction vigilante justice in the name of self-defense by Zimmerman against an unarmed child but condemn a response of “perceived” vigilante justice by the New Black Panthers? The double standard inherent in this inequitable response is solely defined by race.”

Williams is not alone. Most  African-Americans would say that in American society, the very potential for black aggression is immediately met with force and an admonishment to use caution and temperance. How is it they wonder, that Zimmerman is somehow excused for being rash, unreasonable and violent and that he and his family are deserving of more protection than a child walking home with Skittles and an iced tea?

Politicians, pundits and community leaders alike have expressed discontent with the methods of the New Black Panthers. Originally their quest was described as a “bounty” on Zimmerman’s head. A spokesman for the party has since clarified its intent not to use violence at all but simply to act as responsible citizens.Williams wants us to know that regardless of the veracity of the New Black Panther Party’s intent, actions or statements, the truth remains that vigilante justice is excused for white people in America but never for blacks. In fact, just days after the statement, Hasim Nzinga, a 49-year-old leader of the Panthers, was arrested on gun charges. This is in stark contrast to Zimmerman who, more than a month following Trayvon’s death, remains free and uncharged.

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Strange dudes. You must admit.

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He reminds us that the Ku Klux Klan committed violent offenses for more than a century and hardly ever facing prosecution. But black men are swiftly arrested for nonviolent offenses every day.

Williams says Martin, as described by Zimmerman in the 911 tapes, was “suspicious.” Why? Because, as Zimmerman claimed, he was “a black male.” Despite the suggestion of the lead investigator on the scene to charge Zimmerman with homicide and unintentional manslaughter, the police officers at the station chose to overrule that decision and let Zimmerman walk. In what universe does this happen?

Sanford issued a press release “requesting calm heads and no vigilante justice” in response to the Panthers. But vigilante activity has already occurred, the most direct result being the death of Martin, who, according to his English teacher was an “A and B student who majored in cheerfulness.”

The double standards around race in general and black masculinity in particular are deeply entrenched in old racial codes that have been reinforced by Hollywood, media images and false metanarratives for decades. And, anyone can understand how it must make Williams and all black men and women feel to know that they are still chained to the racial slavery of opinion that surrounds our culture today, just as it did 60, 200 and 400 years ago. That every time they step out of their homes, African-Americans are in some way a target for fearful and prejudiced whites, who may or may not be carrying guns.

But, it is equally true that by an order of magnitude, more black males commit violent crime than that of their white peers, so it may not be unwarranted that black males should arouse greater suspicion when, walking while black. Not reasonable, but maybe understandable.

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Looks like another guy who was majoring in cheerfulness. To me.

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But, Amadou Diallo‘s brutal death on Feb. 4, 1999 — just a day before Trayvon Martin’s birthday — ignited what then-president Bill Clinton called a “national dialogue on race.” Diallo, a Guinean immigrant, was killed after four plain-clothed officers fired 41 shots, though he himself was unarmed and had simply reached for his wallet. The officers were all acquitted. It seems America is in desperate need of more than a “dialogue” on race, but a moratorium on gun violence, racial profiling and the double standards inherent in our sociopolitical construct that correlates black male identity with criminality.

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When simply having brown skin while walking becomes a crime, then Jim Crow isn’t a thing of the past — it is a reality of 21st-century life.Tea Party activists attend rallies with guns openly displayed to underscore their intense desire to retain their rights provided by the second amendment, while marches for justice by African Americans are required to be nonviolent, yet garner significant police presence to ensure order.

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The problem with Zimmerman’s behavior and the police department’s failure to adequately investigate, detain and arraign is that such a failure sanctioned the very actions the police now claim to abhor. Had they answered Zimmerman with the response given to the Panthers, no need for consideration of “race” as a factor in law enforcement’s role would be necessary. Instead, police discarded the civil rights of an innocent child — at the word of a man with a criminal record — and by doing so engendered the very tactics of vigilantism against which they now claim to guard.

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To sanction vigilante justice in one instance is to open the door to unbridled violence in another. Without acknowledgment of that truth, there can be no justice.