Far-right attacking one of their own

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/19/laura-ingraham-i-never-ca_n_176840.html

Shortly before the whole Ashley Biden cocaine incident, we saw another attack on a famous politician's daughter: Meghan McCain. Though this one isn't something that was orchestrated by the MSM like the previous instance.

This time, it's a far-right crazy like Laura Ingraham attacking Meghan McCain, who officially has zero relevance in politics--and hasn't had any relevance really ever (unless we count the fact that she campaigned with her father...hardly making her relevant in the politosphere.) And of course Ingraham isn't attacking McCain's policy stances, or what little we know about her politics (she supports gay rights...anything else?). It's just a veiled superficial attack on her looks.

Ingraham called McCain fat. Which McCain Ingraham is looking at, I'm not sure. But is this really the type of mud-slinging that the Right should be doing right now? Doesn't it have other things to worry about as a party on the verge of implosion, other than spewing vile hatred like this?

Well, apparently Ingraham's rationale for the name-calling was it was all meant to be in good fun...that she was joking. Ah-hah! Now that I know she was 'attempting' to be funny, I can still not laugh. What garbage.

What's even more ridiculous here is that after McCain defended herself against the smear-attack (she was well within her right to do so, in my humble opinion), Ingraham then devoted a whole Talking Points Memo on the O'Reilly Factor to McCain being used by the left as a pawn to cause in-fighting among the right. Really, Ingraham? YOU started it!

A more important question, again, is where are the cries of injustice here? Similarly to the Biden situation, no one on either side of aisle is bothering to stand up and denounce this type of sexist nonsense. Baseless personal throw-aways, coupled with the lowest type of attack: the superficial, is something everyone needs to denounce...not just in politics, but life in general.

As Senator McCain used to say along the trail all the time, 'Stand up! Stand up! This is America." Well, Senator, this isn't my America and it shouldn't be any other American's.