Father Of The Year

by digby

This story is trivial and somewhat painful, as a woman, to watch, so I’ve been avoiding it. Laura Ingraham has been known for some time to have some rather serious issues and behaves very badly at times. She’s a right wing talk show host. What else is new?

But I can’t let this go without comment:

Today, in his “Twitterview” with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) shied away from condemning Ingraham’s gratuitous attacks on his daughter. Stephanopoulos asked McCain, “What do you think of Meghan’s feud with Coulter and Ingraham?” McCain first said, “I’m proud of my daughter and she has a right to her opinions.” When asked if he agrees with his daughter, McCain did not say, simply stating, “like any family we agree on some things and disagree on others.”

What kind of a man is this that he can’t even defend his daughter against personal insults from the likes of Laura Ingraham? He doesn’t even have a political motivation, as low and cynical as that might be. He won’t be running for president again. He’s never been a favorite of the right wing and has no reason to curry favor with them now and everything we know about him would suggest that he thinks right wingers like Coulter are political poison. They sure aren’t friends of his.

I think he believes that Megan deserves to be spoken to like that because he probably speaks to her that way himself. Although she’s quite lovely, she’s not physically a perfect Barbie like her mother or Sarah Palin — or Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham —which is what he thinks is important in a woman. So, he can’t bring himself to defend her. She asked for it.

Whenever I find myself getting down about something the Obama administration is doing all I have to do is picture that man in my head and I immediately bring myself back from the brink. Imagine.

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