Meghan McCain's views of the GOP

Meghan McCain has been very vocal about her views of the Republican party and what changes she thinks they need to make in order to attract younger voters and become a respected entity again. She thinks by getting rid of the far right crazies such as Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and Laura Ingraham, that the party would be better off.

Mainstream View

The Rachel Maddow Show: Meghan McCain on the GOP and Ann Coulter 3-11-09

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While MSNBC as a company is conservative and the MS being Microsoft, which gave millions in order to help G.W. get reelected in 2004, the station itself is rebranding as a liberal alternative to Fox News. Rachel Maddow herself is a liberal, but I feel that she was very to the point and not overtly biased except for when she talks about Ann Coulter. Her facial expression goes from normal, to "woah, that girl is crazy" and her voice inflection even changes to reflect that as well. In the video there is a montage of McCain with her father on the campaign trail in the background during the introduction, then when the interview starts, a still image of the two is used with the words "like father, like daughter?" The story itself, even though Maddow says she doesn't want to be all Us Weekly, is just that. She started off building up the Ann Coulter diss McCain wrote on her blog, in typical gossip fashion, I could picture her saying, "oh no she didn't!" It reminded me very much of the CNN video we watched in class about Jon Stewart giving Jim Cramer the smack down.

Online View
Meghan McCain: The Millennial Voice of the GOP on Ology, a blog site for and by Millennials.
The blogger has a transparent liberal viewpoint and identifies with McCain's moderate agenda. The post tells of the facts of how McCain would like to see the party grow a larger youth base and her opinion that super conservatives are hindering this from happening, but in a way that seems like the writer is almost shocked that they have something in common with a Republican. Which is how I have found most liberals to react to McCain, myself included. The blog links to the Daily Beast (McCain's blog) and her Twitter account . The blog is also set up for user comments. The image used with the post is of McCain, presumably from the campaign trail with her father. She's smiling and wearing a weird pearl necklace with an Abraham Lincoln pendant.

And just for fun, a video from Current TV.

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