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Hey we solved a mystery, maybe! In her infamous Twitter Rant, Meghan McCain cites “a particularly nasty comment from a person I won’t say how but I indirectly work with questioning if I have ever worked.” Blah blah blah WHAT? (Just read it a few times and it will vaguely resemble English.) So who is this secret meany? He would have written something for the Daily Beast (freelancing = “indirectly working with”)… why it must be prominent young communist MATT YGLESIAS, YES?
Here’s what he wrote on his blog yesterday: “I’m reading some of this coverage of Meghan McCain’s latest thoughts on the direction of the Republican Party and I can’t help but wonder to myself who on earth is Meghan McCain? To the best of my knowledge we’re talking about a young woman who’s never accomplished anything or held a job.” Matt you have made a MORTAL ENEMY (on Twitter, temporarily) of the President’s daughter!
Hahaha how doesn’t Meghan know that?
Meghan McCain= Eternal Failure of Human Being
But…he’s not wrong.
First Daughter, First Hatefuck.
To the best of my knowledge we’re talking about a young woman who’s never accomplished anything or held a job.
Yes, but she’s morally pure, and that’s all you need to rise to the top of the Republican Party.
Occasional taunting from the poors is the price one pays for being born rich and well-connected. Such is life.
I know who Meghan McCain is and I still don’t care.
Megan is pro gay because she lives in the secret Democrat closet…
Meghan is great..leave her alone.
Anybody who looks that fail in dreds should be Meghan’s enemy.
Matt did take a nice shot at her because she falls into the Paris Hilton “Famous for being Famous” category.
That’s an obsolete standard anyway. If getting paid by your daddy or his friends doesn’t count, then Dubya never had a job or accomplished anything either, and almost a quarter of the country thinks he’s the shit.
I’m sure dear Matty is a wonderful human being and an incisive, thoughtful writer, but damn if he doesn’t look like Lisa Bonet gone horribly, horribly wrong in that pic.
I would punch him out for her if she would let me hit it.
Yikes! When a blogger makes fun of you for never holding down a job you know you have hit rock bottom.
Yglesias is the Perez Hilton of the blogosphere. Insufferable in the face of eminent hittability.
Damn, but she’s dumb as a coal bucket.
Cool, he picked up one of those rasta knit hats that come preloaded with dreadlocks when he was on the K-Lo/Billy Kristol love boat cruise in the Caribbean.
4/21/09
Never forget.
Someone is not going to find a 12-pack of Bud Light under the Christmas tree this year.
I can see from her LONG list of accomplishments & pseudo jobs (interning at SNL, working a flower desk at a hospital & “working” on her dad’s campaign) that Matt’s navel lint is smarter than Meghan.
Crab1: I’ve already started drinking…
Jeebus, is this how pundits flirt? Or are they really fighting? Sometimes I can’t tell the difference.
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@MattY Do you like me? Tweet one: Y/N.
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dementra: Gawd love ya.
Those are some truly unfortunate extensions.
did you know bloggette was the first blog to cover a presidential campaign?
innovative!
Oh Matt, I think you’d sleep better at night if you just crawled into bed with me.
If romantic comedy TV and movies have taught me anything, it’s that the apparent hatred and bickering between these two is because both are actually deeply attracted to each other, and eventually (most likely during the final week of May) they will suddenly start making out in the middle of an argument, and realize their feelings of twue love.
Just you wait; it’ll be like Sam and Diane, Maddie and David, or O’Reily and Olberman.
Pondering Matt’s last name, is this one of those “sometimes” that Y is a vowel?
Custerwolf: Man, the only way I can get my brain around this is that you’re willing to mercy eff a libtard….the Custerwolf myth must not demean itself!
SmutBoffin: Now that’s funny
Terry: they’re not real?
First Daughter, First love has its antagonist. Juicy!
I share Meghan’s outrage, because, I mean, who the f*ck is Matt Yglesias? At least Meghan’s hot. Matt Yglesias is Meghan McCain minus the boobs, the blond hair, or the spelling abilities.
We would all be better off if a photo of Meggie had been used to illustrate the story. Or better yet, a photo of Giada de Laurentis.
If living off a trust fund disqualified people from writing “for a living,” The Daily Beast would have to fire half its staff. The Washington Post, too, for that matter. Not that I want to go on record as defending Meghan. That “sentence” quoted above is incomprehensible. If she’s not donating regularly to Columbia’s alumni fund, they need to disown her.
Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish!: Christ Tommy - I had the wrong goddamned Matt Yglesias. What can I say, I don’t get out much.
http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/brontie2/matt_y.jpg
To be fair, one blogger bitching about the accomplishments of another sounds like a fight between medalists at the special olympics.
jagorev: Oh, he has the boobs.
If a fro on a Jew is a “Jewfro”, do you call dreds on a Jew “Jereds” (pronounced like the Subway guy)? I need a ruling here.
Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish!: Also - I do NOT mercy-or pity- fuck anyone. Ever. Since there are lovely working girls out there offering their services, I would only feel like a scab crossing the picket lines.
Matt is like Danny DeVito to Enrique’s Arnold Schwarzenegger.
proudgrampa: You are a true patriot.
Custerwolf: I hear you but I was looking at the pic above. I figured you had better taste than that. At least in my fevered imagination….thank god there’s an ice machine around here.
Lisa Bonet gone horribly, horribly wrong in that pic.
Call 911! I can’t breath because I’m laughing so hard!
No….
Really…….
I love when the children of the wealthy list all the stuff they’ve done working for their dad’s friends. I’ve had this conversation more than once.
Meghan, Sweetie, listen up: You will always have more money than me. You will always have a good job. You will always have lots of pretty friends & someplace to go. You will never miss a meal you don’t want to miss. This is all true.
But honey, nobody who works for a living will ever, ever, respect you–even if you ask them and they say they do. Even if they volunteer the information.
Fact. & there’s nothing you can do about it, and when you snuggle down in you five million count silk sheets under your goose down comforter on daddy’s yacht, and close your eyes to let the gentle ocean motion rock you to sleep, it’ll still be a fact.
Go away. Do not want.
JMP: I’m sure that it’s covered in “First Daughter, First Love” where she has to choose between maintaining her joint blog with the dangerously raffish blogger or the dashing and polished Republican closet case.
51dimes: godammit! Me typey too slow. Or maybe I too need a series of internships arranged by JMc to free up more time to “write”
Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish!: I just lost myself in a wonderful fantasy about traveling through Europe….
http://www.ricksteves.com/news/tournews/guides/matt.htm
Meghan deserves street cred in the same way that I deserve to be called a musician after receiving a free guitar with my Volkswagen.
Dear Ms. McCain,
Mr. Yglesias asserted that you never held a job and you got all pissy and listed the jobs you’ve had. Ignoring that some of those endeavors you list can’t really be considered a “job” as that word is defined in English, notice that Mr. Yglesias used the word “held” and not “had.” Do you see the difference now?
Hopey dont play that game: “Dredlox”
Jukesgrrl: I vote for disqualifying Tom Friedman on that basis.
Methinks Meghan McCain doth protest too much!
gjdodger: Dredlox - the smell those things aquire after spending a bit of time near Meghan’s cooter.
Magnus Maximus: In a Fucking Twatted Nutshell, yes.
Custerwolf: Oh thank god, you were thinking of some rugged outdoors-y fucker. The notion of you going for some insufferable hippy blogger completely obliterated your vague personality outline on file in the Wonkeratti office in Easter Island.
Matt Yglesias, going purely by the header pic, seems like the sort of person I wish I didn’t agree with on most policy issues. You know, the guys that make you want to take the opposite side in an argument, only you think “no wait, I actually agree with that.” And it happens over and over, until I feel vaguely ill.
JadedDIssonance: a twatted nutshell sounds like some sort of hygiene problem.
Custerwolf: Oh holy shit, the guy works for a tour called “Europe through the Back Door.”
Gopherit: Dammit! Now all I can think about is filth-encrusted-teabags!
Someone should put on a blonde wig and make a teary YouTube video asking teh folkz to
LEAVE MEGHAN ALONE! JUST LEAVE HER ALONE!
If only I had a webcam…
Gopherit: [puts down healthy snack of unsalted pistachios] Huh. Yeah.
Zadig: I was hoping that unfortunate choice of words would go unnoticed. What was I thinking.
AnnieGetYourFun: Whoa there missy - healthy? I recall a recall on those things!
Gopherit: To be fair (as is not the wont here, I know), Matt Yglesias is not particularly self-righteous or hypocritical in the whole post:
But, you know, before I begrudge the success of a not-clearly-qualified young blogger/pundit I suppose I’d better the insulation on my glass house. So instead I’ll just say that the fact that Meghan McCain is, apparently successfully, launching a career as a political pundit capable of garnering a book deal worth hundreds of thousands of dollars all based on being the daughter of a failed presidential candidate should give people pause about the meritocratic nature of American capitalism. I mean, more power to her. But I’d sleep better at night knowing she’s going to pay a very high tax rate on that book deal, and the money could be put to use giving Pell Grants and health insurance to kids who don’t have multi-millionaire celebrity dads.
And most of his posts are reasonable. He isn’t my favorite of the “juicebox mafia” or anything, but I wouldn’t consider him a true “libtard,” either. That photo is pretty libtarded, though (Milli Vanilli?).
I hope Meghan will silence her critics by Tweeting a more comprehensive CV, which includes her graduation from Sunday School, a coupon from Cold Stone Creamery noting her status as “Most Loyal Customer,” and her poem published in the National Library of Poetry’s anthology, which as a featured poet, would have only cost her $49.95 plus $7.00 shipping.
Brendan M.: But seriously folks, I didn’t know one needed qualifications to be a blogger/pundit.
Brendan M.: Why don’t you just marry him? It will be legal soon…
Brendan M.: he’s still pretending to be heterosexual though…
2druk2phluq: So am I. I played football in high school, though, so I think I have an ironclad case.
Oh, God, you’re not supposed to even fucking use Twitter like that.
It took him this long to figure this out? Did he not get press pass tixxx to the Striaght Talk Express like the rest of us?
OH COME ON! That picture is begging for alt text. Seriously.
By the way, Yglesias claimed Meghan never HELD a job, not that she’d never HAD a job. Reading is hard, y’all!
Also.
Crow T. Robot: Breathtaking.
This is Wonkette, the standard here is, is she snarkable, not is she accomplished.
Strap another bullseye on the heifers back, I still got ammo.
Hopey dont play that game: A ‘fro on a Jew has long been called an “Isro”, a mild play on words re “Afro”. It only slid to “Jewfro” because “Isro” was just *too* indirect for dumb peoples’ senses of humor. (Not saying you’re dumb. But you learned it from someone dumb.)
Ever noticed that? People who aren’t bright enough to deal with subtlety or an entire One Level of Indirection will regularly fuck up jokes. I once made an entire room of coworkers blow coffee out their noses by coming in one morning and saying, to a dejected-appearing male coworker, “Aw. What’s the matter, Jerry? You look like somebody let all the air out of your girlfriend!”
It had to be explained to one coworker. A few days later she was telling some folks about the funny thing I said, “So she says to Jerry, ‘What’s the matter, Jerry? You look like somebody let all the air out of your inflatable doll’”.
The fuck I did. *THAT* wouldn’t have been 1/10th as funny. It’s the indirection that makes a joke hit the sweet spot.
Min: Hold it! Invidious! A coal bucket very definitely has a job, and it’s a commendable one, too, if it’s clean coal.
Jukesgrrl: When the Taliban finally takes over they’re gonna cut through the entire culture and eliminate any celebrity who is undeserving and not earning its keep. Who will that leave?
iolanthe: It’s probably very encouraging to work in a sheltered workshop where such jokes be considered “subtle.”
You finally cured me, Wonkette! Instead of getting my usual mega-erection after hearing the name Meghan McCain, I instead became extremely nauseous from that picture of Matthew Yglesias!!!
Meghan McCain: Just shut the hell up and go away.
Really, you are an idiot.
This is what he gets for spelling his name with a “Y” to throw us off the scent that inevitably leads right to the door of one Enrique Iglesias, his brother and dearest friend.
It’s probably a safe bet that she’s never had dirt on her fingers.
Zhu Bajie
And meanwhile, Meghan has managed to continue to have shut down her other arch-enemy, Joe the Plumber’s website/blog/means of promoting branded merchandise
http://www.secureourdream.com/
Could it be that Meghan’s got more longevity than JTP following the political campaign?