On Wednesday and Thursday the Internet’s First Daughter, Meghan McCain, will be appearing on The View, America’s most threatening daytime pastiche! She will be filling in for one of the ladies, the Elizabeth one, who plays an uninformed blond conservative named “Elizabeth.” It will be the greatest performance of young Meg’s blossoming guest-hosting/role modeling/media criticism/blog/Tina Brown/Twitter/The Hills/boys!!/punditry career. She will obviously be interviewing Rod Blagojevich. MORE »

More revelations than usual this week on Tina Brown’s pro-bono Electra Complex study, The Daily Beast. Famous “daughter of” Elizabeth Gates, daughter of Skip Gates, has insights about last week’s impossibly crucial Treaty of Beersailles between her father, the cop who handcuffed him to the Past, and the President of the United States. Blind item! WHICH major player in this incident wore “an appropriately heavy and charmingly untrained amount of green eyeliner on her lower lashes”—a savvy cosmetological atonement that, in many ways, taught everyone something about America? MORE »

Ha ha ha, Graydon Carter’s defunct satirical monthly The New Republic has produced a comical slide show titled “Celebrities With Thoughts.” Apropos of Bono’s most recent instant-classic New York Times editorial — a poetic intellectual exercise, the thrilling denouement of which is: “Could it be that all Americans are, in that sense, African-Americans?” — TNR has aggregated some quasi-contextualized gems from the nation’s op-ed pages. Each and every one is absolutely required summer beach reading. [TNR's The Plank]

Sooooo it seems that Meghan McCain, famous for being a young blonde person with the last name “McCain,” is writing a regular Monday column for Tina Brown’s online Ponzi scheme La Bête Noire, which is just great, because we’ve been lacking a hilarious Monday dump of pageview-whoring ever since Bill Kristol was fired from the New York Times. As with her other columns, today’s output is extremely careful to mention hundreds of times that Meghan is NOT LIKE OTHER REPUBLICANS YOU SEE IN THE NEWS — she is cool, and other Republicans could be cool too if they were more like her. The topic is that she still can’t get laid, because her father in John McCain. No! It is that she *doesn’t* like Ann Coulter, because her father is John McCain. MORE »

NEW THING DEBUTS, ON INTERNET! Tina Brown has a Webzine! It is called The Daily Beast, which is an elitist reference to an Englishman’s books. It looks nice, and kind of busy, and tabloidy, which we always like. Somebody read it and tell us about it, okay? [The Daily Beast]