Meghan McCain Poses (Clothed, On Bed) In Playboy; Announces Her Sexual Orientation as "Strictly Dickly"

Here's the weird thing: Dan Riehl gets name-checked.

First, the picture, so you don't feel you have to click on Playboy.

I guess I will be nice and say she looks like Tiffany Amber-Thiessen there. But if anyone knows what I'm talking about, that's... backhanded.

Anyway, here's some of her profundities.

PLAYBOY: Conservatives are as hard on you as liberals. Right-wing blogger Dan Riehl sniped that “this self-indulgent set of mega-breasts doesn’t belong anywhere near a TV studio commenting on anything.”

MCCAIN: Who says stuff like that? Some guys out there just can’t handle a woman with a strong opinion. And the quickest way to cut down a woman is to talk about her appearance. Do I care? No. Every guy I’ve ever dated and every boyfriend I’ve ever had—nobody ever complained about my body. And there are way more important things for me to do than obsess about my weight. We have an election going on, people!

Yeah, let's not talk about Meghan McCain's sex life or body any more. She's a serious commentator; she's above that.

PLAYBOY: Say a little more about the hanging-out-in-bed-with-girlfriends part.

MCCAIN: Watch it, mister. My friends from home came over to support me, and we got in my parents’ big bed. They have this huge California king and we just stayed up eating ice cream. I’m not a lesbian, if that’s what you’re asking. I’d be the first person to tell the world I was gay. I’m not private about anything. I think you should live how you should live. But I’m strictly dickly. I can’t help it. I love sex and I love men.

Oh. Maybe she's not above that.

You know, for a girl who feigns outrage when it's suggested she's just boobs and a wig, she sure does natter on forever about her boobs.

PLAYBOY: Do you ever think twice about partying in public for fear it will show up on Gawker the next morning?

MCCAIN: Oh, I can’t live like that. I do get paranoid when I’m wearing low-cut dresses that somebody’s going to take a picture and put it on the internet and be like, “Meghan was showing off her breasts again.” But you know, showing a little cleavage can make a girl feel sexy too. Like Jessica Simpson says, if you got it, you should flaunt it once in a while. I’ve been pretty open about the fact that I like to go out and have a good time with friends. I’ve never done drugs, and I never would. So there’s that. But what am I supposed to do, stay in and read a book?

Uchh! A book?!! Heaven forfend. You get knowledge-cooties from books.

Now, that aside, I'm serious, Meghan McCain is a serious commentator, a strong woman with a strong opinion. Stop sexualizing her immediately.

PLAYBOY: You once wrote, “Nothing kills my libido quite like discussing politics.”

MCCAIN: Oh my gosh. It’s so true. I went on a date, like, a week ago, and the guy just wanted to talk policy and strategy the entire time. Talk about a mood killer. I’m obsessed with this stuff, but it doesn’t put me in the mood. When I’m dating, I want to hear what music a guy likes, what he does for fun, and I want him to make me laugh. If he can make me laugh, I don’t care if he looks like Zach Galifianakis; it’s an instant turn-on.

Whoops. Meghan McCain's alleged aversion to sexualization seems a bit overstated. She just doesn't like it when you sexualize her in a bad way.

If you want to chat her up like You Like What You See, she's game.

Okay, here comes the part where she claims she loves being single as she cries into a pint of Haagen Dasz.

PLAYBOY: And you’re still single?

MCCAIN: Oh my God, I love being single. I can do whatever the hell I want all the time. I have no one to check in with. When you’re in a serious relationship, you kind of have to check in before you go out with your friends or do whatever. I think I’m a bit of a commitment-phobe. Or maybe it’s just that I haven’t met the right guy. Dating’s okay, but guys can be weird. They think if they Google you and talk about stuff you’ve said, they get to make out with you at the end of the first date.

Please stop sexualizing Meghan McCain. She's a strong woman with a strong opinion.

Well she's about to be asked about an alleged intellectual hero, Hunter S. Thompson. Since this is about her current "job" as some kind of pundit, I'm sure she'll leave sex out of this and just talk about Serious Things. Because she's a strong woman with a strong opinion.

PLAYBOY: What’s up with your Hunter S. Thompson obsession? Wouldn’t he have hated your conservative views?

MCCAIN: I love, love, love Hunter. I read Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail in high school and loved his take on politics. I love the way he wrote with such disregard for authority and the status quo. I’ve been considering getting his quote “Buy the ticket, take the ride” tattooed on my body, but I haven’t decided. I told my friend, and she said it sounds really sexual, so we’ll see.

Whoops, there we go again.

I like how she needs a friend to inform her that a tattoo ("on my body" -- but where else could it go, Meghan? Why say "on my body," except to talk about just that again?) which reads "Buy the ticket, take the ride" might scan as a little sexual.

To some people. To others, not so much. But some people might take that as sexual.

And... of course it would be on her back. Where else would it go?

So. Some people might find that sexual.

Thank God Meghan McCain's friend was far-sighted enough to make that odd connection for her.

But trust me, Hunter and I would have been fast friends. He was on Late Night With Conan O’Brien once and he was drinking whiskey and shooting guns. I appreciate both those things. We would have understood each other.

Your dumb internet editors don't understand you, but a drunk writer would have?

Oh, and that's not even the end of the day's Meghan McCain news. She's seen a therapist over her body-shaming.

"Now I’m very sensitive to any pictures taken of myself at photoshoots and whatever because the internet has this very weird —especially people in politics — this very weird reaction to my body, because I’m not super skinny. I have large breasts. I know! They’re real, I can’t do anything about it and the internet just has this really weird reaction to my body … I’ve seen a therapist about it, if that means anything. There’s like this obsession (with my body). I think people don’t understand why I haven’t lost a bunch of weight right now, because [sarcastic] ‘all women in the media should lose a bunch of weight if they want to go on television to talk about anything.’”

I know this is a defensive reaction, and people don't talk about what actually upsets them, preferring to speak in euphemisms, but no one's complaining about the boobs, you know.

Eh.

Here's me being nice: I'm sure she means well, and she does love her father.

Someone has to.

Bonus: Someone posted an unpublished shot from Playboy, in which you can see most of one nipple.

posted by Ace at 04:04 PM

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