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Controversial Fox News personality (for now, anyway) Glenn Beck found out all about the wrath of scorned women this week. Beck managed to infuriate both John McCain's daughter, Meghan McCain, and her mother, Cindy McCain, after making light of a skin-cancer ad that the younger McCain appeared in. During the Wednesday broadcast of his radio show, Beck watched the Style Network PSA -- which features seemingly naked McCain, singer Brandy, Tatyana Ali and Tempest Bledsoe -- while making retching sounds and issuing snide comments. "Put some extra clothes on," Beck said during one particularly scathing segment. "Like, lots of extra...

Cindy McCain Blasts Glenn Beck By: CNN's Rebecca Stewart (CNN)- Cindy McCain isn't a fan of conservative host Glenn Beck. The wife of Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain tweeted her disdain for the departing Fox News pundit Wednesday saying, "I'm so glad Glenn Beck is leaving Fox. Enough vitriol and hate." And if Beck was confused about his role on the network, which he's often equated with being an entertainer, Mrs. McCain sought to clear it up. "Glenn, you are no rodeo clown," she said. "They are decent and nice. You aren't."

Real estate mogul/reality TV star Donald Trump, who is considering a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, has fond feelings for the 2008 nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona. The Donald makes that clear in an interview with McCain’s daughter Meghan for The Daily Beast. “I like you and I like your father, I’ll tell you. And I like your mother. I like your whole family. Hey, look, I supported your family, right?” Trump says. “To be honest with you, Bush made it so bad that Abraham Lincoln couldn’t have beaten Obama. The world was crashing! If you remember six...

MEGHAN MCCAIN: I Expect My Family And Sarah Palin To Be Nothing Short Of Crucified By HBO's 'GAME CHANGE' HBO is adapting a miniseries based on Game Change, the book about the 2008 election. But as Hollywood casts liberal actors to play all the parts, Meghan McCain doubts that it will be an accurate portrayal of what actually happened. Game Change, the infamous bestseller written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, has plagued anyone directly associated with the 2008 election cycle. The first time I heard about the book was within weeks after Obama was elected—my former press person...

Sen. John McCain on Sunday laughed off his wife’s appearance in a television advertisement challenging his own position on the policy barring gays from serving openly in the military, “I respect the First Amendment rights of every member of my family,” the Arizona Republican said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” when asked about his wife Cindy McCain’s appearance in a star-studded ad released this week by the group NOH8, in which she seemed to call for the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

Cindy McCain announced that she is against the repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell" one day after she appeared in a video where she lends her support to end the ban on gays openly serving in the military. Earlier this week, the former Presidential candidate's wife appeared in a video campaign for the group NOH8 railing on the United States' controversial military policy – a policy that her husband supports. "Our political and religious leaders tell LGBT youth that they have no future ... They can't serve our country openly," she said on the video. (snip) But on Friday night,...

Cindy McCain, wife of Senator John McCain, has joined a handful of celebrities in a new “anti-bullying ad” by a gay advocacy group. Coverage of the ad has thus far been focused on the significance of Mrs. McCain’s direct opposition to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT), a policy her husband supports. However, that detail is a sideshow detracting from a more crucial point. The ad demonstrates the intellectual dishonesty of the radical gay movement. Before we consider the ad’s content, it is incumbent upon us to reflect upon what bullying is and what it is not. A bully is someone...

Speaking in a video for an ad campaign aimed at ending the bullying of gay teenagers, Cindy McCain, the wife of Senator John McCain of Arizona, broke with her husband and called for a repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. In a new public service announcement for NOH8, a group devoted to promoting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, Mrs. McCain faces the camera and says: “Our political and religious leaders tell L.G.B.T. youth that they have no future.”) “They can’t serve our country openly,” says Mrs. McCain, whose husband, a Republican and veteran...

Cindy McCain has delivered a double-barreled rebuke -- to the military's "don't ask don't tell" policy -- and to her husband, one of the policy's leading supporters. She chose as her forum a new anti-bullying public service video sponsored by a California gay and lesbian rights group. ...Her appearances, totaling less than 15 seconds in the two and a half minute film, are interspersed between those of other celebrities, who also decry policies and attitudes that condone anti-gay bullying.

Cindy McCain, the wife of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), appears in a new ad for a campaign geared towards ending the bullying of gay youth and promoting equality for members of the LGBT community. In the ad, McCain parts ways with her husband on whether to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. McCain joins a variety of celebrities, including Kat Von D, Denise Richards and Gene Simmons among others, in calling for an end to bullying of homosexuals. "Our political and religious leaders tell LGBT youth that they have no future," she says. "They can't serve our country...

Cindy McCain, wife of Arizona senator and 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain, posed for a photo posted on a website supporting same-sex marriage Wednesday. McCain can be seen on the NO H8 Campaign's website with her mouth taped shut, and "No H8" written across her cheek. She's the latest advocate of what the campaign calls "Redefining Republican" - removing the stigma of opposition to same-sex marriage from the Republican Party's platform. With the photo, McCain joins her daughter Meghan in support of same-sex marriage, while her husband remains aligned against her on the issue. David Frantz, president of the...

Gay rights supporters in California say they have found an unlikely ally in Cindy McCain, the wife of Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who lent her name this week to the cause of same-sex marriage. McCain’s support comes as Proposition 8 proponents and opponents battle over the constitutionality of California’s ban on gay marriage in San Francisco federal court. The ad features McCain, right hand over her heart, wind rustling her blond locks, with “No H8” written on her cheek and silver duct tape over her mouth. “To have the wife of a Republican presidential candidate really turns everything...

Shortly before the 2008 election I asked a gay friend which candidate he supported. When he replied “Obama,” I asked why, and my friend said that he was a single-issue voter (the single issue being gay marriage) and Obama was obviously going to legalize gay marriage nationwide, whereas McCain was a stodgy old conservative and therefore self-evidently an enemy of gay rights. I pointed out that Obama was all over the map and had made conflicting statements about his attitudes toward gay marriage, telling gay groups that one day same-sex marriage will be seen as normal, while on the other...

Sen. John McCain's wife Cindy McCain is the newest face of a pro-gay marriage campaign. Posing with tape over her mouth and a "NOH8" logo on her face, Cindy McCain was photographed for the NOH8 Campaign, which protests Proposition 8, the California proposition passed in 2008 banning same-sex marriage. The proposition is currently being challenged in federal court. McCain approached the campaign herself about her participation, the NOH8 Web site says. She has spoken out on behalf of gay rights before, though this is perhaps her most prominent show of support for the issue. "The McCains are one of the...

Irony hit the jackpot as Cindy McCain, wife of Senator John McCain, posed for the NOH8 campaign, reports the Advocate. As the mother to vocal marriage equality advocate, Meghan McCain, we are surprised at such unanticipated support. Is this the Cindy we all knew to be that staunch republican with a narrow outlook on equality? On a positive aspect, it could be true that not all republicans are anti-gay marriage. According the NOH8's website, Cindy McCain wanted to participate in the campaign to show people that party doesn't matter and that marriage equality isn't a Republican issue any more than...

(snip) VAN SUSTEREN: She is shaking things up a little bit in the Republican Party, bringing a little youth to the Republican Party, which has been thought as not exactly -- the younger crowd hasn't been attracted to it. MCCAIN: She is. And I am very proud of her for that, because she is like her father. She is very straight talking. She is very genuine in her beliefs and what she is trying to do. And there's -- it's wonderful. It is remarkable. And I think she is doing not only a great job, but I think she has...

(CNN) – Log Cabin Republicans are getting some support from the McCain family. Cindy and Meghan McCain will make an appearance at the gay rights organization's four day convention in Washington, which kicks off Thursday night. "Of all the causes I believe in and speak publicly about, this is one of the ones closest to my heart," Meghan McCain, a vocal supporter of same-sex marriage, wrote in the Daily Beast this week. "If the Republican Party has any hope of gaining substantial support from a wider, younger base, we need to get past our anti-gay rhetoric." Steve Schmidt, former senior...

Michelle may bring home the bacon, but she sure doesn't fry it up in a pan. During last year's presidential campaign, the media worked overtime to portray John and Cindy McCain as wealthy private jet junkies with more homes than they can remember, while showcasing Barack and Michelle Obama as just another middle class family with two working parents, one car and freshly paid off student loans. In 2008, a media frenzy whirled around Mrs. McCain's income and the $170,000 she paid household staff in 2006. On the other hand, Mrs. Obama was defined as an average mom who juggled...

There’s a reason John McCain married a younger woman. Not only can she spoonfeed the deluded old codger and wipe up his drool, but she’s rational enough to comprehend what the media did to her husband throughout the last election cycle. “I do believe there was a media bias,” Cindy said. “I do believe that the media had a specific agenda…There is very little difference now between journalism and gossip.” “The New York Times profile of me is being used as an example of the bias in reporting in journalism classes at Columbia’s journalism school.” Our sources inside the McCain...

Cindy McCain: 'Voyeuristic' Media had 'Specific Agenda' @ 11:44 am by Michael O'Brien Would-have-been first lady Cindy McCain said that the media had a "specific agenda" against her husband, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), during the 2008 presidential campaign, and castigated the New York Times for their profile of her last fall. "Well, I think, without sounding bitter—and I'm not bitter—I do believe there was a media bias," Cinday McCain told her daughter Meghan for an interview on The Daily Beast. "I do believe that the media had a specific agenda and with that said, the American people cast their vote."...

McCain Keeps Wife from 'Dancing With The Stars' @ 1:31 pm by Walter Alarkon Cindy McCain wanted to compete on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," but her famous politician husband wouldn't let her do it, according to The New York Post. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) refused to let his wife appear as a dancer on the popular reality show, even though she "wanted to do it very badly," according to an unnamed source who spoke to the Post's gossip column, Page Six. Cindy McCain had gone as far as speaking to ABC producers about going on the show, the source...

EXCLUSIVE: CINDY MCCAIN'S SECRET LOVER REVEALED Photo by: Splash News Online The ENQUIRER's bombshell revelation of the man that insiders say Cindy's been canoodling behind J-Mac's back! We now reveal the true identity of the man in the ENQUIRER photos that sources say show John McCain's wife, Cindy, lip locking a man. The sources now reveal the "mystery man" as Dino Castelli, 56, a used car dealer! Not only that but Cindy prolonged her steamy three-year fling with Dino even while John McCain was running for president, sources told The ENQUIRER. Cindy's and Dino had been meeting at Cindy's Phoenix,...

"What I've discovered is that if people haven't voted in four years, their names have been released from the book," said Carla D. Packer, the sixtysomething site coordinator at the polling place at Hayden Hall, the New York University dorm on Washington Square Park. "Sam Shepard was here with Jessica Lange and he apparently just re-registered. He got his notice to register to vote here, but his name wasn't in the book and when I went out to speak with him I discovered he hadn't voted in four years. And one year ago, I had the same problem with [Ms....

U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) winks at an audience member at a campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio October 27, 2008. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain greets supporters at a campaign rally in Cedar Falls, Iowa October 26, 2008. Republican presidential nominee John McCain acknowledges supporters during a rally in Lancaster, Ohio. High-flying Barack Obama is set to present his "closing argument" to voters as the Democrat's epic White House duel with beleaguered Republican John McCain entered its final full week.

WASHINGTON, October 21, 2008—As The New York Times increasingly comes under fire for an October 18 story that delved into Cindy McCain’s personal life, a prominent critic of the paper is calling for a boycott of what he terms “America’s newspaper of wretched.” Don Feder, the editor of the Boycott The New York Times website http://boycottnyt.com, says the lengths that The Times went to in order to “trash” Mrs. McCain is further proof of a relentless pro-Obama bias at the newspaper. “How low will The New York Times go to trash John McCain and his wife Cindy? Think the bellies...

Cindy McCain will appear on Greta Van Susteran program tonight.

They’re playing “the drug card,” writes Halperin, confirming my suspicion that there’s now a card for everything. See his post for links to both stories; Huck’s target is the press’s creepily thorough vetting of Joe the Plumber whereas Rudy’s after the Times for this weekend’s hit piece on Cindy McCain. (He went on to say he didn’t think Obama’s drug use was relevant.) In both cases, they’re following the lead of Maverick lawyer John Dowd, who dropped this on the NYT yesterday: These allegations and efforts to hurt Cindy have been a matter of public record for sixteen years. Cindy...

It’s not enough for America’s “newspaper of wretched” to smear John McCain and Sarah Palin. In an October 18 “news” story, “Behind McCain, Outsider in Capital Wanting Back In,” it went after the candidate’s wife, Cindy McCain. In the guise of a profile piece, The Times rehashed Mrs. McCain’s past addiction to pain-killers - a story that was old news 20 years ago. It also reported that John and Cindy spend much of their time apart - he in Washington, she in their Arizona home. This is so common for Congressmen and their wives that’s it’s hardly worth noting. But...

Palin was always first choice says Cindy McCain by , The Patriot-News Sunday October 19, 2008, 8:46 PM Those reports that Gov. Sarah Palin was a last minute choice as John McCain's running mate? Not true says McCain's wife, Cindy, who visited the midstate Sunday as part of a three-day bus swing through Pennsylvania. In an exclusive interview with The Patriot-News, Mrs. McCain said from the moment she and her husband first met Palin, months before the Republican convention, "it clicked." Speaking following an afternoon rally at Gettysburg College, Mrs. McCain said Palin "was always at the top of the...

Fox News has been covering the McCain campaign's "outrage" over a Cindy McCain profile in the New York Times this weekend. But besides just reporting the story throughout the day, FNC has made it easy for those equally outraged — with a cancellation phone number and complaint email address in their lower thirds of the TV screen.

The private life and health of John McCain came under renewed scrutiny yesterday in two leading newspapers which are backing Barack Obama for president. A hostile profile of Cindy McCain in The New York Times presented a sombre portrait of a lonely wife, ill at ease in Washington and lacking the support of her husband through miscarriages and an addiction to painkilling drugs. The Washington Post explored the chances of McCain’s skin cancer recurring under the ominous headline, “Questions linger”. The paper commissioned biostatisticians at the National Cancer Institute to pore over the known facts about his illness and to...

WASHINGTON--The McCain campaign unleashed a furious attack on the New York Times for digging into the background of Cindy McCain--as her attorney asserted the paper is not looking deeply at Barack and Michelle Obama. Her attorney wrote a stinging letter to the managing editor of the New York Times about how the piece was prepared--claiming a reporter contacted a teen on her Face Book page to get some leads. In the letter released by the McCain campaign, attorney John Dowd notes that Cindy McCain's battles with drugs and the management of her charitable life have been long reported and then...

John McCain's campaign is expressing outrage over a New York Times story that focuses on Cindy McCain's marriage to the Arizona senator, including her miscarriages, her past addiction to painkillers and her failure in Washington to fit in. The campaign's outrage comes on the heels of a letter Cindy McCain's attorney, John Dowd, wrote earlier this month to New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller accusing him of biased coverage for not pursuing more information about Obama's personal life. "It is worth noting that you have not employed your investigative assets looking into Michelle Obama," Dowd wrote in the letter,...

Gloves are off ….Big Time!!! Look for blood on the floor!! Mrs. McCain’s lawyer fires off a letter to the New York Times! See the letter to Keller of the New York Times below: Subject: RE: Politico: Cindy’s lawyer to NYT: “You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer…” Dear Mr. Keller: I represent Cindy McCain. I write to appeal to your sense of fairness, balance and decency in deciding whether to publish another story about her. I do this well knowing your obvious bias for Barack Obama and your obvious bias hostility to John McCain. I ask...

McCain slams New York Times From correspondents in Charlotte, North Carolina October 19, 2008 03:27am Article from: Agence France-Presse JOHN McCain's presidential campaign blastedThe New York Times today for an "unprecedented attack" on his wife, as both Republican and Democratic teams exchanged barbs over voter fraud allegations ahead of the November 4 election. The Times' profile of Cindy McCain delves into the background of the millionaire beer heiress, married to the Republican Arizona senator for more than 30 years. McCain's campaign fired back immediately, describing the profile as "gutter journalism at its worst'' and a "barrage of petty and personal...

Talk about sleazy tactics! Wizbang has obtained a copy of a Facebook e-mail sent by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor in order to snoop into the private life of John McCain's youngest daughter, Bridgette. Here is that Kantor message obtained by Wizbang (emphasis mine): September 29 at 7:21pmReport MessageI saw on facebook that you went to Xavier, and if you don't mind, I'd love to ask you some advice about a story. I'm a reporter at the New York Times, writing a profile of Cindy McCain, and we are trying to get a sense of what she is like...

What is going on? Why are Obama's followers going to such lengths (or should I say depths) to attack a citizen who dared to ask Obama a question by digging through his personal records and finding embarrassing information on him (like the fact that the man claiming to be "Joe" is really "Samuel Joseph")? Why are they trying to get ads taken off the air that they don't like? Why are they outspending McCain several fold in most markets? Why is Obama purchasing 30 minute blocks of prime time television on major networks? Why are they registering thousands of people,...

Cindy McCain was new to Washington and not yet 30 when she arrived at a luncheon for Congressional spouses to discover a problem with her name tag. It read “Carol McCain.” That was the well-liked wife John McCain had left to marry Cindy, to the disapproval of many in Washington. -snip- If Mr. McCain wins, she would have to return to the town she says she dislikes, attending the same sorts of luncheons she once fled from. But this time — maybe at the annual event that Congressional wives have for the first lady — the women of Washington, including...

Cindy McCain lawyer invokes Obama drug use John Dowd, Cindy McCain's attorney, complained in a letter to New York Times editor Bill Keller earlier this month that the paper had scrutinized the GOP nominee's wife but not investigated matters surrounding Barack Obama including his youthful drug use. "You have not tried to find Barack Obama's drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My Father," Dowd wrote in a two-page letter sent to Keller while the paper was reporting a piece about Cindy McCain. The McCain campaign released the missive late Friday night in response to that...

Front-running Democrat's campaign and DNC send blizzard of emails to media about Cindy McCain and mobile phone access. So: How do they feel about that in the McCain campaign?

That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles - Cindy McCain wins the cookie contest with her oatmeal-butterscotch recipe against Michelle Obama's shortbread recipe!!!

Michelle would make the WORST FL imaginable, but currently the poll reads: Who would make a better first lady? Cindy McCain 32% 27091 Michelle Obama 68% 57251

Cindy McCain has accused Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama of running "the dirtiest campaign in American history." In remarks reported Tuesday by The Tennessean, she said she initially did not want her husband John McCain to seek the Republican presidential nomination after a brutal primary struggle in 2000 against George W. Bush. "The days of Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill are what we need to look to: a divided government but a government that needs to agree to disagree," Cindy McCain told reporters after visiting children at a Nashville hospital and prior to the presidential debate. "We're now seeing polarizing...

Vanity Fair editors estimated that McCain's fierce saffron shirt dress with the popped collar, diamond earrings, four-strand pearl necklace, white Chanel watch and strappy shoes totaled up to $313,100. _______________________________________________________ I say do not watse your time reading the lie at the link just provided for verification of the original lie.

This is a stunning election season that is ablaze with drama. Regardless of what happens in November, we will either have the First Black President or the First Woman Vice President. It is also a stunning season of contrasts. On the one hand, we have a true American War Hero. John McCain was tortured, maimed, and kept in a virtual box by a ruthless enemy. He suffered for years, refusing special treatment that would place him ahead of fellow prisoners of war. He came out of this experience a physically broken man, but with an enormous gratitude and devotion to...

From the article ... While McCain's accounts have captured the pain of her addiction, her journey through this personal crisis is a more complicated story than she has described, and it had more consequences for her and those around her than she has acknowledged. Her misuse of painkillers prompted an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and local prosecutors that put her in legal jeopardy. Read more at ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103928.html?wpisrc=newsletter

What: John and Cindy McCain on The Rachel Ray Show When: September 12, 2008 1:30 p.m. Where: 222 E. 44th Street

A Tangled Story of Addiction Consequences of Cindy McCain's Drug Abuse Were More Complex Than She Has Portrayed By Kimberly Kindy Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 12, 2008; A01 When Cindy McCain is asked what issues she would champion as first lady, she often cites one of the most difficult periods of her life: her battle with -- and ultimate victory over -- prescription painkillers. Her struggle, she has said repeatedly, taught her valuable lessons about drug abuse that she would pass on to the nation. "I think it made me a better person as well as a better...

Barack Obama has spent two years telling America that his wife works for the community of south-side Chicago, making Americans think Mrs. Obama devotes her life to charity work. The opposite is true: Mrs. Obama sits on the board of University of Chicago Medical Center and is paid her for her work. It’s been reported that a patient can only be treated at the hospital he or she has insurance, yet Michelle Obama claims she fights for those in need. Cindy McCain saves lives without receiving one dime; she has literally gotten down in the trenches with people less fortunate,...

Thank you everyone.  John and I are so proud of them and so happy to have them here with us tonight.  Nothing has made me happier or more fulfilled in my life than being a mother.  But while John and I take great joy in having been able to spend time together this week as a family, our hearts go out to the thousands of families who have had to leave their homes once again due to devastating weather. It is not only our natural instinct to rally to them, to lift them up with our prayers and come to...