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Here is audio of Laura Ingraham slapping down Meghan McCain, daughter of John McCain, after her recent criticism of Ann Coulter and conservatives. Ingraham mocks McCain in this clip as part of McCain's recent comments are played. . . . . . . (Listen to Ingraham)

Meghan McCain responds to Laura Ingraham’s attack on her weight: Why is this topic still a socially accepted prejudice—and why in the world would a woman raise it? BY MEGHAN MCCAINRecently my not-size-0 body has come under fire again by the conservative pundit Laura Ingraham. On her radio show recently, she sarcastically commented that I was “too plus-sized to be a cast member on the television show The Real World” and needled me about my weight with a comment about Barbie's 50th anniversary. Instead of intellectually debating our ideological differences about the future of the Republican Party, Ingraham resorted to...

<p>Last week, Ingraham mocked McCain on her radio show after the daughter of former GOP presidential nominee John McCain urged Republicans to seek compromise with Democrats. Ingraham called McCain “a Valley Girl gone awry” and a “plus-sized model.”</p> <p>McCain, who writes about politics and her personal life for The Daily Beast, went on The View on Monday to fight back.</p>

Here is video of Meghan McCain on The View today where she responded to comments made last week about her by Laura Ingraham. Ingraham criticized McCain for attacking Ann Coulter, and at the end of the segment referred to McCain's weight. McCain is indignant throughout the segment, and of course the "ladies" on The View pile on Laura Ingraham. It would have been better for Ingraham to have not made the weight remark. She has only helped make a martyr out of McCain and has given her more exposure. But Meghan McCain is wrong about the Republican Party needing to...

Memo to Meghan McCain: Enjoy the media coverage while it lasts, but know you're being used. You are the flavor of the month in left-wing media land because you are a Republican bashing the GOP. Likewise, your dad is most popular among the same people when he is slamming his Republican brethren in full-blown "maverick" fashion. At least he backs up his views with a lifetime of sacrifice and public service. What is Ms. McCain's own political, business, or real-world experience that lends credibility to her argument that the GOP needs to "moderate" (read: abandon its core principles)? Now the...

(CNN) -- Laura Ingraham is calling Meghan McCain a "useful idiot" and a "flavor of the month" — the latest salvo in the war of words between the conservative radio host and the daughter of former Republican presidential candidate John McCain.