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    Meghan McCain Wants To Be Carrie Bradshaw

    Posted Tuesday, March 03, 2009 5:53 PM | By Noreen Malone
    The media adventures of Meghan McCain have become a bit of a hobbyhorse for me, so I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised when four e-mails showed up in my inbox with a link to this Daily Beast article she wrote about the difficulties of dating in the wake of her father's failed presidential campaign. McCain's first article for the Tina Brown startup, a semi-reported piece on how poorly the GOP has adopted to technology, was a strong start and a subject upon which she has a certain purchase. Her second effort, an "exclusive" sit-down interview with, um, her mommy, had the whiff of seventh-grade civics project writ embarrassingly large, but I guess journalists might as well use the access they get, right? (Maybe she just interpreted the old chestnut "If your mother tells you she loves, you, check it out" as a story assignment.) But now she's turned to writing this "Looking for Mr. Far Right" column, wherein she moans that "One extreme fan of my mother's recently told me I could be ‘his Cindy.' And then asked me if I ever wore pearls because they probably would look as good on me as they do on my mother. No, I'm not kidding. Any guy that has a fetish for older women in pantsuits and large pearls obviously only finds my last name attractive about me."

    Oh, Meghan. I feel for her, I really do. That's weird and terribly awkward, as I imagine much of her life must be. But still, writing about how your political dad kills your love life probably isn't the best way to distance yourself from that particular issue or establish an independent identity. It sure is a great way to get page views and stay in the spotlight, though.

     

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