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Meghan McCain's 'Racy' Twitter Pic Leads to National Crisis

by Amar Toor on October 16, 2009 at 12:35 PM

Meghan McCain, daughter of Republican 2008 Presidential candidate John McCain, has stirred quite a firestorm over a photo of herself she recently posted to her Twitter account. In a Tweet documenting her "spontaneous night in," McCain linked to a photo of herself wearing a black, push-up tank top and a sly smile, while holding up a copy of Andy Warhol's biography in front of the camera.

The Arizona senator's daughter, who also writes for Daily Beast, has a Twitter following that numbers in the tens of thousands, so the "racy" TwitPic was quickly circulated. In fact, it racked up over 160,000 views in just 17 hours, and impassioned reactions soon followed. One conservative tweeter lamented, "If [McCain] is the future of the GOP, we're gonna have to get much more serious about real issues like glitter, fabric, and unicorns." Many, though, defended her -- from both sides of the aisle. One follower (quite astutely) pointed out that "just because someone posts a picture doesn't make them a slut," and urged Twitter nation to get their "heads out of the gutter." Another self-described "super hardcore Dem," admitted that she finds McCain's Tweets "pretty awesome."


Enough negative reaction, though, has forced McCain to issue both a defense of her post, as well as an apology. In a series of subsequent posts, she maintained that she didn't at all consider what she was wearing when taking the photo, tweeting, "when I am alone in my apartment, I wear tank tops and sweat pants, I had no idea this makes me a 'slut', I can't even tell you how hurt I am." She later acknowledged that she "made a huge mistake" and said "sorry 2 those that are offended."

We have to side with McCain -- at least in this instance. Aside from some very (very) noticeable cleavage, we don't think there's anything at all lascivious or offensive about the photo (depending on how you feel about Andy Warhol, that is). As far as we see things, it's just a young, bored woman doing what many young bored women do -- put on some sweatpants and log on to Twitter. And if wearing a low-cut shirt and reading about Pop Art is wrong, we, quite honestly, don't wanna be right. [From: The Wall Street Journal, via The Business Insider]

Tags: mccain, meghan mccain, MeghanMccain, top, twitpic, twitter

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