Perhaps a bit mean spirited...but funny as hell.

OMG, I have never laughed this hard first thing in the morning in recent memory.

"Where are my Percosets? You lost them?": AND THE LOOK! Priceless!

You did well, Madame. I think perchance the Queen should move up your station, Dame Bitch, perhaps.

Thanks for my morning guilty pleasure! Ha! Hell, I'll even lolerz.

Marquise de Bitch...that would be the next step up in the Order of Precedence.

I'm happy you guys enjoyed it :)

Whoa, those are seriously unflattering photos, some of them.

(And what's with that purple outfit? I'd have thought someone of Cindy McCain's wealth would have made an effort not to be photographed in it on separate occasions. Maybe that just makes her down-to-earth, though. Nah.)

This is pretty funny, MB. I hate to encourage you, but...

I feel sorry for her, if you can believe that at all. I don't even know why, except that I think she must have compromised quite a bit to stay married to John McCain. Yes, she has money and beauty, but she is now saddled with the ALL of John McCain. Would that be easy for any woman? I would need pain killers to make it through my days, too...just look at Laura Bush. The 'scrips are dispensed with the smart Chanel suits and proper 3.5" pumps, poor gals. ;)

I agree Lisa, but at one point chose this path and personally, I think she gets off on the power and exposure as much as the percocet. And what's with Laura Bush lately? Her look gets more and more pinched-face fifties houewife everyday. I keep expecting her to come out in an apron and oven mitt with a sheet of fresh cookies, only they're evil cookies and she's going to kill us all.

Hey, we all know Laura is the real killer. I wonder what kind of niceties those two exchange. Do you think they speak in Slytherin?

Hilarious, really. Even the first picture, which stung, because my ears are big and pointy too.

Laura Bush really had to take one for the team last night with that defensive speech about Bush II's questionable legacy.

I love this post. It's a great companion to the Daily Show from last night where they interviewed the Republican "victims" of Gustav as they waited out the storm at the Xcel Center in St. Paul.

Lisa, I sort of agree, but I also think she chose that life. She was the one with the money, after all -- it was a choice borne out of desire for fame, and she's paying the price.

PF -- that is hilarious.

And i'm sorry if I've offended any point-eared Chanel-wearing assassins :)

I don't understand. Where are all the Palin supporters coming out to defend Cindy from this vicious attack? How dare you attack a woman. Stop that you vile Bitch.

Also, and perhaps this is not a fair judgment on my part -- why is she the child that received the majority of the inheritance? I never researched it, but read that one sister (half or step?) received only $10,000? If there was some way that Cindy contributed to her sister(s)'s lack of proper inheritance, I might feel a little less magnanimous this morning...after all, she does have great clothes.

I don't know if Cindy had anything to do with her own inheritance, but get this -- the adopted child of Cindy and John, Bridget, gets like half of what her siblings get out of cindy and john's estate when they die. !!!

I commented the other day that Laura is starting to look like Professor Dolores Umbridge of Harry Potter fame. How dare anyone question the Ministry!

Madame Bitch, I am surprised at you. What the hell to Cindy McCain's LOOKS have to do with ANYTHING? I couldn't image anyone doing a similar montage on a man, with the focus on his attractiveness. Sure, I've seen photo montages of dubya, but the focus is always been on 'look how dumb he looks', not 'look how unattractive he is.' And he is the President - he chose to be in the public eye by running for elected office. Cindy is a bystander.

These people are starting to remind me more and more of Green Acres every day. I can't decide, though, if Johnny is Oliver Douglas or Mr. Haney.

Sandra, I knew that someone would make the criticism you make, and I have a few replies:

(1) Cindy McCain is not an innocent bystander. She didn't marry someone whose later political ambitions thrust her into the spotlight against her will. She married a known political celebrity and happily funded and supported his ascent to where he is now.

(2) Being the holder of the money, she deliberately chose to put herself into a spotlight, and takes great care of look her best. In fact, rumor has it that her looks are her biggest point of pride. Basically, looking like the perfect political country club wife is her job. So, her looks do have to do with everything.

(3) Moreover, these photos are meant to highlight her looking dumb, bewildered, silly, etc., not necessarily her look BAD or unattractive. I'm criticizing her extremely wealthy apparel, her cliched Republican wife drug addition, her conservative clothes. It's not about her looking ugly. That's too easy.

Pictures worth more than a million words. Loved it. But Madame, surely you noticed but were perhaps too kind (!?) to point out...she looks like she's had at least three different face jobs in the time frame of those pictures!

Oh, my mistake. The comments about the pointy ears, Texas hair, Phoenix hair and makeup like a trollop were about her money and this "drug addiction" issue that is treated like a fact. A thousand pardons, I must have 'misunderstood'.

"rumor has it that her looks are her biggest point of pride. Basically, looking like the perfect political country club wife is her job. So, her looks do have to do with everything"

Oh, well if the RUMOR has it that she cares about looking attractive in public (and Jesus, who doesn't?) then by all means, savage her at will. She deserves it for putting herself out there!

Sandra, you've been to Dallas. You know the big bleached blond hair i'm talking about -- it's a regional hairstyle that looks totally normal there, but completely silly outside of the region. Her wearing her hair like that is an indicator of her culture, tastes and wealth. My general point with these pictures is that Cindy McCain is a conservative, wealthy republican political country club wife. That hair is emblematic of that social milieu. I'm confident you're aware of that.

The make-up-trollop-cunt thing is something I'm sure you're also familiar with.

If I can say that Dubya looks like a monkey or a gorilla, I can point out Cindy's elf-ears. Not ever criticism or discussion of how a woman looks is inherently terribly sexist, especially if the woman herself is happy to live out an extremely sexist-based social role.

To be clear, I am not a McCain (John or Cindy) supporter. I was a Hillary supporter, but will now, happily, be voting for Obama in a few months. Having said that, attacks on Cindy's appearance are pretty damn low. I was incensed by similar attacks made on Hillary, and am disappointed to see that people who share my political leanings are doing the same thing to Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin. Few people poke fun at male politicians' appearances. Why the disparity?

And Cindy McCain is not a scholar or a policy wonk or Michelle Ovama. She's an heiress who's never really had a job in her life, she's a former beauty queen, a cheerleader, a sorority sister, and she's a prescription drug addict, in the finest tradition of republican wives (Barbara Bush had the same problem, and Betty Ford too, right?).

Yes, I can go after her as she is latest incarnation of an anti-feminist, traditional family values, arm-candy hypocrite of a woman. It's okay, it's not like i'm trashtalking someone accomplished or a role model for women or anything like that.

mabinogi, i'm not attacking palin's looks. i'm not attacking hillary's looks either. these women have accomplishments.

cindy mccain's job is to be the perfectly coiffed arm candy wife. what's so hard to understand? her job is to be the demure, ever-so-polite political wife with no opinions or mind of her own. she happily embraces this completely antifeminist role. I can attack her for doing this job poorly. Perhaps it will help bring down the whole insidious archetype.

Cindy is Paris, sanitized and 40 years later. If they made sex tapes when she got her Prize maverick politico, there would have been one. As the society allowed at the time, it waas quite the homewrecking scandal.

With no perceivable skills other than shopping and carrying the family genes, she is Full Stepford.

But she is not ugly. She is still cute, even in her late 50's/early 60's, which is a marvel of maodern make-up. You can tell by the arms that she does NOT work out.

"i'm not attacking palin's looks. i'm not attacking hillary's looks either. these women have accomplishments."

So if a woman does not measure up to your standard of accomplishment, her appearance is fair game for an attack? Is this style of criticism really in line with feminism even if you cite it as your fuel?

"i'm not attacking palin's looks. i'm not attacking hillary's looks either. these women have accomplishments."

So if a woman does not measure up to your standard of accomplishment, her appearance is fair game for an attack?

Not quite. i'll amend what i mean: Cindy McCain's job and accomplishments are being a political wife, which in large part is looking good. Just like a supermodel's job is to look good. So i'll criticize her for doing her job poorly, just like i will criticize Clinton for being a poorly performing Senator or Palin for being a poorly performing governor.

Cindy McCain has accomplishments, but they are looks-related. :)

“Cindy McCain has accomplishments, but they are looks-related”
Ms. McCain holds a masters degree in special education from USC, which she parlayed into a career working with developmentally disabled children. She founded a non-profit in the mode of Doctors without Borders with which she has maintained close ties, traveling to over 55 countries, many of them war torn, to participate in humanitarian missions, where medical care is needed most. She has an active role as a mother to her children. Despite many of her faults, which have been widely publicized, this is not a person whose accomplishments are solely “looks-related “as you suggest in your counterpoint.

I'm sorry, Matt, although she may have financed a lot of good with her vast fortune, to me, a woman who inherited a lot of money financing a charity is just not as impressive as a self-made woman like Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama or Sarah Palin. Being the president emeritus of a couple of charities when you have a hundred million dollar fortune is not a career or much of an accomplishment, IMHO.

She's never had to support herself, or be worried about losing her job or not getting promoted. when she crashed her porsche, daddy got her a new merz. when the other teachers made fun of her for driving that car to school, daddy got her a WV just for driving to school purposes.

It's not the same, and it's not that much of an accomplishment. This woman was so committed to her charity work that when she was caught stealing drugs from her charity, she closed that charity down. See how much she cared?!

I didn't realize that prescription drug abuse was a Republican wife problem. Would she have been better to self-medicate by smoking marijuana (which, for some folks is Rx medicine), or pouring a stiff drink?

I'm very hesitant to judge people for having - or having had - substance abuse or mental health issues (and they're often intertwined). There have been a lot of good people who struggled with these things. Some made it out the other side, and sadly, some didn't.

Hmm. I think, on balance, Madame, you are digging yourself into a hole. You should put the shovel down.

It's all well and good to criticize McCain's policy proposals for being radically opposed to the best interests of the majority of Americans and of the nation as a whole, but we should remember that few people are inherently, thoroughly venal. Everyone has a bad hair day and people in the public eye can be caught in all kinds of unflattering light making all kinds of odd, or funny, or ugly, or embarrassing gestures and looks.

I don't think this kind of superficial criticism advances the cause of progress or harmony in any meaningful way and it certainly won't convince any conservative leaners to move away from Grampa McNasty.

Oh my, where have all the senses of humor gone? This is a joke, maybe not a PC joke, but a damned funny joke nonetheless. Things are hard right now in our country, hard for me and my family right now. And Madame did us (or at least my husband and me) the favor of lightening our spirits if only for a while and making us laugh out loud.

So everyone stop being so goddamned righteous and enjoy this post as it was meant, as a fucking joke!

I can't believe you people made me feel as if I had to get Madame's back, a first. It's rather freeing actually. Your indignance wasn't in vain.

I'll end thusly:

How do you circumcize a whale?...

...With four skin divers!

Laughter, it's good for you.

Pretend, ha! I'm a diver, and I'd never heard the whale circumcision joke before. I love it. I have to share that with my dive buddies.

"And i'm sorry if I've offended any point-eared Chanel-wearing assassins"

I'm only pointy-eared (my people prefer the word elven). Never worn Chanel. And I'm not an assassin (so far as you know...).

It seems (with all due respect) that MB is defending herself less than successfully from the valid discomfort some people seem to have with mocking Cindy's appearance. It isn't that Cindy doesn't do good things, or that some people can be mocked but others can't. It seems to me (and it seems PF and a few others), any public figure is fair game. I'm fair game, for that matter. Feel free to mock my elven-eared ways by making D&D and SCA references. I don't think it makes anyone look bad to poke some harmless fun, as long as we can take it when it is our turn (even though we don't have to worry about it because Republicans aren't funny).

Personally I think Cindy is very attractive woman, even if she does make expressions like she wants to eat John's brains with a side of fava beans.

I wonder how many women angrily justifying mocking cindy for her looks would feel "self-righteous" if a gang of OSers dogpiled on her looks.

Sure, it was funny. And Madame is a gifted lampoonist. I'm sure she'd find it just as hilarious if she were so accurately lampooned on how well or not her hair, clothing, expressions looks like a Jewish lawyer (which is your job, right?) Point being - where does such 'justified' mockery stop and become some sort of ist?

But as AZDavid said, it was mean spirited. I'd rather not play the game of attacking a woman on her attractiveness quotient. It validates the misogynists who believe attractiveness is all women have to offer and therefore have the 'right' to judge them.

Pretend, it wasn't that long ago that Sally shared a story with humorous intent - that of her Mexican getaway terrorized by iguana-types. And you were quite vocal about how it stung you that she was parading her expensive vacation around as the background of a story told for our enjoyment, and how she should have been more sensitive. Self-righteousness is definitely in the mood of the beholder.

It would be a whole lot funnier to see McCain lampooned and attacked on matters of looks, and family sexual shenanigans, as vigorously as his wife and Veep choice.

Sure, it was funny. And Madame is a gifted lampoonist. I'm sure she'd find it just as hilarious if she were so accurately lampooned on how well or not her hair, clothing, expressions looks like a Jewish lawyer (which is your job, right?) Point being - where does such 'justified' mockery stop and become some sort of ist?

Come now, Sandra, looking like a Jewish lawyer is not part of my job description,whereas looking conservative, demure and attractive is part of her job description. That said, if I failed miserably at wearing basic lawyer gear that is essential to any lawyer, then my looks on that count would be fair game.

It would be a whole lot funnier to see McCain lampooned and attacked on matters of looks, and family sexual shenanigans, as vigorously as his wife and Veep choice.

I didn't call him Frankenstein McCunt for months for nothing, my friends. Have you see how he walks?

Bad kitty!

I'm pretty sure McCain walks that way because of the wounds he got from being a POW. I don't think those wounds make him a good candidate for President, but I also don't think they should be mocked.

"looking like a Jewish lawyer is not part of my job description,whereas looking conservative, demure and attractive is part of her job description"

How is being a wife a 'job description"?