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Meghan McCain: Cut It Out, Internet Bullies! - The Daily Beast
She hit the nail on the head. Not that anything will change - but she is right.
Last week, I went on Al Sharptons MSNBC show PoliticsNation to talk about extremism in the Republican Party. As a socially liberal Republican, this happens to be a topic I know a lot about. On the show, I told Sharpton that many Republicans treat me like a freak, especially the extreme-right members of my party. I went on to say that I dont understand the appeal of extreme bloggers such as Michelle Malkin and the late Andrew Breitbart. Thats all I said, but it only took a few hours before my comments were posted out of context on a variety of blogs that suggested I was viciously attacking Breitbart. My Twitter feed exploded with insults, including the suggestion that I should kill myself.
Instead of ignoring the hate projected at me, I elected to retweet some of the most vile responses. I wanted to show people what happens to me when I go on TV and voice my opinion. The Internet trolls werent interested in having a discussion about my opinion; they just wanted to eviscerate me. Heres a watered-down version of some of the most hateful comments:
I am fat pig. I am ugly. I am disgusting. I am an embarrassment to my family, and they should be ashamed of me. I am an anti-American extremist. I am a clueless whore. I should drink a bottle of alcohol and pills and kill myself.
Thats only a small sampling, but you get the idea. You would think that by now, having gone through a presidential election with my father in 2008, I would be numb to this kind of name-calling. But Im not. It hurts, it rattles me, it (understandably) concerns my mother, and it keeps me up at night. In a single day, Dan Abramss Mediaite found it necessary to post two full columns about me, questioning my career and suggesting Im a problem for the Republican Party. By the way, each of the columnists behind these posts also vomited up a series of nasty Twitter posts following their columns. And they are supposed to be professionals.
She hit the nail on the head. Not that anything will change - but she is right.