John McCain’s daughter is at it again!
In her latest op-ed for The Daily Mail, Meghan McCain accuses President Biden of using TikTokers to spread government propaganda after the White House held a Zoom meeting with roughly 30 influencers last week.
No, seriously, that’s what she’s arguing.
McCain specifically targets 18-year-old TikToker Ellie Zeiler, who posted a video about how Russia’s attack on Ukraine is impacting gas prices in the United States shortly after the meeting.
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“Now, with Putin starting this horrific fight between Ukraine and Russia, nobody wants to work with him and do international trade… so with people being scared of war and limited resources prices are bound to go up,” Zeiler explained in the video.
@elliezeiler Link in my bio to help ??
Speaking to The Teen Mag recently, Zeiler said she considers herself a “big activist” for human rights.
“I love that I can use my voice to speak up on my platform to shed light onto these topics and spread word,” she said. “From me speaking out, I feel that people are getting to know me better, because activism is something that is significant to me.”
McCain, who makes several digs at Zeiler’s age throughout the op-ed, calls the young influencer’s take on gas prices “inaccurate on its face.”
“It is Biden’s policies, not just the war in Ukraine, that have driven inflation and led to rising energy prices, and no amount of TikToks will hide this,” she argues. “But the more troubling aspect here is that it is a priority for the administration to feed TikTok stars their spin.”
“Let’s simply call this what this is: A propaganda play on behalf of the Biden administration, using the goodwill of very young people to naively do their bidding.”
We’d argue what’s more “troubling” is a 37-year-old woman using her platform to falsely accuse a teenager of spreading government propaganda and being too stupid to know better. (BTW, Zeiler was recently accepted into Harvard.)
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We also can’t help but notice the irony of McCain attacking a young person for being interested in politics when she herself elbowed her way onto her father’s presidential campaign when she was in her early 20s then wrote a horribly-reviewed tell-all book about it.
From there, McCain proceeds to ramble on (and on) about how TikTok is evil and how she will never create content for the platform, nor will she allow her 17-month-old daughter to, before trashing White House press secretary Jen Psaki (yawn) and attacking President Biden (again).
“Unless Biden somehow is able to course correct his administration in the coming months, he will be remembered as a weak, Jimmy Carter-esque figure who further divided our country and potentially ushered in another economic depression,” she concludes.
“Maybe a good place for Biden to start turning it around would be leveling with the American people–not trying to spin us.”
Here’s how people are responding to Meghan’s latest “think piece”…
Meghan should worry about the Russian propagandists within her own party before going after teaching young people about gas pricing.
— 🕶 Rickdiculous 🐝🍷 (@rickdiculous23) March 17, 2022
With these attacks on US President and pass to Putin, I am beginning to wonder if she in fact John McCain’s daughter. 🤪🤔
— SikhPeace 🌻 (@SatPavanKaur) March 17, 2022
Moscow Meghan!
— LisaLib (@LisaLis70232483) March 17, 2022
These teens are out there with quite a following. Not a bad idea to teach them what’s really happening so they spread facts not opinions. Now let’s see a tweet abt Tucker Carlson, MTG, Madison Cawthorne and what they are spreading but no bad words about your own party, right?
— SpeakingMyMind (@French_One) March 17, 2022
Meghan McCain is pathetic
— Jenny (@Jennyjanoko) March 17, 2022
Russia is using Meghan McCain as a propagandist.
— Andrew (@AndrewCote91) March 17, 2022
The same way Russia uses Fox News and Tucker Carlson ? Or differently?
— michael minnock (@michael_minnock) March 17, 2022
And her husband uses her for his agenda. She should worry about her own party and wonder why Putin hasn’t sanctioned any GOP member.
— Leah B (@redheddedhussy) March 17, 2022
You still haven’t called out your friend @TulsiGabbard but have time to talk about teens on tik tok. Uh huh, sounds about right for you.
— Sonita1223 (@ChanitaSonita) March 17, 2022
Such an angry woman. Whoever raised her did a horrible job.
— BM (@BrentM246) March 17, 2022
Oil prices are set by world wide markets. Biden has little control
And yes Putin is to blame for some of the recent spike. An unprovoked attack on Ukraine making oil market gittery added many % to the price
If you didn’t just attack for attack sake you would have known that
— AllenW (@amw47) March 17, 2022
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
ZzBomb
The right wing argument about how (insert any president w/ the letter ‘D’ next to their name)’s policy is affecting gas prices is getting really old to continually have to debunk. The US is a net exporter of oil and b/c of that our gas prices naturally float with the market pressures and forces exerted on it from other fossil fuel producing/trading countries such as those who are part of OPEC. This really isn’t that hard of concept to understand. Furthermore, when they like to talk about the Keystone pipeline: it is also getting old explaining to these SAME people how that pipeline was never slated for domestic use so that wouldn’t make a difference either in our overall energy prices.
It’d be nice if the party that claims to “for businesses” actually understood business. But since they’ve bogged themselves down to policy based on nothing but buzzwords such as “globalists,” I’m sure the nuances of the global markets are entirely lost on them.
radiooutmike
Meghan stop it.
You’re tired and you’re arguing and complaining about teenagers.
Also, can we stop with the Jimmy Carter-thing conservatives? Yes, he was not the best President but he was also not nearly the worst President.
Mister P
I her world spin is bad but trump lies are acceptable.
Mr. Stadnick
She mad that she is entering middle age. She is mad that no one really cares what she say. She is mad because has no TV show to talk about how she is the daughter of a dead senator.
She is a crazy old cow.
Mr-DJ
McCain using her own platform for bad, attack young people who are actually taking an interest in government and using their platforms for good.
Isn’t that JUST the platform of the GQP vs. the Dems? Always AGAINST everything American, vs platforms for GOOD, (ideas and platforms enhancing the lives of everyone.)
Anything in a dire effort to remain relevant, huh Meghan?
The Accidental Polemicist
I am no fan of Meghan McCain, however, she is correct.
The fact that President Biden used young Tik Tok “stars” as propagandists was all over the news.
Saturday Night Live finally started to cross over into mocking their beloved Joe Biden, opening this week’s episode with a skit roasting his meeting with TikTok stars over the conflict in Ukraine.
SamB
Accidental Polemicist: Totally agree. Not a McCain fan but it’s no secret Biden’s team are using these Tik Tokers to spread this propaganda.
Cam
@The Accidental Polemicist and @SamB
LOL!!!! Oh please, you’re trying the “I don’t like Meghan but…….” line? Sweetie, you’ve been called out on this multiple times. You are the same old right wing troll whose defended McCain for years.
And it’s cute that you’re still so insecure that you bring your SamB screename on to defend your post. How sad…..
Jack
If a Republican (other than her nemesis, Donald Trump) was President, she would be on the twatter machine SCREAMING about how the President has nothing to do with gas prices. She so desperately wants to be relevant. You’ll always be at the kids table Meghan. It’s no wonder she’s besties with Andy Cohen. No talent glory whores.
Kangol2
Re: inflation, it is up across the Western hemisphere and globe, not just in the US. While some of Biden’s policies (and the disastrous state we were left in after Don the Con, failing in his coup attempt left office, with a Covid-19 crisis, his lockdown and cratered economy, etc.) have played a role, inflation is global, and countries are taking different steps to address it, but the US economy has continue to grow, including significantly (the highest in decades) last year, into this year.
The Accidental Polemicist
@Kangol2
Aren’t you dizzy from all that spinning?
GaysForTrump
@Kangol2
I’ll keep It really simple for you.
There were no new wars under Trump. Our lives were infinitely more safe than they are now. And others lives around the world.
So please do tell me if Putin was in Trump’s pocket and allies, why he chose to invade Ukraine under Biden’s watch?
But yes, let’s hear your spin on that.
Cam
@The Accidental Polemicist and @GaysForTrump
Putin must be going broke, the trolls are getting really bad.
jcool
@gaysfortrump
speaking of simple – there certainly was a new war under trump. it was called the insurrection and he started it. he’s a criminal, and a cheat. cheats on elections, cheats on his taxes, cheats on his wives (all of them) and cheats at golf. spin on that
whereshouldistart
I can smell your bullshit over the goddamn internet.