John McCain's daughter, Meghan McCain, is becoming... a celebrity!
Sen. John McCain has lost Paris Hilton's vote by using her image to help brand Sen. Barack Obama as just another worthless, mindless "celebrity" in his TV ad.
But ironically, while he's comparing Obama to Paris and Britney Spears, his own daughter Meghan McCain has been busy trying to become one of them.
She's been seen sucking up to "The Hills" star Heidi Montag at a trendy Santa Monica restaurant.
And last month, she got her hair done at a swank WeHo hair salon -- John Frieda on Melrose Place -- frequented by celebs Kate Hudson, Renee Zellweger, Meg Ryan, Jane Fonda and Lisa Rinna.
And guess who cut Meghan's hair into a hip Hollywood shape? Matthew Shields, Jane Fonda's hairstylist. But don't ask him about it. She made everyone sign a confidentiality agreement! Just like a real star!
Oh, it's' just too delish.
Hilton's rep has spoken out against the new TV ad from the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, in which images of Spears, Hilton and Democratic challenger Obama appear on the screen as a voiceover intones, "He's the biggest celebrity in the world. But is he ready to lead?"
"Miss Hilton was neither asked, nor did she give permission, for the use of her likeness in the ad, and has no further comment," her rep said in a statement to People.
And d'oh! Seems McCain's peeps must not have done their homework. Hilton's parents actually donated $4,600 to Johhny's campaign earlier this year. Now you slam their daughter? Way to win voters and influence donations, J-Boy.
Oddly, McCain's ad did not contain images of two of his own biggest celebrity supporters, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag. At the time of Heidi's hearty endorsement, McCain returned the compliment by claiming he never missed an episode of her reality TV show.
"The Hills" star Heidi had a lovely lunch with McCain's daughter, Meghan, a few weeks ago at the Ivy at the Shore, a big celebrity hangout in Santa Monica.
That same week, Heidi had her hair cut and colored by celebrity stylist Matthew Shields (who also used to do Ellen DeGeneres' locks) and colorist Negin Zand (she colors Kate Hudson, Angelina Jolie, Sarah Jessica Parker, Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett) to prepare for her upcoming press and TV interviews.
And she'll probably be seeing Matthew and Negin again at snipper-to-the-stars Sally Hershberger's new buzzed-about celeb hair salon, which opens later this month on La Cienega with a big star-studded bash.
So who you calling "celebrity," John? Looks to us like you've got a celebrity wanna-be in your family.
Hey, we're just saying ...
Photo: John, Meghan and Cindy McCain sure look like celebrities at the "Live From New York" party.
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Oh, its worse than that. Who are the biggest celebrity politicians of all time? Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fred Thompson, and Sonny Bono, all Republicans. In addition, John McCain has himself been a celebrity for over a decade. He's appeared on 24, he's been on SNL and the Daily Show more than any of the candidates that run this year, and he's been featured in documentaries. Indeed John used his status as a famous POW to launch his political career. On the other hand Obama was an unknown when he launched his political career. He launched his career from being an on the ground organizer and university lecturer. He only became well known when he ran for president. Becoming a "celebrity" because of your politics isn't being a celebrity politician. A celebrity politician is someone like Reagan, Arnold, Thompson, Bono, and John McCain, someone who is famous for something else and then uses that fame to get into politics. That's what John McCain did, not Barack Obama.
Elizabeth, are you really this juvenile and shallow or is this just a pathetic attempt to ingratiate yourself with your equally cerebrally vacuous zombies? Let me take the blinders off regarding your sense of self-importance: You should be a little more modest, you really do have much to be modest about.
Leave the kids out of it. This is what Obama has pleaded for, therefore as a Obama supporting rag, follow his command !!
What's the old saying? I can't decide which one so here's the two that came to mind. You can bring a horse to water but you can't make her drink. The other is, You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
So boring and childish.
McCain is desperately out of touch. Whatever integrity he once had has melted in the heat of the campaign -- because he has no other ammo.
He's hired Bush's campaign team to smear Obama in any way possible. I hope the Republican hate machine fails this time. We don't need a McBush administration.
Responding to this article, we can bring in Obama's little daughters appearing in the magazine as celebreties, You come after McCains daughter I expect then he can go after Obamas, daughters.
Could you find a worse photo of his daughter? Seriously LA times that is a terrible photo of her.
I love it that anybody that attacks Obama is automatically dubbed as "out of touch" or "racist" and that the comments are uncalled for.
Obama has been in the senate for something like 140 days and has attained a celebrity status, this is a legitimate concern...
John McCain is well-known for his political leadership in the senate and bipartisan initiatives that he's run in congress as well as his military background; Obama is well known for....being barrack Obama, and that's why he's attained a "Celebrity Status" and not a prominent political status.
Obama has flip flopped much more drastically than McCain has switched positions and run a much more slanderous campaign than McCain has, most republicans biggest complaint against McCain is that he isn't being confrontational enough on Obama's positions and past
I don't know why i'm writing this because 90% of people reading this have absolutely no idea about McCain and/or Obama's positions on anything other than "Change"...
California is out of touch and that is why your state is burning in Hell. You mindless idiots support Pelosi who is clueless and looks retarted when she talks. For a state so worried about the environment what is all that smoke from forest fires doing? California has made up its mind years ago and will vote democratic every election so shut up.