Hold the presses. Meghan McCain is not a lesbian ya’ll. At least that’s what she told Playboy in the April issue.
Despite rumors of crushes on Tila Tequila and Rachel Maddow, McCain said she’s not into women, that her support of LGBT equality is simply a civil rights issue.
In an answer to Playboy writer David Hochman’s question about campaigning for her dad, Arizona Sen. and 2008 Republican Presidential candidate John McCain, McCain said she was so stressed and exhausted that she ended up taking a few days off with her girlfriends in Sedona, Ariz.
“I went up four sizes thanks to Starbucks and Snickers,” McCain said. “Obamamania was at its height. I ended up going to Sedona with my girlfriends. All we did was play Rock Band for days and days and eat and sleep and hang out in bed watching TV. I was done.”
Hochman latched on to the last piece of McCain’s answer and responded by urging her to, “Say a little more about the hanging-out-in-bed-with-girlfriends part.”
McCain didn’t take too kindly to the question and put him in his place.
“Watch it, mister. My friends from home came over to support me, and we got in my parents’ big bed. They have this huge California king and we just stayed up eating ice cream,” McCain said. “I’m not a lesbian, if that’s what you’re asking. I’d be the first person to tell the world I was gay. I’m not private about anything. I think you should live how you should live. But I’m strictly dickly. I can’t help it. I love sex and I love men.”
Yes, McCain said “strictly dickly,” but she should be forgiven for her continued support of LGBT rights.
Hochman pushed the issue of her sexuality, asking if anything could be read into her support for LGBT rights or the rumors that she loves Rachel Maddow and hangs out with Tila Tequila.
“Honey, you’re nobody unless you have a gay rumor about you. I’ve been hit on by women from time to time, and it might simplify my life if I were gay, but no. Rachel and Tila are just great people,” McCain said.
She added that her ardent support for DADT repeal and for gay marriage is all about civil rights. “Who people want to sleep with and who they want to love should not have anything to do with government politics at all.”
Read the Playboy interview here.
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