John McCain’s daughter gives herself the title “Progressive Republican” and that caught Beck’s attention. I can imagine that as soon as she said that on TV, Beck had one of those “I see dead people” moments where the room gets really cold and and his breath crystallizes in front of him. Anyway, he spent the better part of an hour making fun of Meghan McCain, partly for the reasons she used to define her brand of ‘progressivism’. She’s basically a socially liberal Republican but has no idea what being a ‘progressive’ really means.
In the second segment Beck seems to have had a ‘if she wants to be a progressive then I’ll call her a progressive’ moment during the break as he just talks about her as if she really is a true progressive Republican. Either way there’s plenty of ‘valley girl mockery’ in both segments for your pleasure.
My favorite quote from Beck is from the beginning of part two (insert valley girl mockery accent):
I consider myself a progressive Republican cause I like progress. I like progress so much. I like to progress. I like to come like, for instance, Larry, in the studio, I like if I wouldn’t have progressed I’d still be sitting in the car cause I like progress so I got out of the car and then I closed the door and then I took a couple of small steps and before I knew it I was in your studio. I like progress.
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