Malkin Attacks Meghan McCain And Sandra Fluke For Bonding Over Sexist Attacks

Michelle Malkin and the team at Twitchy.com, a website she founded, are attacking Meghan McCain and Sandra Fluke for showing solidarity with each other over the sexist attacks both have endured.

Yesterday, McCain tweeted a picture of herself and Fluke at an after-party following the White House Correspondents Dinner. McCain said “My fav meeting of the night” and referred to Fluke as “very brave and badass.”

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McCain later tweeted: “Everyone calm down. I'm a proud pro-life republican but standing up to publicly being called a slut is brave. I've been through it.” Fluke tweeted a response to McCain: “thanx 4 support/advice re: public attacks! We girls have each others' backs despite polit differences.”

McCain and Fluke have indeed been subjected to sexist attacks for speaking out publicly: Fluke was infamously called a “slut” and a “prostitute” and subjected to a barrage of other sexist attacks by Rush Limbaugh after speaking out about insurance coverage for contraception, and McCain has been subjected to repeated sexist comments after speaking publicly.

Malkin's Twitchy.com was outraged that McCain and Fluke would compare notes on sexism. The website collected some of the tweets on the subject by McCain, Fluke, and others under the headline “Groan: When Meggie Met Fluke-y” and called McCain a “GOP embarrassment” and referred to Fluke as a “Democratic embarrassment.”

Not to be outdone, Malkin re-tweeted the Twitchy story and suggested that people who read the story would need an “emetic,” a medicinal substance that causes vomiting.

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