Enter
Q&A
HUFFINGTON
06.24.12
a Pulitzer Prize and people would
say my father bought it for me.
You’ve been criticized for the way you
dress and what you weigh. You’ve talked
candidly about how soul killing it can be —
that the media’s focus on your body even
sent you to therapy after the 2008 campaign. Why do you think you’re such a target? I’ve been to the doctor recently
and I’m not overweight. I exercise
all the time and I eat healthy. I’m
just curvy. When I felt compelled
to see a therapist was when it was
affecting my personal life. I started
feeling like maybe there was something wrong with me. Glenn Beck
sent me to therapy, to be honest. [Beck graphically pretended
to vomit on his radio show at the
sight of McCain wearing a strapless
dress in a PSA about skin cancer.]
Right after President Obama came out
in support of gay marriage, you wrote a
column where you said he had taken only
a half-step. What would constitute a
leap for you? I felt that he sent Vice
President Biden out like a sacrificial lamb. And then he said, “I
personally support a man and man
or a woman and a woman getting
married.” I think he should get behind some legislation and get Congress to take action. I feel like that’s
the problem with the gay rights
movement — they accept halves
of things. I am a huge supporter of
gay rights, but I have had pushback
from people in the LGBT community because I’m not a Democrat.
When I communicate with Republicans about gay marriage, I always
talk about the Constitution and
freedom and the Declaration of Independence and what this country
was founded on. I find more success with that than talking about
love or sex. But I do give it up to
the president. I wish my
father would come around.
McCain
has called
Obama’s
support for
gay marriage
a “half-step.”