Meghan McCain is helping to raise awareness of the dangers of skin cancer by taking part in a new public service announcement.
The newly-released “Naked” spot comes as part of a skin cancer prevention campaign from the Style Network. The writer and daughter of Arizona Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) is featured in the clip alongside recognizable faces such as Brandy, Tatyana Ali, who played Ashley Banks on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” and Danielle Fishel, who played Topanga on “Boy Meets World.”
The message conveyed in the PSA is clear and simple: “If you leave the house without sunscreen, you might as well be naked.”
McCain took to Twitter on Tuesday to respond to media reaction generated by the ad.
“Pundits in DC can calm themselves. I filmed a skin cancer PSA in a strapless juicy tube dress. All you can see is my collar bone,” she wrote. “Both my parents have had skin cancer, everyone should be aware of the extreme dangers the sun presents and how simply using sunscreen is … a simple way to prevent skin cancer from occurring. I take it very seriously which is why I participated in the PSA.”
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Glenn Becks Responds:
UPDATE: Meghan McCain responded to Glenn Beck’s mockery of her in a Thursday column for the Daily Beast.
“Clearly you have a problem with me, and possibly women in general, but the truth is, it’s 2011 and I heard your show on Fox was canceled,” McCain wrote. “Isn’t that an indication that the era of the shock jock pundit is over?…There really is no need to make something like my participation in a skin cancer PSA into a sexist rant about my weight and physical appearance, because I’m going to let you in on a little secret, Glenn: you are the only one who looks bad in this scenario, and at the end of the day you have helped me generate publicity for my skin cancer PSA, a cause that I feel quite passionate about.”
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Now The McCain ladies feud with Nasty Racist Glenn Beck
Cindy McCain lashed out at Glenn Beck after he mimed vomiting over her daughter Meghan’s recent skin cancer PSA.
McCain was only one of the women featured in the ad, which compared not wearing sunscreen to being naked, and which showed McCain seemingly naked.
On Beck’s Wednesday show, he and his co-hosts spent over eight minutes mocking McCain. Beck pretended to vomit repeatedly (with detailed sound effects) while looking at McCain’s ad or even hearing her name.
“Put some extra clothes on,” he said. “Like, lots of extra clothes…has she thought about a burqa, just to be extra safe?”
McCain’s mother, who has suffered from skin cancer, was not happy, and she fired off this tweet on Wednesday afternoon: