On a media blitz to promote her new book Dirty Sexy Politics, Meghan McCain stopped over at Jay Leno's Tonight Show to reveal a couple more tidbits from her father's 2008 presidential campaign. She ends up riffing on how she was sent to an image consultant for being "too edgy," how she overdosed on Xanax pills prior to election day, how she had to "kiss ass" to the secret service agents in order to go anywhere, and yes, her "stripper hair." As for what her father (who has his Senate seat to protect this November) thinks of her memoir, the younger McCain didn't seem too concerned. "He only read it a few days ago," she remarked.

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Erik Hayden