Jenny McCarthy Is So Proud to Be Dependent on Something Else for Existence or Support Without Making a Useful or Adequate Contribution

If anyone doubted the intellectual limits of Jenny McCarthy, the Weiners actress, here's unmitigated proof.

In response to Amanda Peet's characterization of antivax parents as "parasites" (which is not a far-off description), McCarthy—a supporting actress in Larry the Cable Guy's Witless Protection—tells Spectrum magazine, "I am so proud to be a parasite."

In all mustered graciousness, maybe McCarthy, featured in the straight-to-video Python, got "parasite" confused with "paragon"? Paralegal? Pair of shoes?

In any case, the same smarts that led McCarthy to accept a starring role in Dirty Love has evidently resulted in an embarrassingly limited vocabulary. Perhaps Jim Carrey will pull aside his girlfriend, who bumped boobs with Pam Anderson in Scary Movie 3, and whisper something corrective in her ear. Or maybe not. After all, he delivered that tin-ear you're-getting-on-my-nerves-like-Robin-Williams performance in Horton Hears a Who!

Peet evidently apologized for using the word "parasites" to describe antivax parents. But why is an apology necessary to someone like McCarthy, a cast member of the Untitled Patricia Heaton Project, when she views the characterization as favorable? Or maybe McCarthy (aka Yvette Denslow in BASEketball) is confused about the meaning of "proud."