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[ACL2006]

She also fills for the younger audience which otherwise was on Sarah(a stretch). I think she'll be fine. I do have to wonder if she was set to come in during Sara's maternity leave? I wonder if there were some kind of talk of her joining during their summer hiatus. Then Bila ups and leaves and they conveniently get McCain right away.

[Tag]

^She said on the show today that this all came up when it was announced she was leaving Fox.  So it seems this was a hasty decision.

[ljay889]

I have to say I was expecting Meghan to be different on the show. I feel like she’s repeating the same old Fox News talking points. 

Jedediah came off more eloquent with her opinions. Maybe Meghan just needs some time to warm up. 

[ACL2006]

So is McCain going to constantly say "it's hard to be a conservative these days"? I think she said it multiple times today.

[SmokeyLady]

Hopefully she will warm into it.  As of right now her constant references to Fox and the "It's hard to be a conservative" comments are getting old very fast.

[TotallyEffed]

Well that got awkward real quick.

[ACL2006]

Thoroughly enjoyed Monday's episode with John McCain. Very inspiring. I truly believe that if he faced anyone else in 2008, he would've been President.

[Luscious]

The producers of this show really know how to screw things up. After several years of floundering, they finally had a good thing going and they had to go and mess it up. The addition of Meghan McCain at the loss of Jedediah Bila is a major disappointment. I'm sure the powers that be thought hiring McCain would be a good opportunity for them to get mileage out of her father's health issues and opposition to Trump. Unfortunately, she's like a pickle in a pumpkin patch. She doesn't fit in well with the other co-hosts, and she isn't half as articulate as Jedediah. It was a poor, short-sighted decision, not to mention extremely unfair to Jedediah.

[bwaylyric]

^^^^^^^

I think Meaghan is still holding back a lot.  She's relying too much on the note cards.  It's obvious when they do shots of her and her eyes are clearly looking down at the desk.  How much time does she need to let loose and let us into her life aside from her being John McCain's daughter?

[ACL2006]

So how many times did McCain screw up today? Even when reading her cards, she couldn't get the right words out. She appeared extremely nervous today. While I agree she hasn't "settled in", I wonder what's up with her?

[TotallyEffed]

I don’t see her settling in. She’s snippy, cold, and awkward. There’s no chemistry at all.

[Luscious]

TotallyEffed said: "I don’t see her settling in. She’s snippy, cold, and awkward. There’s no chemistry at all."

 

TotallyEffed, totally agree. Big mistake to let Jedediah go.

 

[ACL2006]

But I wonder if Bila was fired or did she quit?

[Tag]

^Fired.

[ACL2006]

I find it interesting that the only time of year all 6 co-hosts are on together is for their Halloween show.

[StarFire2]

I think they need one more person. A wild card.

[ACL2006]

I'm still wondering if they'll have a temporary co-host come in while Sarah is out on maternity leave?

[bwaylyric]

I'm guessing it's the usual rotation of guests from the past - Sherri Shepherd, Mario Cantone, Cristela Alonzo...

How about the Mooch or Sean Spicer?

[ucjrdude902]

Im loving Meghan McCain, especially when she calls out Joy's hypocrisy. 

[bwaylyric]

Meghan has warmed up and loosened up a bit, but she still comes off as cold.  When they come onstage in the opening, she could at least wave to the crowd like she wants to be there.

[ACL2006]

I wonder why McCain hasn't been there this week? It's a short week, no show on Thursday (Thanksgiving) or Friday.

[TotallyEffed]

It doesn’t seem like McCain likes being there at all.

[Tag]

Meghan got married today, so that is why she is not there.

[Auggie27]

She married Ben Domenech, a pundit/journalist famous for being called out/fired for plagiarism, not once but twice.* I find him insufferable on Twitter.  He's smart, articulate, but like McCain, on edge 24/7 about being a conservative voice.  

She's warmed to the job on The View.  My problem with her -- entirely subjective, biases fully owned -- is I just don't agree with anything she says.  And she's forever using "both sides are guilty" or another iteration, which in the Trump era is at best ironic. The day of Franken's first revelation her gloating was insufferably smug.  And when Behar brought up Trump being the most egregious of pols next to Moore, McCain snapped that Joy was changing the subject. "Today is only about Franken. Leave Trump out of it."  It felt very high school debate team practice-y, her inability to place all of these cascading charges in the context of a POTUS who has 16 women citing his aggressive harrassment or worse. 

*Ben Domenech was hired by the Washington Post's online arm to write a blog providing "a daily mix of commentary, analysis and cultural criticism".Media Matters for America criticized the choice, claiming that "[t]here [were], however, no progressive bloggers -- and no one left of center with the credentials of a political operative -- on washingtonpost.com to provide balance to Domenech."[Instapundit founder Glenn Reynolds told the New York Times that Domenech's appointment attracted anger "because he was a conservative and he was given real estate at The Washington Post" and this spurred bloggers to find "something they could use to get rid of him."

Red America launched on March 21, 2006, but Domenech resigned three days later after only six posts, after other bloggers posted evidence that Domenech had plagiarized work from the Washington Post, The New Yorker, humorist P. J. O'Rourke, and several other writers. O'Rourke denied Domenech's claim that the humorist had granted permission to use his words, adding that he could not recall ever meeting the college student. Editors for Domenech's college newspaper, The Flat Hat, denied allegations by Domenech that one instance of plagiarism was because the editors had "inserted a passage from The New Yorker in an article without his knowledge," saying that "Mr. Domenech's actions, if true, [were] deeply offensive." On March 24, 2006, the editors of National Review confirmed on its blog The Corner that Domenech appeared to have plagiarized for at least one article he had written for that publication. Washington Post online editor Jim Bradyannounced Domenech's resignation saying "[a]n investigation into these allegations [of plagiarism] was ongoing, and in the interim, Domenech has resigned, effective immediately."

After initially denying the plagiarism allegations, Domenech apologized, writing in a RedState post entitled "Contrition," that "[t]here is no excuse for this.... I hope that nothing I've done as a teenager or in my professional life will reflect badly on the movement and principles I believe in."

More recently, Domenech was involved in a journalism scandal that resulted in the removal of his work from The Washington Examiner and The Huffington Postwhen it was disclosed that Domenech received $36,000 from Joshua Trevino, a conservative pundit and lobbyist, to write favorable opinion pieces about the government of Malaysia without disclosing the relationship. The payments came to light when Trevino registered as a foreign agent of the Malaysian government.

After disclosure of the payments, The Washington Examiner and The San Francisco Examiner, removed Domenech's post from their websites and replaced it with an editors' note saying that "the author of this item presented content for which, unbeknownst to us, and in violation of our standards, had received payment from a third party mentioned therein — a payment which he also failed to disclose." The Washington Examiner owned The San Francisco Examiner at the time and content was shared.

 

[TotallyEffed]

Meghan's nastiness seeps out a bit more each week.