‘The View’ Star Meghan McCain Calls Her Former Show ‘So Embarrassing’
Meghan McCain of The View has been in politics since childhood. The daughter of the late Republican Senator John McCain, the ABC co-host knows her way around political circles in a plethora of public venues.
Before joining the table on the daytime talk show, McCain hosted her own program specifically created for millennials. Yet in hindsight, she reveals the program was ‘a mess.’
‘The View’ co-host’s impressive resume
Graduating Columbia University with a degree in Art History, McCain served as an intern of Newsweek and Saturday Night Live. Hitting the presidential campaign trail with her father in 2008, McCain chronicled the experience in her blog.
“The schedules were insane. It was like 12 town halls a day starting at six o’clock in the morning and ending at ten o’clock at night,” McCain told Kunhardt Film Foundation in 2017. “He worked like an animal to work his way back and ultimately become the nominee.”
The television personality also authored several books and worked as a contributing writer for the Daily Beast. Transcending to television, McCain frequently appeared on MSNBC and later co-hosted Fox News’ Outnumbered before joining The View in 2017, as reported by Closer Weekly.
Meghan McCain gets her own show
Described as a docu-series, Raising McCain became The View star’s platform to reach millennials on a host of topics. The road-based talk show launched in September 2013 on the start-up cable network Pivot TV with McCain as host.
“I am a socially liberal Republican,” she told SF Gate at the time. “And in many ways, I have been ostracized from my party. I have been ostracized in the media as well. I am too conservative for MSNBC, and I am too liberal for Fox. Where am I going to go? I’m going to go to Pivot. And honestly, I believe I am here because I believe in more than this country is being given right now when it comes to news and the media.”
Covering subjects from politics and feminism to dating and romance, McCain focused on starting a dialogue with viewers rather than serve as a talking head.
“I’m not here to preach to anyone or lecture to anyone, especially not on television,” she told SF Gate. “I’m still trying to figure out everything in the world, and most people who are in their 20s, teen years, and maybe in their 30s are doing that as well. … I just thought it would be more interesting to talk about issues that I was still conflicted about.”
‘Don’t watch it’
Raising McCain was on the air from September 2013 to January 2014. Pivot TV ended up folding in October 2016. When asked about her show during her interview with the Kunhardt Film Foundation, McCain admitted it was not her best work.
“Don’t watch it, it’s so embarrassing,” McCain said. “It was a nice experiment in like—I’ve had like a weird career in lots of different networks and shows and it was a docu-series. It wasn’t a reality show because they didn’t follow me around everywhere.”
McCain didn’t give specifics on why she felt the show didn’t take off, but she clearly wasn’t a fan of the failed project.
“There was a theme for each show and we interviewed
different people,” she said in 2017. “It’s a mess and it’s not good.”
While her Pivot TV show may have ended, McCain is definitely making a name for herself on The View.
