Posted on 07/16/2015 10:47:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Meghan McCain, the political scion who has won public fame as a blogger, commentator and TV-show host, will join Fox News Channel as a contributor, Variety has learned.
A spokesperson for the network confirmed the hire. McCain is expected to contribute to the network’s primetime and daytime programming.
McCain, the oldest daughter of U.S. Senator John McCain, a Republican, joins as Fox News Channel, like other news outlets, heads into a frenzied pre-season for the 2016 election for U.S. president. Already, more than a dozen different candidates for the Republican nomination have thrown their hat into the ring.
McCain, who has identified as a Republican in the past, could well offer the viewpoint of a different member of that political party: one hailing from the millennial generation. She has in the past championed gay rights and come out against anti-immigration legislation, and has publicly challenged commentators like Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham. In her writings she’s expressed ambivalence about Sarah Palin, the former Fox News contributor who ran for U.S. vice president alongside her father, and admiration for Hillary Clinton, who is now vying for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president.
McCain most recently was a host for “TakePart Live,” a talk show on cable’s Pivot network that urged viewers to get involved with various social causes. She was also the focus of “Raising McCain,” a Pivot talk show that took her on the road. Both were cancelled.
McCain has written a campaign memoir, “Dirty Sexy Politics,” as well as “America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom,” a collaboration with comedian Michael Ian Black. She has also contributed to the Daily Beast and interned at Newsweek magazine. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Columbia University.
Great. Now I’m DEFINITELY going to stop watching Fox..
Good gwaad! These are surely the end of times. Oh well I rarely watch the Fox news channel anymore. Now I am sure I won’t.
And so now Fox News begins to degrade the average IQ of its contributors. I guess the splendid example of Megyn Kelly is too much to follow and needs to be offset by adding a bubble-head.
EWWWW!
As if Karl Rove, Alan Combs and Geraldo Rivera didn’t make me sprint to the remote control now I have deal with another.
Well... FNC apparently needed a fat liberal to replace Bob Beckel, the fat liberal they just cut loose.
You’re giving her too much credit. The only job she’s qualified for is emptying the sanitary napkin disposals in the Ladies rooms.
Exactly what I mean!
Once you have to switch away more often than you watch, it becomes too much of a hassle to bother tuning-in in the first place.
I guess Chelsea Clinton wasn’t available.
And her father would have to pull some strings to get her THAT job...
More mute button, or off button material at Fox now. Less and less reason to ever tune in.
FNC - the exclusive playground for Country Club Republicans
Why would anyone care? Stop watching Fox News and it won’t matter.
What makes you think I watch Fox News?
She'll make the dim bulb idiots Jesse Watters interviews on "Watters World" look like rocket scientist.
Miss Piggy is sickening
Why?
Do they want to lower their viewership?
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