Meghan McCain – in the past a frequently central player on Twitter and the onetime heel on "The View" – was destroyed Friday just days after she launched her latest project.
Rep. George Santos (R-NY) recently joined the nascent podcaster for the third episode of “Meghan McCain Has Entered the Chat," which Salon TV critic Melanie McFarland panned as hosting, "The most intellectually bereft podcast conversations I’ve experienced in recent memory."
"What the host and producers ... thought the public would gain from spending an hour with a serial liar remains as much of a puzzle as the purpose of Santos' spontaneous 100-yard scamp trot," McFarland wrote. "The ways that the New York congressman’s appearance on her show stands to benefit her are plainer to comprehend. He thrives on seizing the attention of unlucky bystanders, and she needs some of it. He wants people to keep talking about him, and she’s aching to re-establish her political relevance ahead of the 2024 presidential elections."
"But her admission of being surprised that Santos agreed to come on her podcast is akin to a virgin praying to God that the hooker he’s hired will find him attractive enough to sleep with him," she added.
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McCain managed to get Santos to talk about the "mystery baby" he was filmed holding on Oct. 13 as he fled reporters, but McFarland faulted the host for declining to ask any follow-up questions about the infant.
"Honestly, if Santos produced a response – any response – that would be worth the precious life force spent listening to an hour of back-and-forth nonsense between the of a box of hair and an overflowing colostomy bag," McFarland wrote.
"To do that, McCain would have had to have asked any of those questions. Since my time was wasted listening to two of the most hated people in America blather at each other, allow me to help you preserve yours. In the baby discussion, Santos never identified the baby’s parents, and McCain never pressed him about it. To know anything about Meghan McCain is to expect as much – she’s incapable of holding anyone accountable because doing that would draw attention to that person and away from her."
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Instead, listeners were treated to an in-depth discussion of the congressman's skincare routine and sweater vest collection, and McCain declined to challenge Santos when he defended jailed Jan. 6 rioters.
"On Tuesday, the day Santos’ episode of McCain’s podcast dropped, nary a peep about it registered on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter where her name used to trend regularly," McFarland wrote. "Maybe everyone who used to look for her missed the memo about this perspective-altering discourse. It’s more likely that the larger audience removed itself from that group chat for a reason and has no intention of opening that door again."
