Meghan McCain Talks 'The View,' a Topic She Wasn't Allowed to Discuss On Air & More in New Essay
Meghan McCain went in on her time on The View in a revealing new essay.
The 38-year-old acted as a conservative voice on the show for several years before leaving in 2021. She reflected on the show, her experiences with it and more after Rosie O’Donnell spoke negatively about her own time as a host.
In an essay on the Daily Mail, Meghan revealed a topic she wasn’t allowed to discuss on air, conversations she had with other former hosts about the show and what she thought it took to “survive” there.
Read more about Meghan McCain’s thoughts on The View…
“I imagine being a former co-host of ABC News’ The View feels much like having a very public, very nasty breakup with an infamous ex-boyfriend. Everyone knows it ended in complete disaster. And absolutely everyone wants to talk about it,” Meghan opened her essay.
On the topic of Rosie, she added that it was always “validating” when other hosts spoke negatively about The View.
“Now, Rosie O’Donnell and I probably don’t agree on much. But here we’re in sync. There is nothing on God’s green earth that could convince me to ever walk on to that set again,” she said.
Meghan added that they weren’t alone in that thought, but many other hosts choose not to speak publicly.
“Rosie, Jenny McCarthy, and I have chosen to speak out publicly about our stints on the show. But here’s a secret, behind closed doors I’ve never actually heard an ex-host have anything positive to say,” she alleged.
Taking it a step further, she revealed a topic she wanted to broach that was off limits for her: “In 2019, Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Northam confessed (and then a day, suddenly recanted the admission) to being the white man pictured wearing blackface in a photo published in his 35-year-old medical school yearbook.”
“It was the number one story in the country and a major scandal considering that Northam is the member of a party that offers no safe harbor to political opponents caught violating social norms,” she continued. “The Northam story was – what you call in the industry – a talker.”
She added the problem, saying, “But we weren’t allowed to talk about it because of Whoopi [Goldberg] and Joy Behar.” The latter had a photo of herself where she was “wearing makeup to darken her skin for a Halloween costume in the 1970s” emerge. Whoopi‘s ex Ted Danson had also engaged in blackface and used racial slurs during a 1993 appearance.
“I write this to explain that topics were spiked because of scandals from my co-hosts’ past. I always thought the decision was ridiculous and made it look like we were not able to handle serious subjects,’ she opined.
How can you make it on The View? Meghan had thoughts.
“The only way to survive on that show is to be vanilla pudding. Say nothing controversial with the elites, bow down, and don’t actually do the job you were hired to do, which is voice your authentic opinions,” she wrote. “Rosie worked on the show during a different era – but it seems that she wasn’t the exact right flavor either.”
If you missed it, Meghan recently revealed something she was encouraged to do after giving birth.
Last year Whoopi opened up about what it was like on The View without Meghan.