Meghan McCain Helpfully Explains Feminism On Her Dumb New Talk Show
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Meghan McCain has a talk show now. But before you dismiss the notion of a daughter of extreme privilege who lacks both originality and the self-awareness necessary to recognize her own lack of originality having a platform from which to spout beige banality under the guise of EDGINESS, listen up! According to Raising McCain’s promos, Meghan McCain’s new talk show isn’t like other, lame talk shows. It’s a cool talk show for the Thought Catalog set on a TV channel designed especially for millennials. It’s different! How different? After watching some clips, I’m not so sure.
The first episode of McCain’s show won’t air until next Sunday on Pivot TV, a channel “for millennials” that no cable providers carry (so I guess when I say the show “airs,” I mean it’s “shot out into the indifferent ether to be intercepted as incoherent radio signals to an alien race light-years away”), but previews are available on the channel’s website. And they’re… bad.
To be fair, the show’s premiere episode where McCain investigates privacy issues isn’t that awful, if you can get past clips of McCain saying things like,