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JDC

(10,125 posts)
Fri May 31, 2019, 02:20 PM May 2019

Tearful Meghan McCain Opens Up About Father's Dying Wish That She Be Given Her Own Daytime Talk Show

(The Onion)

NEW YORK—Overcome with a swell of emotion while recalling the final words of Arizona senator John McCain, a tearful Meghan McCain opened up Thursday about how her late father’s dying wish was for her to be given her own daytime talk show.

“My father was a genuine American hero, and it’s only right that we honor his departing wish of letting me anchor my own hit daytime talk show called Meghan In The Morning,” said a visibly choked-up McCain, claiming that her father didn’t spend five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam just for people to invoke his memory in ways that didn’t further her television career whatsoever. “It’s hard not to get emotional when I remember how he held my hand on his deathbed and declared that I deserved to be number one in my time slot. He dreamed about seeing me, and me alone, interview the biggest names in Hollywood and Washington. He’s gone now, but if we honor his wishes—as we should—his memory can live on between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on a major network like ABC, or maybe CBS. It’s what he wanted.” McCain also revealed that her father’s dying words were, “Don’t accept anything less than a $15 million contract.”


https://entertainment.theonion.com/tearful-meghan-mccain-opens-up-about-father-s-dying-wis-1835133424

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Tearful Meghan McCain Opens Up About Father's Dying Wish That She Be Given Her Own Daytime Talk Show (Original Post) JDC May 2019 OP
Ouch! The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #1
Dear Meghan, TheBlackAdder May 2019 #20
Lol, the Onion strikes again. Tipperary May 2019 #2
Sounds like her dalton99a May 2019 #3
I had to check the link malaise May 2019 #13
Took me a moment... I_have_had_enough May 2019 #32
LOL malaise Jun 2019 #33
That was the Senator's dying wish? MontanaMama May 2019 #4
...the onion... Raster May 2019 #6
But harder and harder to tell LOL Proud Liberal Dem May 2019 #9
no kidding... Raster May 2019 #10
The line between reality and satire is a very thin one nowadays Proud Liberal Dem May 2019 #11
Truer words were never spoken Sucha NastyWoman May 2019 #29
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha... Raster May 2019 #5
Seriously? Is this from "The Onion"? Talk about a bare, naked power grab. brush May 2019 #7
I love the Onion Gothmog May 2019 #8
That's just mean. nolabear May 2019 #12
+1000 Kind of Blue May 2019 #14
Agree especially considering that she us forced to talk about her father simply because of Trump's grantcart May 2019 #15
Good point. Tipperary May 2019 #17
i don't feel sorry for her and i think it's funny. barbtries May 2019 #19
+1.nt Honeycombe8 May 2019 #21
She's a mean girl nini Jun 2019 #38
This message was self-deleted by its author Guy Whitey Corngood May 2019 #16
. Guy Whitey Corngood May 2019 #18
oh my God the onion...had me for a minute there! TalenaGor May 2019 #22
Completely believable madville May 2019 #23
And then, reality proved itself even more ridiculous again Grokenstein May 2019 #24
meghan dawn5651 May 2019 #25
Trying to cash in on dead dad. These people have no bottom. BS. Take her off air altogether. pdsimdars May 2019 #26
this is satire Skittles May 2019 #31
I usually catch satire, but I guess their reality is so close to this being true that I missed it pdsimdars Jun 2019 #34
easy to miss with that one Skittles Jun 2019 #36
you got me with that title... 912gdm May 2019 #27
When the Onion tells it like it is! n/t MFGsunny May 2019 #28
again... proof handmade34 May 2019 #30
America's finest news source delivers again Blue Owl Jun 2019 #35
The Onion as we all know is usually funny....but not this time. nt UniteFightBack Jun 2019 #37

MontanaMama

(23,307 posts)
4. That was the Senator's dying wish?
Fri May 31, 2019, 02:23 PM
May 2019

This is embarrassing to read.


ETA...OH! It's The Onion. I usually don't miss the link...but this sounds like her!!!

brush

(53,764 posts)
7. Seriously? Is this from "The Onion"? Talk about a bare, naked power grab.
Fri May 31, 2019, 02:29 PM
May 2019

We're supposed to believe that? If so, McCain also asked that a couple of million be deposited into my bank account while they're granting her a show. And a pony too.

nolabear

(41,959 posts)
12. That's just mean.
Fri May 31, 2019, 02:57 PM
May 2019

I know she milks it but I do think she grieves, as do her mother, grandmother and others. It’s unnecessary and cruel.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
15. Agree especially considering that she us forced to talk about her father simply because of Trump's
Fri May 31, 2019, 03:36 PM
May 2019

Bad taste.

barbtries

(28,787 posts)
19. i don't feel sorry for her and i think it's funny.
Fri May 31, 2019, 03:59 PM
May 2019

after the way she chastised Amy Klobuchar for telling a personal anecdote involving her father, considering the way she "milks it" all the time.

hopefully she's got a sense of humor and can take it in stride. it's small potatoes compared to other abuse she has endured i'm sure.

Response to JDC (Original post)

TalenaGor

(1,104 posts)
22. oh my God the onion...had me for a minute there!
Fri May 31, 2019, 04:29 PM
May 2019

I was like what in the ever-lovin fuck is she doing lol

Grokenstein

(5,722 posts)
24. And then, reality proved itself even more ridiculous again
Fri May 31, 2019, 04:43 PM
May 2019
“The View” co-host Meghan McCain begged David Letterman to agree that late-night talk show hosts were unfair to conservative women like herself.

McCain was taken to task earlier this month by NBC’s Seth Meyers, which prompted a Twitter meltdown by her husband and then another round of late-night mockery by HBO’s John Oliver, and she asked the retired talk show host to take her side.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/meghan-mccain-asks-david-letterman-to-agree-seth-meyers-was-mean-to-her/

McCain asked whether conservative women — like herself, for example — might be treated unfairly by hosts like Meyers.

“But just a question for me, as a conservative woman, going on a late night show is really no different than going on MSNBC anymore, so if you had, like, a conservative woman on, would you treat it in a more serious political tone?” she asked.
 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
34. I usually catch satire, but I guess their reality is so close to this being true that I missed it
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 06:47 AM
Jun 2019
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