MEDIA LOSER:
Meghan McCain
Andy Cohen confronted Meghan McCain over her upcoming book, asking her if it’s “hypocritical” considering she’s often voiced her hatred for tell-alls. McCain joined Cohen on Wednesday’s edition of Watch What Happens Live to promote her new audio memoir Bad Republican, which Cohen joked “could have been titled Very Gifted Tea Spiller,” given all that she reveals in the text. McCain gave viewers some insight into the tea she spills in her book, including that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were “funeral crashers” at her late father John McCain’s service. After discussing a few juicy details from the book, Cohen asked McCain a rather pointed question. “On a 1-to-10 scale, how hypocritical is it that you wrote a tell-all after prefacing every tell-all interview on The View with ‘I hate tell-alls?’” he said, referring to McCain’s vocal disdain for the form of text. In a July 2020 episode of The View, McCain told Mary Trump she had an issue with “family tell-all books," and called it "just a great way for you to get a paycheck right now." Defending her own book to Cohen, McCain claimed she only takes issue with “political tell-alls,” adding that her family has read everything in the text. Cohen again asked if she thinks she's being “hypocritical,” prompting her to say, “Um, I don’t, but it’s OK if other people do, I don’t really care.” McCain handled the otherwise friendly interview reasonably well. She is, as noted in the below op-ed, quite good at TV. But the hypocrisy is glaring: McCain railed against tell-alls on The View. She called them cash-grabs. Now she has a tell-all. Cash grab. What's more, she's not landed a second plum TV gig since leaving The View, which Mediaite's Colby Hall writes is not because she's not good at it, but rather her bad reputation. | 
