LEAKED: Desi Lydic's audition to replace Meghan McCain on “The View”
Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" was mocked Friday after it shared a satirical video of comedian Desi Lydic's fake audition to replace former "The View" co-host Meghan McCain.
In the video, Lydic is seen giving various opinionated takes, referencing McCain's discussion of her late father Sen. John McCain, and interacting with imaginary co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar. McCain, the show's token conservative for four years, frequently angered liberal media members and viewers with her clashes with the show's left-leaning co-hosts.
"Let's talk about an issue that affects real Americans: People being mean to me on Twitter," Lydic said in one of the attempted jokes.
McCain served as "The View's" lone conservative voice from 2017 to this year. She left this summer to have more time with her family and recently joined the Daily Mail as a columnist.
Her column debut came in late September, in which she blasted President Joe Biden's job performance.


Amy Walter, Leigh Ann Caldwell, Eddie Glaude, Jr. and Meghan McCain join the Meet the Press roundtable to talk about President Biden's imperiled agenda
Meghan McCain spent years irking liberals as the token conservative on "The View," but managed to continue bothering the left on Sunday simply by showing up on NBC’s "Meet the Press."
McCain walked away from "The View" last month because she enjoyed settling down in Washington, D.C. with her family since the coronavirus pandemic and didn't want to upend her life again for the New York-based program. Now a columnist for the Daily Mail, her appearance on Chuck Todd's Sunday show didn't delight progressive viewers.
Former CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien responded to video of Todd welcoming McCain to the program with a tweet that scolded "Meet the Press" for offering her a platform.
"This young lady is not her father (though she likes to name him frequently). She lies on camera, she has zero value as a guest, certainly she’s go no credibility as a political talking head. And yet, Meet the Press fails by allowing her to lie on their air," O’Brien tweeted.
Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe agreed, responding that O’Brien "tells it like it is."
"Meet The Press has lousy standards," he wrote.
Author James Surowiecki added, "I know Meet the Press isn’t hallowed ground, but what has Meghan McCain ever done to deserve a spot on a panel talking about the politics of Biden’s infrastructure plan?"
McCain fired back that Biden, who has sunk to the worst approval ratings of his presidency, "is his agenda."
"[If] Dems plan is to buy off American voters they'd better come up with a solution to the inflation that is raising prices for everyone," she wrote.


Meghan McCain rips longtime family friend Biden after Afghan withdrawal speech: 'I do not recognize this man'
Former "View" co-host Meghan McCain tore into President Biden for his speech commemorating the withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying she does not "recognize" the longtime family friend.
Biden took a victory lap during his address to the nation, calling the withdrawal an "extraordinary success" despite maintaining an angry tone throughout the speech and repeatedly blaming his predecessor, former President Trump, for striking a deal with the Taliban.
"[Thirteen] American soldiers are dead - most of them between the ages of 20-23 because they were put in harms way chaotically in the line of fire of a suicide bomber. Disappointed and disgusted President Biden says 'this couldn't have been done in a more orderly manner,'" McCain reacted.
13 American soldiers are dead - most of them between the ages of 20-23 because they were put in harms way chaotically in the line of fire of a suicide bomber. Disappointed and disgusted President Biden says "this couldn't have been done in a more orderly manner".
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 31, 2021
McCain then went personal, invoking Biden's decades-long relationship with her family as the president and her late father John McCain worked alongside one another in the U.S. Senate.
"This is extremely difficult for me to say: I once thought I truly knew Joe Biden and he helped me through pain and grief, for which I am grateful," McCain wrote. "This man on tv giving this speech, I do not recognize this man."
"God help our country. God help the Americans we have abandoned," she added.
This is extremely difficult for me to say:
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 31, 2021
I once thought I truly knew Joe Biden and he helped me through pain and grief, for which I am grateful.
This man on tv giving this speech, I do not recognize this man. God help our country. God help the Americans we have abandoned.
McCain has been out outspoken critic of Biden's throughout the turbulent withdrawal from Afghanistan. , saying he's "unfit to lead" and comparing the president to "Jimmy Carter on acid."
"I am furious our President was so incompetent not to see what every expert on the planet could have seen coming. I am furious for my friends and family who have been fighting in these wars since I was 16 (many who have lost limbs, had their life terrorized by PTSD from their experiences in war and deployments, or worse). I am furious seeing our allies and innocent Afghan citizens who trusted us are being left to be slaughtered or so desperate to escape the pure evil the Taliban will bring in that they are falling out of f---ing planes," McCain wrote on Instagram earlier this month.
"This is not who America is, this is not the values this country was founded in. Our veterans deserve better, the innocent Afghan people and our allies and translators who have stood by us for the past 20 years deserve better. The shame, dishonor and embarrassment the Biden administration has brought to our country will take generations to undo. Not to mention our standing in the world and the cruel reality that the likelihood of another significant domestic terror attack has not risen to the highest levels since 9/11 and will usher in ISIS 3.0," she added.


"The beginning of the end was not a week ago. It was when the US government entered into direct negotiations with the Taliban without including the Afghan government," says fmr. Rep. Will Hurd.
Former "View" co-host Meghan McCain continued blasting President Biden for his handling of the turbulent military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
"I have been physically ill, more depressed than I have been since the beginning stages of the pandemic and filled nothing short of pure rage and anger since the calamity of a ‘pull out’ which will be seen as one of the greatest foreign policy catastrophes of my lifetime," McCain began her Instagram post on Thursday.
"I am furious our President was so incompetent not to see what every expert on the planet could have seen coming. I am furious for my friends and family who have been fighting in these wars since I was 16 (many who have lost limbs, had their life terrorized by PTSD from their experiences in war and deployments, or worse). I am furious seeing our allies and innocent Afghan citizens who trusted us are being left to be slaughtered or so desperate to escape the pure evil the Taliban will bring in that they are falling out of f---ing planes," McCain continued. "This is not who America is, this is not the values this country was founded in. Our veterans deserve better, the innocent Afghan people and our allies and translators who have stood by us for the past 20 years deserve better. The shame, dishonor and embarrassment the Biden administration has brought to our country will take generations to undo. Not to mention our standing in the world and the cruel reality that the likelihood of another significant domestic terror attack has no risen to the highest levels since 9/11 and will usher in Isis 3.0."
It was an extraordinary condemnation of Biden coming from a very public media personality with ties to the current president. Meghan McCain had backed then-candidate Biden in last year's campaign against former President Donald Trump. Her late father, Sen. John McCain, was known to be longtime friends with Biden, and her mother, Cindy, was a member of the Biden transition team's advisory board. Biden also nominated Cindy McCain for U.S. representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture this past June.
McCain urged her 480,000 Instagram followers to reach out to veterans and their families, writing "everyone I know is struggling."
"May God have mercy for what we have done to these people abandoning them," McCain wrote. "Biden is unfit to lead and I am nothing short of disgusted he and his staff can’t seem to be bothered to leave their vacation during an international crisis of our own creation. There should be an emergency congressional hearing before more innocent lives are lost. My heart is broken, this tragedy will absolutely haunt our country."
She added, "Also - every single Afghan refugee fleeing must be granted a safe haven in America!"
The former "View" co-host blasted Biden earlier in the day, comparing him to "Jimmy Carter on acid," predicting the current administration "will be remembered in history worse than him." Last week, before the fall of Kabul, McCain predicted "ISIS 3.0" due to the president's handling of Afghanistan.
"Democrats like to wax poetic a lot about what my dad would have done and said (most of the time reinventing some weird fantasy of who he was). Let me tell you one god damn thing - he would be raging in public and to President Biden about this withdrawal in Afghanistan. Raging," McCain wrote.
"This is an absolutely shameful moment for our country. Shame on this administration. God be with our allies and the women and children in Afghanistan," she added.


"The President decided that this was the right thing to do and the right time to do it," says Pentagon Press Secy. John Kirby of the US deploying 3000 troops to Afghanistan to help evacuate personnel.
"A prudent decision to scope down, to reduce our civilian footprint in Kabul, while we still have an environment where we can do that safely. So that's what the US military is going to be doing." says Pentagon Press Secy. John Kirby of the US deploying 3000 troops to Afghanistan to help evacuate personnel.
McCain torched the execution of the military withdrawal and the turmoil that has been caused on the ground, taking a swipe at President Biden.
"Even if you thought leaving Afghanistan was the right decision -this is a reckless, dangerous, blundering, and embarrassing withdrawal," McCain began a series of tweets. "We left our translators, women, children, people who helped us for 20 years to be slaughtered & our president just called a lid until Wednesday."
Even if you thought leaving Afghanistan was the right decision -this is a reckless, dangerous, blundering, and embarrassing withdrawal.
We left our translators, women, children, people who helped us for 20 years to be slaughtered & our president just called a lid until Wednesday
McCain then invoked her father, the late U.S. Sen. John McCain, insisting he'd be enraged with the Biden administration's decision to pull the troops out of Afghanistan.
"Democrats like to wax poetic a lot about what my dad would have done and said (most of the time reinventing some weird fantasy of who he was). Let me tell you one god damn thing - he would be raging in public and to President Biden about this withdrawal in Afghanistan. Raging," McCain wrote.
"This is an absolutely shameful moment for our country. Shame on this administration. God be with our allies and the women and children in Afghanistan," she added.
The conservative pundit also predicted the return of the Islamic State, writing "Also - welcome to ISIS 3.0. Give credit to the Biden administration."
Democrats like to wax poetic a lot about what my dad would have done and said (most of the time reinventing some weird fantasy of who he was).
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 14, 2021
Let me tell you one god damn thing - he would be raging in public and to President Biden about this withdrawal in Afghanistan. Raging.
Also - welcome to ISIS 3.0.
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 14, 2021
Give credit to the Biden administration.
McCain officially bowed out of the ABC daytime program after appearing as the go-to conservative co-host for nearly four years.
She had been outspoken with her criticism against President Biden for what she suggested was his lack of support for Israel, his "Neatherthal thinking" swipe at Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and for having Dr. Anthony Fauci as the face of the administration's messaging on the coronavirus outbreak.


'The View' co-host Meghan McCain slams Fauci after he refused say whether government should limit protesting
Meghan McCain grills Mary Trump on tell-all book: This seems like a great way to 'get a paycheck'
Mary Trump was grilled by Meghan McCain on "The View" about her bestselling book on President Trump.


Tiffany Cross says Joe Biden should pick a Black woman as his running mate: “It’s not a time to make safe choices.”


'The View co-host Meghan McCain argues that 'any other Republican candidate would have done this very well'
"The View" co-host Meghan McCain argued Wednesday that President Trump gave an "undisciplined" performance Tuesday when he used a speech in the Rose Garden to, among other things, attack presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's campaign platform.
The View co-host Meghan McCain hits Trump over 'undisciplined' Rose Garden speech, calls it 'frustrating to watch'— Heidi Heitkamp (@HeitkampHeidi) July 16, 2020
More here: https://t.co/L3Dnw84xMn pic.twitter.com/eN5VMBd6cb


The women of “The View” broke out into an inteWhoopi Goldberg assumed that Meghan McCain might want to take a pass on talking about the resignation of Tucker Carlson
"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg assumed that co-host Meghan McCain might want to take a pass on talking about the resignation of Tucker Carlson’s top writer because she used to work for Fox News. She was wrong.
“I’m happy to speak on this,” McCain said, setting herself up for a rant against “cancel culture.”
“I think about cancel culture a lot,” she said. “I think every person who’s in mainstream media that has a platform, probably at one time or another thinks about it. Every woman on this show, at one point or another, cancel culture has tried to remove one of us from this show, for one reason or another. And by some miracle we’re all still here. And I think the greatest miracle is still me somehow being here.” She pointed to a New York Times op-ed about The View’s “Meghan McCain problem” as evidence.
“I am against cancel culture,” McCain continued. “I think one of the reasons why I’m always a proponent of Tucker Carlson is because I believe in diversity of opinion. I believe in the reason why Fox News exists, because that kind of opinion doesn’t exist on any other network.”
But she was able to separate Carlson from his writer Blake Neff, who was fired for what Fox News itself described as “horrific racist, misogynistic and homophobic behavior.”
After taking a moment to mention that her latest fight with co-host Joy Behar was trending on Twitter the day before, McCain said, “The View is the last place this happens in mainstream media.”
And yet while McCain was extolling the virtues of civilized “debate,” her co-hosts were quick to remind her that this was a discussion about blatant racism and bigotry.
“Debating is great,” said Whoopi Goldberg. “What you want to stay away from is you want to get away from the racist aspect of it. The racist aspect of it is thrown out there to keep you from making your points.”
“Well, I don’t think there’s any racist aspect of having to do with this show,” said McCain, but Goldberg explained she was talking about Tucker Carlson’s racism.
“The writer is known for his racist writings. I don’t want to hear that when I want to go listen to Tucker Carlson talk about what’s wrong with the left,” said Goldberg. “I don’t want to hear about it being challenging to me as a person of color because you don’t like my color. Tell me what you don’t like about my politics. Leave my color out of it. That’s what I want Tucker Carlson to do. When he doesn’t — there’s plenty to show he’s one that has spoken the words almost directly as this boy has written them, I have a problem with that.”
McCain demanded to know if Carlson should be held accountable for the actions of his writer, but co-host Sunny Hostin explained that it should be about Carlson’s own racism. She Hostin explained that it isn’t about “cancel culture,” it’s about holding people accountable for their behavior. Carlson, she said, is now going off on a “long-planned vacation,” amid the controversy.
“Tucker Carlson has a long history of making racially insensitive comments, of making culturally insensitive comments,” Hostin explained. “He said white supremacy was a hoax. He said that Black Lives Matter wasn’t about Black lives at all. He also has a history of making these kinds of comments. I think what was most surprising to me is that he sort of tried to change the narrative and said that people were thumping their chests in glee over the destruction of a man. Well, what about accountability? What about responsibility? You know, this is a person who took it upon himself — Blake Neff — to make these horrific vile comments. I urge our viewers to look them up. They’re so horrific and vile. He chose to do that himself. These are long-standing comments over years. The fact that his career was destroyed is of his own doing. The fact that he is now being held accountable for it, again, is his own doing. For Tucker Carlson to try to blame-shift here I think is really despicable. I wonder about this long-planned vacation. He seems to take a lot of long-planned vacations when it gets hot in the kitchen for Tucker Carlson.”
She went on to say that Carlson has been held accountable with a forced vacation and advertisers pulling out of his show.


"The View' Meghan McCain scolds Joy Behar for claiming Republicans don't care about education: 'Aggressive and incendiary'
A weeklong hiatus clearly wasn’t enough for the women of The View. On Monday morning, the co-hosts returned to the show rarin’ to go, and things quickly flew off the rails during a discussion about the COVID-19 pandemic. When Joy Behar suggested that Republicans don’t care about education, Meghan McCain blew up, and the two proceeded to get into a knock-out fight that continued long past Whoopi Goldberg sent The View to commercial. Welcome back, ladies!
The panel was in the midst of a discussion about whether or not schools should reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic when co-host Whoopi Goldberg said Americans aren’t getting enough guidance from Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
I live to spar in a political debate and there's no stronger partner than @JoyVBehar, and nobody I'd rather trend on @Twitter with.— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) July 13, 2020
We love it.— Joy Behar (@JoyVBehar) July 13, 2020


"The View" co-host Meghan McCain claims push to 'defund the police' is helping Trump reelection bid
Meghan McCain warned on Tuesday that Democrats were hurting their party's electoral prospects by countenancing the idea that local governments should "defund the police" after George Floyd's death.
"If you're explaining, you're losing and there's a lot of explaining going on on this," McCain said. "... If you mean reform, say 'reform.' If you mean defund, say 'defund.' People are confused."\
“If you’re explaining, you’re losing, and there’s a lot of explaining going on,” says of the defund the police movement. “If you mean reform, say reform. If you mean defund, say defund. People are confused.”— Heidi Heitkamp (@HeitkampHeidi) June 10, 2020
“This is giving Trump a great campaign slogan.” https://t.co/aRJ9aoShW2 pic.twitter.com/vHV6Q8WRsb

