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Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Out of Touch & Overpaid: The Media Meltdown Edition

Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Citizen Cain Productions

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

3.9692 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Why do elite media outlets keep fumbling the moment? From CNN to MSNBC to The View, legacy newsrooms are bleeding credibility—and audiences. Meghan and Miranda are joined by Breaker Media’s Lachlan Cartwright, whose reporting on Jake Tapper’s behind-the-scenes Hunter Biden drama is shaking up the Beltway. They dig into: – The media’s role in covering for Biden – Democrats’ awkward attempts to win back men – Rachel Maddow’s $25M one-day-a-week deal – The View’s political pivot (and legal headaches) – And France’s First Lady delivers a headline-making slap Also: Are MSNBC hosts just Resistance LARPers now? Is Ari Melber heading for the exit? And yes… the Annabelle doll is still wreaking havoc on her national tour.

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0:00.0

Megan McCain has entered the chat.

0:07.0

Megan McCain has my co-host, Miranda Wilkins.

0:36.0

As always, we were not here Monday because it was Memorial Day.

0:39.5

Today, we are here Wednesday and Friday, and we have a wonderful guest coming on. Lockland Cartwright,

0:45.0

who is the co-founder of Breaker Media. He is someone I have known for a long time. He worked at the

0:51.0

Daily Beast. He has worked, I believe, at the Daily Mail and the National

0:55.1

Inquirer, and he's got some really good gossip in political circles to share with us.

1:01.4

Really quick. I just wanted to, but this is not something we talked about in our meeting yesterday

1:05.3

because this happened last night. So last night, no, the girls went to bed early. And I've really

1:10.4

been wanting to watch the Peewee Herman, Paul Rubin's documentary.

1:13.4

I wish you would have told me we're going to watch that. I've been waiting to watch it together.

1:17.6

It was unplanned. It was like I literally was like I want to watch this.

1:20.8

You know, we have to be on the same tandem. I'm sorry. Miranda and I are both children of the 80s and Paul Rubens and Pee Wee Herman was like the biggest thing ever growing up.

1:31.9

Peewee's Big Adventure is still tied for my favorite movie. And it is a really beautifully done documentary. And it really makes you take away the genius of Paul Rubin's, genius of Pee-Herman, and the really intense

1:47.1

homophobia and like otherism that was directed at him for a really long time for being like

1:53.2

an unconventional person. He was a closeted gay man. They talk about it in the documentary

1:57.7

for a long time. And just it's really beautifully done.

2:02.4

I highly recommend it.

2:03.3

And I'm sorry I didn't tell you to watch it,

2:05.1

Randall.

2:05.3

This was a spur of the moment choice that I made.

2:08.4

And then I stayed up to like to watch it because I'm going to,

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