Meghan McCain MSNBC's Newest Contributor (VIDEO)

On Wednesday, MSNBC welcomed its newest contributor to the family: Meghan McCain.

The young pundit made her debut on the network on Wednesday morning, appearing with Thomas Roberts to weigh in on the GOP field. Roberts introduced McCain as the network's newest contributor, and daughter of Senator John McCain and a Daily Beast columnist. She said, "Thank you so much, I'm very excited. I didn't know it was going to be announced, but I'm very excited to be joining the MSNBC family."

Her commentary on the candidates ran the gamut from Herman Cain's scandal to Mitt Romney's prospects. McCain approved of Cain's handling of the controversy, and also said, "I actually don't think the scandal is as big as many people think it is."

McCain, who supports Mitt Romney, also responded to her previous comments that Romney lacked gravitas. She explained that she thought Romney's lack of rock-star status was actually a boon to his candidacy, after Obama was elected in 2008.

She also weighed in on her row with Newt Gingrich, whose campaign she had called a "vanity project." "I think he's delusional," she said after expressing her disbelief at trading blows with a former Speaker of the House. "And him calling me clueless I think is so sexist and disgusting and lame and a really offhanded remark … that he’s making towards me. And I think it’s ridiculous."

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Comments

[JosephineS]

03:56 PM on 11/22/2011

I guess the rumor is true. Meghan McCain the celebutante darling will be joining the Rachel Maddow Show in order to provide a much needed female perspective.

[maggiedancer]

01:21 AM on 11/29/2011

Meow.

[JOEL1954]

04:11 PM on 11/14/2011

She is a nobody who is only in the media because who her father is. She also has it in for Obama since he spanked her daddy so badly! Good luck defending Flipper!

[PickOneTwoThree]

03:05 PM on 11/04/2011

Good luck to Meghan. I wouldn't call her a heavyweight but she doesn't pull punches.

I agree the Cain 'scandal' isn't much (if what is known now is all there is). More important is how completely unprepared he is to become President. The fact that he and his staff weren't even able to handle effectively this 'scandal' (after knowing about it - Cain - and being warned 10 days earlier - this staff) is more telling than what happened.

More interesting is how the conservative right has embraced this non-entity (what has he accomplished til now - I know he led Grandfather Pizza - so what, he closed most of the stores and the chain still makes lousy pizza). It seems all he offers is, as Ann Coulter said so inelegantly - he 'their Black'. What a bunch of 'j*a*c*k*a*s*ses'.

Romney will probably be the candidate but he'll have more problems against Obama than the fact that he is not a rock-star. He's been on both sides of most issues - including the same sides as Obama.

100% in agreement on Newt. But don't you think he'd get a whole lot more love from right-wing pundits if he was Black. Because, face it, however little Gingrich brings, he brings a whole lot more (experience, understanding of the issues, etc.) than Herman Cain.

Life is funny

[Professor Zoom]

12:19 PM on 11/04/2011

Well I guess if it works for Fox... I'm sold.

[tomasino]

11:32 AM on 11/04/2011

Any one of the Huntsman sisters would have been a much better choice.

They're classy, witty and fun.

She's not.

[Roy49]

11:30 AM on 11/04/2011

I think she is absolutely gorgeous! Thick and lovely blonde hair and all!! Don't like her dad but I don't have to look at him! And I love MSNBC so it works out perfect! Good move!

[ALPHAKITA]

12:01 PM on 11/04/2011

Typical ni$$a.

Luv'n Beckys.

[Roy49]

12:50 PM on 11/04/2011

LMAO!! Roger that brother, Roger that...HA!!

[swift goat pet for truth]

11:27 AM on 11/04/2011

I respect her ability to hold a coherent conversation with Rachel. She does not echo the GOPer party line, and can often defend her opinions in a rational way... Actually, these are the reasons I also will listen to Pat Buchannan.... --- Of course, I rarely agree with either of them, but it is refreshing to hear a cosistent train of logical thought from a GOPer. ..... Also, she even knows some FACTS!!!

[R8RBOB]

10:32 AM on 11/04/2011

The problem with Meghan McCain is that she reflects too much of a "valley girl." I would recommend that she dye the blond not that I don't like her blond hair but when the viewer see a blond rich girl on their television screen, they aren't going to take her seriously because she looks like a blond rich girl.

[Roy49]

11:28 AM on 11/04/2011

Valley Girl or not, I think she is absolutely gorgeous! Thick and lovely blonde hair and all!!

[ALPHAKITA]

12:02 PM on 11/04/2011

N, plz.

[calijon]

09:16 AM on 11/04/2011

Can we get someone who has held an actual job and not some pampered bobblehead?

[Subsoil73]

10:35 AM on 11/04/2011

I think her response to you would be something like this:

"And him calling me clueless I think is so sexist and disgusting and lame and a really offhanded remark … that he’s making towards me. And I think it’s ridiculous."

[tomasino]

11:37 AM on 11/04/2011

I hate to admit it but RedState had a great parody of Lindsay, er, I mean Meghan. A sample:

"Some ignorant jerk, clearly who doesn’t know about the young people, pointed out that George W. Bush 1.0 won, two elections, which is two more than my dad did. Let me just respond to that jerk by saying that George W. Bush only won those elections because he didn’t have to go against my dad either time. FACE!"

Sadly her lawyers threatened them and they took it down. Herman Cain is contacting them as we speak.

[PickOneTwoThree]

03:06 PM on 11/04/2011

I think she just got an actual job - on MSNBC

[Labor Party]

06:35 AM on 11/04/2011

I like her.........don't always agree with her though.

She already stood her ground against the powder puffs on FAUX.

[Bobby DVille]

01:42 AM on 11/04/2011

Lets just hope she doesn't use the same arm gestures like her dad.

[indjoe]

12:51 AM on 11/04/2011

She OK anyone that calls out Newt and Ann Coulter on their B.S. is aright with me, and
better than morning joe .

[Andrew FingerlickingGree]

10:42 PM on 11/03/2011

"Thank you so much, I'm very excited. I didn't know it was going to be announced, but I'm very excited to be joining the MSNBC family."

Huh? You didnt know you were going to be announced?.... Well I guess MSNBC needed a "blonde"

[ALPHAKITA]

12:03 PM on 11/04/2011

Couldn't they have found a thin one OR a pretty one?

[PickOneTwoThree]

03:07 PM on 11/04/2011

She's a whole lot smarter than any of the 'blondes' on Fox

[MB1East]

10:38 PM on 11/03/2011

Obviously they know Buchanan's days are numbered, so they need a new fresh young GOP face on the network. I don't always agree with Meghan but I think it was a smart move by MSNBC.

[PickOneTwoThree]

03:08 PM on 11/04/2011

I hope you're right - that Buchanan's days are numbered. As far as I'm concerned, they've been numbered for a long time - be glad when he's gone.

[maxfax]

10:23 PM on 11/03/2011

Get rid of Joe in the morning, and replace him with Meghan, she'd rock the morning news shows off their pedestals, make Fox and Friends fall to the basement.

[noudidnt]

10:21 AM on 11/04/2011

Replace him with Smerconish; he's a real lawyer.

[maxfax]

12:23 AM on 11/05/2011

How is Joe not a lawyer, but that's not helpful at all to him or the program, Meghan would change corporate morning programing forever, and boy does it need it.