When Meghan McCain left The View, the show was left without a conservative host. It won’t be getting one any time soon.
The Washington Post pop culture reporter Sonia Rao disagrees. The ABC show replaced McCain with CNN commentator Ana Navarro and former White House Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farah Griffin. Because Farah Griffin worked in the Trump administration and Navarro worked on a few GOP campaigns over a decade ago, Rao thinks the two “will bring conservative commentary back to The View.”
It isn’t so. But given that the Washington Post still pretends Jennifer Rubin is a conservative, this isn’t a surprise.
Navarro has not held a conservative position for years. She is not pro-life. She frequently repeats Democratic talking points on gun control. She did not support due process for Brett Kavanaugh when he was accused of sexual assault without a shred of evidence. She attacked Florida and GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis during the pandemic for not embracing lockdowns and mask mandates. She supports President Joe Biden.
The extent of Navarro’s conservatism is that she opposes communist dictators in Cuba and Venezuela. That and she claims, for whatever reason, that she is still a Republican.
Whereas Navarro stopped pretending to be a conservative at least six years ago, Farah Griffin’s liberal heel turn was much more recent. She helped fuel distrust in elections after former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, and she said in February 2021 that the country needed to “move on” from the Jan. 6 riot. Farah Griffin is nominally conservative, but compare her “pressing” Beto O’Rourke on abortion with McCain’s comments on President Joe Biden’s abortion stance.
I pressed Beto on whether he supports any restrictions on abortion, including in the 3rd trimester. Clip below: https://t.co/XBO8dAAgps
— Alyssa Farah Griffin ?? ?? (@Alyssafarah) May 10, 2022
Meghan McCain accuses Biden of “doing grave spiritual harm to himself and harm to this country” over support for abortion.
“He’s going to have to ultimately talk to his creator when the time comes as we all do, and reconcile his politics with his personal faith.” pic.twitter.com/VbTGSkXgLV
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) June 21, 2021
Like her or not, McCain is actually conservative. She really was the only conservative anywhere in legacy media. McCain repeatedly challenged liberal guests who thought The View would be a cakewalk. Could you imagine either of her replacements doing that?
Perhaps Farah Griffin could, but given how quickly she pivoted from starstruck Trump supporter to stalwart anti-Trump voice, her principles appear to take a backseat to her employer’s views. Navarro has been a Democrat in all but name for years. The next time she meaningfully challenges a Democrat will be the first.
Given the despicable behavior of the show’s staff toward McCain, it’s clear that The View doesn’t want any real conservative pushback against liberal guests. Navarro certainly will not provide any, and Farah Griffin already looks like someone who will spend more time attacking Republicans than arguing any true conservative positions. Call their hires what you want, but they will not be bringing “conservative commentary” to the show in any meaningful way.
