It’s a new year and the debate over nepotism in Hollywood rages on. The latest person to enter the chat is Meghan McCain, who took to Instagram late last week to share her thoughts on the matter, even though nobody asked.
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“To my fellow ‘Nepo babies’—just acknowledge your privilege, the opportunities your last name has gotten you and move on,” the 38-year-old–who is John McCain’s daughter, in case anyone forgot–wrote on her Instagram Stories. “It’s pretty simple.”
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She continued, “At some point talent and grit comes into play but let’s stop acting like this is in anyway a rational burden that people know who [our] parents are—you sound like a**holes. Thank you.”
TBH, this is not terrible advice. Now, if only McCain herself would follow it.
When it comes to “acknowledging” her own last name and the family she was born into, she never misses an opportunity to remind people. It’s the “moving on” part she seems to struggle with, as evidenced by this video…
Here’s how people reacted to her remarks on nepo babies…
I’m so glad she commented. 🥲
— 🛑 🏗️in Iran (@ParvanaeEmi) December 30, 2022
Meghan McCain is one of the best examples of a “Nepo Baby” with zero talent, zero brains, and has solely gotten ahead based on her father’s political fame.
Nepotism isn’t always bad, as in many cases, the progeny of celebrities are extremely talented.
But not in this case. https://t.co/DijQUhKArT
— Pithy Quips (@PithyQuips) December 31, 2022
Meghan McCain is a nepo baby?!
— compete (@Inspectah8) December 30, 2022
Maybe she’s talking to a mirror
— Meta Ry. 💙💙🌊 (@mnRyguy) December 30, 2022
If I was a media personality with no qualifications beyond my name, and I was going to comment on this particular issue, AND I didn’t know the difference between “anyway” and “any way” or “are” and “our”, I’d at least run it by a copy editor.
— But where are you *REALLY* from? (@politiquacks) December 30, 2022
these celebrities speaking up about nepotism more than an actual world crisis
— angel✞ | luna la apologist (@moonlightstarsz) December 31, 2022
I wonder when talent and grit will come into play for Meghan.
— gib myers (@thegibfish) December 30, 2022
This is the second time I have agreed with her, the first being this pic.twitter.com/JAm9l3DkFN
— andy (@muppetbucket) January 1, 2023
She “are” the exception to the rule. Sureee🙄
— Rhi (@FlowerTunnel13) December 30, 2022
But if she were to move on, how would we ever know who her father was?
— Giggerton 🇺🇦 (@Giggerton) December 30, 2022
McCain is widely disliked not only among the general public but those who know and have worked with her as well.
She routinely butted heads with the other co-hosts on The View, particular Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar. And last May, her father’s former campaign director Steve Schmidt called her a “spoiled rotten, entitled bully” and “fourth generation wannabe” who is “unaccomplished” in life.
Even her mother, Cindy, has hinted that her family doesn’t particularly care for her. While promoting her book Stronger on The View back in 2021, she recalled being “secretly glad” when her son, Jack, threw Meghan throw a screen door at their cabin after he had “had enough” with her.
Watch.
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Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Queerty, rather than give priority to virtual nobodies (Trumps niece and varying other silly ass family members who amount to nothing tangible) why not report on the trans woman who is scheduled to be executed this evening in the god fearing GOP controlled state of Missouri. Governor Elmer Fudd (Parson) has said he is not going to stop the execution.
Peter
I’d agree with you, Sister, but Dr. Mary Trump is hardly a “silly ass family member who amounts to nothing.” Her part in helping reveal the dirt in that family is for the history books; people need to know the truth. And yes — the trans woman’s impending execution is newsworthy and should be covered, but Queerty can do both without dishonoring the other. I await its coverage.
dbmcvey
Of all of Trump’s family you singled out his niece? That says more than your concern trolling.
Fname Optional Lname
or report on both?
mailliw110
They keep writing these stories because YOU keep reading them AND commenting!
LumpyPillows
I love the Ricky Gervais joke about a trans woman sitting at a bar watching porn on her phone. When the bartender says she can’t be watching porn at the bar bar, she says “But I’m trans”, and the bartender says “Oh, I did not know, OK, carry on”.
Trans women also get to murder too, I guess. No evidence at all that she wasn’t guilty of murder.
dbmcvey
The Nepo Baby thing is stupid, but when you talk about people like Meghan McCain they have a point.
CNY1983
doesnt she have some kind of kid to raise?
okiloki
This is such a petty and bitchy hit piece. Meghan McCain is far from perfect, but she actually makes a valid point here and it’s actually pertinent since she is a well known nepo baby. The way this story is written says more about the writer than about Meghan McCain.
LumpyPillows
Yeah, they needed to focus on Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She’s now the nepo governor of Arkansas.
Jimmynj
Meghan McCain is the definition of a nepo baby. She has no talent, nor the grit – if she had either, she wouldn’t have run crying from the View. If it wasn’t g=for her father, she would be asking me if I wanted fried with my order at Wendy’s.