If you're NOT watching The View... Have I got a story for you!
Co-host (and living proof the genetic lottery exists [outside of Donald Trump and all his kids not named Tiffany]) Meghan McCain has been through a lot over the last year. Her father former U.S. senator from Arizona John McCain passed away. ...and that's it. Because, other than that, it's been smooth sailing ever since for this politician's kid. Ever since her daddy got into politics and her mother Cindy has been the heiress of a major fortune from a family-owned beer company -- of Meghan will be the heiress. And because of her parents connections, Meghan has had a strong presence on television. She's been a contributor on Fox News Channel, hosted a show with Michael Ian Black called TakePartLive on the short-lived Pivot network (which is much better known as the American network of Australian sitcom Please Like Me). But these days, she's much well known -- and much more...reviled -- as co-host of The View on ABC, which has gotten a lot more recognition and a lot less ridicule as a whole for its last few seasons (with Joy Behar back at the Hot Topics table and other well-loved panelists such as Sunny Hostin, Abby Huntsman (more or less), guest Tara Stetmeyer (who herself should be a panelist) and Ana Navarro). But it's McCain that gives the show a lot of press. She is one of the show's conservative panelists, and brings a right-wing talking point of view; but i's those talking points that make her public enemy #1.
And all of this makes me sick.
From her first day, nothing about her is tolerable to me.
From her first day, nothing about her is tolerable to me.
- Her talking points are nonsensical plus borderline racist and xenophobic
- she interrupts her co-host to get even one word in when she could've waited like the other ladies do (or A lady does)
- When she can't give her point, she yells across the studio like a woman angry at her kids for messing up the house or getting in trouble for the worst things a kid could do (outside of true criminal offences like murder, arson... and jaywalking [shout-out to TV Tropes])
- She acts like her arguments are fact with no actual facts or logic to back them up
- She treats everyone like they're beneath her -- especially Joy Behar (just last week she called Joy a bitch among other examples), and
- She always thinks and talks of herself even in segments of others in heart-wrenching situations, like the disgusting situation involving children in concentration camps-- I mean detention facilities-- I mean concentration camps on the U.S./Mexico border during the Southern immigration crisis just last week.
- Oh yeah, and two words: My. Father. (Any segment, any topic, any guest, any co-host, she'll throw in the "my father" card like she'd throw in the winning card while playing UNO.
All of this makes her a shitty co-host and even a garbage person, and it should be grounds for her to be fired from the show. But she's still on it with two or three seasons under her belt (feels like forever though).
I'm going to honest. I feel sorry for Meghan losing her father John; I really do. He was a terrible politician, but at least he was good at it, and seemed warm and kind, not to mention he fought in the Vietnam war and was a prisoner of war for five years to fight for his fellow fighters' freedom. Yet this ungrateful cunt could not defend him when fellow ungrateful cunt President Donald Trump repeatedly dissed him like a punk-ass bully teenager still in high school while as leader of the free world even after his death. If I were her under this position, I would have - if given the chance - slapped him across the face (and I don't care how much hate I'd get on Twitter for it). And that's the underbelly; she has defended Trump many times on the show despite the sniping he really deserves from the other co-hosts especially Whoopi (she calls him "you-know-who" and "the guy in the White House" instead) and Joy (everything she said about and called him). She deserves to be talked down by her co-host and the internet because her kissing 45's ass on the regular and spouting bullshit daily.
Megatron's behavior is also deplorable; I wouldn't want to share a state with her (which I, a Pennsylvanian, don't, thank God), let alone a table every damn day because of the shit I see her do or say. And if I had to deal with her calling me a bitch or say that part of my job is listening to her, I'd jump over the table and snatch her - Cookie vs. Anika style.
According to recent reports, she's gotten producers on their toes around her to facilitate her every whim to keep her in her seat. I'm surprised to hear this but I'm also not. Thanks to her being on The View's panel, ratings have shot like a rocket and people are talking about it on social media much more. While I'd also like to think the renewed popularity in the show is also because of Behar, Sunny and Ana (because they're awesome badasses), I seriously believe the hits are because of her; everyone knows that when she's on (every day) she'll say something stupid and offensive, get her other co-hosts the audience and home viewers riled up and they news media will lap it all up. and the producers knew it. That's why she's still on the show, or else if anyone else acted like MeAgain, it's three strikes you're out. Her behavior wouldn't get her a real job with real people in the real world, let alone a job on TV. And people would not appreciate or tolerate her smart-ass mouth or her irritable behavior. Yet the producers (and Whoopi cause come on) do, and she stays another year.
And speaking of you're out, the fact that the most shocking and unacceptable statements she's shat out would've also gotten her fired, but it only proves the reason she's still on The View is because of her parents -- her Senator father and wealthy mother. They've gotten through her other TV appearances, and that's how she got on the show. She'd be nowhere if she weren't their spawn. Talent be damned. Instead of contemplating brain suicide wasting time with quotes, her are some of her worst moments (some of which we all can contemplate stabbing our ears with a rusty nail file):
And if you think she's not worth saving now, you are a lost cause. Because ABC said in a statement it expects that she - along with the rest of the current panel - will be back for the 23rd season. That's on the producers and ABC for that. Had she left, nothing will change for her; even Fox News wouldn't save her from the backlash. Hell, she'd get even more backlash just for being on that network, and worse when she opens her mouth. And yet the best thing for her is that she'll fit right in with them.
UPDATE: SHE'S OUTTA HERE!! Meghan finally announced that she's finally leaving The View after the end of this current season. I said what I said above, and now I'm happy she's gone and I hope the shoe gets a much better, smoother and more coherent flow without her.
I'll be watching when The View returns in September -- without her. She may have been the reason not to watch it, but to me, The View wouldn't be the same without her. Ehhh, probably better.
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