On Monday things got heated on The View once again — but not over a hot button issue like guns or abortion, not even over the subject being discussed at the time, the impeachment of Donald Trump.
No, the kerfuffle (on which you can get the blow-by-blow HERE) was all about Meghan McCain being rude.
For those who didn’t see it, Whoopi Goldberg was trying to throw to commercial, and the Arizona princess — who was already in her default conservative victim mode — decided she wasn’t done talking and just amped up the volume over her moderator.
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Whoopi finally had enough and told her:
“Girl, please stop talking.”
After which Meghan sulked like a teenager and said she wouldn’t talk for the rest of the show.
Well, despite coming off looking terrible after the exchange, John McCain‘s daughter — hey, did y’all know she was John McCain’s daughter? — tried to spin the controversy as a point of pride, posting on Twitter early Tuesday morning:
“Good morning – to all the fellow conservative “girls” who won’t be quiet.”
Right. Because once again, it was about the politics, about what she was saying and not HOW SHE WAS SAYING IT.
Seriously, how can someone be so self-centered and have such little self awareness at the same time?
Meghan paired the message with a gif from Game Of Thrones of Queen Daenerys with her dragon Drogon. No, not roasting innocent bystanders, back when she was still consistently written.
Good morning – to all the fellow conservative “girls” who won’t be quiet. pic.twitter.com/958DzFDAEp
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) December 17, 2019
Of course, the way Meghan was acting, she really should have posted a gif of Joffrey.
Yeah, that’s the one.
Later on, the co-hosts actually addressed the spat on the show. After all, talking about the elephant in the room is the whole point of The View, and that fight was a top trend on Twitter all day Monday.
Whoopi began by saying:
“We’re just gonna do a little cleanup before we do anything.
Things get heated on this show. If you watch the show, you know this has happened over the years. We’re really passionate, this is our job. We come in, we talk to each other. Sometimes we’re not as polite as we could be. That’s just the way it is.”
But things are supposed to get heated because of passion over the subject matter, because of an honest reaction to what a co-host says — not because someone isn’t listening to her co-hosts and just waiting to speak.
That’s not the same thing.
She continued:
“You’re gonna be dealing with the same thing when you sit around your table and you don’t agree or someone says something and it goes off the rails. This is part of what we do. This is not an indication that women can’t sit around and talk. This is not an indication that we don’t know how to deal with each other on camera. This is happening on real time. Stuff happens on this show in real time. And everybody, wherever you sit in all of this, don’t assume that we’re over here with butcher knives under the table.
It just doesn’t work this way, this is our gig and sometimes it goes off the rails. Calm down, it’s a TV show, we step in poopy and stuff happens and everyone just calm down.”
OK. We certainly don’t think “women can’t sit around and talk.” We’ve noticed there doesn’t ever seem to be any problem like this with the other two conservative voices at the table, Abby Huntsman and frequent guest host Ana Navarro. Disagreements don’t have to be fights. Sometimes they do become fights, and that’s understandable. The View fans expect that.
But fights shouldn’t be happening simply because someone sits down at the table with a chip on their shoulder, taking every comment as a personal sleight and just trying to score points.
Frankly, what we saw from longtime fans of The View flooding social media on Monday was a praise for Whoopi finally saying what everyone had wanted her to say for months. Don’t believe us? Take a tour through the responses to Meghan’s GoT tweet; they’re pretty savage. If anything, it was unfortunate Whoopi stopped herself instead of detailing the problem completely.
Speaking of which, Meghan spoke next:
“Whoopi and I get along great, I love you very much, I’ve loved you for a long time, you were good friends with my dad, we fight like we’re family. It’s all good, we’re not tearing the set apart, calm down, all of you. It’s all good.”
She added:
“I think it is a lens into what’s happening politically in this country and you and I spoke this morning and America’s in very heated levels right now. I don’t love it, I don’t think anyone at home loves it but it’s raw and real and we’re all passionate women. I’m hyper hyper conservative, everybody else at the table is not and sometimes we’re gonna clash heads.”
Again, this was not about politics. Letting her keep making that claim instead of acknowledging her issues means she has learned nothing from any of this, and as Whoopi also said, this is “probably gonna happen again.”
Oh, one more thing. Meghan also thinks the coverage of the fight is “sexist.” She added:
“I just don’t think it would happen with men.”
Well, we have never called out a male co-host of The View, she has us there.
See the moment Whoopi and Meghan addressed the controversy (below):
[Image via The View/YouTube.]
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