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Meghan McCain Blames Hostile Whoopi & Joy for Her Exit from 'The View'
mrcNewsbusters ^ | October 19, 2021 | Tim Graham

Posted on 10/19/2021 4:33:18 PM PDT by Morgana

When Meghan McCain suddenly left The View, one TV critic hailed her turn as "a highly effective heel, a love-to-hate reality villain." But Meghan McCain's forthcoming audio memoir Bad Republican insists her liberal partners on the show were the villains. Howard Kurtz at Fox News revealed some of the details of her "scorching response."

What will generate the gossipy headlines is McCain’s account of her searingly personal conflicts with Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg. And she makes no attempt to sugarcoat their tortured relationship or pretend that behind the scenes they were all gal pals.

There was "toxic, direct and purposeful hostility" from the two women, McCain writes, and it "grew meaner and less forgiving" as Trump’s tenure wore on, "as if I had become an avatar for everything they hated about the president." And that was strange, because "Whoopi and Joy saw front and center the emotional trauma I had experienced from President Trump’s attacks on my family."

McCain was troubled by the "open disdain" from Goldberg, who sometimes harshly cut her off on the air: "Once she turns on you, it can create unfathomable tension at the table." - McCain recounts returning from maternity leave back in January and Joy Behar saying angrily she was not missed:

On her second day back at work, during an on-air squabble with Behar about the Democratic Party, McCain tried a tongue-in-cheek line: "Joy, you missed me so much when I was on maternity leave. You missed fighting with me."

"I did not," Behar said. "I did not miss you. Zero."

McCain was stunned. "I felt like I’d been slapped," she said.

When the show went to commercial, McCain burst into "uncontrollable sobbing" at the "nasty" remark. She pulled herself together, but with her hormones raging, she describes the experience as "intensely heartbreaking."

After the show, McCain resumed crying and threw up in a garbage can. And that’s when she concluded: "This s*** isn’t worth it. Nothing in life is worth it."

McCain later told her executive producer to ask Behar to apologize, since "she had humiliated me live on air." She was told that would not happen. Behar, she felt, smelled her vulnerability "like a shark smells blood in the water."

Our Kristine Marsh noted at the time Whoopi also unloaded on McCain. In 2018, the liberal panel turned on the only pro-life host with Whoopi yelling that McCain and Republicans need to "get out of my vagina." At the end of 2019, Whoopi lost her temper with McCain again, telling her, “Girl, please stop talking! Please stop talking right now!”

Kurtz reports McCain also discusses her contentious late-night fight with socialist Seth Meyers on NBC in 2019, when he tried to shame her out of criticizing Ilhan Omar.

What emerges is a portrait of a woman who is in fact treated differently by the media establishment because she is a conservative Republican. In 2019, Seth Meyers turned an NBC interview with a pregnant McCain on his late-night show into a confrontation, and after hours of crying, she refused to take a makeup call from him....

When Seth Meyers sent her a conciliatory note after their unpleasant clash, he thanked her for appearing at an "away game."

Republicans always play an "away game" with the badly named "mainstream media."


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: badrepublican; howardkurtz; joybehar; meghanmccain; nomanwilllayher; prolife; theview; whoopigoldberg
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1 posted on 10/19/2021 4:33:18 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

She should be careful what she says. Whoopi might eat her.


2 posted on 10/19/2021 4:34:13 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Morgana

Hang around with skunks and you end up smelling Miz McCain.


3 posted on 10/19/2021 4:36:10 PM PDT by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: Morgana

When did Megan McCain become a conservative?

L


4 posted on 10/19/2021 4:36:40 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Morgana

I partially deaf but I can hear this tiny fiddle playing...


5 posted on 10/19/2021 4:36:44 PM PDT by BAN-ONE
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To: Morgana

What did you expect, Toots?


6 posted on 10/19/2021 4:38:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Morgana

God in Heaven, who the he$$ watches that show? Ever? It is as moronic as a talk show can be. Blithering idiots, all of them. This exhibits how our country has dwindling intelligence levels year after year. Tragic.


7 posted on 10/19/2021 4:39:59 PM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: Morgana

I have no sympathy for her. She took their money knowing full well she was there as the token foil. She sounds pathetic. If she had any integrity, if any conservative woman had any integrity, they wouldn’t appear on that show at all.


8 posted on 10/19/2021 4:40:58 PM PDT by MNnice
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To: Lurker

Well lets put it this way, she wasn’t as far to the left as whoopi and joy were. I think she just got her wake up call


9 posted on 10/19/2021 4:41:00 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Morgana
McCain was stunned. "I felt like I’d been slapped," she said. When the show went to commercial, McCain burst into "uncontrollable sobbing" at the "nasty" remark. She pulled herself together, but with her hormones raging, she describes the experience as "intensely heartbreaking." After the show, McCain resumed crying and threw up in a garbage can.

Oh, good grief. What an embarrassment.

10 posted on 10/19/2021 4:41:13 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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Did Whoopie call her fat again?


11 posted on 10/19/2021 4:41:46 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imaginationd)
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To: Morgana

These stupid RINOs think, if they place nice and say something bad about Trump, these liberals will be their friends.

To the liberals, these people are just useful idiots.


12 posted on 10/19/2021 4:41:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Morgana

Please God keep her and her husband off of Fox News.


13 posted on 10/19/2021 4:42:17 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: Lurker

That’s what’s so funny. She just isn’t woke enough for the true loons, Goldberg and Behar.


14 posted on 10/19/2021 4:42:21 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Morgana

Meghan, just look at the flowers.


15 posted on 10/19/2021 4:43:13 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: Morgana

Meghan should have known that she signed on with evil, nasty, unforgiving, all-or-nothing people. She tried to suck up to them and it didn’t work.


16 posted on 10/19/2021 4:43:41 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Morgana

Meghan is an overweight overrated blowhard.

Has her husband ever explained his appearance on the NR “Against Trump” cover?


17 posted on 10/19/2021 4:44:05 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Mark

“Meghan, just look at the flowers.”

Nice.

L


18 posted on 10/19/2021 4:45:21 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Morgana

No one wants in Whoopis vagina


19 posted on 10/19/2021 4:45:45 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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To: john drake

Women


20 posted on 10/19/2021 4:46:08 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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