Posted on 01/05/2018 5:08:51 PM PST by Kaslin
In a hostile, lengthy exchange on ABC’s The View Friday, co-host Meghan McCain admitted frustration at being the sole Republican host on the show. Trying to explain to co-host Joy Behar that Trump supporters “don’t care” about the Michael Wolff book, or other controversies the media hypes about the White House, McCain gushed, “I have never felt more conservative and more defensive of the middle of the country than I have before I started working on this show.”
The segment started by talking about the news of the day, the salacious book about Trump’s White House by Michael Wolff, released today to much media hype. Amidst talking about how bad the claims in the book were for Trump, McCain argued that the good news of the administration is overshadowed by these scandals and leaks.
“There is actually positive news coming out. The Dow surpassed 25,000 points for the first time yesterday. Unemployment rates, falling to 6.8%. Companies are announcing the addition of new jobs,” she argued.
“There is actually positive news coming out. The Dow surpassed 25,000 points for the first time yesterday. Unemployment rates, falling to 6.8%. Companies are announcing the addition of new jobs,” she argued.
“Is he responsible for that though?” fellow co-host Sunny Hostin asked skeptically.
“Presidents always get to take responsibility. I think the Dow, yeah because I think it is an indicator of Wall Street's enthusiasm about Trump,” McCain answered quickly. She criticized the administration for not being good at positive spin and letting the media run with the Wolff book:
“If you had people that were good at this, you would be putting this out in the news. But instead, we're probably going to talk about Michael Wolff's book for the next three weeks,” she grumbled.
Guest co-host Ana Navarro agreed, blaming President Trump tweeting about the book as the reason for it’s hype:
One of the reasons we're talking about Michael Wolff is because President Trump is tweeting about Michael Wolff and because his lawyer is sending cease and desist letters to Michael Wolff and his publishers. They've really turned it into a media balloon. If they had shrugged their shoulders and said, ah, meh, whatever...
The panel then gossipped about how Trump had memory problems, according to the book Behar vehemently argued that this was proof Trump had “short term memory loss” to which Hostin added that it was a sign of Alzheimer’s.
“Do any of us have a medical degree?” McCain gushed. “We're not doctors. There's a lot of bigger problems and proverbial proof about things that are going on and diagnosing our president’s mental health is--” she argued, before being cut off by Behar.
“We're not diagnosing!” Behar defended herself. “A psychiatrist did this!” she added.
“We're not doctors. We're talk show hosts,” McCain stated bluntly.
But Hostin agreed with Behar.
“I don't think it's a stretch to -- when you know the fact that his father had Alzheimer's for six years and then died...there is an increased risk for getting Alzheimer’s if your father has it,” she stated.
After commercial break, the panel kept discussing the book and its impact. McCain downplayed its effect on anyone who supported Trump:
MCCAIN: The question is does his base care? Does his base care about all of us getting up in a tizzy. Rightfully so. This is a very salacious, juicy book. Do his supporters care? I was at home in Arizona, I know you don't like to hear this and be reminded that he has a dedicated base--
BEHAR: Why do you say we don’t want to hear it? I’d love to hear it.
MCCAIN: Ok great. I was in Cottonwood, Arizona, going to Walmart. Stopped at the gas station. There was a guy in a Make America Great Again hat. Go to that Walmart, Make America Great Again hats. A year out and his supporters--
BEHAR: That's 30% of the population
MCCAIN: He has a very dedicated base. Their base was enough to get him elected the first time. Will it be enough to get him elected a second time? I’m just trying to explain to you that he has a base of dedicated supporters and things that we, in the media care about, I don't know if necessarily the average person who sees the Dow up, who sees the unemployment rates at all-time low, if they care in the same way
HOSTIN: I give Americans more credit than that, Meghan. I think people are watching. I think people are reading. I think people are very concerned that he's playing chicken with Kim Jong-Un. I think people are concerned about their children.
MCCAIN: We're talking about his base, aren't we?
HOSTIN: His base is only 30% of the population. What about the other 70% of the population that are watching and listening? They do care about that.
Behar added to Hostin’s argument that the country shouldn’t care what Trump’s base thinks.
“Why do you feel comfortable with the minority dictating to the majority about what should happen in the country?” Behar charged McCain, to audience applause.
“I'm trying to constantly explain it,” McCain answered with frustration. “I think when you say things like, oh, I give the American people more credit. That means that everyone who voted for Trump, you're basically saying, oh, I give them no credit. These people who voted for Trump, because your values are not my values. You're not in the majority or whatever and--” she ranted before Hostin interrupted.
“If you voted for Trump and you're not concerned, I am concerned about that!” the liberal host gushed.
McCain explained she was a “Never Trumper” but after the election, she “chose” to try to understand Trump’s base:
“I choose to try to understand his base and why they're so angry. And why they're still sticking with him. He has the same approval rate on election day that he does now,” she replied.
McCain Admits 'View' Has Made Her More Conservative, Defensive of Trump
But Behar put up a figurative middle finger to Trump supporters, gushing that Democrats should “forget those people:”
“The note for the Democrats is forget those people. You're never going to get them. Just concentrate on the 70% and get those people to the polls and save the country,” she stated bluntly.
Navarro then urged minorities and women to get out in vote in local elections and “make a difference,” by rejecting candidates like Roy Moore. McCain confronted the self-described Republican, saying she didn’t exactly sound like a Republican anymore. Navarro admitted she didn’t mind voting for Democrats:
MCCAIN to NAVARRO: Does that mean you prefer democratic candidates now? Just because I’m not a Trumper, doesn't mean I'm a Democrat.
NAVARRO: To Donald Trump? I would prefer a potted plant to Donald Trump. I would prefer a mannequin.
MCCAIN: I am talking about Senate elections
NAVARRO: Well yes. If I have to choose between a pedophile or Doug Jones whose a Democrat, I'll take the Democrat. Those are the choices we had.
After Behar accused McCain’s party of “no longer the party of Ronald Reagan and Eisenhower,” McCain gushed that working on The View made her more sympathetic to middle America and Trump’s base:
I have never felt more defensive of Trump's base. I have never felt more conservative. And I’ve never felt more defensive of the middle of the country than I have started working on this show.
Surprisingly Behar didn’t deny the show had an overwhelming liberal bias. “Of course. We're on the other side. Of course you're going to react to that, right?” she quipped.
“I don't mean that in negative way. I have a whole new understanding of what it feels like to sort of be lectured to about our values,” McCain added.
Co-host Paula Faris added that McCain was voicing the part of America that “feels marginalized,” before the conversation trailed off to another segment.
The younger McCain learned a valuable lesson.
Reaching out to them won’t stop them from putting you against a wall and ventilating your brain pan when The Revolution (TM) starts. She learned that you cannot be reasonable with unreasonable people.
She's not old enough. She's only 33 according to Wikipedia.
Must be 35 years old per US Constitution.
They appear to be feeding her well at The View.
So when Hillary’s eyes crossed and she bayed a the moon during the balloon drop at her campaign kickoff, that was statesmanship? Her wearing special glasses to address brain damage was just part of her “insight”? Locking into a seizure and being thrown face down into a van was her “firm resolve.”
But Trump’s criticism of the status quo is a sign he’s losin’ it. Okay.
“None of us ever believed she is conservative.”
Toward the end of her stint on “Outnumbered”, she seemed to be the most conservative of the group. I found myself agreeing with her most of the time. And I liked her presentation because she’d be in-your-face combative with the likes of Marie Harf, Jessica Tarlov, etc.
I am a Freeper. You other folks sound as hateful as the view libs.
Get your conservative senses in gear.. megyn isn’t her dad.. give her a break.
Meghan McCain and Joy Behar deserve each other.
Joy, do you mean like the LGBTXYZ minority?
She used to have a radio program, the first time I heard it, I had listened a while before I found out it was her. Pleasantly surprised.
That wedding doesn't sound the least bit snowflake.
Salad Meghan, salad.
I welcome her being transformed into being open to the point where she can see the good Trump is doing. It wasn’t easy to say what she had guts to say. She can be a big voice on TV for conservatism.. she had to even defy her father to speak up for our President
Having fun every day with those hard-wired nightmares on the panel, Meghan? You asked for it.
Poor Meghan. Sympathies to her at this hard personal time.
She is stuck among The Vultures on The View, but has virtually no real skills at debate, and only a pedestrian ability to articulate her thoughts. Her contributions there come more from her natural experiential knowledge of herself, from rolling around the ankles of politicians since her birth.
Why would she go there, from FOX? Maybe because her dad was too much in the news at the time, and ill, but making news nevertheless in controversial ways, nipping at Trump’s heels. FOX was going to be covering his irritating liberal pontifications and with his illness it would have been too hard on Meghan.
I just expect more from you on FR than the ugly I’m seeing .. you rather she stayed a hatefilled liberal? Come on.. we need more to speak out.. not less.. and the hate is not like Fr.. that is reserved for those who attack us.
Behar and Whoopie are Exhibit A as to why it was a bad idea to give women the right to vote.
Hey, girl (Meghan):
Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say “what should be the reward of such sacrifices?” Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
Interesting...
So, according to the harpies on the View (including Meghan), no one can point to good news from a Republican administration if the administration doesn’t kiss their behinds and lead them to it, struggling all the way.
Instead, if there is an admittedly partially false book that disparages the republicans, THAT must be the news.
And they wonder why we disrespect them...
She won’t get any support from me for the Senate or other political career. However, she easily could be a better pilot. Has she thought about a Naval career?
“Unemployment rates, falling to 6.8%.”
What is she talking about? I thought UE is under 5%.
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