Meghan McCain once again got into it with her fellow The View co-hosts on Tuesday, and the fallout has not been pretty. This time, the panel were discussing the horrifying situation along the U.S. border, of migrant children being kept in inhumane conditions and even several deaths reported. The subject came under added scrutiny when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently compared the migrant detention centers to concentration camps in Nazi Germany.
Whoopi Goldberg pointed out that even when our country captures prisoners of war we don’t keep them in squalid conditions, and Joy Behar added that even imprisoned serial killers have access to basic necessities like soap and toothpaste. And while McCain definitely has a soft spot for those poor dying kids, it would appear that she has an even bigger umbrage with people who refer to the crisis as torture. “Calling these things torture facilities, I understand it is a humanitarian crisis, and it’s horrific,” she interjected. “And like you said, people in jail get soap, and people in jail get toothpaste…”
“But I know what a torture facility looks like,” she added, in her sassiest clap-back voice. “I’ve been to one.”
“Listen to me, excuse me,” she continued, when Behar attempted to interrupt. “When you have a facility whose specific purpose is to torture people, that is not what’s going on. Yes, it’s inhumane, but there’s a big difference between the Hanoi Hilton and what’s happening at the border right now,” she said, referring to the POW camp where her father, the late Senator John McCain, was held during the Vietnam War.
Sunny Hostin then went on to point out that maybe, just maybe, we should be less concerned about what we’re calling the camps and more concerned with what’s happening inside of them. “Kids are dying inside of them,” she countered. “But we should play semantics what we’re calling those. We should care about the dead kids that have come out of them.”
“My father couldn’t lift me over his head when I child because of his torture wounds,” McCain shot back. “So I do think hyperbole is important.”
It didn’t take long for Twitter to catch wind of McCain’s comments — slamming her callousness and for once again pulling the “my father” card. Some even began calling for her termination from the chat show altogether.
Meghan, oh Meghan. The psychological trauma of being ripped from your parents, being thrust into a cage, where you’re forced to pee and poop in front of strangers, without access to soap or toothpaste, with a lice outbreak, and strangers abusing you IS torture. #theview
— Sunshine (@Sunshineat7n8n9) June 25, 2019
#TheView.@MeghanMcCain you think this isn’t torture? Teenage boys and girls laying on top of one another, children in fetal position from fear, overcrowded spaces where the defecate. What is wrong with you Meghan? You have ZERO EMPATHY for others unless it’s about you and yours pic.twitter.com/OKm9EgPTbL
— Chris Broekemeier (@Christibro67) June 25, 2019
https://twitter.com/somedayboy/status/1143565041800757249
Here is the definition of concentration camp. Torture is not mentioned in it.
Hopefully someone will explain this to dimwitted Meghan.
⬇️⬇️⬇️#theview pic.twitter.com/nvrYxQlTCL— 𝕄𝕚𝕤𝕤𝕪 𝕊𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕎𝕙𝕒𝕥?☮🟧️🦸🏻♀️ (@says_missy) June 25, 2019
Y’all know by now that Meghan McCain isn’t just the “conservative” panelist. She’s a full blown narcissistic pos. Talk about inhumane treatment of children and she will certainly turn the conversation around to her own woes. #TheView
— Chucks and Pearls 👑 (@SheilaInCT) June 25, 2019
Narcissist Meghan can't understand how a small child being separated from it's mother is torture? Wtf do you want to call it when a baby is cold, sick, dirty and caged while the mother is unable to do anything? The trauma for both causes permanent mental & physical harm #theview
— CatsReadingBooks (@atx_zn) June 25, 2019
#Meghanmccain “I’ve been in a torture facility” on a tour!!
Are you daft!? 🤬 You’re a surface level thinker. There might not be water boarding but being separated from parents, starving, sick… thats a form of torture. Let’s see how you’d fair!#theview @ABC #sunnyhostin pic.twitter.com/UaaDWyTCaH
— TheReadingRainbow (@Reading8Rainbow) June 25, 2019
2/ she doesn't see past her. Yes we get it you're dad was tortured but that doesn't mean these kids aren't going through hell…. and please don't talk about legal vs illegal. These are kids PERIOD POINT BLANK….KIDS….the solution is out there but for now think KIDS #TheView
— 🦋 🌈 Carlene 💃🏽 🦋 (@CarlenePT) June 25, 2019
I've thoroughly enjoyed #TheView for over 10 years now… I even find it a source for me to understand politics. I don't think it's for me anymore. Every topic is cut short because of Megans aggressiveness. It's too much now😔
— Stacey (@Stacey_monamour) June 25, 2019
If Meghan "brings the ratings" on #TheView, then why doesn't ABC just give her a show called "My Father." It can go 2 hours long, with no commercials and no guests cause she'd never shut the fuck up…
— AyaG (@AyaReigns) June 25, 2019
https://twitter.com/kimkimcherie/status/1143572569812979714
Im at work
I saw #TheView trending
Immediate thought🗣WHAT DID MEGHAN DO? pic.twitter.com/0QwKzznIfn
— I Adore… 💋 (@Dame_Adore) June 25, 2019
McCain is known for her questionable yet vehement defense of Trump supporters, but imagine this being the hill to die on. It would not be at all surprising if her job was left on shaky ground this time.
(Via The Hill)