Like a bad smell, Meghan McCain just won’t go away.
John McCain’s daughter, who hates tell-all books, is about to release a new tell-all audiobook about her turbulent time on “The View.”
“Bad Republican”, out next week, is only available as an audiobook since McCain didn’t actually write it, she just sat in front of a microphone and blabbed for six hours then packaged it as a “memoir.”
In the recording, she speaks at length about how “The View” was a toxic place to work and her colleagues were terrible, horrible, awful people who constantly made her life a living hell.
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McCain says she suffered “toxic, direct, and purposeful hostility” from two people in particular: Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, who she says “grew meaner and less forgiving” with every passing day, “as if I had become an avatar for everything they hated about [President Trump].”
She adds that Goldberg, in particular, exhibited “open disdain” for her, often cutting her off when she was speaking to go to commercial. “Once she turns on you,” McCain says, “it can create unfathomable tension at the table.”
Another incident she talks about is the time she made a joke about how Behar must have missed her while she was away on maternity leave, to which her liberal co-host replied, “I did not miss you. Zero!”
.@JoyVBehar tells @MeghanMcCain: “I did not miss you” while you were off on maternity leave. “Zero!” pic.twitter.com/4D2IDWrF7k
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 5, 2021
McCain claims she broke down sobbing during the commercial break. “I felt like I’d been slapped,” she says. This escalated into a full blown panic attack after the episode wrapped, resulting in her puking all over her office. That’s when she concluded: “This sh*t isn’t worth it. Nothing in life is worth it.”
McCain says she later asked for an apology from Behar because “she had humiliated me live on air,” but she never received one. To make matters worse, she felt as though she was often depicted as an “unhinged lunatic.” And that’s ultimately why she decided to quit two years before her contract was up.
Speaking to Variety, McCain calls being on the show “crazy-making” and “extremely isolating” and that she often felt “outnumbered.”
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“You can watch the show and see that it’s unhinged and disorganized and rowdy,” she says. “For me personally, it felt extremely isolating because of my political ideology.”
She also says someone kept leaking stories about her to the press, which made her feel even worse.
“People were not comfortable around me. I was there less than a month when the first article came out about me, about what a disappointment I was and my nickname backstage was ‘Elsa’, the ice princess.”
She adds, “I don’t think anyone should walk into a work environment where they feel like they can’t have a bad day without it being blasted over the internet, painting them out to be a psycho.”
Let’s see how Twitter is responding to McCain’s latest remarks…
Meghan McCain said she left The View because there was too much turmoil and negativity.
Magically after she left, there was no more turmoil or negativity.
Hmmmmmm…
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) October 19, 2021
Meghan McCain wants us all know it was them and not her.???#TheView pic.twitter.com/784bkUUfB0
— Jay edwards (@JayEdResists) October 19, 2021
Meghan McCain was talentless, repeatedly talked over everyone else on the set, and name-dropped her dad whenever anyone complained about her behavior.
Maybe focus on how unpleasant she made life for her fellow co-hosts that they would be this cold to her? https://t.co/zS4vHdXgGJ
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) October 19, 2021
parents: make sure your children understand they're not the center of the universe, so they don't grow up to be Meghan McCain
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) October 19, 2021
"Meghan McCain Tells All: ‘The View’s’ ‘Toxic Work Environment"
but Meghan… you were the toxicity that you're complaining about.
— ???#BlackAF??? (@Black_1) October 19, 2021
Meghan McCain and Eric Trump are trending so it’s a big day for white privileged people nobody would know existed if it weren’t for their fathers.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) October 19, 2021
Meghan McCain is not the victim here. The people that had to work with her are the victims.
cc: @MeghanMcCain
— Avenger Resister (@AvengerResister) October 19, 2021
Meghan McCain has something to say. pic.twitter.com/4EQCZYMOyw
— Suburban Black Man ?? (@goodblackdude) October 19, 2021
There is NO good reason for Meghan McCain to trend.
Stop clicking on it.
— Evan Shapiro (@eshap) October 19, 2021
Meghan McCain claims she left the View because of the hostile environment.
That’s interesting. It seemed like she was the one who was always hostile and disgruntled.
— Avenger Resister (@AvengerResister) October 19, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Chrisk
Yes it was so toxic and hostile yet somehow if just follows you. Own a mirror.
ZzBomb
“For me personally, it felt extremely isolating because of my political ideology.” – McCain
I find people who make comments like these hilarious. First it shows a complete and utter lack of personal circumspection. And secondly, it is nothing more than a whine from someone who doesn’t like there to be consequences for their terrible behavior, attitude and treatment toward others.
When all you do is blame others for your persistent faults and shortcomings, it’s time to stop looking at others and taking a hard look at yourself.
TomG
Did we really expect anything different from her since she was fired from the show ? Not really. Sadly, even in calling herself a Christian she never was taught that if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
Max
she’s immature and bratty. did her spoiled upbringing not prepare her for the rigors of debates on talkshows?
this audiobook must have been cathartic for her. the ability to blabber about what made her life miserable and saved as a recording.
Imjustsaying
From day one she resented being interrupted for a commercial, as if she had no idea how TV worked. Whoopi was moderator and told in her ear when to break. It wasn’t her decision. But McCain in her screeching tirades thought she had free reign. She was wrong.
Jim
Poor Megan. You’d think she’d be begging for a job, but Meet the Press hired her!!
A sad day for journalism.
BaltoSteve
Awww look.. she’s playing the victim… how… Original!
Fahd
Makes Star Jones departure from the show look like an amicable parting. The healing is ongoing, but I can say, I don’t miss Elsa, the snowflake, or ice princess whatever it is. She takes no responsibility for her own aberrant behavior. Any future employer should be amply warned and employs her at his own risk.
Imagine spending six hours listening to an “audiobook” of her whine and self justify – a new variant of masochism.
radiooutmike
Good god; she also said that Whoopi made a promise to her father that she would protect and shield her while McCain was on the show.
McCain said after the first two years that stopped.
Seriously, two years isn’t long enough to get your sea legs on this show? Problem was her. She knew going in that she would be the conservative amongst the liberals. She is as dumb as Milton the Toaster.
man5996853
Rancid, vapid, entitled C-you-next Tuesday.
SDR94103
why is this manatee still making the news?
sfhairy
Watch as her book doesn’t crack the top 100.
Josh in OR
Her husband’s far right website will buy a million copies, and give them as ‘rewards’ for people subscribing.
It’s how people like Ted Cruz get to be ‘best sellers’ despite barely being able to form a coherent, non-awful point in his head.
BoomerMyles
Wasn’t it Me-again who chastised Joy on air that it was Joy’s job to listen to her?
She rudely and constantly talked over her cohosts and other guests and just repeated her husband’s alt-right websites talking points.
She created all the hostility herself.
Ratings are UP now that she’s gone.
stan2015
I am a liberal but also I want you to be in her shoes for a moment. She is young and did not know how to act at times. She “felt she was ganged up on” and its easy to see why. Haven’t you been the only LGBTQ+ person in a room and had to defend yourself? Now imagine doing that daily with a camera on you! Not easy.
I always like hearing an opposing opinion because “I am not always right” and Meghan “Wasn’t always wrong”.
Now Meghan had to endure losing her dad, and having a miscarriage’ while hosting the show.
Now she got the job because of her name but she proved she was worth her paycheck. I may not agreed with her but I always wanted to hear what she had to say!
Meghan has my respect. She may not of been as she is stating but “This is her side”. She isn’t lying its just her “VIEW” of events that caused hard feelings or hurt her feelings.
D_Bro
Young? She’s 36! That is certainly old enough to know how to be professional and act like an adult.
When she miscarried, the show was gentle with her. When her father died, the show had a special dedication for him and they talked often about what a great man he was (when I lost my father, I went to work the next day like most people do and carried on despite my sorrow).
Her father was elderly and had battled cancer for a long time. She needs to grow up and take responsibility for her actions and not blame everyone else for the negativity that surrounds her.
lacciani
Megan must have a hairdresser who hates her!
D_Bro
There have been other Republican/conservative cohosts and other than the blow up between Rosie and Elizabeth, it’s been a lot more civilized.
Terrycloth
Meghan says she’s a conservative Republican…thats an oxymoron….
Jack
Watching The View is actually enjoyable again. And it’s not about liberals opposing a “conservative voice”. Elizabeth Hasselbeck was fun to watch and thoughtful in her positions. Meghan McCain is a talentless, petulant child who’s only achievement is being squeezed out of Cindy McCain’s vagina. And she hasn’t stopped crying since.