Good grief, are The View guests coached to kiss McCAIN's ass as a condition for appearing?!

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Yesterday Teh McCAIN barely noted Walter MONDALE's significance to spend more time yapping about her father's also having chosen a woman running mate and having lost an election.

Today, one of George FLOYD's brothers singled her out to compare BIDEN's empathy to Teh McCAIN's father. Just good grief!

[LuvLoogie]

1. I think Floyd's family have been burdened with enough stress and emotion

to add animosity toward Meghan McCain. I don't see them having the energy for it. That George Floyd's brothers find common ground with MMcC over their dearly departed seems like a good thing.

Maybe they are just decent, kind people.

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3. "add animosity" - who asked for that? - my point is the *gratuitous* dragging his name into EVERY

topic, thereby kowtowing and kissing her ass. John McCAIN is not the only being who has ever also died or other beings who have had dearly departed to memorialize.

The FLOYD family's being decent, kind people has nothing to do with the McCAINs, and there are millions and billions of decent, kind people out there. And since when is one McCAIN the representative of all of them and everybody?

[betsuni]

8. I think John McCain would hate the way his name is

gratuitously brought up all the time -- I'm sure he'd have something snarky to say the way they're turning him into some kind of a saint.

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10. Well, *she* is the one doing it, besides some guests. & she repeats that he strongly encouraged her

to get on that specific show. But thanks.

[LakeArenal]

2. I doubt anyone is ordered to kiss anyone's ass.

There is just too much angst over MM.
She’s a character pundit. Everyone knows her thoughts are contrary to everything on DU. That’s the role she plays on View.
They have her just for her for that slot.
As was Elizabeth what’s her name or the other ones that I can’t remember their names.

Nicole Wallace probably was let go because she did not sway to bat shit crazy like M.

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5. As I already know and am reminded every time the McCAIN comes up, friction & conflict is a ratings

booster, but I am not the only one irritated by this person. I watch because of the rest as a whole, and she's a pain in the neck no matter what.

[LakeArenal]

7. I don't disagree. My point is it a role she plays.

If she left, they’d replace with another nut case like SE Crupp. Cupp? Anyway.

I like the show with or without another
Ass Wipe Republican.

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9. "a role" is separate from some personalities being more irritating, abrasive, & than others.

Even some OTHER wingnuts exist (hard to believe) who are more tolerable or who can argue issues instead of just being a general a-hole.

[LakeArenal]

11. I don't disagree with you at all.

MM fills a slot. Not really based on her but what she spouts.

It works, too. Because the View doesn’t care if you love her or hate her.

The fact that we are talking about her beyond the show is exactly why she is there.

There is no bad publicity.

[kcr]

13. It seems they have a slot for blonde right-wing in their lineup

Though I imagine they allow for a brunette on occasion. I don't watch the show, but a blog I read talks about it sometimes.

[LakeArenal]

15. Yeah they had a daughter of someone like Duncan Hunter. And that Jedediah had brown hair.

Tho now she’s blonde on Fux.

[brooklynite]

4. Another TV show people love to hate.....

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6. "show" - how come she gets special status but when it's a gripe it's "the show" that's singled out?

It's *her* and I don't LOVE-to-hate her, would dearly love her to be gone.

[brooklynite]

12. People have been complaining for days...

If people hate Meghan McCain this much, I'm at a loss to understand why people keep watching a show with her in it.

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16. No, not "for days" - some have complained about her since her Day 1 & will till her last show.

Just about everybody on a large internet board like this has their own peeve about whatever.

My own losses to explain are:

1) why the show itself is deflected to be blamed for my own specific multi-faceted detestation of her;

2) why this one topic is more dismissible than countless other gripes, peeves, vents, etc.;

3) why some posters who don't like certain topics can't just skip past without blessing with their disapproval or intimating that topics need clearance from them to be posted, etc.

***It's all very similar between those who preach to others about "turn it off" and "don't watch" and those who can't or won't skip a thread.

[VGNonly]

14. MM

A noun, a verb, her father...rinse and repeat.

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17. Yip, thanks.