Meghan McCain is “Over It” as She and Joy Behar Get Into Another Screaming Match on ‘The View’

Meghan McCain left no doubt that she was “over it today” on The View. This morning, a discussion about Dr. Seuss quickly got out of hand when Joy Behar said that the right’s obsession with “cancel culture” was a distraction from Republican senators’ refusal to pass the COVID-19 relief bill. The comment enraged McCain, who described the relief bill as a “left-wing fever dream” filled with “pork” unrelated to the pandemic, and before long, the two went at it in a screaming match that left no co-host unscathed.

Interestingly enough, McCain was relatively restrained when it came time for her to discuss the ongoing Dr. Seuss issue, which the right-wing media has repeatedly cited as an example of “cancel culture,” despite the fact that it was the Dr. Seuss Foundation that opted to pull six books it deemed offensive. “I always think sunlight is the best disinfectant, and I always want to know what my enemies are thinking,” she said, explaining that she doesn’t support banning books like Hitler’s Mein Kampf because she wants to “learn from history” rather than ignore it. “There’s a lot more nuance than this being a left-right issue … Part of the culture war issue that’s going on right now is the difference of opinion between wanting things to still exist and wanting to learn from the past, and things that won’t.”

Behar then jumped in to say that “this pearl clutching” over Dr. Seuss is “a distraction from the fact that not a single Republican in the Senate voted for the COVID relief package” on Saturday. “That same party voted 100% in lockstep to give tax breaks to rich people,” she said. “They don’t want you to notice this because it’s not popular in this country to vote against COVID relief for putting food on the tables of Americans who are suffering. That’s what they’re doing right now. That is the distraction.”

“This could’ve been a Hot Topic on this show,” interrupted McCain. “It’s because 9% of the bill is actually going to COVID relief. It’s completely filled with pork, and it’s basically a left-wing fever dream of things that are pushed into this bill along with it. That was conservatives’ problem with it.”

When Behar tried to say that the relief bill is popular with “60% of Americans,” McCain insisted that her co-host’s earlier comment was disingenuous. “I think we should have that relief bill only going to COVID relief, not for anything else! Only paychecks to average Americans,” she said. “9% of that entire bill is going to Americans. That’s the problem conservatives have — not because we hate poor people and we don’t want people to have help during the worst economic crisis of my generation. And I think that narrative and framing of it is not only wildly insulting, but it’s actually inaccurate! [I’m] over it today!”

Moderator Whoopi Goldberg tried to throw the discussion to Sara Haines, who hadn’t chimed in yet, but her colleagues had other plans. As Behar began screaming about “Republicans,” McCain repeatedly shut her down, yelling, “Over it today! Over it today! Over it today!”

The two continued (“Down, girl,” Behar said at one point), but it quickly became clear that the conversation wasn’t going anywhere. “We’re gonna take a break right now because it just isn’t working as well as we’d like,” said Goldberg. “We’ll be back.”

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