Meghan McCain Claims People Are Stealing Her Talking Points on ‘The View’

Imitation is flattering… Until it’s stealing. Right? On Monday’s episode of The View, a conversation among the ladies began by debating Courtney Love’s complaints that 18-year-old pop star Olivia Rodrigo had copied too closely from Love’s 1994 “Live Through This” album cover with a new “Sour” promo shoot showing Rodrigo as a sad prom queen; and detoured into host Meghan McCain claiming that people have been stealing her talking points.

Kicking things off, Ana Navarro-Cárdenas suggested that both Love and Rodrigo had borrowed from the influence of Stephen King’s Carrie. Then both Navarro-Cárdenas and Sunny Hostin turned their attention to the young white girls and women who have gained massive followings on TikTok with dance moves created by black girls before them. See: The backlash against Addison Rae on The Tonight Show this spring.

See also: A deliberate attempt by Black TikTok last week not to choreograph a dance for Megan Thee Stallion’s “Thot Sh*t” to demonstrate how white dancers couldn’t come up with their own original moves. At Sunday night’s BET Awards, H.E.R. accepted an award and reminded the audience that “R&B and Soul music is the foundation of country music,’” adding, “There wouldn’t be a lot of those other genres if it were not for Black music. And when they say R&B is dead, or R&B is not alive, I’m like, it’s in everything.”

Meanwhile, back on The View, the ladies reminded us of how much Black music had influenced Elvis Presley. But Meghan McCain, surprising nobody, made it about herself.

“Like, I get up in my feelings sometimes when my talking points are stolen,” McCain said.

Honey, no.

Which talking points have been “stolen” were not specified, or by whom. Suffice to say, don’t expect McCain to release an album with herself as a sad prom queen on the cover any time soon.