Meghan McCain is tired of "feeling like a caged animal" and may leave "The View"

[Miles Archer]

Meghan McCain is tired of “feeling like a caged animal” and may not return to “The View” next season.

The conservative commentator is exhausted by negative publicity and the constant turmoil on the ABC talk show, according to sources close to her who spoke to The Daily Beast.

The 34-year-old McCain has engaged in on-air clashes with liberal co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin, and she’s been hit with a series of damaging leaks about her alleged obnoxious and toxic behavior offscreen.

Sources told The Daily Beast that McCain is emotionally drained, angry and increasingly isolated, despite making nearly $1 million a year discussing current events on the daytime TV show.

“(She’s) feeling like a caged animal,” said one McCain confidante.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/meghan-mccain-is-tired-of-feeling-like-a-caged-animal-and-may-leave-the-view/

[Vinca]

1. All things considered, when I think of the plight of the "caged," I don't think of Meghan McCain.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

20. +1

[Sherman A1]

2. Although I do not watch this or much other TV

All I can offer the "Charming" Ms McCain is

[targetpractice]

12. I wish just once...

... One of her co-hosts would say, "I don't know, can you? It's 'may I say something?', dear."

[leftieNanner]

30. Agreed

She just looks mean. The garish make up doesn't help.

[JHB]

4. When you live in a bubble, the world seems like a cage.

[IcyPeas]

5. Hey meghan,

Send your resume to fox.

[pamdb]

6. Meghan

I haven’t watched the show in years, since long before she was on it, and I think I can still confidently say, no one will miss you sweetie. She’s only there because of her father.

[Zoonart]

7. Oh... you mean like the migrants in cages at the border?

That kind of caged animal, Meghan? Bye Felicia!

[C_U_L8R]

8. While real children are in real cages

McCain’s self absorbed pity party looks pretty trite. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and go liberate some kids from actual cages

[marlakay]

9. I watch the show and they have had

More respectful republicans on than her. It's obvious she is a rich girl used to being treated like daddy's princess and got the job because of him.

[CurtEastPoint]

11. Hmmm... I see a pattern: "rich girl used to being treated like daddy's princess and got the job...

because of him."

[CurtEastPoint]

10. Tots and Pears. Womp Womp. GTFO

[UniteFightBack]

13. So she has empathy for migrants...........? Maybe she ain't so bad after all. nt

[kacekwl]

14. Don't threaten me

with a good time.

[blueinredohio]

15. Bye bye Meghan. Good riddance.

[Siwsan]

16. She may feel like a caged animal, but she acts more like a rabid one

Her outbursts, disrespect for her co-panelists and screeching over them, when they try to voice an opinion or make a statement, should have gotten Meghan the boot, long ago.

She probably has no chance of a job at Fox News, and I'm thinking no reputable news or panel show would ever want to deal with her Prima Donna attitude.

But, she can always fall back on her Art History degree.

[NurseJackie]

17. Aw.

[gratuitous]

18. Gets nearly a million a year, but it's not enough

Maybe if you actually had some principles*, Ms. McCain, and could articulate a reasonable point of view, you wouldn't have quite so much trouble. But, yeah, pouting and emitting your mean little squirts of uninformed bile isn't very persuasive or endearing. You feel isolated because you've isolated yourself. You know what a responsible adult would do? No? I'm not surprised. Grow up.

*Besides the standard "Me first and fuck you."

[cwydro]

19. What has she been doing offscreen?

I must be out of the loop.

[Miles Archer]

24. Acting like a foul-mouthed diva, basically

Yelling at the crew and then saying "just kidding," stuff like that.

Squabbles with co-hosts on and off camera.

Nothing worth repeating in detail, just stupid stuff. I don't watch the show...I just see daily "Megan had another tantrum" headlines on Raw Story.

[KG]

22. thoughts and prayers

[tishaLA]

23. This is the nice way of saying ABC isn't renewing her contract

because she's an HR nightmare and more trouble than she's worth, but they're willing to let her get out ahead of the story so she can make her impending departure appear to be her idea

[Wounded Bear]

25. I really don't care, do you? nt

[dlk]

26. When Someone is Entitled & Spoiled, Normal Social Constraints Can Seem Like a "Cage"

McCain is a little old for such frequent petulant tantrums & outbursts.

[customerserviceguy]

27. Where else is she going to go?

Fox News won't have her, it would enrage Trump. She doesn't have enough credibility for either MSNBC or CNN. So, she can suck it up for a million bucks a year, and be Joy Behar's punching bag for that kind of money.

Back when I was a kid, one of the silly things that young guys say is, "Would you take a punch in the face from Mohammed Ali for a million bucks?" It was just one of the goofy things we'd say to talk macho. Well, Meghan is getting the million bucks, and doesn't even have to have her pretty face smacked!

[catbyte]

28. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out...

[madaboutharry]

29. Meghan McCain brings all her troubles on herself.

Her surly, negative, and angry demeanor is the source of her unhappiness.

There is a word in Yiddish that describes her: Farbissiner - a bitter sourpuss.

[lame54]

31. If only the asylum seekers had the same choice

[leftstreet]

32. +1

[mercuryblues]

33. McCain whines that she's

"feeling like a caged animal," while she defends the guy literally cramming people in cages. Forcing them to drink out of toilets, not letting them shower, no clean clothes, no toothbrushes, no doctors, no medicine....

meghan whines people are mean to her as she screams and yells at them.

She defends the man who basically said he is happy her father is dead.

[lanlady]

34. A talentless, mean-spirited harpie cashing in on her father's name

That's all she is.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

35. She can leave whenever she wants

can't she?

[maxsolomon]

36. The problem goes beyond McCain

The problem having a Conservative voice on the show AT ALL.

It makes sense that the producers feel they need that frisson, and appeal to Trump-voting white women, but in fact, there's no longer any points of agreement to be found between Conservatives and Librulz. Trump-voting white women don't watch.

No matter who replaces her, it will devolve into shouting.

[Cousin Dupree]

38. I disagree. The problem is not that McCain is a conservative, it's that she doesn't know how to

present her arguments intellectually. She acts like a valley girl.

[maxsolomon]

40. i haven't seen many conservatives make "intellectual" arguments

recently.

who would you suggest? nikki haley?

[Cousin Dupree]

41. I didn't say she is an intellectual. I said she needs to present herself in an intellectual manner.

She needs to learn how to state her views properly instead of acting like an emotional 14 year old. Her behavior is the reason she gets no respect from the other panelists, not her ideas. They disagree with Republican guests on the show, but they’ll show them respect if they handle themselves like an adult.

[0rganism]

37. must be nice, being able to leave that cage whenever you want, eh Meghan?

plenty of recently-caged "animals" in this country who might prefer to be somewhere else. not likely to happen for them, since they're actually locked in cages. but you, you get to walk your sassy piehole off stage left anytime you like. must be nice.

the injustice overwhelms me at times.

[NastyRiffraff]

39. Utter lack of self awareness

Also empathy and decency. She should spend just ONE DAY in one of the concentration camps on the border. She'd be screaming "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? JOHN MCCAIN!!"

[trueblue2007]

42. LEAVE RIGHT NOW, you are a mean mean woman !!!!!!

[DFW]

43. Seems only fair to the people tortured by the caged animal's presence for so long.

Let the caged animal free, and by doing that, do the same to both the rest of the cast and the audiences!