Drew Magary
People Like Meghan McCain Are Why Americans Keep Dying
It starts with loving guns more than you love other people
I am doing the world a disservice by paying any attention to Meghan McCain, America’s foremost faildaughter and the kind of lead-brained opportunist who’s cashing in on the troll economy while pretending to be completely unaware of such practices. But ABC pays McCain nearly a million bucks a year to sit stage right on The View and serve as a now-mandatory wingnut counterbalance to other hosts who believe in things like, oh, I dunno, common sense. They want her to draw eyeballs by maximizing her wanton jackassery, and it works. It’s effective, and you could argue that it’s potentially fatal.
Normally, McCain uses her luxe pulpit to remind you that she’s a hilariously transparent nepotism case who gets sad when Ilhan Omar is allowed to speak in public. But this week, in her return from an almost certainly needless vacation, McCain blitzkrieged ahead and used the recent spate of mass shootings in Texas to brandish her gun cred and warn her co-hosts about a coming uprising should anyone dare touch her precious, presumably rhinestone-encrusted AR-15. Here’s how she opened her diatribe, according to the Daily Beast story linked above:
Moments later, McCain weighed in…
