["The View": Week Of 11/5/2018]

Kasich is asked about his political future, possibility of running for president.   He talks about the two party system, how a third party can be viable, and says "all my options are open"  talks about seeing how things play out.   

Meghan responds, "so you'd run as an independent ,versus a  primary."  and he had to repeat himself, because that was NOT what he said!  

Then she says (reading off a blue card)  all the horrible things that will happen if the democrats win the house, and asks " do you agree?"  NO, he didn't!

I assume she had orders from her husband to do two things: get Kasich to say that if the Dems win, everything will go to hell, and to state his intention to run for president as an independent. Meghan made TWO strong attempts to put words in his mouth, and failed both times. 

["The View": Week Of 11/5/2018]

Is that ultra-glossy lipstick in style again now?  I remember it being the style when I was young and it drove me crazy, because it wore off, and left gloppy messes on cups, long hair blowing across your face would get stuck in it, and you had to keep reapplying it.

["The View": Week Of 11/5/2018]

2 hours ago, Bronzedog said:

About 3 sentences in, we hear about Meg's father.  I think getting engaged to Ariana Grande was the worst thing to happen to Pete Davidson.  No one knew who he was before but now his assholery is on full display.

He's been on SNL for a while, and he talks about his bipolar disorder, even called out for Kanye to "take your meds!"  

He did a bit where  he mocked politicians' appearances, on a late night show where they mock everyone.  And he was playing a character when he did it. I don't see the big deal.

[Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"]

On 11/2/2018 at 5:00 AM, Kelly said:

I feel your pain...I have a few family members that are totally into essential oils. Some of their beliefs about the effacacy of the oils is honestly - a little disturbing. But hey - do what you want. The constant pressure to use and buy them gets extremely annoying.

Essential oils are being sold by multi level marketing companies, they have charts saying which oils do what.  If people are pressuring  you, they may have bought into the idea that selling the oils can make them a bunch of money.

I once made the mistake of stopping at a craft fair booth to look at essential oils and was subjected to a high pressure sales pitch. There's a chart to show which medical ailments will be helped by which combination of oils. 

All the claims seem crazy. Yes, some oils can relax you and some can energize  you. But really, the effects are pretty minor.  

["The View": Week Of 10/29/2018]

OK, I just watched this.  Meghan was SO FAR out of line.  this group of actors  were on to talk about their movie.   switching it over to death, cancer, and grief, was not OK.  Death is universal - we all have lost someone to cancer, heart disease, accident, etc.   Meghan's attempt at bonding with the actor over , "Oh my god!  your dad and my dad died of the same thing!"  should have been done backstage, there was no reason for that to be part of the show.   

Oh, and I caught her pronunciation of "biopic"  - TWICE.  It doesn't rhyme with "myopic".

[Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage]

I have long thought that the Skittle ad where the girl pick and eats the "skittles-pox"  off a boy's face was THE most disgusting commercial. 

And now Skittles has some messed up commercial with a giraffe.  The giraffe eats rainbows.  And there's a guy on a stool, "milking"  the giraffe.  Of course, the "milk"  isn't milk at all - there are Skittles pouring out of the giraffe and  into a bucket.   Now, if this were done in cartoon form, it would be less disturbing.  But it's a real person, on a milking stool, next to a giraffe.  It took me a minute to understand that the point was this is how you "taste the rainbow."  the giraffe can reach the rainbow, eats it, and makes skittle-milk. 

Why?  Why, skittles, are you doing this to me?  

["The View": Week Of 10/29/2018]

Stacey Abrams Pushes Back On Meghan McCain About Her Views On Guns

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Meghan McCain probably wanted a “gotcha” moment Tuesday while she was discussing gun issues with Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on “The View.” 

Abrams is a Democrat who supports getting assault weapons off the streets, so McCain asked her if she supported banning AR-15s in the wake of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

McCain was probably not expecting her response.

“I’m not anti-gun. My great-grandmother taught me how to shoot when I was growing up in Mississippi,” Abrams replied. “I don’t hunt because I mostly eat chicken and that seems mean.”

 

["The View": Week Of 10/29/2018]

I'm not sure Meghan is an alcoholic.   I think that when she was younger, she thought of herself as looking like a beautiful blonde princess, but once you got to know her, you realize she's a "down-home tough whiskey-drinking, gun-toting chick." And then you're supposed to be surprised by how she can be so opposite of your first impression! 

I've known women like this all my life.  They try to impress the guys by embracing beer, whiskey, football, anything stereotypically masculine, while still looking feminine.   It's also her way of denouncing her rich upper-class background, and pretending to identify with "middle America" whatever the hell that is.  

Now that she's older, she's no longer the beautiful princess.  (yes, she was very pretty not so long ago), and the "tough broad" schtick just makes her seem desperate to define herself.  she doesn't realize that "drink whiskey and shoot guns"  and "get drunk and get tattoos"  makes her sound like the asshole she is. 

And,  people drink, but don't talk about it all the time, as though WHAT you drink defines WHO you are.   I like a margarita, but I don't define myself as a "tough tequila-swilling old broad,"  because I'm also the "sensitive sophisticated cabernet sipping elegant lady."  Except when I'm not.  

["The View": Week Of 10/29/2018]

I think Meghan comes to each show with an agenda, possibly handed to her by her husband.   Yesterday it was to advance the "hatred of Jews on both sides" agenda.   Today, it was about trying to make Stacey Abrams admit that she wants to confiscate guns from people.   Meg comes in, guns loaded, so to speak, ready to fire at her perceived enemy, but nobody will cooperate.  Yesterday they changed the topic from hatred to guns, today the "dem who wants to take away your guns" says she is a gun owner herself.  

I think Meghan comes across as angry all the time because she is so frustrated that her tactics aren't working.  She wants people to understand that the good guys are "the party of my sainted father" and the bad guys are "those hateful liberals who want open borders and no guns."  But she can't get her message of lies across because those damn liberals are not cooperating! 

["The View": Week Of 10/29/2018]

16 minutes ago, General Days said:

With religious in-laws, I can understand why she doesn't want to go TMI, but I wish she'd just shut up. There are plenty of segments where the other hosts don't chime in, or don't chime in much. Meghan really wants this show to turn into The View with Meghan McCain and that she must weigh in, even if it's just to screech that she doesn't want to talk about this topic. It was amusing the first time, but now it's just another thing that sets my teeth on edge. 

Yes.  "I don't want to talk about sex!"    and "I don't have any children!"  are reasons to be quiet and let others talk.  Not screech over them that you don't have anything to say.  Just shut up.  

["The View": Week Of 10/29/2018]

Meghan, in the first segment, talked about the STEREOTYPE of dems wanting open borders, and how it's an exaggeration. 

But, isn't that what she has repeated over and over again? That dems want open borders??

["The View": Week Of 10/29/2018]

Abby is wearing an optical illusion today.

And Meghan took my advice about ditching the skin right skirts for a more flowy one.

["The View": Week Of 10/29/2018]

2 hours ago, Morbs said:

I hated her trying to get the table to define machine guns: the common, normal person considers an AR-15 a machine gun because of movies and that's just what we know.  No one is coming after her for hunting or hand guns.

If Meg wanted to talk about it, she should have offered to define AR15, assault rifles, and machine guns.  As the gun-owner at the table, she cold make herself useful by teaching us something. 

1 hour ago, RHJunkie said:

She was pissed that she didn't have talking points prepared for herself to discuss AR-15s though you would think someone with her job and a lick of sense would consider the possibility that the subject would come up considering the vast amount of mass shootings that have happened in the past couple of years and the fact that AR-15s seem to be the weapon of choice.

Meghan was pissed because the discussion veered off the track she wanted it to be on.  She wanted it to go like this: 

1)Topic is whether anyone in the administration can be considered complicit in the synagogue shooting because of the hate-filled rhetoric;

2) Joy says trump and others ARE to blame, gives examples;

3) Meghan shoots the argument down with her "brilliant" talking points about how two democrats had some vague connection with Farrakhan, and GOTCHA!!  here's some anti-Semitic comments by Farrakhan - HA!  See?  BOTH SIDES!  

Instead, Joy had the nerve to veer off the topic and to talk about guns, and Sunny followed suit,  making it harder for Meg to have her moment. 

["The View": Week Of 10/29/2018]

That pic of Meghan, combined with her yelling at Joy for not looking at her when she's talking - looks like she's that mean teacher in 5th grade that everybody hates.  

[Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"]

Here's my weird pet peeve - when people shorten a phrase to the adjective that describes the noun, instead of using the noun.  It's especially bothersome in a medical context.  

Examples:  "I have post-partum."  No, you can have post-partum depression, anxiety, psychosis, hemorrhage, anemia, hypertension, etc.   "Post-partum"  means it happened after childbirth.  If you mean you have post-partum depression, say it.  

Similarly, when pregnant, "pre-natal"  means before childbirth.  When I was pregnant, a nurse asked me "are you taking your pre-natal?"   I had no idea what she mean, until she clarified, in a tone that implied I was the idiot, "pre-natal vitamins!  you have to take them!"  Yes, of course I do, but I call them "vitamins."  not "pre-natals"  because that's not a noun.  

Recently a guy told me that last year he "had a phantom."   I thought her might have meant some other-worldly experience, but no, he had a "phantom heart attack."  Ok, that's not "a phantom,"  because in that case, "phantom"  is a descriptor, not a noun.   

it's a trend that drives me crazy. 

[Meghan McCain: "Both Sides" Wannabe Tough Chick]

On ‎10‎/‎28‎/‎2018 at 4:19 PM, rollacoaster said:

The above quote is from @Apprentice79. Here is a link to the Bill Maher clip, and it is GLORIOUS. It shows that she has been espousing the same tired, ignorant rhetoric for a long time, plus playing the victim card ("The mean man is using his smarts to pick on little ol' blonde me!") 

 

You know what stands out to me in this clip?  Meghan says (LIES)  "I'm getting shit like you wouldn't believe just for coming on this show."    Later they talk about the importance of presenting various points of view and she is asked, WHO?  Who objected to you coming on this show?   Her answer is, "just random people, you know, twitter, on the internet, whatever."  Translation:  Nobody - I made it up.  

["The View": Week Of 10/29/2018]

I know I"ve said this before, but Meghan needs to learn to dress for her body type.   She doesn't have to take it as far as Whoopi and dress in big loose tents.  BUT - she is short-waisted (her boobs and waist are not that far apart in her overall height)  she dresses in a way that could be flattering on Sunny or Abby.  Not just because they are thin, but they have longer torsos.   today, that high-waisted  skirt that went all the way up to her boobs, and then the ruffly high-necked blouse - NOT a good look on her.   I don't know who advises her on clothes, but the tight skirts are just not a good look.  from the front, her big boobs stand out, and from the side,  her big belly is prominent.  she needs more flowing lines in dresses, longer tunics over pants, a softer look.   

But besides that, she's a hateful bitch who needs to shut up.

["The View": Week Of 10/29/2018]

2 minutes ago, blondiec0332 said:

Meghan was grasping at straws trying to come up with the false equivalency of a Trump supporter mailing pipe bombs to Trump's perceived enemies to someone on the left doing something. I swear she is becoming  more unhinged by the day.

I'm sure Meghan's husband gave her the "talking points"  for today, and they both thought "GOTCHA! Dems are just as bad!"    With no understanding that LOUIS FARRAKHAN has no standing to represent "The Left"  the way Meghan wants to spin it.

["The View": Week Of 10/29/2018]

So, before anyone can even speak up about the GOP's culpability in anti-Semitic rhetoric, Meghan has to recite times democrats IN PAST YEARS, met with Louis Farrakhan, or attended events where Farrakhan spoke.    BECAUSE THAT'S THE SAME THING?!?!?!?!

Seriously trump is the president.  And the hate speech coming out of his mouth is equivalent to the hate speech coming out of Farrakhan's mouth, because Farrakhan spoke TO democrats?   what the bloody fuck kind of false equivalency is that?   Meghan - Louis Farrakhan (forgive me if I spelled it wrong, I don't care enough to look it up)  was NOT president, was not an elected official, or the head of the democratic party - stop acting like he was!   This is exactly the same GOP talking point that held Obama responsible for everything that was said by a preacher at his church.   I'm sick of this crap. 

["The View": Week Of 10/29/2018]

1 hour ago, TV Diva Queen said:

Today's View is on YouTube already?  I didn't know that.  thanks.

this is actually the fastest I've seen the whole show up on YouTube. it generally takes a few more hours. 

[S01.E04: Halloween Night]

I'm glad to see the last of honey boo boo.

["The View": Week Of 10/22/2018]

5 hours ago, debbie311 said:

Joy's face - I could tell she was FURIOUS.  I almost expected her to get up and walk off the show.  MM was obnoxious.

When the subject came up about not exposing your children to social media and the media in general, they all shared their stories.  Not to be left out, MM had to say, "Well, I don't have children but I do have my grief.  I hesitate sharing it on social media." (Paraphrasing.)  

I tried to cut her some slack when she first came back, but clearly she needs some grief counseling. She is applying the death of her father to every situation.  It's getting old.  She may have those feelings, but she doesn't need to voice them every day.  And here's thing thing - her father died at age 81 after a long illness.  Does she not realize what life expectancy is?  His death did not come as a shock, as if in an accident.  I wouldn't be surprised to hear she is taking the death harder than her mother, who lost her husband.

If there is any silver lining at all, she makes Abby look not so bad to me.  At least she knows when to shut up.  And MM's "tough bitch" persona is wearing real thin on me.

Yes, when they're talking about children, MM ALWAYS has to pipe up that she doesn't have children.  This is the opportunity for her (if she had social skills)  to ASK questions of the parents on the panel, or to just shut up and listen.   when they're talking about a topic that doesn't apply to her, she doesn't need to say anything. 

And the grief issue - when someone is dying of a terminal illness, the grieving process begins BEFORE death.  Especially when that person has lived over 80 years.  You don't have to bring up the loss with every conversation.  You don't have to relate every issue to the loss you experienced.  Others on the panel have also experienced loss.  Others in the audience have experienced loss.  Nobody wants to hear you go on and on, as though YOUR loss is so much greater than anyone else's.  

[S07.E05: A Volatile Mixture]

The yelp review story -  it's ONE review. it's a ridiculous assumption that the bar could go broke because of a solitary bad review.   All they had to do is have the rest of the firefighters, anyone who is not an owner, write GOOD reviews to counterbalance the bad one.  And the way to reply to a bad review is to be positive, like "sorry your visit didn't live up to expectations.  Stop by again on a Wednesday when we have the following specials..."   so anyone reading the review gets a positive feeling for the place, and sees the reviewer as a grouch.   

[Meghan McCain: "Both Sides" Wannabe Tough Chick]

Meghan's hair extensions remind me of some seasons of "The Bachelor" where 80% of the women  have fake blond hair down past their boobs.  

It is an awful look.  What makes it worse is that she keeps PETTING her extensions, calling attention to how fake they are. 

["The View": Week Of 10/22/2018]

Sunny reads a quote about the traits a PRESIDENT must have. 

And Meghan says that "the left" should also have those qualities.  

Wait!  Is there a "left" president?   

Yeah, there was one just a couple of years ago - and he embraced ALL of those traits.    But this is about traits PRESIDENTS must have, Meghan.   Stop with this "both sides"  bullshit.  there is only ONE president right now.  

I LOVED when Joy spoke up against the GOP, and the audience cheered loudly, drowning out Meghan's "I don't think that's fair"