{"id":75968,"date":"2022-02-02T21:17:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/meghan-mccain-blasts-whoopi-goldbergs-half-assed-apology\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T21:17:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:47:59","slug":"meghan-mccain-blasts-whoopi-goldbergs-half-assed-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/meghan-mccain-blasts-whoopi-goldbergs-half-assed-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan McCain Blasts Whoopi Goldberg’s “Half-Assed” Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meghan McCain is weighing in on the recent controversy surrounding her former co-worker, Whoopi Goldberg. And she definitely thinks Whoopi is getting special treatment.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Whoopi remarked on \u201cThe View\u201d that the Holocaust \u201cisn\u2019t about race,\u201d drawing widespread criticism. In the days following, she apologized multiple times, saying on Tuesday\u2019s episode, \u201cWords matter and mine are no exception. I regret my comments, as I said, and I stand corrected.\u201d<\/p>\n

But McCain didn\u2019t think Whoopi\u2019s apologies were enough \u2014 or even all that sincere. She also thinks people are being far more forgiving of Whoopi than they would be if McCain herself had made the same comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was lectured to thousands of times on \u2018The View,\u2019 there is a belief that \u2018cancel culture\u2019 is really \u2018accountability culture\u2019 among the woke left,\u201d McCain wrote<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cWhich seems to be a belief that\u2019s quickly forgotten whenever it\u2019s Whoopi who has to be held to account.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Meghan<\/p><\/div>\n

In her DailyMail column on Tuesday, McCain \u2014 who left \u201cThe View\u201d in 2021 \u2014 recalled how she was treated after she called out the founders of the Women\u2019s March during one show for claims that they were anti-semetic. McCain called the experience \u201ca baptism by fire,\u201d and argued that Whoopi is being handled far differently.<\/p>\n

McCain noted that she doesn\u2019t believe Whoopi should be fired from her position, \u201cif only because I don\u2019t believe there is any universe where she could possibly do anything that could get her fired \u2013 she is the crown jewel of \u2018The View\u2019 and a pop culture icon.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCain also slammed the show as a whole in her column, noting that it makes her sad to see these things happen, specifically because she spent so much time with the show.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Meghan<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that I expect compelling or nuanced political discussions from daytime television, but it\u2019s sad to see the recent litany of embarrassing moments from a show I invested so much time and effort in trying to elevate to a more serious level,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday night, ABC News President Kim Godwin announced that Whoopi would indeed be taken off the air, but temporarily.<\/p>\n

\u201cEffective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,\u201d Godwin wrote. \u201cWhile Whoopi has apologized, I\u2019ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meghan McCain is weighing in on the recent controversy surrounding her former co-worker, Whoopi Goldberg. And she definitely thinks Whoopi is getting special treatment. Earlier this week, Whoopi remarked on \u201cThe View\u201d that the Holocaust \u201cisn\u2019t about race,\u201d drawing widespread criticism. In the days following, she apologized multiple times, saying on Tuesday\u2019s episode, \u201cWords matter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":75969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1643816880_Meghan-McCain-Blasts-Whoopi-Goldbergs-Half-Assed-Apology.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}