A noun, a verb and John McCain
By: W. Island
Tags: Politics, Immigration

Meghan McCain is John McCain’s Daughter

If you read What You Know, then you probably know that I hate mean girl, Meghan McCain. I know hate is a strong word but it’s true. I really, really hate her. Not just me a lot of people hate her. I’m pretty sure that includes her stylists who I believe are signaling their disdain by dressing Meghan in clothes no sane person would ever wear.

So when the stories broke that little children were being held in cages most of the people in the country were horrified. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rightly called these facilities housing the children as concentration camps. People who were held captive by the Taliban tweeted that the Taliban gave them soap and a toothbrush. People who were held captive by Somali pirates concurred. Pundit after pundit said these kids were being tortured. And then there was Meghan McCain.

Did you know that Meghan McCain’s father is former Senator John McCain? Yep. In case people had not heard, Meghan goes out of her way to remind people. Every single day! And look, I’m all about name dropping but at some point you get too old to tell people who your daddy is. Frankly, Meghan’s habit of mentioning her father no matter the topic also reminds people that she would never have that job without being John McCain’s daughter. Sure, she’s a conservative but The View could pick up anyone of the Fox News rejects for that role. Megyn Kelly needs a new gig. They could call her and she would summersault to answer the phone. So why do they put up with Meghan McCain?

Meghan seems to be a subject matter expert in nothing, not fashion (God no), not music, not movies, not women’s issues, not politics, not the law, not education, not anything. As a matter of fact, Meghan, John McCain’s daughter, has demonstrated on a daily basis that she knows absolutely nothing.

On Monday’s Hot Topics, Whoopi Goldberg and the rest of the hosts were discussing the children at the border after a CNN clip of a doctor crying while describing the border conditions. First, Meghan confuses this woman with the attorney who argued for the Trump administration that toothpaste and soap wasn’t necessary for sanitary conditions because as you know all White women look alike. Then being the Mean Girl that Meghan is, she blamed the crew for not preparing her. And because that wasn’t embarrassing enough, she decided to jump into the debate on whether or not these facilities should be called torture. Meghan said “I know what a torture facility looks like, I’ve been to one.” Wait what. I get that Meghan is John McCain’s daughter and all but was she also tortured at the Hanoi Hilton? If not, she doesn’t really know what a torture facility looks like. She might think she knows. She might have even seen the cell her father was held in. But she did not experience what he went through and she damn sure isn’t experiencing what these little children are going through now.

Meghan says that the specific purpose of these facilities at the border is not to torture people. And again, she clearly isn’t an expert on this topic either. All we have to do is look at the list of what is going on at these facilities:

• Denied access to healthcare

• Denied access to legal representation

• Denied access to education

• Denied access to recreation

• Babies do not have diapers

• Children are taking care of the babies because no one else is

• Children are sleeping on concrete floors without blankets or bedding

• Rampant cases of lice and flu

• Children are not given soap and are not allowed to shower for days at a time

• Lights are kept on all day and night

• Children are fed the exact same meal every single day

• Portions of food are the same size no matter the size of the child

• Children are subjected to physical abuse

• Children are subjected to sexual abuse

I know I’m not John McCain’s daughter like Meghan but this is torture.

Meghan went on to tell the story that her dad couldn’t lift her in the air because of the abuse he received while he was a prisoner of war. Well, let’s catch back up with these children in a few years and see what type of physical and emotional scars there will have based on their treatment in this country.

Sonny Hostin finally told Meghan, I’m John McCain’s daughter, that we should be less concerned about what we are calling these facilities and more concerned about what is going on them. But I don’t agree with her. We need to call these places what they are. They are torturing little children as a deterrent. They are torturing little children as punishment. They are treating these little children worst than they would treat dogs because they don’t see these little brown children as human beings. This isn’t about lack of resources or money. We know there is money for things this administration wants to spend it on. These are deliberate choices to treat these children worst than animals. They are torturing these little children because like so many policies in the Trump administration, cruelty is point. And we need to call it out every single day until something is done.

Like I said, I hate Meghan McCain and people who think like her. People who can’t or won’t feel empathy for others because their lives aren’t affected. People who take every situation and make it about themselves.

I think about that 2008 town hall when the woman said she didn’t trust Obama because he was an Arab and John McCain said “No, he is a family man” as if Arabs aren’t family men. And I’m reminded Meghan is John McCain’s daughter.