The View kicked off its Friday
episode breaking down
the controversy surrounding CNN
correspondent Chris.
Well, he's not a correspondent, but
anchor Chris Cuomo, and
his way of handling stories
involving the governor of New York,
his brother, right, Andrew Cuomo.
Now, Meghan McCain wasted no time
basically displaying her hypocrisy
on why she has an issue
with Chris Cuomo.
Let's just quickly watch that and
we'll comment.
>> We're all in positions where we
work in media and politics and
we have to talk about people that
we love.
Quite frankly, if my dad had been
accused of sexual assault, I would
be talking about it on The View.
Because I'm not a snowflake and
I'm not Chris Cuomo, and
I too love my family and
love my dad, but
there's no crying in baseball.
This is the job we signed up for.
If you can't hack it,
you should do something else.
>> She has that job because her dad
was her dad.
And also because The View does
better with ratings when it has
a disagreeable person.
Notably a conservative person on
the panel to serve as its heel.
And to be fair to Meghan, she's
an important part of that show.
Because without her I don't know if
it would be entertaining or I don't
know if it would get any attention.
But at the heart of this,
Meghan McCain didn't get that
position because she has amazing
talents, and skills, and
journalistic abilities.
She got it because John McCain,
a senator,
who of course has passed away,
was her father.
I also don't believe that she would
be willing to cover her father
allegedly engaging in
sexual misconduct,
had that been the story.
I just don't believe her.
That's not the case.
I know I'm speculating, but
that's just what I believe.
>> Yeah, well, the only part that's
believable in that is that if it
involved her father, she would be
desperate to talk about it.
Because that's how she used to
start every sentence or
every other sentence.
Well, my father,
I don't know if you know him,
he's John McCain, said this.
My father, my father, my father,
and now you're talking about Chris
Cuomo is related to Andrew Cuomo,
that's a conflict of interest.
I mean, come on,
that's gotta be a joke, right?
That's a joke.
I mean, she's the least qualified
person on television to say that.
You could have a family that was
successful and
still be really good at your job.
But, we've seen these folks come
on, the Chelsea Clinton's and
the Jenna Bush's, etc.
They get paid tons of money to do
a couple of segments a year.
It's awfully convenient,
at least Meghan works for a living.
She actually shows up every
day, right.
And she is part of the controversy,
that's true, right.
But what are the percentage chance
that Meghan McCain would have
gotten that job if she was not
Senator McCain's daughter?
Let's be honest, let's be honest,
0%, right?.
>> And also, no crying in baseball.
She complains about being the only
conservative on that panel and
how difficult it is to be heard and
how it's not fair.
That's all she does on that show.
Aside from angering other people,
which is why that show is the show
that people love to hate.
That's why it gets
the attention it does.
But you can't say there's no crying
in baseball without just taking
just a brief moment to reflect on
your own behavior on the very
show you're making these claims on.
She complains all the time.
There's a lot of crying in baseball
apparently.
>> Nonstop, [LAUGH] I think she
would cry either the same day or
the next day where they were going
to break, she's like,
why are we going to break?
I mean, every time
there's any conversation,
she's aggrieved, she's aggrieved.
So, look, in terms the Cuomo thing,
we talked about in earlier shows,
we even did a poll about it.
And we asked you guys, hey, do you
think that Chris Cuomo should face
disciplinary action for helping his
brother Andrew Cuomo strategize
about how to handle a scandal?
And a lot of you guys agreed with
what I said, which is,
70% saying no, really 71% of you
round up, and 29% saying yes.
>> Wow, surprising.
>> The reason why I thought he
should not face disciplinary action
is because, who are we kidding?
Of course he's going to talk to his
brother about it.
All these anchors pretending to be
neutral or objective is absurd.
And so, that gets the much larger
conflict of interest in this story.
>> Yes. >> Which is,
that really most of the folks on TV
is a circle of elitist that already
knew each other, that are all
already incredibly powerful.
And most of them are millionaires.
>> Yeah, and can I just add one
other thing, Cenk?
CNN literally has a hiring strategy
of taking people who used to work
in Washington.
And making them correspondents
rather than
hiring trained journalists.
That, in and of itself,
is conflict of interest.
Because you're dealing with people
who have close ties to Washington.
And you're also simultaneously
presenting yourself as
a journalistic organization that's
speaking truth to power.
How are you going to speak truth to
power when everyone employed at
your establishment is powerful,
comes from power,
serves in powerful positions,
will continue to do so.
That's not speaking truth to power.
That's literally having a policy of
implementing biases that favor the
powerful within your institution.
>> Yeah, so,
there's two elements to that.
One is the politicians and
every cable news outlet,
those of Fox News hires Karl Rove,
Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee.
If you need a job between running
for president or whatever else
you're going to run for,
you go to Fox News and
they give you a lot of money.
You do the same propaganda,
you get branding, et cetera.
It's a farmhouse for
the Republican Party.
MSNBC, same thing for Democrats,
Claire McCaskill,
we had to have her as an analyst.
Really, why?
She lost her race.
She lost a really easy, not easy,
winnable race in Missouri where she
was the sitting senator.
And she bungled that race to
no end.
We need her expertise.
No you don't. Nicole Wallace used
to be the spokesperson for Bush and
Cheney, that's yours at MSNBC.
>> Exactly.
>> And why?
They're all powerful, powerful,
powerful, right.
And so do they have the perspective
of the powerless?
Absolutely not.
They have the exact opposite
perspective.
Let alone the fact that you got
the heir to the Swanson fortune on
Fox News, that's Tucker Carlson.
>> Stephanie Ruhle,
former hedge fund manager, come on.
>> You got the heir to
the Vanderbilt fortune on CNN,
that's Anderson Cooper.
We're talking about conflict
of interest.
All of cable news
is a conflict of interest.