Well I've got no love for Steve Schmidt who has essentially become a pundit
on MSNBC, a longtime Republican and also
an advisor to John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.
I have to say I did appreciate the multiple twitter threads that he engaged
in, where he was specifically calling out
the bradynnes and bad behavior of Meghan McCain.
Now let's get into some of these threads and Tulsi Gabbard makes an appearance.
This is a little bit of a surprise, we'll get to that as well.
But this all kind of started when news broke that Meghan
McCain failed to sell more than 244 copies of her latest book.
So less than 300 copies of her latest book.
And so Steve Schmidt writes on twitter, I can explain this.
When I kicked Meghan McCain off of the 2008 McCain plane because of her
outrageous behavior I talked to her mom and explained what was happening and why.
Cindy got weepy and said, quote, I just want to say I raised two good sons.
I said everyone knows you did maam.
So basically he's alleging that Meghan
McCain's mom acknowledged during this conversation that
her daughter sucks, which he gets into more detail, let's give you that.
He says, everyone who has ever worked with Meghan McCain from ABC,
the view, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and 1000 others have
seen the unfiltered version of what the whole of America has seen.
That is why in a nation of 330 million
people, 247 have bought the book, nothing new to learn.
So he might be overestimating their, I think it's only like
244, but either way less than 300 books have been sold.
Now then he goes off on Meghan McCain after
she liked a tweet that called him a pedophile.
So he does a quote tweet and says after 14 years of
abuse and attacks today is the day I have decided to respond.
I am happy to keep the story going after this thread.
It only gets better.
And that's the tweet that he was referring to in which Meghan decided to like.
And then he goes on to describe Megan's behavior on the campaign trail.
She was only 23 at the time when she had launched
her blog about the campaign that her father had engaged in.
And so here's what he says about that.
I was the first adult that Meghan McCain
ever encountered, that she heard the word no from.
I told her she was unimportant and
that the presidential election wasn't about her.
I left her on the tarmac when she didn't make the
plane because as I explained to her, the 5000 people who
were waiting to see her father speak and took the time
to do it deserved to have him show up on time.
That was the way John McCain saw it.
He was appalled by Meghan McCain's conduct
on the campaign trail, appalled and embarrassed.
The tantrums were beyond anything I had ever witnessed from any other human being.
They were epic meltdowns that would test the range of Meryl Streep,,
Kate, Winslet, Jodie Foster and Anne Hathaway on their best days raging,
screaming, crying at the staff, at the makeup people, at that secret service.
Without any doubt it was the most rotten, entitled,
spoiled, cruel, mean and bullying behavior I've ever witnessed.
It was my job to confront it and I did.
I talked to 24 year old Meghan McCain the
way an adult should have talked to Trump kids.
I talked to her the way a retired
USMC would, I'm guessing he ends that tweet with.
But anyway, I listen.
Well, I have my issues with Steve Schmidt.
I can put that aside for one second and
say that from my personal experience having to work with
her on a show called take part live when I was like a fill in host, it's all true.
She's pretty awful to people around her.
She was awful to producers.
One particular story that stood out to me was when
a producer had worked on a segment regarding Obama's drone strikes.
This was during the Obama administration and everything was like
spoon fed to her because she didn't wanna do the work.
And so as she's getting her makeup done, I was there getting my makeup done as well.
Producer walks in with the talking points, with this prepared segment ready to go.
It's about the drone strikes, Meghan McCain looked at
it and was like so boring, it's so boring.
I don't wanna read about this, so boring.
And so wasn't interested in consequential foreign
policy that was being implemented by Obama.
And yet she had a position working as
a political news show host, which blew my mind.
>> Yeah.
So I wanna complete that tweet that you were reading because it's relevant.
And then I got my thoughts on this.
He said I talked to her the way a retired USMC four star general failed
to do in the White House with Ivanka Jared and Jr, they're all the same people.
I told her that she was unimportant and that everything around her had nothing
to do with her, I told her she was privileged, lucky and should be grateful.
She told me and anyone else who would listen to response.
Do you know who the f my dad is?
It was a miserable anthem of the total chaos.
That was the McCain campaign.
It never stopped until one day when I said enough.
Now, I partly wanted to read that to you because that rings so true.
Whether it's the family members of elite republicans or elite democrats,
they grow up with such overwhelming entitlement and they think when
you're a regular person like how dare you even talk to me or question me.
And there's one thing that I really disagree with Steve Schmidt on about this.
He keeps protecting John McCain and Cindy
McCain, the parents, I got kids.
Look, parenting is super hard, but when your kid throws a tantrum and especially
if they're mean to someone else and you were gonna go somewhere, you stay home.
You don't reward that behavior.
You said, well, you want to Mcdonald's and I'm not gonna get your
Mcdonald's, whatever you need to do to teach your kids to be decent people.
And look, I know it's super tough and sometimes it doesn't work and
people are human and we're all week and we've got our frailties etc.
But it's obvious that the McCain spoiled the
living crap out of Megan, never challenged her.
And also my dad.
We've seen it 1000 times.
So no, and by the way John McCain's campaign was an absolute mess.
You know whose fault that is, John McCain.
So I get it, Megan was the worst of the worst
and you're still trying to protect the ghost of John McCain.
And I know in Washington he's an angel and no one is allowed to criticize, he was
a war hawk, loved war, got tons of
people killed for no reason and was deeply incompetent.
Couldn't run his own campaign, picked Sarah Palin.
Apparently according to Steve Schmidt, he was glad that steve Schmidt did
the parenting for him, couldn't control his daughter and didn't want to.
So no Steve, John McCain was a total mess and I'm not buying your corporate.
Yeah but we love war.
So we love John McCain, nonsense.
>> Now as you rightly mentioned, John McCain was in fact a Warhawk.
And Meghan McCain was on board for all of it, totally admired her father.
Didn't seem to really have a mind of her
own when it came to foreign policy, was very hawkish.
And I remember that through personal conversations, I remember that through the
comments that she made in the press about various foreign policy decisions.
Did not think that drone strikes that we're
taking out innocent civilians were a big deal.
And I give you that context to now go to an instagram post by Tulsi Gabbert.
Let's take a look at this.
So in the photo she's giving Meghan McCain a big hug and the caption says
this, Meghan McCain should be honored that a
warmongering slimeball, like Steve Schmidt is attacking her.
Okay, let's pause.
What about the woman that you're hugging who is totally down
for the US foreign policy that you purport to be against.
Does that matter at all?
>> Her beloved dad that she talks about in
every sentence to borrow a phrase from Joe Biden.
Everything is noun, verb, my daddy with Meghan McCain.
He was literally the biggest hawk of my life.
There wasn't a war he didn't wanna make out with.
I mean he still, by the end he was proposing absurd wars.
Like, wait, did you run out of countries for us to bomb
an attack and now Tulsi Gabbard thinks that that's the antiwar family.
I mean she's a hilarious joke of a person.
The reason she's doing that with Meghan McCain is like, fame, wig money money.
She has no morals at all.
>> I mean she's got no value.
Like that's the thing that stands out to me about her, right?
I mean the one who like postured as like the strongest anti
intervention, anti imperialist candidate actually ends up
to kind of love the very wars that she was speaking out against.
I mean she didn't agree with the Iran nuclear
deal which was actually one of Obama's good accomplishments, right?
I mean you gotta deal with all sorts of checks
baked in to ensure that Iran isn't developing nuclear weapons.
Tulsi Gabbert weirdly
wasn't in favor of that.
She did a tour in Africa recently, came back and was like, yeah, I'm putting on my military uniform, doing my tour in Africa.
I'm really worried about those
radical Islamic extremists.
No, she loves the wars.
I mean she's got no real identity.
She's got no values other than the cult that she's part of.
And yeah, she's part of a cult literally, read about it.
That's who she is.
She's a freak.
But going back to Megan McCain and her father, just as another piece of evidence
of how insanely shameless she is, recently posted this picture on instagram.
She's holding her daughter very cute.
In the background you see John McCain's where he was buried.
She put her book on his grave site like.
>> My God.
Well no live people are buying it to be fair.
So, no I mean she's using her dad's gravesite,
like when she was alive all she would ever say
is my dad, my dad, my dad, here's the picture,
here's my dad, here's my dad, here's my dad, right?
He's dead and she's still like here's my dad in the ground.
He's the only one who bought my book.
Unreal.