Joy Behar, from “The View” on ABC News, argued with colleague Meghan McCain during a live segment on Feb. 10, saying she was having a “hissy fit” before ending the conversation.
The conversation took a turn for the worse while the hosts were speaking about Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who announced her 2020 presidential bid.
McCain began talking over Behar’s introduction before Behar asked, “Can I get through this, please?”
The hosts began talking about President Trump’s comments about Klobuchar and her comments about the president’s hair, but McCain said the whole segment was “stupid.”
McCain then asked, “Can I say something now? Is that OK?” Behar told her “go ahead” before McCain, who is the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain, asked, “I have permission to speak now on Amy Klobuchar? We’re all good?”
The two then argued for a few moments before McCain said, “No, by all means, keep going, Joy.”
Behar shot back, “If you’re going to have a hissy fit, we can’t continue.”
“This president that we have now is trying to unravel everything that he did and Obama did,” Behar said at the time, which McCain took issue with.
McCain quickly jumped and stated: “I don’t want to talk about Trump. We’re honoring a great president who has passed.”
“Excuse me a second, please,” Behar said before the two argued. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg ended the segment and went to a commercial.
At the time, NewsBusters editor Curtis Houck said Behar’s remark about Trump during an unrelated segment is a “microcosm” of mainstream news outlets’ “permanent obsession” with Trump, saying it’s “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
“Behar doesn’t even know what she did wrong,” Mediaite editor Caleb Howe added to Fox. “Like a cat person who can’t smell the litter box.”
Buried Hatchet?
In January, McCain told host Andy Cohen about working on “The View.”“She’s really funny and at the end of the day I try and hate her but I can’t,” McCain stated. “I’m telling you I’ve never had more fun fighting with someone on TV than I do with Joy Behar.”