Meghan McCain on Wednesday applauded ABC for meting out swift justice against "racist" actress Roseanne Barr, adding that "it's interesting that ABC holds a higher standard to their employees than apparently the White House does."
McCain made the comments on "The View," also on ABC, during a segment about Barr's racist tweet Tuesday that subsequently resulted in the cancellation of her primetime comedy reboot, "Roseanne."
"What (Roseanne) said was blatantly, patently the definition of racism," McCain said, adding that she had been "disheartened" recently by "what's acceptable in the White House."
"It's refreshing to see someone take a stand and say, 'No, not at ABC, not at this company. This is not acceptable rhetoric.' And it's interesting that ABC holds a higher standard to their employees than apparently the White House does," McCain said.
McCain is still smoldering over a quip about her father made by a White House staffer during a meeting that got leaked. Kelly Sadler was identified as the staffer who said it didn't matter what Sen. John McCain thought of then-CIA director nominee Gina Haspel because he's "dying anyway."
Despite the uproar the remark had on Capitol Hill — even with Republicans — Sadler remains on the job and in the favor of President Donald Trump, leading McCain to think that nothing on social media would have been out of bounds.
"A week ago … I would have been like, 'It's fair game everywhere,'" Meghan McCain said Wednesday. "We're in a realm of the universe I never thought, after the death joke about my father. It's just fascinating, to use Mitt Romney's words, corporations are people, and here at ABC it's not OK."
Meghan McCain, a staunch conservative, also rebuffed Barr and others' attempts to frame her termination as an attack against conservatives.
"This is not about being a conservative, this is about you being a racist," McCain said.
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