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McCain said the way she was treated caused her to rethink her job. “My four years in an anthropological experiment at left-wing mediaa> had come to an end,” she said.< and “for not voting for President barack-obama” target=”_blank”>Obama< … I don’t think you should be punished for it … [but] that’s unfortunately exactly what happened to me,” she said,
“This is like a cancerous environment,” Hannity said.
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“Being a elections woman in mainstream media is deeply threatening. Being a woman who can hold her own on a show like that proved to be ultimately threatening, so it became more and more personal,” McCain said.
As the show became more successful during McCain’s tenure, including an events win, the hostility became stronger and then seeped into on-air exchanges, she said.
“I actually felt like the more successful I was on ‘The View’ … and the more I pressed liberal candidates and liberal guests on the show, the worse it got for me backstage. And then ultimately, it started spilling out on air,” McCain said.
McCain noted that she would “not have survived emotionally … if it weren’t for the women that I met at Fox News” while she co-hosted “Outnumbered.”
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“I had a sisterhood at Fox that I lost [on] ‘The View,’ and I know what women supporting women looks like because I had it when I worked at Fox News. And now I know what the entire opposite experience is.”
McCain announced in July that she was leaving “The View” and discusses the details of her departure in her new book, “Bad Republican.”
