'You’re asking her to be careful about her language and I’d ask everyone to be careful about theirs,' Meyers said.
Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Senator John McCain, struggled through an awkward interview with NBC host Seth Meyers on Tuesday, with much of the conversation focused on McCain’s past comments about Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
On Tuesday, Meyers put it to McCain that linking criticism of the pro-Israel lobby in America to anti-Semitic violence was irresponsible, Mediaite reported. “I do think it’s fairly dangerous, and you brought it up after Congresswoman Omar had also had some death threats against her,” he said. McCain responded, “I don’t think I tied her to it in particular,” though she explicitly mentioned Omar in her comments. “I think that I’m calling out what I see as anti-Semitic language.”
“I stand by every single thing I’ve said, and if that makes me unpopular in this room or in front of you, so be it." “Were you bothered by her language about 9/11?” McCain asked Meyers, to which the host suggested her comments were taken out of context and made sense within the full speech. McCain added, “Would you give President Trump the same leverage if he had said the same thing?”
McCain went back to Omar’s controversial tweets, noting “you can’t talk about Jews ‘hypnotizing’ the world, talking about ‘all about the Benjamins.’” This was a misrepresentation of the tweets, which referred to the state of Israel and its supporters in the U.S. rather than Jews explicitly, The Daily Beast noted.
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