This week, CNN’s Chris Cillizza posted a photo about the “post-Christmas gift” he bought himself: an increasingly hard-to-find BinaxNOW rapid COVID test box is helping people feel safe when visiting family during the Omicron spike.
As with most of his doctors, it did not go well.
But while much of the hate comes from anti-crowd lock, the most heated reaction came from Meghan McCain, the former co-host of See, who started in 2021 by complaining about having to wait her turn to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
McCain first accused Cillizza of “hoarding” tests, and when he pointed out that he had only ordered a total of eight tests so his family could spend New Year’s Eve together, she countered that some people are “standing in line in the cold” for an experiment. test.
In most of those cases, though, people are waiting for more accurate PCR tests that can’t be done on their own. The home tests that Cillizza buys online can be overpriced and hard to find – and one could argue he doesn’t need to show off his booty on social media – but there is an equivalent. wrong here on McCain’s side.
McCain added: “I will give you the benefit of the doubt as you begin to give conservatives the benefit of the doubt.
“Yes. That’s what this is. Great fun,” Cillizza replied, McCain wrote, “Want to know how many Covid tests I have at home with my 15-month-old? Zero.”
Before she left side See Last summer, McCain spent most of the year defend Fox News’ anti-vaccination propaganda and expressed her own doubts about the vaccine’s effectiveness — and at the same time Joe Biden’s White House Criticism for not enlisting her help to reach conservatives around the issue.
McCain, who earlier this week finished in a back and forth on Twitter with an even more radical right-wing pundit, Candace Owens, eventually deleted her tweets attacking Cillizza and replaced them with a New Year’s resolution to “stop engaging in twitter wars with idiots in the media.”
