Elisabeth Hasselbeck fired back at Meghan McCain after the View host slammed her for making a “dangerous” statement about praying away the coronavirus amid the pandemic.
“Golly. Getting kids to bed and apparently @meghanmccain is tossing out some anger my way,” the talk show host, 42, wrote via Instagram on Friday, April 24. “Meghan- i am going to call you and handle this in the best socially distanced direct manner possible — but hey girl — We are all just doing our best, and I don’t know why you are taking an opportunity to be so aggressive toward me during such a stressful time.” Hasselbeck added that when she made the controversial comments on The View in March, New York City — where the show is filmed — had not yet issued its stay-at-home order. “Get your quotes right. I never said I had the power to pray covid away,” she wrote. “The day at the view I came to visit y’all because our hometown had been slammed with a tornado and lives were lost and a school needed help and I was trying to get word out. Nyc was not even in social distancing yet. It was March 11th- it was before anyone was even quarantining – It was the last day the show was in studio, and your mayor was still encouraging visitors to Chinatown and still working out in gyms!” When the Rhode Island native appeared on The View, she emphasized the importance of relying on prayer during difficult times.
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