There is this thing about coming from a family of great wealth and power. Part of the deal that goes with all the doors that open and opportunities, one is expected to be humble (above all else) because even though it’s possible one could have worked their way into the same situation, it’s almost impossible. 

So, rule number one, be very humble about it because one damned well should acknowledge that he or she had little to do with gaining that platform. Along with rule number one is a corollary that we can call number two; If one is going to “miss,” miss on being understated, not overstated.

Meghan McCain came from a privileged family about three times over. Her father was perhaps the most powerful man in the Senate for a period, her mother was heiress to a fortune (the money is on Mom’s side, not dad), and even before dad she came from a line of military royalty, her grandfather was an admiral and her great grandfather was an admiral.

Meghan missed on the above two rules. (There are obviously many more rules, but those are the most important two). And now she’s violating a third rule, a very important one, she is complaining. From a recent CNN interview, compliments of Rawstory:

“Why do people have this princess impression of you?” Cupp asked.

“I’m very aware of this, like, spoiled, entitled queen of nepotism persona that is out there. Some of it I think is, I didn’t always react my best on air on ‘The View.’

Had she finished right there, she’d have said it perfectly. Everyone knows it takes two to tangle, and so she need not have said more. But it’s Meghan:

To my defense, neither did anyone else, everybody’s just watching me react badly the most and making the most of it,” McCain replied.

“I think partly Saturday Night Live parodies have this way of becoming reality,”

No, hun, reality has a way of becoming SNL parodies. SNL never did a parody with Obama slapping women’s asses, calling them “fancy,” and, a wink and nod. That’s because parodies don’t work if they aren’t bound to some reality.

“People really loved it when SNL dunked on me, and it was not flattering or kind. And, by the way, they were pretty nice to the rest of the ‘View’ cast, just not great to me.

Maybe there is a lesson in that, Meghan. To be fair to her, SNL and most of the rest of the cast is fairly liberal and she was the conservative. But again, if one looks at the three rules above, it seems pretty easy to have avoided the trouble she found.

Additionally, now she sounds like she’s whining about her treatment. She was paid millions, she has hundreds of millions in the family, and a prominent voice, yet she’s complaining about the way she’s being treated. Tell that to a hard-working high-school biology teacher who has to put up with students who don’t want to be there and parents demanding more and more, for $80K a year, if they’re lucky.

“I feel like I have a pretty healthy sense of humor. But I think if people knew what it has done to me mentally, emotionally, the toll it’s taken on me, the depression that has followed … just the dark spirals. I felt like for a while that I was just the laughing stock of the country.”

No one forced you to take the position on The View, Meghan. If it was that dark, you could easily have chosen instead to promote donations to the SPCA, or other charitable, non-controversial areas.

Some of us dream of having the kind of money Meghan has, and fantasize about all the good we could do with it, giving it away, setting up a cushy office in a university, and a small staff to evaluate charitable grant proposals. Heaven. Nearly everyone reading this would do something similarly generous.

And everyone reading this knows the same rules listed above and yet they continue to elude Meghan. Until she finds a way to grasp them, she’s going to hurt about it for some time.

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