Joy Behar told her television audience this week that Americans "all should be" embarrassed by their country. She said this from a studio in Manhattan, on a show broadcast by ABC, a network that pays her millions of dollars annually to have opinions — all of which is possible because of the country she's embarrassed by.

She's not alone. Comedian Larry David called America "a travesty" and said he's "embarrassed to be an American." Two multimillionaires, both made entirely by the American entertainment industry, lining up to trash the country during its 250th birthday celebration.

The comments came during a segment on The View where the co-hosts were discussing Larry David's own remarks about America. Behar didn't hesitate to pile on. "If you listen to Trump, we used to have friends around the world, now we don't have them anymore," she said, before getting more specific: "I'm embarrassed for this country, the way he's been treating immigrants."

Then she added the detail that makes the whole thing land: "I mean, my family came over here, like, 100 years ago."

So her family immigrated to America a century ago, built a life, raised generations, produced a woman who became one of the highest-paid talk show hosts in the country — and the takeaway is embarrassment. Not gratitude. Not perspective. Embarrassment.

Co-host Ana Navarro, to her credit, accidentally made the best counterargument on the panel. "There's some people that are going to take issue with Larry David saying something like that," she said, "but there's so many countries where if you said something like that about being embarrassed by that country, you would end up dead." She listed them: "Places like Iran, places like Cuba, places like North Korea, places like Nicaragua, where I fled."

Navarro was trying to defend David's right to say it. What she actually did was illustrate why saying it is so absurd. You live in the one country on earth where you can call your own nation a travesty on national television and then go home to your penthouse. Larry David does that bit from a house in Pacific Palisades. Joy Behar does it from a chair that ABC furnishes with a seven-figure salary.

The lone dissent on the panel came from Alyssa Farah Griffin, who said plainly, "I am very, very proud to be an American." One out of four. On a major network. During the week of America's 250th anniversary.

Here's what neither Behar nor David addressed in their performances: what, specifically, they'd prefer. They're embarrassed — fine. Embarrassed compared to what? Compared to Cuba, where Navarro's family fled? Compared to Iran, where women get imprisoned for showing their hair? Compared to North Korea, where the entertainment industry is one man with a missile? They never say. The complaint is always abstract enough to avoid comparison, because comparison kills it.

One hundred years ago, Joy Behar's family got on a boat and came to a country that let them build everything she has today. Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of men signed a document that made that boat ride possible.

Larry David built a career on a show about a man who complains about everything. Turns out that wasn't a character.