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‘The View’ Took An Absurd Shot Against A Miss America Contestant, And It’s Backfiring BIG Time
Co-hosts on The View set off a social media firestorm with one of the largest professions in the country after some controversial remarks on Monday’s program.
Joy Behar and the show’s new host, Michelle Collins, joked about Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson’s performance at the Miss America contest Sunday night. For the talent portion of the program, Johnson performed an original monologue about her dealing with one special patient suffering from an early stage of Alzheimer’s. The contestant wore a purple nurse’s uniform with a stethoscope around her neck as she spoke.
Johnson explained during her 2 minute monologue that every nurse has a patient who reminds them why they became a nurse in the first place, and hers was Joe. She shared about their banter and holding his hand when he experienced night terrors, which always seemed to calm him down. One particular night, she found him head in his hands crying. She told him that she knew what he was facing was very hard–but that he was still Joe, and not the disease.
“‘Although you say it all the time, you are not just a nurse,”’ she recalled Joe telling her. “‘You are my nurse, and you have changed my life because you have cared about me.’ That’s when it hit me. Patients are people with family and friends, and I don’t want to be a nurse that ever pretends…Joe reminded me that day that I’m a lifesaver. I’m never going to be just a nurse.”
The View‘s Collins made fun of the performance: “The talent, though, I have to say, the woman who won sang opera, and she was incredible. Really good. But then there was a girl who wrote her own monologue and I was like ‘Turn the volume up, this is going be amazing, let’s listen’. She came out in a nurse’s uniform and basically read her emails out loud and shockingly did not win.”
“Seriously?!” Joy Behar responded, appearing perplexed.
“I swear to God it was hilarious,” Collins replied.
“Why does she have a doctor’s stethoscope on?” Behar asked before Collins clarified: “She helps patients with Alzheimer’s, which I know is not funny, but I swear you had to see it.”
The reaction on social media was almost immediate under the hastags #NursesUnite and #NursesShareYourStethoscopes.
#nursesunite It takes absolutely no talent to host #TheView. I would love to see those ladies last 15 minutes in the ICU
— Matthew Stephany (@MatthewStephan3) September 16, 2015
This is great. #TheView #nursesunite pic.twitter.com/IZPluZfKx4
— magruba (@marliciousx3) September 16, 2015
There’s no such thing as “just a nurse.” Post your photos & tag @AACNme #NursesShareYourStethoscopes #AACN pic.twitter.com/UUamV4wTyF
— AACN Critical Care (@AACNme) September 16, 2015
Expecting @TheView@JoyVBehar@michcoll to apologize to the 3.4 million nurses in the U.S. for your insulting comments #nursesunite.
— Nicole M Brown, RN (@authornursenmb) September 16, 2015
Both Collins and Behar apologized on Wednesday’s program.
“We love nurses. Nurses, if you’re watching — we adore you, we respect you, clap for them, you guys are wonderful, you’re the most compassionate people,” said Collins. “I was not talking about her as a nurse, we were talking about the talent competition and it got misconstrued.”
“I was just not paying attention. I was looking at a Miss America tape, and there’s a woman wearing an outfit with a stethoscope, and I’m thinking is she in a costume? I didn’t know she was a nurse. I’m used to seeing them in gowns and bathing suits,” Behar said. “It’s not like I was trying to be funny. It was just stupid and inattentive. I didn’t know what the hell I was talking about.”
Fellow co-host Whoopi Goldberg seemed to put the blame on those who were offended: “You have to listen. You have to pay attention, you have to look at folks and say, ‘Is that what they said or did she just make a joke?’ That’s the thing. You just gotta listen.”
Some responded to the apology:
Blerg. What a terrible “apology” – I feel like Whoopi just scolded me for not listening. Too bad I was. Intently. #NursesUnite
— Kati Kleber, BSN RN (@NurseEyeRoll) September 16, 2015
.@JoyVBehar “I was stupid & inattentive.” That’s what we’ve been saying for a decade. Apparently it’s a liberal ‘thang.’ #nursesunite
— Brittany Pounders (@LibertyBritt) September 16, 2015
Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson finished as the second-runner up in the Miss America pageant.
h/t: Eonline
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/the-view-took-an-aburd-shot-against-a-miss-america-contestant-and-its-backfiring-big-time/
