“The View” on Monday had joked about Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson, a registered nurse who during the pageant’s talent section on Sunday did a monologue about her profession. E Online notes that Panelist Michelle Collins describe her act as “hilarious” and that the contestant “basically read her emails out loud”, while co-star Joy Behar asked why she wore a doctor’s stethoscope on the stage.
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Eggland’s Best also released a statement, saying in part: “In light of the comments … we will no longer be advertising on the show in question”.
“Like you, we also value and admire nurses, so we have paused advertising on the daytime television show”, a representative for McCormick told a Facebook user. I just want to say, first of all, before we even go on, because people were very upset with what we said. “Nurses, if you’re watching, we adore you”. Instead of opting for a traditional talent such as singing or dancing, Miss Colorado opted to perform an original monologue about her experiences as a nurse.
“Why does she have a doctor’s stethoscope on?” co-host Joy Behar said.
“How about posting an apology for your rude comments about nurses??”, a viewer posted. In the monologue Johnson spoke of a patient with Alzheimer’s disease and would later win second runner up in the competition.
“You’re the most compassionate people”. “I wanted to give the nurses that don’t have that voice, that voice and recognition of somebody going up there and just being a little bit different and unique”.
She later clarified her comment to say she didn’t know Johnson was really a nurse, and that she thought it was all a costume.
Since the day the negative remarks were made, Johnson & Johnson, Eggland’s Best, Party City, Snuggle, and McCormick have pulled ads from “The View“. In doing so, they used #nursesunite, one of the hashtags the nurses shared when coming to Johnson’s defense.
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Meanwhile, nurses all over the country have been “raising their stethoscopes” in “tweets” of solidarity with Johnson and others in the nursing profession.
