This article has been updated from an earlier version.
It has been a week that The View co-hosts Joy Behar and Michelle Collins will probably want to forget. Since Monday’s program, there’s been a national backlash after the co-hosts made snarky comments at Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson’s nurse monologue in the talent segment of the Miss America pageant.
In the latest development, pharmaceutical and medical device giant Johnson & Johnson has pulled its ads, using the money for an initiative to support nursing scholarships. Although it didn’t mention The View, it made it pretty obvious in a statement on its Facebook page:
When Investment Rhymes with Canada
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
We wanted to put some of the money we saved by pausing our ads on a certain daytime program to good use, so for every eligible photo you post through our Donate A Photo app designating the Foundation of the National Student Nurses Association (FNSNA), Johnson & Johnson will donate $1 to provide scholarships for nursing students, up to $50,000.
So for the uninitiated, here’s the source of the outcry. Instead of doing a typical song and dance routine or playing an instrument Johnson donned scrubs and a stethoscope in a monologue about a patient she had with Alzheimer’s disease and what she took away from the experience.
Collins dismissed Johnson’s performance — “Basically she was reading her emails out loud.” Behar wonders why there’s a stethoscope around her neck. Personally
The American Nurses Association was not pleased, nor were the nurses and their supporters who got behind the hashtag #nursesunite.
Although Collins and Behar apologized, Johnson has said she would only accept their apology after they worked a 12 hour shift as an ICU nurse at Holy Cross Hospital.
Update I’ll fess up and note that I referenced this quote from Gomer without noting that it’s a satirical medical news website, as one commenter noted below. My bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSe_rgVbRGo
