‘The View’ Miss Colorado Nurse Diss Makes #NursesUnite, Gets 4.4 Million YouTube Views [Video]


The View has dissed Miss Colorado and her nursing profession, and that isn’t sitting well with nurses and others who’ve caused the video views of YouTube clips, such as the below one titled “The View mocks Miss Colorado and her monologue, Joy Behar asked about doctor stethoscope” to swell past 1.4 million views. The original monologue from Miss Colorado below has swelled to 4.4 million views.

https://youtu.be/WNQW9l5_2y4

Published on September 15, the video clip from The View shows Michelle Collins and Joy Behar discussing the Miss America contest that recently aired, along with Kelley Johnson — Miss Colorado — giving a speech about the importance of being a nurse. Collins said that Miss Colorado was a nurse who got up there and basically read her emails. Michelle dissed Miss Colorado for the tribute to nursing, and Behar wondered aloud about why a nurse would have a “doctor’s” instrument.

Raven-Symoné and Paula Faris of The View aren’t seen in the above clip, but Miss Colorado can be seen in nurse’s scrubs.

“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.”

Not surprisingly, The View co-hosts’ diss of the Miss America nurse, according to E! Online?, didn’t sit well with nurses around the world. The View co-hosts Behar and Collins apparently don’t appreciate nurses or didn’t understand the backlash they’d receive for such thoughtless comments. As such, the hashtag #NursesUnite has surged on Twitter.

A blog post, titled An Open Letter to Joy Behar, has also shown up on the Alexa.com “What’s Hot” list, an Amazon company, as one hot URL. Written by a registered nurse simply known as “Kateri,” the blog post is receiving plenty of attention.

“As many of you have seen, Miss Colorado delivered a beautifully spoken monologue about nursing during last week’s Miss America pageant. Recently, on The View as the pageant was discussed, Miss Colorado’s scrubs were referred to as a costume, and Joy posed the question of why she was wearing a ‘doctor’s stethoscope.’ Below is my now calmed down reply to all of it. Additionally, I would like to personally and publicly congratulate Kelley Johnson RN on her chosen talent, it is one that will reward you forever.”

According to Google Trends, the search terms “The View Miss Colorado” received 200,000 searches on Tuesday, and “The View” received 100,000 searches on Tuesday. The View co-hosts who dissed the nurse will likely issue an apology soon to nurses, or else hope those ladies of The View won’t need to be in the presence of a nurse soon.

[Image via Donald Kravitz / Getty Images Entertainment]

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