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[quote name='tvtime07']The real life ABC soap opera continues, talk about getting dragged in the mud. I agree with you @A3N , this has been a really petty fiasco that exploded without any significant reason. I just don't see the whole justification for this scandal, the cohosts were not directly mocking nurses during that particular discussion; but it just seems like people just hear what they want to hear and have decided that they would like to stay bitter. Through Facebook comments, I've read that some people have forgiven the show since they did that segment about nurses this morning, but the majority of these Mean Girls seem to have no mercy. I feel like we're experiencing a realtime case study of social media's mob lynching with this whole situation. Overall, ABC and the show should have buried the hatchet earlier on. It's obvious from a PR standpoint that the show should have invited Miss Colorado a couple days after this incident happened. It shouldn't have been that hard to book her, she just appeared on an ABC special a couple nights before and seems to have time to appear on television elsewhere. I do wonder if they tried booking her and Miss Colorado turned her back on such an idea; since this whole thing happened, she's appeared on Ellen and won money and she'll be flying to NYC to appear on the Dr. Oz show where she'll be part of a one hour nursing appreciation special. It's probably dark times at the halls of The View, you gotta wonder what the executives are thinking, is the show even salvageable after five conglomerates have decided to suspend their advertising to the show? I wonder if that replacement panel show would be ready by midseason at this point, they probably have created their backup plans by now if The View crumbles the next few months. The show does have the likes of Molly Simms, Stacey London and Sherri Shepherd waiting in the wings, but I highly doubt any of these ladies will be able to save the show at this point if they were to kick one of the main co-hosts to the curve. The only way I feel the show would heal would be if Miss Colorado actually guest hosted for a week on the table doing Hot Topics and if she also conducts segments about nurses for a week long special, then perhaps by then the show will having some grace left...but I really highly doubt that this would really happen, unless they're waiting to do this by sweeps.[/QUOTE] Good points. I will say that, they are probably hoping that Candace comes back and that takes some of the pressure off. I'm sure that the producers are hoping that she and Raven have a fight that will go viral (it's why they brought her to the panel in the first place). That being said, i'm surprised that ABC hasn't done better PR/damage control of the situation. I'm sure they aren't too thrilled about the sponsors situation, but from what i've read it's only been Johnson and Johnson, and Eggland's Best. J&J has "suspended" advertising on the show, meaning they are probably coming back when things settle down. ABC needs to get its sh*t together and stop this madness right now. Hell, bring Ben Sherwood on or bring Barbara Walters on and have them do an apology. Although, those bitter individuals who still fan the flames will not care either way for the apologies. People are complaining that Joy and Michelle did not apologize right away, then they apologized and "were not sincere", and complain again when they apologized again and brought the nurses in (calling it "damage control", and "too late"). So it's clear that irregardless of what they do, these people will not stop. Keyboard mobs at their finest. Add to this, the blonde "comedienne" that they brought in earlier in the week to interview about her stupid video, making fun of fat people. Well apparently she did an[URL='http://www.eonline.com/news/697366/youtube-s-nicole-arbour-revels-in-the-view-s-nursesunite-drama'] interview[/URL], and this woman is now claiming that she "overheard" Michelle talking bad about Nurses backstage. At the beginning of the season, I honestly thought that this show had another two years left (to take advantage of next year's Presidential elections). After what's happened this week, they'll be lucky if they can make it to next year. There is just way too much drama surrounding The View, and it seems like any one and every one that can publish an article talking bad about the show, is doing it. Hell, even Julie Chen couldn't keep her big mouth shut and started running her mouth on Howard Stern disclosing Barbara's desire to come back on the show to repair what was broken. Those bitching and complaining that the show should be cancelled apparently have no problem in people losing their jobs, as long as their feelings get validated. They seem to forget that there are other people working on The View aside from the hosts. The one's who will suffer are those staffers that need the job and get nowhere near the salaries of the hosts. Yet, that doesn't matter to those that got "offended" ...

I wonder who will replace her at 11am & 5pm.

Ditto with you. I think with that move, MSNBC should expand to Europe and Asia.

I agree with you, and not only that but ABC & FOX are two different networks as well too. Yeah it a mess.

A clearer WCBS 11pm news open using "News Force" from 1996. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jWxAwtPz3g Several other NYC station clips on the channel as well.