The View Hosts Thought They Were off Camera, What They Got Caught Saying Is Disturbing [+video]

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The-View-logo-IMGAfter controversy about comments surrounding the nursing profession, The View wrapped up an already rough week by apologizing and dedicating a special segment to them.

The segment consisted of several medical professionals discussing the ins and outs of the medical profession. They also talk about their important role during times of national crisis, like Hurricane Katrina and the September 11th attacks . . .

Unfortunately, these whackos still couldn’t hold their tongues when the camera’s were off.

Nicole Arbour, a comedian, was backstage at The View when she overheard the horrendous comments made by the hosts . . .

“Backstage, I heard the girls being like, ‘Oh yeah, our nurse jokes didn’t go over well so we have to apologize because they’re tweeting us too much. When the cameras weren’t rolling, Michelle was like ‘Yeah, that’s not a real profession. They want to be doctors.”

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Fox News Contributor Makes Heartbreaking Announcement, Here’s Obama’s Response

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marykatherineham-913x512Fox News contributor and Town Hall editor Mary Katherine Ham lost her husband, White House staffer Jake Brewer, in a cycling accident on Saturday.

Brewer, 34, was participating in the 150 mile Ride to Conquer Cancer in the Washington D.C. area when he lost control of his bike and swerved into an oncoming car.

Ham wrote about her husband in an Instagram post on Sunday: “I lost part of my heart and the father of my sweet babies.” Mary Katherine, 35, and Jake were married in 2011 and have a 2-year-old daughter, Georgia, together. She is expecting their second child in two months . . .

Ham’s fellow Town Hall editor, Guy Benson has set up a GoFundMe page to support the education of the couple’s children, which has reached over $150,000 of its $200,000 goal in less than 24 hours. Senior Editor Ed Morrissey wrote on their website Sunday: “Mary Katharine faces some very difficult challenges for her children and herself without Jake, but we can help take worries over education off the table for her.”

President Obama released a statement on Sunday, which reads, in part:

I am heartbroken at the tragic loss of one of my advisors, Jake Brewer. We set out to recruit the best of the best to join their government and help us harness the power of technology and data to innovate new solutions for the 21st century. Simply put, Jake was one of the best. Armed with a brilliant mind, a big heart, and an insatiable desire to give back, Jake devoted his life to empowering people and making government work better for them… I’ve often said that today’s younger generation is smarter, more determined, and more capable of making a difference than I was as a young man. Jake was proof of that. Michelle and I are praying for all of Jake’s family and his many friends, most of all his wife, Mary Katharine Ham, their daughter, Georgia, and their growing family. They’ll always have a family here at the White House.

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Disturbing Note Given to Colorado Second-Grader by Teacher Angers Girl’s Father [+video]

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Hitane_Elementary_School_1st_grade_classroom_2Even the school now admits a note that a teacher passed to a 7-year-old girl at Aurora Academy Charter School was inappropriate . . .

The fourth grade teacher passed the note to a second grade student on the playground. The student is not in his class.

The note contained bizarre pictures of the teacher with his tongue out and casually used the teacher’s first name. He called the student names like “stinky butt” . . .

“As I read over the letter, it was concerning since it had the teacher’s face and he was using pet names to refer to her,” he said. “We felt it was inappropriate and grooming behaviors,” [the girl’s father said].

[Her father] said he wasn’t sure what to do until the next school day when the teacher gave his daughter another note. (Read more from “Disturbing Note Given to Second-Grader by Teacher Angers Girl’s Father” HERE)

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Missouri Toddler Is Dead for 12 Minutes, Then This Incredible Thing Happened

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2C8C932100000578-3242081-image-a-42_1442759811899A three-year-old girl came back to life after drowning in a pool leaving her family and doctors astounded.

The Nipper family, from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, had been enjoying a pool party with friends on July 29 when the tragic accident occurred.

Alise Nipper had showed no signs of life when she was pulled from the water, but her determined mother Jamie continued with CPR for 12 desperate minutes until there was a heartbeat.

Despite suffering from traumatic injuries, within weeks, Alise defied all expectations to make a full recovery and has even returned to the pool less than two months later.

On the day in question, Jamie Nipper and her daughter Alise had swum for a couple of hours, but when the weather suddenly turned, everyone decided to head inside. (Read more from “Toddler Is Dead for 12 Minutes, Then This Incredible Thing Happened” HERE)

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South Carolina Father Stunned by Fifth Grader’s Ridiculous Homework Assignment

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Fort_BanksES_classroom_resizedA father was troubled by his son’s homework assignment.

“It blowed my mind,” Eric Robinson said of an assignment asking fifth graders to create a wanted poster for a Ku Klux Klan member.

Robinson said the homework was a social studies assignment that his son and others received Wednesday at Clinton Elementary School . . .

Students were asked to sketch the person, provide three reasons why they’re a “bad guy” and a “quote from a person living at the time showing what people might have said about this person,” along with a reward amount . . .

Laurens County School Superintendent David O’Shields said the assignment is a state requirement intended to teach students that the KKK was a criminal/terrorist organization that murdered people, participated in voter suppression and used violence to intimidate African Americans. (Read more from “South Carolina Father Stunned by Fifth Grader’s Ridiculous Homework Assignment” HERE)

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New York School Board Meeting Gets Heated During Debate Over Closing for Muslim Holiday

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121026065304-jakarta-eid-story-topA Jersey City school board meeting Thursday to vote on whether to close for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Sept. 24 turned contentious before the board ultimately decided not to close schools next week.

The Jersey City Board of Education had originally proposed to close schools next Thursday so that Muslim students could observe the holiday, and the City Council unanimously supported it a week ago. The academic year would have extended one day to June 23, 2016 as a result.

But during the nearly four hours of debate at the board meeting Thursday, some of the Jewish faith said they felt they were being discriminated against because they weren’t getting their own school days off for holidays like Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur . . .

As the debate wore on and it became clear that the school board would not close schools next Thursday, Muslim community members nearly walked out in anger and frustration . . .

In the original resolution announcing the vote, the board said it was “committed to honoring the great diversity of our district, including our religious diversity,” and that it will “continue to engage our communities to explore ways to support its diverse communities and celebrate our many cultures and faiths.” (Read more from “New York Chool Board Meeting Gets Heated During Debate Over Closing for Muslim Holiday” HERE)

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Ohio Factory Worker Fired for Recommending Faith-Based Film to Homosexual Co-Worker

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Audacity-movieProducers of the recently-released faith-based film Audacity were contacted last week by Chris Routson of Middletown, Ohio, who wanted to share with them his story of recommending the film to two lesbian co-workers and subsequently being fired after 13 years as a well-regarded employee.

“I have had good reviews from my supervisors for the past 13 years at my job, and I have always been outspoken about my faith to other employees and have never had any problems up until the last week of my employment,” Routson said.

Routson was told that he was terminated not because of his faith, but for making his co-workers “uncomfortable.” He was first told to stop doing this after he friended one of his lesbian co-workers on Facebook, and recommended the film Audacity to her on his own time from home.

She didn’t seem bothered by this, but the next day Routson was informed he had made a co-worker uncomfortable and he was to stop. He said that he couldn’t stop sharing his faith, and his supervisors said it wasn’t about his faith, just about making co-workers “uncomfortable.”

Two days later, Routson shared his personal testimony with a different co-worker, telling her “Every new person I meet I want to share the gospel with them and if they still want to be my friend then I have gained a friend.” (Read more from “Ohio Factory Worker Fired for Recommending Faith-Based Film to Homosexual Co-Worker” HERE)

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Top Obama Aide Lumps Christians With LGBT Over ISIS ‘Genocide’

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isis (2)The president’s ambassador to the United Nations, addressing Islamic State genocide, lumped Christians in with gays and other minorities facing a “death sentence” in the Islamic State’s terror campaign.

Samantha Power, answering a question about congressional urgings that the administration speak out against Christian persecution by the Muslim group, also said that while ISIS is “targeting very specific minority groups,” its goal is wiping out any who challenge its world view.

“On the genocide question, when president Obama decided to intervene militarily on behalf of the Yazidis, he himself also invoked the specter of genocide. There’s no question that the Yazidis, and Christians and Shia and LGBT, and if you find yourself of a minority of a certain type in ISIL territory, Americans, that has proven a death sentence for many. If not a death sentence, certainly a displacement sentence,” she said this week in an even hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

“Having said that, Sunni in ISIL territory are also living under horrific hardship and anybody even suspected of dissenting or in being any way in opposition to ISIL’s rule, you’ve seen whole tribes and whole Sunni families wiped out. So while ISIL is targeting very specific minority groups as such, its monstrous ideology applies well beyond ethnic national religious groups as such to anybody who doesn’t share its worldview,” she added.

It was the latest example of what critics claim is the administration’s reluctance to focus on Christian persecution in the Middle East, and by the Islamic State specifically. (Read more from “Top Obama Aide Lumps Christians With LGBT Over ISIS ‘Genocide'” HERE)

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Huge Snack Brand Makes Political Move That Has Many Calling for Boycott

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gay-pride-madrid-bannerA move by one of America’s largest snack companies is not winning any love from its customer base.

Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo., announced on Sept. 17 the snack maker will offer rainbow colored Cool Ranch Doritos to symbolize the gay pride flag in a special promotion to raise money for a homosexual youth organization. The company is introducing the rainbow Doritos, which include hues of green, blue, purple and red, on Sept. 20 at the Dallas Pride Event.

Many Frito-Lay consumers said on social media they are ready to move on to other snacks, lambasting the company for the move in numerous tweets . . .

The special snacks will not be sold in stores. They will be mailed to those who donate $10 or more to the It Gets Better Project on the non-profit’s website. The It Gets Better Project provides support for LGBT youth. The fundraising drive will end on Oct. 11. Consumers can also pledge support at the Doritos booth at the Dallas event to receive a bag of the brightly colored chips.

Ram Krishnan, Frito-Lay Chief Marketing Officer, said the effort demonstrates the company’s efforts to promote inclusion. He said the marketing campaign is in keeping with PepsiCo’s longstanding views on diversity. “We support equality for all and believe everyone has a right to be true to themselves and live an authentic life without fear of discrimination,” Krishnan said. (Read more from “Huge Snack Brand Makes Political Move That Has Many Calling for Boycott” HERE)

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‘The View’ Just Suffered an Unexpected Blow Even After Apologizing for Nurse Comments

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theview-913x512Two major sponsors have pulled their advertising from “The View” after nurses across America were outraged by comments made Monday on the ABC program.

Johnson & Johnson and Eggland’s Best each issued messages on Facebook supporting nurses as they announced their ads were being pulled from “The View.” The action brought applause from the nursing profession.

“It’s very comforting to know that there’s someone standing up for nurses,” said Jean Ross, co-president of National Nurses United, the largest union of working nurses in the country. “It’s obvious that ‘The View’ hosts, like so many others, do not clearly understand what we do. We needed to let them know it’s a very serious thing, it’s not just a flippant 28 seconds of conversation, it’s a big deal and it effects how people view our profession.”

On Monday, “The View” hosts sniped at Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson, who on Sunday night as part of the Miss America Pageant delivered a monologue about being a nurse.

Johnson, who was second runner-up, appeared on stage in nurse’s scrubs. She spoke about caring for an Alzheimer’s patient. “I went over to him and I lifted his head up out of his hands. And I said, ‘Joe, I know that this is really hard. But, you are not defined by this disease,’” she said . . .

“Johnson & Johnson values and appreciates nurses and we respect the critical role they play in our health care system,” the company said in a statement. “We disagree with recent comments on daytime television about the nursing profession and we have paused our advertising accordingly.” (Read more from “‘The View’ Just Suffered an Unexpected Blow Even After Apologizing for Nurse Comments” HERE)

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