{"id":49595,"date":"2021-03-15T00:47:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T07:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=49595"},"modified":"2021-03-15T00:47:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T07:47:10","slug":"sharon-stands-by-piers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/03\/15\/sharon-stands-by-piers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Stands By Piers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s this whole <strong>Piers Morgan<\/strong>\/<strong>Sharon Osbourne <\/strong>mess.&nbsp; Piers doesn\u2019t like Meghan.&nbsp; They were \u201cfriendly\u201d until she started dating Harry.&nbsp; Then she cut him out of her life.&nbsp; He didn\u2019t like it.&nbsp; The end.&nbsp; By standing up for his Queen and saying he didn\u2019t believe Meghan\u2019s slights were race-based, this made him a racist.&nbsp; His friend Sharon Osbourne came to his defense \u2013 not for the things he said (some of which she pointedly disagreed with), but for his right to say them as a commentator.&nbsp; And, poof, she, too, was a racist.&nbsp; This led to one of the most awkward half hours in television history on <strong><em>The Talk<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; When Sharon asked if <strong>Sheryl Underwood <\/strong>\u2013 who has worked by her side for a decade \u2013 thought she was a racist, it was eerily reminiscent of <strong><em>The View<\/em><\/strong> when <strong>Rosie O\u2019Donnell <\/strong>asked if <strong>Elisabeth Hasselbeck <\/strong>thought she was against the troops.&nbsp; The only thing missing was a split screen!&nbsp; Unlike Elisabeth, who sheepishly voiced support for Rosie, Sheryl insinuated that Sharon was guilty of \u201cunconscious bias\u201d.&nbsp; When Sharon asked if it was possible to criticize a person of color and not be accused of being racist, the point was glossed over awkwardly.&nbsp; Sharon has not quit the show (yet) nor refused to show up for work (yet), but the damage has been clearly done \u2013 culminating in Sharon releasing an (unnecessary) apology on social media.&nbsp; <em>CBS <\/em>is allegedly investigating the matter and the show has gone on an emergency hiatus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s this whole Piers Morgan\/Sharon Osbourne mess.&nbsp; Piers doesn\u2019t like Meghan.&nbsp; They were \u201cfriendly\u201d until she started dating Harry.&nbsp; Then she cut him out of her life.&nbsp; He didn\u2019t like it.&nbsp; The end.&nbsp; By standing up for his Queen and saying he didn\u2019t believe Meghan\u2019s slights were race-based, this made him a racist.&nbsp; His<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49596,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49595\/revisions\/49596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}