{"id":50175,"date":"2021-03-21T21:47:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T04:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=50175"},"modified":"2021-03-21T21:47:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T04:47:28","slug":"train-wreck-at-the-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/03\/21\/train-wreck-at-the-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Train Wreck At The Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a <strong><em>View<\/em><\/strong> sketch on <strong><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>Cheri Oteri <\/strong>(as BW) said, \u201cSome people call it a train wreck \u2013 we call it <em>The View<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp; Let\u2019s welcome <strong><em>The Talk<\/em><\/strong> to train wreck status.&nbsp; We left the ladies doing two more shows after <strong>Sheryl <\/strong>was manipulated by the show\u2019s executive producers to nail <strong>Sharon Osbourne <\/strong>to a cross.&nbsp; Her crime?&nbsp; Saying that <strong>Piers Morgan <\/strong>\u2013 who is paid to be a pundit \u2013 is entitled to speak his mind.&nbsp; Despite disagreeing with him, Sharon was branded a racist.&nbsp; She has since revealed that for the first time in <em>Talk<\/em> history, she was not prepped for the segment(s), nor was she given any cards with questions or talking points.&nbsp; That\u2019s because the questions all went to Sheryl and <strong>Elaine<\/strong>, the two women of color on the panel \u2013 and they were allegedly instructed to take turns cross-examining Sharon.&nbsp; Could Osbourne have been more thoughtful or eloquent?&nbsp; Sure \u2013 if she had cards written for her, or perhaps been given a chance to prepare.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Talk<\/em> promptly went on hiatus while <em>CBS <\/em>launched a formal investigation.&nbsp; Then Sharon went public, calling this ambush \u201cthe biggest setup ever\u201d.&nbsp; She also revealed that the co-hosts made a pact a few months ago that they would never set up a fellow co-host to answer something emotional that they were not prepared for.&nbsp; So, she\u2019s not happy.&nbsp; \u201cI wish that we could go on and have an adult conversation, calmly, and work it out but I don\u2019t know whether we can.&nbsp; I don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s gone past that.&nbsp; But I don\u2019t know whether I even want to go back.&nbsp; I don\u2019t know whether I\u2019m wanted there.\u201d&nbsp; The hiatus has been extended twice.&nbsp; Initially, it was for two days.&nbsp; Then it was through this Monday \u2013 due to a basketball pre-emption.&nbsp; Now <em>CBS <\/em>has decided to make the hiatus two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a View sketch on Saturday Night Live, Cheri Oteri (as BW) said, \u201cSome people call it a train wreck \u2013 we call it The View.\u201d&nbsp; Let\u2019s welcome The Talk to train wreck status.&nbsp; We left the ladies doing two more shows after Sheryl was manipulated by the show\u2019s executive producers to nail Sharon Osbourne<\/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-50175","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\/50175","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=50175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50176,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50175\/revisions\/50176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}