VIDEO : Dick Clark Productions Cuts Ties With Miss America Organization

Dick Clark Productions says it has cut ties with the Miss America Organization. The action follows the surfacing of internal emails by pageant senior leadership that ridiculed past winners' appearance, intelligence and sex lives.
On thursday The Huffington Post reported that the Miss America Organization's CEO, Sam Haskell, exchanged emails with a writer for the televised pageant and others. Some of the emails included harsh and sometimes vulgar comments about past winners.
Dick Clark Productions produces the nationally televised pageant broadcasts. It called the emails "appalling."