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Joy Behar on Bill O'Reilly on 'The View': 'He's an idiot'
On Thursday morning (Oct. 14), Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked off the set of their talk show "The View" after Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly expressed the view that it would be inappropriate to build a mosque near ground zero.Behar has spoken out about the incident to Popeater, saying, "Really, is anyone talking about it? He's an idiot. I just couldn't sit there any longer and listen to him."
After leaving the show for a time, Behar and Goldberg both returned to the set later. "No one made us go back out," Behar says. "After he apologized, Whoopi and I walked back out and sat down. I have no regrets."
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Joy Behar is nothing but an old ***** that never made it as a comedian...The show is a shouting match and nothing more. NO ONE cares what she thinks. NO ONE watches The "View"..and as always with her and her liberal ilk...the ONLY view allowed is if you share theirs. She's in NY talking like no one in her audience lost friends/family on 9/11. She's a disgrace to the city and to TV. She disgusts me. if I were in the auidence today, I would have gone on stage and spit on her. She has more compassion for the MUSLIMS that KILLED OUR PEOPLE ON 9/11 than she does for this country.
This article isn't entirely accurate: they didn't walk out just because he's against the so-called 'ground-zero mosque' (really the '2-blocks-from-ground-zero-mosque', but that's harder for glenn to remember xd) -- as one commenter pointed out, they would have expected that.
What threw them was his insistence that 9/11 was caused by muslims (not 'muslim extremists') -- so basically all muslims are at fault, just like all germans are at fault for the holocaust, and all irish are at fault for the old IRA bombings -- oh, fox news ;)
Right 'The View' but only theirs. Bill O'Reilly has a right to his also and he knew how to push buttons. When Joy returned, she kept twitching and licking her lips like she was on thorazine. Whoopi sat swollen up like a brown frog or an inflated overgrown prune. All of this is just for ratings but it's a shame old people have to act this way.
Joy and Whoopie acted like 2 12 year olds today! The name of the program is the VIEW - and not just theirs. Come on - they both need to go. I may lean one sided sometimes, but I still want to always hear the other side too. They do not have open minds - if minds at all!!!!!
They knew Bill's views. Why was Bill invited on the show? They should've expected some disagreements to pop up. On the other hand, why did Bill accept the invitation to go on the show?
Where's O'Reilly's freedom, Joy? Whoopie? You're such hypocrites. You scream about the rights of Americans but anyone who speaks an opinion you don't like is discriminated against.
You're a couple of menopausal cry babies. At least Barbara can discuss without bawling.
Did anybody even know who Joy Behar was before she became a host on the view? Maybe she was known in NYC but there is alot of this country outside of the confines of Manhattan and we have a much different VIEW from her. Do these women really listen to the news media or read newspapers? Obviously not! People are sick and tired of people like them with their liberal bias. You women on the View are so out of touch!
What gets me is that he cant separate the difference between muslims and muslim extremists. I dont agree that there should be a mosque there but they do have a right to build it under the constitution. You know the thing that republicans fuss about so much yeah that.
It was obviously a calculated move on O'Reilly's part to demonstrate to his largely white middle aged audience that he was standing up to these "liberal elitist do-gooders" who want to show favor to "undesirable" people. Personally, I don't care for O'Reilly, but he does know how to pander to his viewers.
Bill O'Reilly god bless you for taking a stand for the U.S.A.. How dare they try to use our laws to cut our own throats.THAT IS IN THEIR OWN BELIEFS. wE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR BRAINWASHINGS.How dare they try to change us?they are so jealouse of this country They will not prevail.it is written. from marty.